What's Left

Voigtlander Vito II (1953) and Vito B (1957)

Sold the Rolleiflex, but keep the Rollei 35

Cosina Voigtlander Bessa R with Nokton 50mm, Color Skopar 35mm and Leica Elmar 90mm

Collection of dead cameras: Olympus Trip, Canon Canonet, Kodak Retinette and cannot remember!

Sold

Contax G1 with Planar 45mm, Biogon 28mm and Sonnar 90mm

Rolleiflex 3.5f Planar 75mm

Contax T3

Unable to get the films that I wanted, I sold most of cameras in 2009. A few months after doing that most of the films, especially Iford XP-2 and Kodak T400CN came back. How I regretted doing that. Later bought a used Leica Minilux in July 2009, and early this year bought a Lomo LC-W (which I will talk more of later).

Hot FM Zoomers

On the eve of the 49th independence day celebration, Hot FM zoomers
were at the Kuala Lumpur KTM station, quizzing and
giving Hot FM freebies.

Contax G1 with Planar 45mm and Kodak T400 CN

On the road to Sungai Lembing - View 2

Rollei 35 with Ilford XP Super

On the road to Sungai Lembing - View 1

On the way to Sungai Lembing, I stopped to admire and shoot what is usually known as a secondary tropical forest. Trying very hard with 35mm format to capture the forest in a manner similar to Ansell Adam image of Aspen trees.

Rollei 35 with Ilford XP2 Super

Before the scraps thieves came to town

The slides show provides the glimpse of what the tin ore processing plant in Sungai Lembing used to look like. Locomotive heads with Hunslett mark, electrical generator that was known as English Electric and others which were specifically designed, fabricated and patented by the engineers, locally.

The locals were powerless, even though they tried very hard, to stop the scrappies that came from every corner of the country. Some even came from neighbouring countries. The authorities could not, or maybe did not, do anything to halt them. Now, the heritage is gone forever. What's left are these images only.

Compare these images which that you have seen below. They are at the same location. The only difference is that they are about two to three years apart.

All images were shot with Rollei 35 on Ilford Delta Professional 100.

Another view of some parts of Sungai Lembing as they are now

Contax G1 with Biogon 28mm / Kodak TMAX 100