Back to the Future - 21 Oct 2015

Back To Future II Time Machine showing 21 Oct 2015

In Back to the Future II, Marty travelled in his time machine to 21 Oct 2015.  2015 is 30 years from 1985, the reference year in which Marty first started in the first film Back to the Future. There were many predictions of what 2015 would look like, including prominent innovations like Nike self tying shoe, hoverboard and Black & Decker food hrydrator that could transform a processed packet to a full sized pizza.

The Guardian online gave a comparison between the technologies that were predicted in the film and the current available technologies.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2015/jan/02/what-back-to-the-future-part-ii-got-right-and-wrong-about-2015-an-a-z

My Marble Angelfish



Marble Angelfish

My marble angelfish was purchased on 19 Oct 2014. It stays healthy one year in the tank while all my other fishes had perished. It had grown slightly. I love its body colours of white, black, yellow and a tinge of red on its gills.  It also swims gracefully.

Nikkor 43-86mm f3.5 Ais Lens

Nikon FM2n with Nikkor 43-86mm Lens

Under Exposed Photo (Unedited) - Haze in Singapore

This lens has such a strange focal length. There are 2 versions of it. The earlier version has the printed lens data within the inner rim of the filter mount, while the other version is printed on the outer rim.

According to Kenrockwell.com, the earlier version of the lens is one of Nikon worst lens ever produced.

Fortunately, my version is the later version. However, I am not sure the reason but the photso taken were under-exposed. See above for example. The speed of the shutter for this photo was set at 1/4000 which was one of the fastest in the 80s. I must however qualify that the film was kept in the camera for some time (more than half a year) and this could affect the quality of the film. Secondly, I was using FM2n exposure meter to gauge the lighting level. When I had earlier used the camera exposure meter on the 28mm lens, the exposure was perfectly alright.

The lens exterior is quite beautifully designed with coloured lines on its body indicating the range of focus for various zoom length and f number. Zoom is done by sliding the zoom ring inwards and outwards of the camera body. Focus is done by rotating the same ring.