Useless Information (?)
Image here was made by a Tri-color Pinhole which I could mount on
the A7 camera through Nikon to EOS and EOS to E-mount adapter.
(What a hustle ! = I’ll tell you later.)
During all those hustle, what I found were — (though they may not
necessary useful to you.) 😀
1) You can use Pentax-K lens cap on Nikon lens. (Photo Left)
2) Likewise, the same Pentax-K lens cap will fit to the Sony
E-mount lens. (Photo Middle)
3) Sony E-mount body cap will fit to the Nikon body. (Photo Right)
4) The adapter, EOS to E mount I got from Ebay (about £5 or so) had
a trouble — as bayonet spring was too wide and obstructing the lens
bottom goes into = I needed to file-down the width of those 3 springs
(where I marked in Red on the photo Right = see enlarged)
(Photo shows the bayonet spring and a broken hence replaced screw)
= If you found the same trouble, you need to do the same — or buy
another, more expensive one. (So, they changed the price to £7.xx) 😀
(Think, why it was cheap = being defective, it became a deadstock and
sold as a scrap. Then, Chinese guy made a Net business to sell away
= how many customers sending back and claim a money back which
would cost more, and the address may not even existed.) 😀
The funny story was, as I put negative feedback on ebay, the seller
contacted me saying if I change the feedback to positive,they will
refund me, so I replied them “As this blog explained, I’ve modified
its defect and now I’m using it, therefore no need of refund, still,
the fact remain I wouldn’t change the negative feedback” —
then, they send me yet another mail
“We will send you £2, so change the feed back to positive” =
Are they thinking that they can buy me £2 ! = What a mentality !
Is this a norm in China ? horrifying isn’t it !
To see the situation, I gave a through check of those adapters.
(To be fair, I obtained even one more EOS-NEX adapter)
In order to make a bayonet fixing tight enough= not clutter,
still smooth enough to dismount, the spring was used beneath
the craw (such as the one I’ve shown few picture before with
red mark), other cheaper alternative is to make a slit in the
claw (Photo above Left = yellow marked) and make the slit
bend to give some flexibility. Though, the other EOS-NEX
adapter showed funny character = Canon’s EFS (plastic mount)
could be mounted but metal mount thousand pound lens couldn’t.
Because the adapter’s female claw was too thick. ==> I needed
to file down the claws thinner. (Photo Right — with blue color
marker = it’s easy to see where I do need to cut !)
(It’s funny to discover, that the Canon is making their
cheap EFS lens mount even thinner and loose.)
5) Nikon G to EOS adapter sold on the Net, the rotating lever may be
too long and stack with the lens bottom. So that, if you found the sign
of such symptom, DON’T mount the lens to EOS with such adapter.
You need to file-down the tip of the lever (marked in Red in the
photo above) a bit shorter, and make sure the lever moves freely.
So, — after I’ve sorted out those troubles, I could mount my
Tri-color Pinhole (here, Pink, Yellow, Sky) to the A7 body.
( Then after thought, I should make another one for A7, since an
Olympus body cap which is fit to A7 is £0.99 and etc is free, but
the use of those adapter which is costing £5, £10 makes no sense.)
And, this was the photo of, now rather familiar view — by
the Zeiss Distagon 18mm, designed for Nikon mount.
—– A nightmare of the mount adapter IS = once the lens stack
to the body, there is no way else other than to destroy the lens.
(Pull-off the screws, fixed to the mount with sheer force or hack-saw
the lens bottom while showering the camera with saw dust.)
Is it funny ?
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PS : If you are looking for the Body Cap for Sony NEX mount to use
for a Pinhole experiment etc. or just for body cover, now in the Ebay
you can find the pair of E-mount (NEX) Rear Lens Cap + Body Cap
for £0.99 —– you don’t need to hastle finding out OM cap. 🙂
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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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Flowers to Hiroshima
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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Ephemeral Evanescence
Beauty in Japanese nature and the people’s life style, well
harmonized with its nature is so famous = so, you may think.
And you may think a famous touristic spot of such as the
Cherry Blossom is naturally there from ancient time.
Well, this IS the biggest paradox or contradiction, even
a trick in the Japanese culture. = Virtually all the famous
Cherry spots are intentionally created by planting the tree
which was artificially grafted and propagated Somei-yoshino.
—– Cherry tree has limited life about 60~100 years.
