SONY a7 for Pinhole Photo
My friend photographer, Antonio showed me a small camera.
(Along side his big Hasselblad ELM.)
It was a first encounter with SONY alpha camera —– despite
seeing a lots of camera review etc, so the photographic images
were familiar still, the real camera in its fresh was a shock to me.
Almost the same size of the M4/3 camera still, having full frame !
(And the lens attached was a Zeiss, the images were quite crisp.)
So, I tested how SONY a7 camera can handle the Pinhole.
My set of Pinhole was mounted with an adapter (in this photo
the camera was a Olympus) and made a Mono-hole image.
And this one was a Multi-Pinhole image.
Then, this one was a Double-Density Pinhole image.
And those photos were a comparison of the view of my Pinhole
against the Zeiss Planer 35mm lens. (Mind you, my Pinhole is a
wide-angle pinhole with a concave lens attached on front.)
—– the Pinhole view (left) seems wider than 28mm lens.
The most remarkable point of a7 camera IS, despite it is a full frame
camera, yet still as a mirror less, its flange back is only 18mm thin !
—– So, if a panel with a hole was attached on the camera mount, it
will have a 18mm ultra wide-angle lens’ view. And I tested it while
placing the Pinhole panel directly on the camera mount (though,
there were a lot of light leak — still, we can see pretty wide image !)
To compare this image to the photo of 35mm image above,
how it IS wide is clearly visible. (= This is the big advantage.)
I promised to Antonio, I’ll make a Pinhole adapter for his a7
camera. (In practice, I’ll just make a hole on his body cap.) 🙂
And I might buy SONY. 😀
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Tanbo-Art — Godgilla
Well, Tanbo Art mean Rice field Drawing = the drawing was made
by the different color of the rice crop = it’s mean, each crop was
planted exact position months ago. And each colored crop was
pains takingly developed and the seeds has been kept over the years
by the local farmers — only for this fun. (Still, with this Drawing,
it’s made this utterly non assuming local village “Inaka-date,
Aomori prefecture, famous and attracting thousands of tourists.)
So, for this year, they created Godgilla ! (Photo from Jiji news)
—– This almost like an obsessive dedication and the pains taking
attention is nothing but the Zen Practice (though they, the farmer
themselves may not aware of it at all.) = (Zen Ethos has been so
deeply sublimated in Japan, people does not necessary know why
it has to be done in that way, for what reason. Yet still, as a custom
or tradition, it has been kept and practiced exactly the same way
hundred of the years, it’s forming the collective belief, the Ethos.)
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One of the International research found, that the Japanese are the
most “Atheist” like people (doesn’t believe God or Buddha exists)
still, they all believe the fate or the punishment from the heaven.
= it’s mean, the teachings has been such deeply sublimated, hence
the words or the title figure has been completely forgotten still
the mind has been shaped down to the unconscious level.
(You may not aware why you were offered disposal chopstick when
you were invited their party / diner = they feel the chopstick is not
clean once you touched = So that, Japanese doesn’t eat like Chinese
or Korean from the same bowl but take the food to their own small
dish, avoiding a chance of the chopsticks touch others’.
—– The teachings of Right-Wrong / Do-Not Do were
deepen to the unconscious mind / chemical level.)
= So, once they were convinced and started to DO, there couldn’t
be any doubt or hindrance, down to unconscious level —– Do
grow the best rice or make a strongest sword. = Just do it.
And do it without the self conscious, (it’s mean, no Ego or Greed
= mind is free) the result would be the best.
This is the Zen.
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Make Pinhole for OM-D / Micro 4/3
On the previous post, I mentioned about a Pinhole specifically
designed for OM-D. So, mean while I play with it like a test.
(Real work starts when I got camera’s body cap from China.)
Camera’s body cap goes inside of the mount surface 3.7mm,
it’s mean pinhole could be mounted further 3.7mm nearer to
the image sensor. (Micro 4/3 camera’s Flange-back is 19.25mm,
-3.7mm would be 15.55mm = it will make rather wide-angle view,
equivalent to 31mm lens on 35mm film camera.)
— but, for the time being, have a test, just place a panel with hole
on the surface of the mount. (You will see how simple it IS !)
On a flatten beer can, 54mm dia’ circle was drawn. (Photo left)
And the disc was cut out from the tin panel. (Photo Middle)
Then the disc with a hole in the center was stacked on the camera.
(Photo Right) —– That’s all. No more, no less. 😀
Voila! This is the Pinhole image made by the hole on
the beer can. Left photo was a wide-angle version.
(A concave / diverging lens was placed on front)
And the Right photo was by the pinhole itself.
ISO 8,000 AV setting — since the exposure was more
than 2 second, a tripod was used.
To push the fun further, I put a Fisheye Adapter for
MobPhone (widely sold for £10 or so)
= So, it’s a Pinhole Fisheye Picture ! (photo right)
And this is the Double-Density Pinhole on OM-D.
Left was the Pinhole itself and the right was with a concave lens.
