Sunday, October 5, 2008

Ah Lians and Uncle Mike



I.AM.SUPER.PISSED that my Agfa Ct Precisa prints were not cross processed!!!!
Went to try out a new place, Fotohub at Liang Seah instead of Triple D at Burlington Sq. The place looked spiffy and professional but was served by this Ah Lian who didn’t seem to know her photography shit. Its like hello, I gave her the slide film to be cross processed but it turned out NORMAL. I might as well have used normal non-slide film and had to pay quite a fair bit just to develop and scan.

Should have known better. Was asking Ah Lian what kind of colours and tones would the other films they sold turn out like and she was like …..crik….crik…crik….
*Hello Earth to Ah Lian, u work here dun u know!?!?!* Blur liao…
Am not going back there even though its more accessible than Triple D.

Contrast this to the ever-friendly, patient Uncle Mike who helms the Triple D photo shop. Now he knows his shit off the top of his fingers. I can safely trust him with my beloved prints. Just pass it to him, no questions and he knows to cross-process the bloody slide film. Heck even his school going son knows it, like duh.

Uncle Mike is so cool that he even bothers to load ur film for you, advise on getting the right exposures and the types of film. Yes, he may have a poodle of a Phua Chu Kang hairdo (wic works for him cutely), thinks that the lomo fad’s a phase and that lomographers are crazy loopies but he gets it right for an affordable price.

So unsatisfying…urgh. The Clarke Quay photos would turn out so much cooler with cross processing man =(

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…..pek cek…..

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