I rented the newly released Fuji X100s last weekend and had only few hours to play with it. But, that’s enough!!! Enough for me to rent it again today! Will play with it again some more. For those who are interested in renting camera and lenses in Singapore, visit this Camera Rental Centre near Clarke Quay.

So, that’s me shooting with the Fuji X100s near the construction site of the Jalan Besar MRT station. I managed to draw the attention of some people walking there.

All images here were shot in RAW format and then converted to JPEG with almost no post processing. I cropped two of them and converted one to black and white. I actually shot it in black and white but I don’t know why it’s showing in color when I downloaded it.

First impression? Excellent little camera. I think I am going to clear my dry cabinet, sell some old stuffs to fund the .. ahem … purchase of this little camera. But no stock in Singapore at the moment. New stocks coming in in 1 – 2 week time. I have done my research.

Tips and trick: use a small aperture to shoot into the sun to have a sunburst effect. I used f/16 for the image above.

Image below was shot at ISO 4000.

Image below was shot at ISO 5000.

And finally, the one below was shot at ISo 6400. Very very usable.

What’s more I like about the camera? It has an Optical Viewfinder (OVF) as well as EVF (Electronic View Finder). Yes, an optical viewfinder in a non-SLR camera. Lovely technology Fuji.

The one below was cropped. I was making my way to dinner to end the night when I saw this man in crutches walking to get a cab.

This is the original version:

And lastly, I did not end my night here.    I went to have satay and mutton briyani somewhere else.

The last image was also cropped and converted to black and white in Adobe Lightroom. I actually shot it in black and white mode in the camera though. Not sure why Lightroom is reading the file as colored. I am sure there will be updates coming soon from Adobe to better support the raw files of Fuji X100s.

Gotta go now to pick up the camera from the rental shop. See you somewhere on the streets of Singapore if you are out shooting tonight.

My basic Aperture Priority workflow. I sketched this just for fun using Paper app on iPad.

Mobile photography of young banana leaf, shot with iPhone 4s using the 645Pro app. Minor post-processing was done on iPhone using the FilterStorm app.

I was making my way to the Bugis train station from Bencoolen when it rained that night in September last year. I stopped in front of a shop, took shelter from the rain and started taking panning shots of people walking with their umbrellas and shopping bags above their heads using the Hipstamatic app on iPhone 4s. The ‘film’ and ‘lens’ combination was John S Lens and Blackey SuperGrain black and white film. My favorite Hipstamatic combination for black and white images. What’s your favorite Hipstamatic setting for black and white shots?

Enjoy the rest of the images below.

Playing UNO at home. Photos plus her own handwriting. She wrote it using the WACOM stylus and tablet.

I had no idea that where I stood when I took the photo above, one evening in December 2005, would become a shopping mall, hotel and one of the two Singapore’s first casinos. Slightly more than a year after I took this photo, the construction started in February 2007 and the rest is history. From June 2010, the site has become the Marina Bay Sands Hotel, The Shoppes and Casino. It’s Singapore’s first Integrated Resort at Marina Bay.

Here is another view. The building from where I took the photo below also did not exist back in 2005.

The only constant is change.

A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ~ Victor Hugo

Men in black walking along the promontory at the Marina Bay. Shot with iPhone 4s, Hipstamatic app, John S Lens and Blackey SuperGrain film.