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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Lens (?) Comparison
Photo above was the picture taken by the “Twisted Lens”
Gaudy Lens
The same flower meadow was taken by the “Gaudy Lens”
for the comparison of Fuzzy effect.
2 Element Toy Lens
Effect looks very similar to Gaudy Lens though, this
is a lens originated from a Toy camera + added
concave lens on front (= effectively a Retrofocus structure)
— advantage of this lens is its omuni-focus design.
Double Density Pinhole
And this one was taken by the Double Density Pinhole.
Mono-Pinhole
But this one was by the simple Mono-Pinhole.
Tri-Pinholes
Then, how about Tri-Pinhole ! 🙂
Double Density Pinhole
Different angles by the DD-Pinhole.
Double Density Pinhole
This photo showes the flowers in the green, between the houses.
= nothing special.
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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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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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Cherry Cherry – 2016
Those photos were from the several Cherry trees,
probably the last cherry photos of this year.
Lens used was that modified Tokina-Wide-Converter
with bellows on Canon 5D Mk-III.
—– Don’t you agree, £1 junk from an Odds n’ Ends box
of a Camera shop wasn’t too bad. 😀
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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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Cherry by Soft Lenses
The photos here were taken from the same Cherry tree as
the previous post. (As they are not plain 5 petals flower,
this is not Somei-yoshino)
The softness (? Blur) on the previous post were created by
the Focus-Shift = focused image and the out-of-focus image
were mechanically superimposed on the shot. — But here,
the softness was caused optically by the lens’ aberration.
= Those first 4 photos were taken by the homemade
single glass lens = nicknamed “Gaudy lens” .
Among my homemade lenses, this is the most useful,
easy to use lens.
You may say, the aberration of this lens is too much
though, this is what I wanted. 🙂
Above those two photos, you can see the type of
softness are very different. = The photo above and
the following 3 photos were taken by the modified
(front diverging lens was removed)
Regardless the technical blur blur, all about
the photography (or any art) the matter is the
end result = if it is good, it’s good.
Nothing else. 😀
(And when the result was the same, the cheaper
the cost is the better.)
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Cherry in Focus-Shift blurr
Don’t panic on your eyesight. It’s not your eyes.
The picture here IS shaky ! 😀
The photo above/top was the photo, made by a “Focus-Shift”
(while the shutter was open, the focus has been moved) =
hence created funny blurred image.
The lens used was a specially modified Canon EFS 18~55mm =
(modified to fit onto 5D and its focusing motor has been made
to work with external signal)
—– the photo below was a normal shot for a comparison
(same lens but without focus shift.)
This cherry IS the same tree which I nicknamed the
Perpetual Cherry, since it’s flowering even in the Autumn.
And she was photographed here by the same modified
18~55 mm lens though, this focus-shift technique doesn’t
necessary suit for this shot. 😀
(= so, it’s just a demonstration to see the effect)
Unlike the other soft-focus lens which gives only a fixed
focal-length and it’s viewing angle, this focus-shift
technique with the zoom lens gives more freedom —–
and a fun.
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