Honestly, i’m a novice when it comes to photography, although i may enjoy collecting the tools, but when it comes to taking the actual photos, I’m pretty much a point and shoot person… i have these times when i go on searching online for photography tutorials & articles or checkout videos and books and get all excited about IMPROVING, but at the end of the day, i come back down to reality & remain pretty much a beginner. so for 2010, i have a resolution of studying digital & film photography, i really should at least know what Aperture exactly means, especially when I’m holding a camera as big as my head & someone asks me that hehe.

so talking about being no more than a humble collector of cameras, checkout these OH-MY-GOD-SO-ADORABLE minox classic digital cameras!

they’re like the tiniest & cutest camera’s i have come across so far. i mean look at the Rolleiflex MiniDigi! no no don’t look at the pix, go to Sharaf DG and touch this beauty! yes it’s digital, with a 2x zoom, and it’s 5 mega pixel.. & guess where the LCD screen is ?…. yup it’s inside that top lid, so you actually use it the same way the vintage model was used… i fell in love with this once i set eyes on it, it’s worth 699 AED at sharaf DG…. only 1 thought stopped me from grabbing it… ehem… remember the lomo craze i went through? lets just say I’m feeling guilty for not trying them out properly yet, &… well, i kinda feared mum would end up with a soar throat for obvious reasons.. don’t tell her this, but in my next outing, I AM GETTING THIS!!! I’m so scared it runs out!! I’m in a faja3 mode…

There’s also this model, the MINOX DCC 5.1.. this one is no less adorable! it’s 4x zoom… i can imagine it tucked in my purse somewhere & becoming really handy ! (NOT, it just looks good!!).. i got this one for a dear friend who, unlike me, knows her way in photography.

Remember the Diana F+ lomo camera that i mentioned in here? well .. this camera uses a 120 mm film, which i couldn’t find around here yet… i researched a bit to find a way around it and came across this of many tutorials that shows how you can easily modify the camera to hold the regular 35 mm film

Here’s my take on this, not bad? i shouldn’t have used white paper though, actually, i shouldn’t have opened that jacket to take the pix

cover the outer side of the red window properly

the inside too

add foam or any similar material to center the film, above and below it

and finally cover the film with another piece of foam to stabilize it, and that’s it, i can use regular 35mm film now until i find the 120 in Dubai

عزازيل – يوسف زيدان

تتحدث الرواية عن ترجمة لمجموعة لفائف مكتوبة باللغة السريانية، دفنت ضمن صندوق خشبي محكم الإغلاق في منطقة الخرائب الأثرية حول محيط قلعة القديس سمعان العمودي قرب حلب/سوريا. كُتبت في القرن الخامس الميلادي وعُثر عليها بحالة جيدة ونادرة ،وتم نقلها من اللغة السريانية إلي العربية.

الرقوق الثلاثين عبارة عن سيرة ذاتية للراهب المسيحي المصري هيبا ،والذي عاش في الفترة المضطربة من التاريخ المسيحي الكنسي في أوائل القرن الخامس الميلادي والتي تلتها إنقسامات هائلة بين الكنائس الكبري وذلك علي خلفية الخلاف حول طبيعة المسيح.

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