I'm gonna dump the pictures I took on my first trip to China and share my impressions along the way. Save for the snaps, I mostly shot analog with my F90x, and with my gf's mju.I'm very much open to criticism.
Elderly people in parks just do whatever they want, whether it's karaoke or horn instruments. It's seems like they gather according to their specific talent and just roll with it. The guy with a sax just stood in his own corner.
After school or daycare, you're very likely to be picked up by grandma.
These images are from Shanghai and are shot on Ektar.
This picture is taken outside of the Xingguang Photographic Equipment City. This is a five story big shopping mall. This mall has separate floors for new cameras, accessories, used cameras and repair shops. I got some film, remote cable for the Nikon and fixed my 35 mm lens, which we'll come back to.
>>4521769From now on we\re on Portra 160.
The door in the middle is where we got our breakfast in Shanghai. They served jianbing until 10 am. Across the street they served baozi. A typical breakfast would cost 15 RMB, while the coffee at Manner costing 20 RMB. We mostly got our coffee at Family Mart for 12 RMB.
IT'S DA BUND
The next images are from Suzhou. They are shot on Cinestill 50D, and I was very displeased with the results to be honest. Very much wish I shot Fuji Superia Premium 400 for this roll desu (which I bought at Xingguang).
Cute Chinese girl all dressed up.
A lot of cosplayers going around.
Back in Shanghai.
Now we're in Huangshan.
50D verdict:I have not yet found a proper way to correct the colors for this roll. It behaves like a slide film in terms of dynamic range, while offering no beautiful colors in return. The remaining roll I have in my frigde is very disposable.
We got ourselves up to the Huangshan range. I switched onto Velvia 50.
Because of my retarded thinking, I thought sunny 16 was appropriate ate 9:30 am. Luckily, my newly serviced 35 mm AF-D, overexposed this shot.
Bur I'm questioning why I even bothering with slide film when my gf took this on Colorplus 200 on a mju.
When then took the 10h HSR ride to Chongqing.
Some images shot Fuji Superia Premium 400 on a compact camera.
小贝狗狗
Cinestill 800T
Beware that your 6th to 7th image on a roll of 800T might have artifacts.
The railway stations in China are insane. They're halv a shopping mall and an airport. FYI you have to go through security on subays and trains. The security on subways are very lax, so I just kept my camera on my shoulder. For train and intercity travel, I kept my film in a clear plastic bag and gave it to the staff when walking through the metal detector.
It's kind of frustrating to be early to your train, beacus you can't enter the platform earlier than 10 minutes before departure. Always remember to check which train you're boarding!!!
Nice to have a ciggie after a long journey.
The malls are unlike anything I've ever seen. This, for an instance, is a mall which is 300 meters long and 5 storeys high with only clothes.
>>4521846>>4521848>>4521849This is Provia 100F btw. I think we got served fish from this river at one point. This was on our way to walk the Great Wall.
Velvia 50
Beijing
For the images taken with the 35 mm, they were over exposed. After the service I got in Shanghai, it went from 3, to 1,3 stops overexposed.This is due to the aperture blades. I have still yet so fix this AF-D lens, so I only use it with color negative film only for now.
>>4521868Here you see the difference beteween a shot, shot with my 50 mm, and my 35 mm.
