Chinese Food Scare ?
I bought this Tofu on March thinking to use soon though, I don’t remember
why but anyhow, it went out of sight in my fridge —– when I discovered this
a week later, it seemed perfectly alright to eat —– though, wait a moment,
Tofu used to be last less than a week even before open the package while the
water getting yellowish murky and the package got ballooned up.
—– with a serious doubt, I decided to experiment to watch this Tofu.
—– FOUR months past. The Tofu looks exactly the same to the beginning.
There is a kind of “Wisdom” to watch, such as a bread. = in the original plastic
bag, if the loaf of bread didn’t mold after 4 days, don’t eat and stop to buy
that bread because the food preservative is too strong.
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Coincidently, there was a news in a Japanese site transcribing a news from a
Chinese paper, Global Times ;
【海外発！Breaking News】もはや塩も信用でき
ない国。防腐剤たっぷりの有害な塩が7年も流通。
北京の工場を摘発。
2015年07月12日 12:55 by Joy横手
偽装問題をはじめ、食品に関する危険なニュースがあまりにも多い中国。塩ですら信用できない商品が
出回っているようだ。有害物質をたっぷりと含んだ塩を7年にわたり生産していた工場が摘発され、
波紋を広げている。
中国の英字新聞『Global Times』によれば、このほど中国・公安部の指導のもとで北京市および江蘇省の
警察が行った4か月にわたる抜き打ちの商品検査により、有害な塩を生産し ていた北京の工場が摘発され、
22人の逮捕者が出たもよう。悪質な塩は7年にわたり北京、天津、江蘇、河南、河北、安徽、および山東と
いった都市、省に流 通していたという。
毒入り塩により摘発されたのは、北京市大興区の床面積がたった8平方メートルという小さな工場。
パッケージに「食用塩」という偽のラベルが貼られていたが、中身には亜硝酸塩（防腐剤）がたっぷりと
含まれていた。1トンあたり400～450元の価値しかないものを彼らは800～1,000元の値で2万トンも販売
していたことから、江蘇省泰州市・公安局のZhu Jinhua氏は彼らが大変な利益をあげていたとみている。
また北京の「中国農業大学」で食物科学・栄養技術学が専門のFan Zhihong教授は、「致死量には
至らない程度の亜硫酸塩、その他の化学物質が含まれていると思われる。そうした悪質な塩は
一般消費者が購入する販売店 向けではなく、大部分が食品加工工場向けであろう」などと述べている。
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Which said, a factory was discovered who has been selling an industrial chemical,
a mixture of Sodium nitrite and common salt packaged as a Cooking Salt.
My guess was that, this factory didn’t pay enough money to the local police, that all.
—– many stories of the Chinese Food Scare were too well known. Such as that
famous Melamine Milk or Swage Oil were the name but feeeeew. As a matter of fact,
since the scandal of Swage Oil, I stopped to buy any Chinese food using any oil, not
only Sesami Oil kind but even to Fried fishball. (The circulation of Swage Oil for mix
was said to be too widely spread and impossible to trace).
—– The trouble is their mentality.
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Jessop’s Fun-camera Lens
I found yet another fun-camera (One-time use Camera / Camera with Film)
in an Odds and Ends Box of a Camera shop. (for a couple of pounds)
This time it was a Jessop’s product though, since Jessops disappeared many years
ago, this product was also pretty old. Old enough to be rotten deep = supposed be
an unused battery inside was completely corroded and the chemical has been leaked.
Branded Jessops though, it was a Chinese made = hence cheap battery was rotten.
This was an interesting product. As a Chinese made, it could be a complete
Copy-cat product though, the Jessops then was a well known English company
= they could be an easy target of a lawsuit for a Copyright infringement.
So, they didn’t copy the lens by taking a mold —– instead, they put their own
Two-element Lens for this camera. When Japanese film company, Konica,
Fuji, invented the disposable camera (one-time use camera), they designed the
omnifocus lens using pretty fancy aspherical design.
And to make the camera able to take photos under different lighting condition
with fixed shutter speed (about 1/60th second) on ISO 100~200 film, the
lens has to be about F4~3.5. Especially after flash light was incorporated,
to have a reasonable picture for 3m, the lens can’t be smaller. = It’s mean,
pan-focus with smaller F-aperture was not an option, therefore, they had to
design sophisticated aspherical lens which could produce a reasonably well
focused image in any distance with F4 diameter (7~8mm).
—– But, without using aspherical lens, Jessops opted to the simple two lens
design with smaller F8 aperture setting, while taking advantage of the
higher ISO sensitivity of 400.