Therefore, those Cherries of the famous places has been
re-planted 2~3 times since the original Somei-yoshino came.
(simply, when the tree became too big, they brake and fall)
Because of the Somei-yoshino could only be propagated by
grafting, unless the tree was intentionally planted,
it wouldn’t exist there. They are the Created Art.
The situation is the same in those Japanese gardens,
even a garden in the Buddhist temple was “created”
= Still they look like a real landscape in great nature.
(I don’t think, you ever imagined that famous Rock Garden
in the Ryoan-ji temple did naturally exists there. 😀 )
It’s like a Bonsai ! Looks like a great tree in the nature —
though, to create those realistic Bonsai tree, the craftsman
spent 10 even 50 years to shape it. = This IS the Zen.
The most peculiar things in the Japanese culture / Ethos is
such Zen Ethos has been kept not only by the monk or
religious people but by everybody without their conscious.
Zen doesn’t speak. It have to be learned by looking and to
try oneself. Therefore, what learned couldn’t be explained.
(Because they are not aware of it, they don’t talk about,
therefore, foreign journalist could not find and describe it.
= So, the Japanese mind/attitude/Ethos stay in the myth.)
And the Zen Ethos of impermanence/ephemerality, even a
death has been symbolized in the Japanese Cherry Blossom.
( = Beauty in its fall !)
(Hence, lots of Japanese Military establishments having their emblem
with Cherry flower pattern, and their barrack has Cherry garden.
And the Kamikaze suicidal-rocket-bomb made on the last stage of the
last war was named Ouka = 桜花 = Cherry Blossom )
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Zen and its ethos keep driving the Japanese to even more
refinement/improvement = So that, the next generation of
Somei-yoshino is coming as the Jindai-akebono which is
stronger than Somei-yoshino against the virus.
(This new variety of Cherry has been created by crossing the
Edo-higan Zakura and the (almost original) Somei-yoshino
back from Washington USA. Now the Flower Association of
Japan stop to distribute Somei-yoshino and recommending
to plant Jindai-akebono.) (The name Jindai = because it
was established in the Jindai Botanical Garden in Tokyo)
—– to express the beauty and its ephemerality and the tree
to symbolize it = Cherry = and the quest to develop stronger
tree in order to express ephemerality is a real paradox. 😀
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Old Camera — Miranda S
Few days ago, one of my friend (in fact, a friend of friend) gave
me an old camera. It was a very early model of SLR (Single Lens
Reflex Camera), Miranda S which was made around 1968~70.
After the World war 2, burnt-down country Japan was recovering
in amazing speed though, the camera such as Nikon, Canon was
producing were the old style Rangefinder Camera — still, those Nikon
which went to the Korean War with the American photographer
was highly praised (only the camera kept working under -40 degree
Korean Winter!) and started to gain good reputations world wide.
In 1962, the Asahi Kogaku produced Asahi Flex, the first 35mm SLR !
(Later, this company started to produce the SLR using penta-prism
— and changed their name to the Pentax.)
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The camera I was given, Miranda S was rather like an Asahi Flex, but
not in a perfect condition to work. = winding-up nob was broken — still,
I could test the function by charge-up the shutter by force rotating the
winding-up sprocket, then click the shutter.
The shutter dial was rotating while charge-up and a release moment.
(It’s an old design soon to be disappeared.)
And the mirror was not quick return, neither the iris was automatic.
To see this Design as the starting point = I can see how the later
development came such far !
—– the peculiar things of this camera was, that this one got a waist-level
finder = not a prism view finder. = look down the image which was
left-right reversed ! —– My guess was, that this camera was used by an
academic to take photos through microscope, telescope kind — if not
the owner lost the interchangeable prism finder.
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Miranda started to make their camera, called Orion Camera first.
Then, changed the name to Miranda, their Miranda Sensolex model was
sold well (I remember their poster. 🙂 ) —– anyhow, to encounter such
old Japanese camera, exported to the Europe was a big surprise to me.
I may not able to shoot a photo with this camera since its winding-up
shaft was broken, yet still, even just watching 50 years old
mechanism still working was a great joy.
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First Sunrise of 2016
Sunrise in densely build area of London is not dramatic nor beautiful,
nevertheless it was the first sunrise in this year 2016.
Happy New year.
