MINOLTA X700 - Unboxing

I always like 35mm manual cameras. I am a DSLR user as well but there's something about the old school SLR cameras, or the regular 35mm cameras, that the DLSR cannot replicate. You can digitized an image to have that 35mm film quality look, but that would be just bogus. 35mm film processing is like a dying art. And there's not much Photography Lab Stores as it used to be. There are drugs stores, but they usually have drugstore owned 35mm films, rather than the high quality standard 35mm films. It's really not that hard to learn it. If you are used of the DSLR camera, all you gotta do is learn how to use the Focus and Aperture. Loading is pretty easy, just be patient. The rest are common sense later. It's also cool to hear the real manual sounds of a SLR camera than the digital effect sounds.


This box arrived yesterday from eBay.


The seller sealed it pretty good.


Camera's Sling Bag, Camera's Strap, and some 35mm Films.


Camera Bag's Strap, Manual, and Etc.


Some Films included. 400 Speed. Only 12 Exposures. Sorta like Practice Films.


And there she is… It's a Minolta x700. Built in 1981. Got it on eBay for under 150 bucks. The lens is a regular Minolta 50mm 1:2. Missing lens cap, and no UV filter or any filter to protect the lens. I'll get that later.

I already owned a Honeywell Spotmatic Minolta and that too is an awesome camera. Just lately I've used some expired 35mm films. Most of it turned out okay. It has that experimental quality. You can check them out in my Flickr account.


It came with a zoom lens Vivitar 85-205mm 1:38. Wow.. it's sorta heavy. This is the part where I'm glad how these metallic lenses evolved to plastic DSLR camera lenses as far of weight goes.


It's even heavier… what a difference man. Well, will see what it does...

1982 Television Commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz_Kyf5dgrQ

Some samples of what the camera can produce. Please do click on the photos to link you up to the photographers who posted them:

Mambo Italiano! - Rosemary Clooney

I'm posting this now, next thing you Beyonce is gonna make a cover song or something like it. It's a damn cool song.



A girl went back to Napoli
Because she missed the scenery
The native dances and the charming songs
But wait a minute, something's wrong
Hey, mambo! Mambo italiano!
Hey, mambo! Mambo italiano
Go, go, go you mixed up sicialiano
All you calabraise-a do the mambo like a crazy with a
Hey mambo, don't wanna tarantella
Hey mambo, no more a mozzarella
Hey mambo! Mambo italiano!
Try an enchilada with da fish a bac a lab and then a
Hey goombah, I love a how you dance a rhumbah
But take a some advice paisano
Learn how to mambo
If you gonna be a square
You ain't a gonna go nowhere
Hey mambo! mambo italiano!
Hey mambo! mambo italiano!
Go, go, Joe, shake like a Giovanno
Hello kess-a-deetch-a you getta happy in the feets a
When you mambo italiano
Shake-a Baby shake-a cause i love a when you take a me
Mama say "stop-a or I'm gonna go to papa"
And a hey ja drool you don't a have to go to school
Just make-a wid da beat bambino
It's a like a vino
Kid you good a lookin' but you don't a-know what's cookin' till you
Hey mambo, Mambo italiano
Hey mambo, Mambo italiano
Ho, ho, ho, you mixed up Siciliano
it's a so delish a ev'rybody come copisha
How to mambo italianoooooo!
'Ats nice!
UNH!

WASR 10/AK 47 - Fire Test

I went up to the hills shooting some shit monsters with nice shoes!!!

Naaaah… Me and Ralph (relative), went to the outdoor range to give my new WASR 10 a fire test. It's a Romanian AK47. A semi-auto. Base from reading reviews through the internet and watching YouTube post about the WASR 10, I think it may be designed for slow firing single shots only. Rather than rapid firing. It can't really function like the real Russian AK47, where it can take any type of 7.62x39 ammo, and any brand of AK 47 magazines. It can also be fired rapidly, to full auto, and to auto burst (usually 3 shots per trigger squeezed). I use to have a Bulgarian version and it has no jamming issues at all, as far of rapid firing. Anyway, the first shot of my WASR 10/AK47 went off smoothly, but the second one jammed. Like 2 cartridges going in the chamber at the same time. I fixed that, and the rest went smoothly. No jamming whatsoever. I sorta fired slow since my focused next was fixing the site. I also brought my brother's 9mm Beretta. I didn't score much that day, I just got off from a grave shift, sorta tired, and unfocused, but I'm satisfied the WASR 10 fires pretty smooth.