The trick here was,
F4 x2 = F5.6 F5.6 x2 = F8 while
ISO 100 x2 x2 = ISO 400 (the same)
—– and F8 can give much deeper
depth of the field
(= Pan focus effect using ordinally
lens though, F8 is not enough for
close focus).
I tested this lens attached with rather
heavy concave lens to extend the
original 27mm focal-length to 44mm,
in order to use on the Canon EOS, (Photo left)
(thus, 3.5mm lens diameter, now gives F13 = pretty dark to see the finder image)
—– Not only that, the image produced by this lens was utterly rubbish. = when F13
lens could make only trash image while having no fancy fuzziness (F13 couldn’t
have any chance of nice fuzziness) = there wouldn’t be any point to use this lens.
—– Well, not all the experiment has been a successful one. 😀
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Garden Flowers @ Greenwich Park
Lots of flowers from the Greenwich Park. (They were taken by the Homemade
Two Element Lens and the Homemade Gaudy Lens on Canon 5D Mk-III.)
Don’t see this as a botanical picture. (If this one was for botanical use, it must be a
nightmare for the photographer = may be even beyond the Hi Dynamic Range process.)
= So, see this as an abstract painting. —– black petunia kind and the white one.
After green and the blue Chrysanthemum was created, next by next, rather fancy
colored flower has been appearing in the market.
Another day, I saw an almost perfect black Tulip —– and started wondering, if the
flower industry managed to crack the genetic-code of black color or found the
chemical to tint the flower. In either way, it is a very very uncomfortable situation.
They are extra = I found a huge Tulip Tree in the park. = I may need to visit
again to see its ancient flower !
And realized, in fact there are lots of Chestnut tree = better come again
on October to pick the nuts. 🙂
It was a very hot day —– still some people like to enjoy the sun.
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Cosmos and Hydrangea @ Greenwich Park
While checking the photos I’ve taken this time at Greenwich Park, I went
back to the post I did last year and found that it was one week earlier, yet still
I did shoot almost identical photo then. = not only the tree, some of the plant was
perennial and stayed the same patch, keep flowering with the same face. And the
approach to the same plant is the same = amazingly persistent as the same person.
(It’s mean not much fresh innovation or improvement.) 🙂
Two element homemade lens was the same though, this year I brought
“New” Gordy Lens. (Looks somewhat the same fuzziness, but Gordy Lens
can give close focus. = further background became out of focus ! )
Hydrangea was one week too early and having dry hot weather they looked
a bit withered. = I may come again and change the photos here.
Those heavily fuzzier photos were taken by the Double Density Pinhole.
But those closer images were taken by the Gaudy Lens.
(One more post of Greenwich Flowers would follow.) 🙂
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Riot of Colors @ Greenwich Park
Yesterday I went to the Greenwich Park to take picture of Hydrangea. (Its photos
may come next post, though, for the Hydrangea, it was a week too early.)
So, I start with other flowers photo of which I don’t know the name. = some
of the readers must be more knowledgeable about them = I just put the images.
The lens used here was, Homemade Two-element Lens or
Homemade Gaudy Lens on Canon 5D Mk-III.
Be like a fire. I like it.
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Red Moon
————- (Photo above was taken by Tamron Mirror SP 500mm F8)
Even after one o’clock early morning (?), I noticed pretty late moon rise.
But the moon, as red as the blood. (It’s a bit of joking. 🙂 )
But even without the joke, the moon was unusually red. Is that the sign of
the Greece collapsing, the China disintegrating ? Japanese volcano ?
I’m not a superstitious man, still, to see such a red moon is not very comfortable.
—–
I hope should the world see a peaceful sunrise in the few hours time.
—–
PS: (on the next day) Thanks goodness, nothing serious happened.
(And this is my 777th Post ! 🙂 )
PPS: For somebody’s request,
I show you the original photo which
was 5760×3840 pix size.
(Clopped photo above was 827×828)
( —– since it has been exported
the photo has no original size here.)
Unless we need a huge enlargement
a photo of 800×800 is pretty usable isn’t it ? ! 🙂
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Follow the Flow — Karma / Dharma
Those who, the kind regular reader of this blog might have noticed that the past
5~6 months or so, I seemed to become an intoxicated junky of junk cameras.
What happened on me ? = Give a thought or two, in terms of the flow in the life.
(= Follow the flow mean, not chase it, not cringing the mater or notion, let alone
obsessed. It would just happen = so, just follow.)
I gave a glance to those cameras —– then, I found the serial number of the camera
I first disassembled, (which was given by my friend) was like this.