Now you’ve seen how easy and cost nothing the Pinhole
Photography IS. = So, why not try if you got Canon, Pentax
or Micro 4/3 camera in hand.
(Though, pay attention to the dust)
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Godzilla of Cicada shell
This is the photo of Godzilla sculpture made by the empty
It came from >>> http://hayabusa3.2ch.sc/test/read.cgi/news/1470180555/
I don’t think I need to explain what it is.
(and so far, I couldn’t find who made this)
Anyhow, I’ve just dropped my jaw = lost a word. 😀
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My Dragon sculpture made by wire was just a 3D version of the
line drawing = not much new. (and this one as well)
—– Though, to conceive the idea to make Godzilla by the empty
shells of cicada seems to be far beyond of human imagination and
more importantly, it was not an empty crazy performance = the end
result IS an impressive art piece.
Our human mind could have even more area to fly further.
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Bang bad
Since couple of months ago, the AD / Banner of this company
started to appear in my screen. I only guess how they were
directed here and showing what.
The choice / direction was uncomfortably spot on to my taste /
interest. —– The space was provided by the Fire Fox though,
the info’ such as what I Googled etc must came from Google.
Yet still, in what extent they do know about what I’m doing and
would buy what is a private matter. While ago, after I Wiki
a flower Jacaranda, those AD showed me a cushion printed a
Jacaranda flower. How nice. What a hell.
Because of they showed me such and such interesting / useful
product in such a price (I didn’t know still, eBay was heving
the identical item), I ordered them 4 items in rapid sequence.
The first one = geared motor was delivered in a week
— with my surprise, it came from the Laos, not from the China.
(But the other 3 items, posted same address, took exactry 3 weeks.)
Other than the normal circulation in the formal trade, a kind of the
industrial components / parts appearing in an open market with a
knock-down price was — either by rejected (faulty or out of the
spec) or end-of-the-line = dead stock, if not of a bankrupted
/ liquidated goods.
(A motor and its fixing in the photo above is a typical sample of the
unsalable product = hence sold to this dealer = may be a price of the
scrap — (Photo left) The bracket, the motor should be mounted,
couldn’t take the motor since the hole was too small.
(2nd Photo) The coupler which should connect the motor shaft to
the drill bit holder was not in the correct size.
(3rd Photo) The motor shaft was 3.17 mm diameter = in fact, it
was 1/8″ not a metric 3mm.
(4th Photo) Still, the coupler was made for the 3mm motor shaft.
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Economical / industrial situation in China is so bad, so that the
mountain of dead-stock component / bits of the electronic circuit
are no-where to go = So, this dealer is trying to make a money out
of those scrap though, as they are not the manufacturer, they
don’t know the meaning of the technical specification. Hence,
the motor arrived here no instruction of how to use. = How many
people can use this while giving modifications ? (One suggestion
was “Heat the coupler and hummer in to the motor shaft” ) 😀
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While checking the detail of the other products, I found a lots of
them are out of standard = useless to non-professional engineer.
Just use a common sense, “Why it’s price was so cheap ?”
The situation is Bang bad.
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PS : (I found a custommer’s comment to their product)
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Poor quality control
Durch:Raymond 2016-06-21 04:30:40
- Ordered 3 but none worked, missing components due to poor soldering. tried to return but Bang good link does not allow a complaint without posting a you tube video, and who has time for that. I ordered replacements through eBay and will throw these out.
—– It’s puzzling, why Bang ** is showing those negative
comments = may be their tactical way to tell That ther is no
way to return and implying that the products may not work.
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PPS : ( The 1/8″ shaft of the motor above has been reduced by
a sharpning stone and the drilling head was installed to what
it should be. )
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Funki Porcini @ NFT
Last night my friend, multi talented (video, music) artist,
Funki Porcini showed his new works at the National Film
Theater, Southbank, London.
First, B/W film was shown, which was a re-discovered, revived silent
Soviet-Russian film titled “My Grandmother” —–Funki put the
sound (today’s housy sounds) and made the film even more crazy. 😀
And showed some of his work, then the latest one
“Conservative Apocalypse” (you better watch it)
He reviled some secrets behind, on frame by frame.
The end of the show, with a big applause, he was surrounded
by the audiences, or the questions, then we moved to the bar.
—– then I realized it was almost midnight. Still it was quite
a worthwhile mind-boggling evening.
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Ox’cart and the Fate
I found a Buddhist story in a Japanese website, a collection of small episode which was said to be told by Lord Buddha = “There was an ox’cart carrying heavy goods. The ox, who draw the cart everyday fed up the work, got an idea, if there was no cart there couldn’t be any work.
So, on a bend of the road, ox sped-up and the last moment,he sway and made the cart smashed onto a rock. As the cart was smashed broken, no more work on that day. Then few days later, the owner brought a new cart made by heavy iron. So that, the ox had to draw even heavier lord”— in this episode
Lord Buddha taught that if anybody does silly things, it would boomerang back onto the next life. —– interesting story though,I don’t think this story was genuine at all even if it was in the Mahayana scripture.