WASR 10 (romanian AK47)

For some targets, several empty milk jogs filled with water (or colored liquid), and cheap soda cans. The range has their own tin cans (used), but we brought our own. All you gotta do is singed in, write down your license plate number, and pay $15.00 per person ($7.50 for youths 17 and under) per day. @ Los Altos Rod & Gun Club.

Daft Punk 130 Videos

This is a lot of Daft Punk! 130 videos...



Makes me regret for not doing the $Robot at this Photobooth from My Cousins Wedding.
From 05/21/11. It's supposedly the day of rapture that some believes.

Manny Pacquiao vs Sugar Shane Mosley - 2011

I want to congratulate my fellow pinoy Manny Paquiao aka Pacman for wining the fight last night, against Sugar Shane Mosley. The third round was awesome, it's too bad Pacman's legs buckled after that round and cannot rush into Mosley's clever stand backs and run counter attacks technique. Hit and run type boxer. Most fighters who faced Pacman lately, does the same. As if they only wanna get few blemishes on the face, hoping they'll make it to 12 rounds without embarrassing themselves too much, and get the money. Hardly any toe to toe boxers like the previous fighters he ever fought before, when the winning price was pretty even. I probably do the same man lol. You never know what type of scientific voodoo magic has been implanted inside Pacman, after all those years of training to maintain his crown, you just never know (sarcasm). Plus the dude is loved by everyone, even people from Hollywood. You just can't hate on the guy.

Except when…… it comes to politics. I mean common dude. Are you serious? Filipinos, well not just Filipinos but Mexicans, even Irish folks probably walk off the arena right after you mentioned your passion in Philippines politics. That's like a slap on the face for some filipinos to be honest with you. Because there's gotta be tons of Filipinos in the Philippines, from the US, and in any other part of the world that are waaaaaaaay more qualified to take that place as a politician. They just don't have the same fame like you do, or like some of the well known comedians from the Philippines who moved towards politics. I don't mean to say negative about it. I mean it's awesome that a Filipino straight from the belly of the Philippines has made it this far as a professional athlete. From 106 lbs class to 145+ lbs class. And became the top high paying athlete in the wold. You made history dude. Like some kind of hope. Either that, or there just wasn't enough action for what they payed for. Sold out expensive boxing ticket.

I say, rather put that energy in opening up some Boxing Schools, or placing local libraries on certain barrios all over the Philippines. Few local Clinics. Stay in Merchandize business and maybe place jobs in the Philippines and abroad. Business, man… business. Thats even better than a politician. Your more of a modern Raja that way. And safer too.

Anyways, I could be wrong in all this. Just a quick opinion of mine about his move towards politics. If his for it then, it is what it is.. He will be whoever he wants, other than a boxer that the whole world known him best.

Here's the best round of the fight. Round number "3".
 

Osama Bin Laden - Dead

May 1st, 2011. As I went to the kitchen between my sleep before going to work. My family were watching CNN. The television screen shows a live footage of the White House (night time), and at the bottom screen is says "PRESIDENT OBAMA CONFIRMED OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD" it was written something like that. There it is again, what's with numero cinco man.


Osama Bin Laden

May 2nd, 2011. My own opinion. I give props to the Navy Seals. But what if the Pakistanis or foreign Islamic Community done it themselves? Then again, whichever sides killed him, don't make much of a difference. The terrorists attacks regardless, if they see an opening. Justice man. Justice is what matters for now.

And... proof please? Because throwing the body at the deep sea, seems too fishy a size of a smelly dead whale for the public.

No Blog Month - BEJEWELED

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this is actually posted on 07-13-11

Milkfish Jelly Belly

It's like the Filet Mignon in fish. Milkfish itself is very bony. It has many tiny bones that can be annoying pulling them out from your mouth or pushing them out from your lips. Some folks are pro though, like my own folks. It's like they have special mechanical tongues where fishbones are automatically separated. Me in the other hand, rather go for that fatty part of the milkfish only. Where the belly's meat is also tender and no fishbones. The good part of the fish, I called The Filet Mignon of Milkfish. If there are restaurants that serves just that part of the milkfish. That would be a thumbs up restaurant in my list. It's healthy fat I think. Good for eyes and skin. Prevents cancer perhaps? Whatever it is, the taste of it is delicious.

RIP - Elizabeth Taylor

I heard her eyes are violet...

Liz Taylor February 27, 1932 - March 23, 2011.

No Blog Month - PACMAN

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