Oh my goodness, 8150 again ? !!! —– This sign appeared wherever I go, but
crucially, it will be sign-posted to the matter or thing which got “the concern”.
= May be concerned to the Dharma, and to my Karma hence I have to take the
matter serious. — to show some more hard facts, if you think it sound dubious.
Photo above left was Canon EF Macro 100mm F2.8 = the most useful lens to me.
And the Photo middle was the most frequently used Canon Fisheye Zoom 8~15mm.
Which got the number 2***1850*. And the right, Zeiss 18mm for Nikon.
They are the numbers happened to appear onto my camera lenses.
They were in the shop purely by chance = as if they were placed there for
me to pick-up, though,in most of the case I bought it even without seeing
the number. —– Without any explanation of why it’s there = is the
natural flow of the fate or given task or opportunity to pick-up, whichever
the way we interpret.
—– as it comes. So, I pick up and do what I can do, regardless whether it is
worthwhile or profitable, or please others — or NOT. (in a hindsight, at least
I can say “I did a lot” to respond what the moment required to me.)
I think, what comes is in fact, what was given —– for each of us to fulfil what we
were born to do. = It’s mean, my Karma think, that me to play with junk camera
suits me ! Or the Karma even like my way to play with the junk. 😀
—– And may be my Karma noticed that I’m not sensitive enough to see the
hidden sign, they started to put a noisy notice shouting 8150 to make me aware
that we are a part of the Dharma and they are watching us.
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St Martins Degree Show
The art school, Central St Martin has been drifting place to place, like a
hermit crab changing their shell larger to even larger. Among the declining
English industrial, economical trend, they must be one of the few rags to rich
success story. The first time when I visited their degree show more than 30
years ago, they were in a non assuming shabby building in the Covent Garden.
(after the St Martin moved out, the place became to an art material shop =
London Graphic Center. I wonder if they are having business connection ?)
Then St Martin moved to a huge grey building in the Charing Cross Road.
Then, next to the Back hill. Now they are north of King’s Cross Station,
over the Regent Canal, place called Granary Square, a building called Granary
Building. As the name suggests, it must be an old day’s Granary, storing the
grain brought by the barges through the canal.
The inside of otherwise featureless big building, its courtyard has been
transformed to a huge shopping mall like space. ( gone too far !)
It was an archetypal sample of the Capitarism. Invest for a package, and use
it to create (or collect £9000 tuition fee) = profit to buy even larger property.
This is called the growth of enterprise !
This was a gimmick like exhibit to show a physical phenomenon.
Like an old fluorescent light, a cathode discharge lamp (used in a video light
or video projector) is flickering in very high frequency, — to see, it need to
have a high speed moving screen. —> Then, we can see the split colors.
Demonstration of phenomenon itself, like a fallen apple by the gravity wouldn’t
make an art. The art has to show its apple fall in a very special beautiful way.
Likewise, the instrument makes sound is just a physical phenomenon.
When its sound was formed as an impressive melodies and composed in
harmony etc, we call it a musical art. In Photography, the object makes its
secondary image by the light through an optics, is a physical phenomenon.
= so that, unless the image showed the intentionally made interference of
the author, it is not an art but mere reflection of the object.
While seeing every years work, what I found was that when the place get
larger, the works get smaller and boring. Have look other’s, such as this;
https://tokyobling.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/godai-art-university-graduation-show-2015/
Once in a year event was in the same time, reunion with old friends or teacher.
And young graduates’ chance to meet the old boys, girls network.
(By the way, in this photo, the Left is the Top)
I think, a sweet on the hand must be a joke of a visitor. 🙂
This said to be an interactive performing space. (when something performed)
This was the Animation Corner. (Some were already in the professional level)
The most funny story happened was,
on the last moment, I was told by this
woman that the photography was not
permitted, of which even the
security didn’t mention so. 😀 😀
Hate crime or jealousy against a Japanese camera ? 🙂
There are chilling out spaces for chattering (or for serious discussion ? )
(but, £5 for a glass of apple juice was definitely a rip-off !)
Out, out, — OUT !
It was a nice evening and a beautiful sky — at least.
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Remote Cable — Life in Natural Flow
My way of navigating the life is, just follow the flow. Don’t push.
—– some of the people who knows me might feel not necessary true,
as I put enormous effort to do something some time. = though, it was
not a push for me = it was just a normal condition in its situation.
Like, to be born in India, these days they got 45, 50 degree C hot weather
= just to survive needs to have enormous endurance, though,
that what their country is.