—— The reason was
1) Lord Buddha wouldn’t have said “Next Life” since his stance was Anatoman (No- Atoman = No perpetual soul/self) therefore there couldn’t be Next Life.
2) I don’t believe that there could be a cart made-up by iron exists which was affordable to a man of ox’cart in India, 2500 years ago.
3) Of cause, ox isn’t such clever. (Sorry, Mr Ox. 😀 ) This story must be a fake by a script-writer of much much later period when the idea of Hindu = Atoman and their belief of Reincarnation was mixed up into Buddhism. Obviously, as the Buddhist’s Sanga (follower’s community) had
NO CAST system, the idea of Reincarnation was not existed there.
How do you think ?
(Dirty) Battle on the Net
With a stereotypical crèche, we are implanted a myth that we are
bombarded by too much information in the net environment.
And we can find ANY info’ by just clicking.
—– DO you believe this ? —– As a matter of fact I did too.
So, as my tablet as a mobile photo book, I’ve been explaining to
the new friends what I’m doing and told them “If you are
interested in, just read the blog itself. And to find my blog, the
easiest way is just google < yoshi, Zappa> you can see this fish-eye
photo of Zappa and the links to my blog on top of the google page”
= So far it was a good instruction — I thought till few weeks ago.
Then I met the same man and he said “I couldn’t find your blog”
— ? ? ? = We realized that, (as he was using a browser MS’s
Internet Explorer and its search engine Bing) on IE the information
related to Google were completely missing.
= On Bing, you can NOT find any WordPress blog, such as a search
term, not only <yoshi, Zappa> even <yoshizen blog> NO information
of my blog coming up there at all. (even after 10th pages)
Since I don’t like bullying MS (with their monopoly), I’ve been using
Fire Fox from the start, therefore I was not aware this trouble.
(You can test this easily = You see the Search box in the Tool Bar
on top of screen. When you move the Arrow there, The choice of
Search Engine, Yahoo, Bing etc will appears = Try each of them
with the Same Search Term)
Obviously, MS is so desperate when facing their fortune is
slipping away = try to destruct Google in any mean.
(They haven’t reached the Point “If you can’t beat, join them” yet.)
It’s an ugly battle going on.
(Incidentally, I found that to search through the browser Opera was
not recognized by the WordPress = the count of the reading of the post
was not appeared to the WP statistics. — I have no idea why.
= I noticed this, when a man told me that he has read through all the
“Photography post” which got enormous number — still, nothing
appeared on the WP stats count. Then I found he was using Opera.)
(Later, I tested the Opera my self while downloading it to my PC and
found = its depend on the condition when it was downloaded = sometime
work, other time not — try download again and check the function)
= It seems, strange battle is also going on behind the scene. 😀
(There must be the heavy negotiation of license, money etc etc)
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Google Horror (2)
Every week, Youtube is sending me the list of new viz.
And what I received for 1st of May was REALLY interesting
and you should see them too.
(Note, Youtube is a part of Google)
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Have look the screen capture here, and see what was
there on the bottom = “Recommended” = One left was
apparently the most dreadful kind of Porn viz,
“Copulation of a Girl and a Dog” and the one right
could be a Child Porn. Since I haven’t click them,
I don’t know what they are exactly.
And as my Broadband provider set a restriction for
adult contents, I don’t know what they are.
(To make a restriction lifted, it is necessary to
register with full name, DOB, Driving License Number
— though, I’m not such keen to give my ID for a sake
of somebody else’s sex viz at all — anyway,
I haven’t touch a woman since 1987. 😀 )
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Here the most astonishing fact was, “Did Youtube allow
to show those, the most degrading dreadful kind of Porn”
— does Google got any sense of “What is normal or right
or wrong”? — does Google think those kind of things ARE
worth recommending,— in other words, in Google’s
standard, those Porn are morally acceptable and
worth recommend to others ?
— And why they recommended those to me ? ? ?
What sort of imagination or idea made this
“Recommendation”—– Only a possibility I can think
of is, this must be a dirty conspiracy = a Trap against me
since I put an exposing blog accusing
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= If I open those Porn, they record it as an evidence.
Or they could put those Porn Image/ File into my PC
—– then a Policeman knock the door.
Or, is it the intimidation while implying “What would
happen next”. How do you think ?
Did Google acquire filthy mind as dirty as “Animal F***” kind ?
Or was that their default = hence they deluded others
must have the same taste and anxious to know
other’s privacy ! —– Here, the serious question IS,
Greedy and Filthy minded Google still expecting to receive
ANY respect from the society ? ? ?
— And the last question is, are they, actuary a person in
charge with, doing this ? — or automatic AI program is doing ?
= If it was done by AI, to develop a graphic pattern recognition
program to distinguish “Animal F***” and send it to me must
have a lots of work needed !
( Hasn’t Google got ANY better things to DO. ? ? ? )
—— Amazing isn’t it !
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