It’s the Gaudy Lens
I developped 10s of devices/lenses to obtain painting like fuzzy effect
— and so far this gaudy lens seemed to be the best device for the job.
No filter or attachment available on the market nor digital
manipuration can make the same effect.
(simplly nobody else needed => no manifacturer wanted to make)
So, I’m enjoying a dance alone in the middle of nowhere. 😀
The best things of this gaudy lens is, its balance of fuzzyness
and the ability to retain a certain details of the image.
(In fact, I can controle it by the size of paper hole/iris and
the amount of over-exposure/halation = so, it is not
like a wild animal of DD-Pinhole) Ha ha ha 😀
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Flowers to Hiroshima
Meadow by Twisted Lens
This was the first field test of the so-called
Twisted Lens = Two convex lenses stacked on a bellows.
As the lens was on a bellows they were easily
re-positioned = so, the effect of blur was adjusted.
As the lens was on the bellows, they were rather awkward
to use, nevertheless it managed to produce the photos.
You might wonder why I fuss about such fuzzy images =
The reason is, in our eyes we may not seeing sharp clear
images — they might be the brain re-constructed image.
(Remember, we never see straight line with rownd eye balls
— straight line IS the re-construction in the brain)
That’s why we are surprised and impressed by the sharp
clear photos, same as when we see a detailed close-up
photo of an insect which we can’t see otherwise.
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Takumi (2)
A guy asked me “So, you say the supreme quality component
could be made by the empty-headed robot ?”
“No, that is not true — I needed to explain more”.
The matter of the use of tool in Mushin is the last stage of
the production. Other issue there (if any) has to be resolved
before hand.
—– There is the fundamental difference of the worker’s
mind-set in Japan. Western or westernised society, the
people has individualistic mind even on a factory floor,
and in the same time the ways to work in the production
was fixed by the manager down to the small details.
So that the worker’s mind was “Just do what was told and
anything beyond the instruction is not MY business = I only
need to mind my own interest”.
But Japanese worker takes his/her work as a part of his life.
He feels the responsibility and the pride in it.
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—– Even on a fully computerised automated CNC machine,
such as the change of the cutting bits and its maintenance
affect the final quality. And the person working with it
everyday could see the difference but how to deal with this
matter wouldn’t be the same in Japan and the west.
In the west, the worker there may ignore as it is not his
responsibility or just report it to a technical staff.
But in Japan, the person working with it and changing
the cutting bits can give a very deep observation and try
a minute adjustment. Or, the person working with the
machine many years may have discovered the tendency of the
production, such as the weather condition affect the quality
= and may have found even a measure to compensate it.
As I said, the Japanese worker has the attachment to the work
= even if it may not as heavy as a “Sense of Duty” still keeps
an eye to the work and able to see what is going on.
And the crucial point IS their mind can see the difference
and conceive “What could be done” because they could see
what would make the work/result better. (Same as Kaizen)
(By the way, I got a Degree in Industrial Sociology and a work
experience in Honda while working with 1000 ton press.)
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In Zen Buddhism, this mind-set was called Mindfulness.
(though, this word is the most misunderstood word in the west.
— western people think “Mindfulness is the concentration of
the mind” but in Zen, it is the completely open mind without any
other notion but see the work on front of the eyes. = It’s mean
when you ARE working with the machine, see that work.
When you ARE walking, let your body WALK = DON’T think about
the work while you ARE WALKING.
— And see you ARE Walking but DON’T think how to walk. 😀
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In Judaeo-Christianity, the followers await the salvation = go to
the Heaven “after the death”.
But the Buddhists hope to reach Enlightenment = get Enlightened
while we live.
Lord Buddha’s teachings was “when you die, it’s the end”
—– so, while we ARE still alive we have to come close to the
Enlightenment as close as possible.
Therefore, Zen is the way to DO the best, to achieve the best.
This IS the mind-set of the Zen and this mind-set has been deeply
sublimated to the Japanese = If you work with CNC machine,
achieve its best. If you make sword, make strongest sword.
If you are a sword-master be the strongest killer. — and to be
the strongest sword-master, don’t think but JUST KILL.
—– So, this mind-set IS the mind-set of the TAKUMI and
no wonder why the Japanese Takumi could achieve to produce
the component no one else could.
(Now you might be realised that was why no routing after the
disaster in Japan and having the least crime rate in the world.)
Have look the lotus flower, it IS flowering out of muddy
water NOW = it’s no use, to dream a promise in the heaven.