Last night I was in a new year’s eve party of the locals though, as
usual, I didn’t drink but just dancing —– I took some pictures though
I wouldn’t bother to publish them while taking the consent of all the
people in the photo. With their generation, the music was 70s, 80s
even 60s. 🙂 — and some kids as well. (very unusual party for me.)
🙂
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Citron bath on Winter Solstices (for Monkey)
冬至でサルもゆず湯
>>> http://www.jiji.com/jc/pp?d=pp_2015&p=latest-jpp020507192
To make a Citron Bath on Winter Solstice is a Japanese tradition.
It was regarded to be good for the winter health.
So, why not to Monkeys too. 🙂
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Caliber of the man — Calligraphy
I stumbled an Youtube post
showing the comparison of
calligraphy made by the
Japanese PM Abe and the
Chinese Chairman Shu.
(Abe=left, Shu=right)
Seemingly it was posted in China and the people commenting how
pathetic, the Shu’s hand were. Calligraphy expose the man’s caliber.
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Ai Weiwei Exhibition
Actuary, I went to the Fortnum & Mason again with different
lens (or hole ?) — Then, I just crossed the street to other side,
to the Royal Academy = where happen to have an exhibition
of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
Academy’s courtyard having trees or re-assembled dead wood.
It was an utterly odd view. Those trees were not in the original
shape nor well composed big “Ikebana” but the standing mess.
I wondered what’s going on the inside.
(Photo above = tons of building steel rod were piled up on the floor
=Ai Weiwei is not good to make the things by himself but to
organize the workers to do the job.)
I’m not a fun of Ai Weiwei.
I can see he is trying hard to MAKE something “looks like an ART”.
= in other words, he was not a born artist = so that, to squeeze the
brain to manufacture the piece, not spontaneously creates a shape.
Hence, the piece wouldn’t hit our emotion but just boggle the mind.
= So, the art critics needs to write about those “Boggle” = keeping
them busy and the art-media flourish. — The good art will hit the
viewer’s subconscious direct = no need of explanation nor critics’
blah blah. 😀
So, those were the pieces made out of the pretext of the earthquake
= the list of the dead (Left) and the debris (right).
— did such big disaster inspire him only those ? If I were him, I
would have put a school text book or a bunch of hair between the
debris = bad taste but such straight visual signal will hit the
subconscious of the viewers direct, without needs of blah blah.
Photo left showing “a chair IS a part of a tree” = I know,
a chair used to be a tree. = So what ?
And the photo right = nicely made cabinet having holes =
spoiling the effort and saying a twist = again So, what =
What a cheap idea. Can’t you conceive anything better ?
Yet again like the words of a second class art school
teacher = “Make a thing out of norm/Break a stereotype”.
TV camera (or that kind of shape) was made by plastic.
Chinese has been making so many utterly inconceivable
products such as fake eggs, fake protein (melamine) in
the milk etc etc = Ai Weiwei should learn from them if he
want to impress us with the eye-opening incredible idea !
Something scribble ? — or repeated print covering whole wall.
He might have thought = highly technical idea — a piece using
the reflection of acril plastic. = Yes I can see its funny reflection.
So, what ? A bit strange doesn’t mean “Impressive” 🙂
Everyday’s objects made out expensive jade.
Handcuffs made out of plastic. Useless and out of norm again.
(Chinese kid’s toy Handcuffs were all made by plastic ) ?
Fabricated trees in the room — not impressive though, they
still showed a kind of fun-full free structure he must have
enjoyed like a game. So, I liked this piece.
Thousands white plastic pieces covering the floor and one
baby buggy (= somewhat impressive fine work)
— is this related to the Chinese Scandal / billion of forcibly
aborted fetus by the “one child policy” ? (I only guess =
I didn’t get any information or bought an exhibition catalog.
= In my policy, I SEE the piece, not study it by the words.)
In this room, and the confined small box explaining what
Ai Weiwei himself has been subjected by the So-Called
Authority’s tenacious interrogation = kind of torture/
intimidation/suppression.
This is not an art but just an indictment.= may have a
political meaning still, visually boring exhibit. Not impressed.
So far, this must be the most impressive piece in this exhibition.
May be it was just a coincidence = still, how bizarre.
On this occasion, I had only Concentric-Double-Dencity Pinhole
intended to use for F&M Window shooting, which was not best
suits for this subject still, I think it wasn’t too bad.
—– If you want to see more info’ or clear images please
search in the net or go to the exhibition yourself. = don’t ask me.
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