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. After One Year .....2007 was a pretty eventful year for me. Firstly, Chiif Cameras turned 1 on 23 October 2007, secondly, my second boy arrived on this planet earth. It is nice to know that there are more and more interests in the Range Finder Cameras. Maybe it was due to the M8, that was introduced in 2006 that captured the SLR photographers attention. And some how, more and more leisure digital photographers are turning back to film. Personally, I still feel that digital technology has not caught up with film. Maybe it has, but not to level of delivering to the mass market yet. Scanning film though takes a longer time, it yields much better quality files than pictures produced from the digital SLR. Moving ahead, I believe the film enthusiasts population will continue to grow. With eBay, PayPal, EMS & DHL, the world has become flatter and people can now purchase gears from the other side of the globe at different time zone with different currencies. Those mechanical cameras stored in the old grand father's closets will start to see light again. Will film disappear next year? Well, at least not in Singapore. Film prices are still pretty reasonable here. Consumer grade Fuji Superia 400 costs SGD3.40 per roll in box of 3 and Tri-X cost SGD4.70 at the friendly photographic supplies store in Pennisular Shopping Centre. Well, for Chiif Cameras, 2008 will be an exciting year, watch out for more products on the shelves! It is my commitment to offer my customers quality products at the most reasonable price. - Chiif 8 December 2007  Special thanks to Jeffrey Yap for helping me to take this portrait with his Nikkor 50mm/f1.2 lens.  Why 35mm RangeFinders?Guess people who come to this web site are film shooters. Even if I start a 35mm-Digital war, we will win! RIGHT? *hee hee* Photos taken from digital cameras are just different. After all these years, sensors get better, processors get faster, BUT pictures don't get better.... That's pretty sad. Being in the IT field for the past 14 years made me appreciate analog things better. Not everything digitized will turn out to be better. Vinyl records do sound better than CDs even till today. And talk about MP3.... they are just noise... ANYWAY, like it or not.... we will lose the battle. Digital will rule the world. That will leave a few 35mm film shooters like you and me creating the mona lisa art pieces for the museums 200 years later. And our equipment, the Bessa L, R, T, R2, R2A, R3A, R2M, R3M, Nokton, Ultrons, Color-Skopar, Apo-Lanthar, Wide-Heliars will worth more than Eric Clapton's guitar. So.... START STOCKING UP NOW! The reason why I decided to be a Voigtlander dealer is because I couldn't find one in Singapore and in the 3000km radius. It's sad that such good product get left out by people. Well, the good thing is, I can be the Voigtlander dealer! My goal is to bring in quality and affordable cameras and lenses for the 35mm photographers and to be able to service you, my customers, so that you WILL stay faithful to 35mm. So, for now... Forget the megapixels. Start shooting with KODAK, FUJI & ILFORD... And Start Buying Voigtlander...About myself :-
And to the Voigtlander 35mm photographers... You never actually own a Bessa. You just take care of it for the next generation. About my career:- Chii Fei a.k.a chiif
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