This year’s Ramadan in muslim calendar is coinciding with a midsummer
= therefore, the muslim emigrated to the northern Norway couldn’t eat as
there is no sunset. (in reality, they said to have invented an excuse. 🙂 )
Thanks goodness, I’m neither a Norwegian nor muslim I don’t need to
have a problem. Avoiding to have problem is, “don’t do it”.
So, as a holy man, I don’t do gamble, take no drug (in fact any medicine),
no alcohol, no smoking, no woman = Where the cause of a trouble could ever
come ! It’s a well known wisdom, “Do nothing cause no mistake or failure”
= “Barren land makes no weed” — but neither has a wheat or barley even
buckwheat. —– Do nothing mean, just wasting time ? Neither.
Strangely, do something is coming in its course. It just happens as a flow.
Such as being asked to help or advising something. Otherwise, just do it.
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—– Give a thought or two. So far, what I made after I’ve started this Blog,
were the result of a fleak idea triggered by the funny material I encountered.
(Before those, the old creation were often made to solve the practical needs
such as the flash system.) So that, the work for “Junk Lens etc” were all
happened with a sheer coincidence. = I mean, I didn’t push it happens
neither I didn’t look for the material etc = it was already there, and I only did
a small finishing part of it for a joke or fun. 
So, when I went to a camera shop to get a new air blower, I found a
Canon’s Remote Trigger Cable, or its converting cable, in their
odds and ends box. = It might be a connecting cable to use old type
cable to 5D etc. — anyhow, it might be an obsolete type, and the
price was only few pounds. (Photo above left = here the cable showes
“after the switch was fitted”).
If it was a cable to go to 5D, why not make it for a short trigger cable ?
= It’s a matter of just put a double switch. —– And conveniently, I have
a disassembled Olympus compact camera. = I could use their switch and
the button for this purpose. (Photo above middle)
—– Since those small accessories are the company’s cash-cow, (you
could buy a cheap kit lens with a price of 2~3 cables) Canon changed it
many times to the users to buy new cable every time they got new model.
(Photo right = Remote terminal for old (film) EOS)
Anyway, I took the Olympus’ switch and the button and connected it to the
Canon’s cable = Voila’ Remote Trigger Cable for Canon DSLR. (Photo Left)
—– As I said, I didn’t look for what to do. It was there.
This was what I call, a natural flow.
(This natural flow is the way how the Karma leading us = and as I follow,
there is no problem or ill health.)
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Zeiss and Zeiss — (Last shot on the Flower Patch)
It’s still a day before Summer Solstice though, the flower patch
I’ve been photographing was coming to the end. So, seemingly this
was the last shot there and for this occasion, I used the recycled
£1 Zeiss Talon lens and the genuine Carl Zeiss Planar 85mm F1.4
T* lens on Canon 5D Mk-III for a comparison.
On the photos above, left was shot by Talon lens and the right was
by the Planar F1.4 lens. Since Talon lens was F2.8, the F1.4 lens
at F1.4 showed much shallower depth of field.
And here, the left photo was taken by Talon lens and the right photo
was by the Planar F1.4 lens, but as the modified Talon lens got quite
long focusing helicoid (it was not a screw helicoid but a rotating cam)
which allows the 1/3 close-up, against this, 85mm F1.4 lens can close
only to 1m (1/12), hence the photo right was a heavily cropped image.
—– still, they showed amazingly similar characteristics, such as
the type of Bokeh.
And the rest of the photos here were from the £1 Recycled Lens = “Zeiss Talon Lens”
In fact, I was rather impressed by this quality performance !
As this lens was designed for a projector lens, (= never used for infinity)
it was pretty good in close-up work ! (Ordinary lens was designed to work
best in the infinity and the macro lens was designed to be best in the x10
magnification.) — Then give a thought, if a lens of 2 or 3 lenses structure
could give such good performance, why we DO need to have an elaborated,
heavy, expensive lens. (Mind you, all those photos were taken at fully open
F2.8 = anyhow no Iris there.) 😀
But, this last photo was by the Planar F1.4 lens at F1.4 (all photos’
aperture were fully open). —– Recycled 50 years old lens costed me
£1 and the 85mm F1.4 lens was £600 even for a secondhand.
= May be we should start to think about what we really need from
a camera lens. Like a so-called HD sound (called Hi-Resi in Japan)
do we need such a high resolution —– Does it make any difference
on our life ? — Wasn’t that mere illusion created by the company and
a ploy to sell yet another new model to us ?
What the photo image meant to us ? — DO we ever watched the world
in 10MP details, let alone to remember in such a detail ? ? ? 😀
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