We have to live best, NOW in this moment.
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Takumi
At the Wireless Wednesday gathering in Greenwich, we had
2 laptops to repair. One was a quite hi-spec Dell which needed
to change a HDD and the other was HP.
Dell needed to completely disassemble to see the back of mother
board = so many screws had to be removed, and the cables had
to be disconnected etc etc.
—– Then, when two of the cables to Wi-fi module needed to be
re-connected, the guy who has been dealing with this kind of
the work very well, couldn’t manage to insert the connector,
and neither the other guy managed to do too. — strange ? ? ?
The cables to Wi-fi module were not simple power wire kind but
the hi-frequency coaxial cables. So, the connecting post was not a
simple metal stud but a coaxial connector and the male connector
has to be inserted exactly parallel to the female counter part,
otherwise the needle thin center pin would be broken.
—– While watching them try, I found their finger couldn’t keep
the cable straight, neither the finger pushing it is steady.
= So, it was the time for the Zen Buddhist to join the game.
And the cables were safely connected. 😀
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When earthquake struck Kumamoto, Japan, quite few hi-tech
company there had to close and it sent a shiver to many other
manufacturers in the world. Such as Sony has their factory for
image sensor there = if it’s production stopped and the export
delayed, the production of iPhone in China would be stopped.
(Swedish camera manufacturer Hasselblad had to postporn the
sale of their medium format camera H6D, because the production
of 100 Mp image sensor in Sony, Kumamoto was disrupted —
in fact, 80% 0f digital camera in the world relying on Sony)
When China got their industrial development, they took over
the top position of manufacturing business — that they thought.
— While ago, China’s Premier Lee Karchan was so annoyed to
find that they needed to import even a ball of ball-point pen.
In deed, 60% of iPhone was made by the Japanese components =
the components of which China couldn’t make by themselves
even when they bought and used the same machine.
So the world started to pay an attention, Why only Japanese got a
skill to make certain component or device, and started to talk about
the Takumi (匠), such as the Mind-set of Takumi, Skill of Takumi.
(Takumi mean, the Master of something) —– the economists,
industrialists etc talking a lots about the Takumi though so far non
of them seemed to be aware of the sublimated tradition of the Zen.
When a craftsman (even an engineer) try to learn, they try it again
and again and develop a state of concentration of the mind = this is
a condition what Zen Buddhists call Mushin. Since the concentration
in Mushin is to vacate the brain, not push high tension to the mind,
such as the blood pressure, testosterone level doesn’t go high = able to
keep the mind and the hands calm and steady. (= able to do the job
without an emotion or any useless thought.)
= And this was the way to use the tool and in control in making.
So, this IS what the Takumi doing.
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Human Right and the Equalty
The most absurd misconception of the people today is the
idea of so-called Human Right and the Equality.
Did natural law or any God or Deity ever given such promise ?
—– How about Natural Evolution ? = Survival of fittest = It’s
not fare isn’t it! Not fit to survive still need an equal chance.
(Are you serious ?)
—– Because of no such promise from ANY supernatural power
or anything, anybody, the man had to make-up a declaration
by themselves. = It was a mare human invention.
It was not a God’s-given “Right” but a Political manifest.
Politician and their organisation can declare that they promise
to give an equal opportunity and the equal treatment of the people
in their administration. So, under their government,
people may have a Human Right and the Equality.
With this promise as a bait, the political group / democratic
movement got dominance in the most of the civilised world.
But in the history, country by country, regime by regime,
government by government, the treatment of the people has been
very different because no fixed, overriding rules there.
So, there was anything from “Good ruler” to tyrant.
—– In this situation of facts, very simple logic is, if the human
was born to have an Equality, why they were not born equal =
Born to have the same looks, same environment, same
opportunity and having the same Karma.
— Obviously, no such things ever existed in the human history.
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If ANY body, the “activist” want to say otherwise, please tell me
“From where or whom given the “Human Right” and
the “Equality” to human being.
Because, it seems almost all the trouble of the society has been
caused or aggravated by this mix-up or misconception of the IDEA.
(Don’t get me wrong, I’m not denying the potential benefit /
possibilities its IDEA possess, but, I can’t agree with an
arrogant attitude as if we were born with it. —– Those IDEA were
the hard earned reward after long long struggle through the history.)
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In contrast, the significance of the Life IS there, who ever deny it or
think in any manner. = Because it IS exists.
It has been existed even before the man invented the God.
So, we have no way to deny it. Like a simple fact that is we are standing
on the Earth. And as an extent to be a life, there is no difference
whether it is an animal or plant.
