I was linked to product press release of the Wacom Inkling a few months ago by a friend on Facebook. I believe this YouTube video explains all you need to know about this awesome product:

I was pretty blown away by the Inkling and it has become my ‘must-have’ art supply of the year because of it’s versatility between the digital and hand medium. By nature I will always prefer hand-drawing as opposed to digital sketching, but sometimes I like the idea of digital painting/sketching for it’s ease of transfer across a wider platform. However I am somewhat still bad at sketching/drawing directly on the computer, so having a device which detects my hand-drawings and makes it friendly for the computer to read, is a BLESSING. Not to mention it comes up in a better quality than if I scanned it.

It was probably lucky that I checked up on the status of the Inkling being sold by Wacom Australia, otherwise, I would not have been able to get my hands on one, for they are only doing a limited run at the moment. I purchased mine from PowerMedia at Surry Hills, but you can get them online as well.

I took some photos of the ‘unwrapping’ process so you can see what it looks like:

It comes in a very nice black box!

 My boyfriend was mucking around trying to get silly photos of me during the unwrapping…

Ta-dah! You can see the pen and the case which contains the little scanner, USB cord and ink nibs.

A better view of the insides of the case. I’ve slotted the pen through the holder designed for it.

 GPOY

A lot of the time I cannot be bothered to lug around my DSLR camera with me simply because I don’t usually carry a bag that is big enough to fit it. Not to mention it’s pretty heavy! Because of this, I end up missing out on being able to document outings with friends easily or even just simply snap a photo of something which catches my eye. I know my phone’s camera could be useful for this as well, but a) it’s not a particularly good camera and the flash makes things look pretty bad and b) I’ve been wanting to get back into using film for it’s experimental qualities.

So when I saw the La Sardina camera being released by Lomography, I could not resist having a look! This particular model ticked off all of my criteria- takes 35mm film (for ease of use), has models that come with a flash unit, is able to take wide angle shots (so I don’t have to worry about cutting off the heads of people in photos) and has some very cute pattern variations. I finally got around to ordering one last week and to my surprise, it arrived in the mail today!

It’s so shiny! I love the Cubic’s pattern!

 It comes with your usual book of photography examples, warranty and set of instructions with a poster of sardine cans on the back.

It also came with this random accordion-fold book with the Sardina Cubic’s pattern printed on all the pages. I guess this would make good wall decoration?

And here we have the La Sardina Cubic itself. It comes with a Fritz the Blitz flash unit, a white diffuser filter and three colour filters.

I can’t wait to start using it! I must start stocking up on 35mm film tomorrow…