Photography / Zappa Photo
” What a Hell, Frank Zappa is doing in a ZEN blog ? “
It was rather unexpected turn of the situation.
Since one of my great friend artist, Wayne Chisnall mentioned this blog and me as a photographer in his
blog spot, it became necessary to explain about my photography. (—–of strange kind :-))
Frank Zappa and me on the live stage (Copyright reserved/ 2009/ Yoshi Imamura )
The photo above was taken by my hand made camera called Yoshi-handy, with
17mm fish-eye lens attached on the 6 x 6 film format, hence it create whole circular image.
(On this photo above, the lens attached was Nikon Fish-eye 16mm of which the Lens-hood was removed)
——As Zappa was so intrigued by this camera and its effect, he asked me to produce as
strange as possible photos. —– And this is it.
When I was young, my interest was the nature. Close-up
photography was the essential tool and to do it I needed
to improvise or modify the equipments.—- If I got
to do, do it. If I didn’t know how, learn it or try it.
If not successful try again and again.
The camera here left, the body was hack-sawed and
made the lens to tilt, enabling a focus from lens front
to infinity in one picture.—— When I modified EOS, the boss of R & D in the Canon asked me,
How I could make the camera working again ? I answered ” If Canon can, I can do too, as
we are the same human being “.
Why not. Ha ha ha 😀
( If you are the person who expected to see lots of photos—— Have a break, and see ” Zen in Action”
It would be a fun ! )
Wayne’s Blog < http://waynechisnall.blogspot.com > or click / Associates / Wayne Chisnall
Yoshizen's Blog 
Fish-eye Zappa pic
Keepin it greasy for ya
Where is the poodle?
whoo rocking with that photo!
Fisheyes give some really strange results at times 😀
Is that the tilt/shift attachment with the 8 stop movement i can see?
no its not. i didnt view it large 😀
Hand made camera, Yoshi-Handy has the front panel connected to the camera back
by just 4 adjustable screws on each corner. (I should have put its photo )
So that, it can extend for close-up or can be tilted to any direction.
Thanks to have no mechanical connection of the film wind-up to shutter charge,
its prone to make double exposure mistake. 😀
( The details of the camera and other photos was in the Zoom magazine / 1978/
Nov’Oct’ issue in English, other five languages’ issue—–I don’t remember—– it was
my European debut)
———– I was young and it was spring. Ha ha ha 😀
Hi Yoshizen, .
Thank-you very much, .
Ha ha! This is really fun! Yoshi-handy, huh? 🙂 Nice experiment! This is a great fish-eye shot!
Glad you liked it. In deed it was an extreme fun.
As Zappa was a notorious fun-loving person, he loved bizarre
hand-made camera and its effect.
He invited me on the live stage with total freedom = do anything I like.
So that I had no hesitation standing on front of him or laying on the center of the stage.
—– He came over me while keep singing. 😀
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Hiya!
Len here – love the zappa shot!
Did you manage to get any on Saturday?
Can’t find a ‘contact’ link, so just hitting you up on here – you said to let you know when next gig was – we’re playing at hootananny on Saturday Sept 17th if you about?
Hi Len.
The contact was —> About —> 😀 (befrore JP script starts)
Anyway, you got the Photos and E’ml address.
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