We are not a Judge to decide as we ourselves are just a miniscule part
of this Phenomenon. We are not ruling, let alone created this world.
On the same base, we have to accept that somebody IS more equal.
= Since, the Karma affecting each person as an individual.
To be an individual there is no equality. That’s was how and why the
Dharma created YOU as YOU are. Accordingly non of us got a right to
complain this. You could be lucky YOU or may be unlucky YOU but
that IS what YOU ARE.
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Ha ha ha !
It was in yesterday, 13th Friday morning — Wow.
As it was literally accustomed, I picked out an egg for
my breakfast from the fridge and cracked. — ? ? ?
Cracked egg showed rather dark gap. — strange ?
—– The egg was supposedly a boiled egg but its crack
started leaking the slime. d leaking the slime.
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When Zen Buddhist says “Accustomed” mean, there
wasn’t a shred of thought. Act was totally programmed
and carried out automatic. Brain was literally empty.
= Just picked up an egg from the fridge though,
in this time, obviously I picked it up from the left side.
Left side for raw egg and the right hand side for boiled.
It was just a small mistake, still, What shall I do to this ?
I wouldn’t through it to a bin nor swallow it.
(some Japanese could do !) —– So, I emptied the egg
into a small rice bowl and added about the same
amount of rice powder (I should have had wheat flour)
and two spoonful sugar. — and mixed well. 🙂
—– So, unexpectedly I made a kind of pancake for breakfast !
Though when I cooked it
in a microwave cooker,
the cake mix suddenly
ballooned up !
Then clashed down.
I don’t know, was that
because of the rice powder
— the cake became very
leafy texture.
— and the end result wasn’t too bad. (— I could have eaten this
with honey, maple syrup, clotted milk etc though, don’t go too far.
Be humble to be a Zen Buddhist. 😀 )
So, the casuality of the 13th Friday was to eat a humble pie.
(and ignore the issue of the ageing brain — Ha ha ha !)
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Yashica-Kyocera Macro (2)
Those two photos were the x6 shot of the Butterfly Wing.
As I described in the old post I made this lens last November
— and now, it is the time to take it out or find a good subject
to shoot on a table top.
Any how, it was a broken 38~115 mm Zoom Film camera of
Yashica-Kyocera.
To disassemble the camera is a brain game = Which screw,
where to start is quite crucial to have an easy game though,
even if you were completely wrong and made a mess, not much
damage would be done, nothing to lose but a bit of Ego. 😀
What I did with this camera was, taking out the optical unit
from the lens barrel and re-mounted it up-side-down
(front side back) to the same barrel.
(= Camera lens was designed to give the best performance
when the front was focused to the infinity, and the image
was closely projected to its back.
It’s mean, if the back of the lens was closely aimed to the subject,
the front side will make a big enlarged image.
= this exactly what the macro photography is.)
The lens barrel was glued onto a Contax-Canon mount adapter
to be used on the Canon DSLR.
And this (improvised) macro lens gives x1.7~x3.6 magnification.
(with a farther 44mm extension it gives x6 magnification !)
—– considering its cost virtually nothing, the performance isn’t too bad.
— though, with a test shot of yet again the egg of
Green lacewings which showed Chromatic Aberration,it was
found to be not as good as Chinese cheap Microscope Lens.
(which was designed for macro work))
—– incidentally, I’m very much puzzled by this Egg —
(1) Why so many of them were found in my room = Why
the insect prefer to came and lay the eggs here.
The larvae of Green lacewings eats Aphis kind, it’s mean
they should have chosen such kind of environment.
(2) When this egg was laid — last year ? If so, why I didn’t
see it till yesterday = it was on my desk, very front of my eyes.
(Photo above were x2 and x6 magnification)
Taking closeup photo of rather unwilling wasp
wasn’t very easy. 🙂
(With the enlargement, flaw of the lens such as a
Chromatic aberration, became appearent.)
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Moving or shaking
To create focus-shift soft image, it is nesessary to
use a slow shutter speed = in consequence, pictures
easily get bluured —– don’t worry, bluured or
shaky picture is still the pictures. 😀
Photo above = I like this painting like effect.
Anyhow, I know, nobody would complain.
In fact, to anybody, it’s not a matter at all.
Ha ha ha 😀
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Tulip tulip (in Focus Shift Photo)
You must feel a sigh of relief — this is normal shot. 🙂
So, this is it. Aren’t they pretty ? 🙂
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