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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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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Google Horror
I’ve been using Android Tab let as a mobile photo book
to show others the photos of this blog, such as
” Modify the lens. and its Optical effect” which is easy
to show but almost impossible to verbally explain.
— With security precaution, I registered my device in
different name and to have different Mail address.
With obvious false name, no hacking, no virus ever come
here, neither Google/Android gave a sit = no possibility
to make money out of this address = hence it’s been quiet
untill few days ago, when I needed to read my mail out
London, using my tablet.
= suddenly the usage rocketed up.
Frantic activity toward my Email
account, address list etc etc.
Those so-called APP is not what
I wanted, neither installed by me.
Still, Google says “You agree to
our policy” though, what they
says the policy is nothing but an
outrageous extortion.
We might have compromised to see
some AD on the side, but never agree to
give a permission to spy all the mail, and all of our
movement. — (You know, your secret naughty USB
dongle would no longer be secret = could even be
reported to the Police. Be careful !)
You can see what they says –> go to Settings –> then to Apps
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Horrifying isn’t it ! Are they insane ? Ever had common
sense ? — I try to uninstall the App, deactivate, and
empty the data without success — while I was working,
instead to succeed removing those Spyware, the address list
“Contact” was disappeared ! = (Tit for tat)
Very very Funny. 😀
Google has been making a friendly face and try to appeal with some
amazing invention etc —– though, that IS their cover-up mask.
And those Apps are their real intention. Using their internet
dominance which can reach any corner and the well-developed
AI system to aautomatically read (even read the image) and spy
= they are going deeper into our private life,— for making
more profit ! But they’ve gone too far !
— A remedy or a measure against such situation is = Instead
of Android, use Linux, or to have a small MS device registered
with funny or useless name and use it to connect to the Net =
It would be enough for mailing, watching YouTube, small
download. Use other PC which is not connected to the Net, for
heavy work (design, compiling, analysing etc) in business,
Industrial use. Address list shouldn’t be kept in that satellite
device = type one by one each time = it would be a life in the
stone-age though this IS the safer way to keep one’s life
in peace. (I don’t think I’m a paranoid —– I just don’t
like a big cooperates arrogance)
Then the real horror started = As those APPs automatically
checking the activity, mail contents etc, etc, and keep
updating, the data traffic become enormous.
Past 4~5 years, my use of Net (read news, mail and blog)
needed only up to 3Gb/month but with Android APPs,
the data traffic swelled to 3~4 times. = This is yet another
Extortion / Highway Robbery isn’t it ? !
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***** A remedy / evading action I found was,
1) Re-start (Format) the Device by Pressing start button
over a Minuit. Then pretend to start as normal =
2) While ignoring “Their request to Authenticate“,
3) Press “All menu button (6 Dots in a circle)
4) and go to where ever you want to do = such as
Google Search of the Blog and read it 0r take
pictures etc etc.
5) Where ever, when ever they ask you to Register,
Give your profile = Just IGNORE all of them.
(In the settings, USER = leave the user as Owner,
don’t touch it. (Without Register, or ignoring what
ever they asked, the Device works perfect !)
6) Biggest disadvantage was= can’t use Email other
than use in a false new account.
— With those operations, the Device was regarded
as an orphan and become out of their target =
NO download of their App hence no update =
the usage become purely what was used.
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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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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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First Cherry 2016
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I’ve been closely watching this cherry tree for a past few days.
And at last on yesterday I found a first flower opened on there.
Good heavens, when I went to the tree next day with my
camera, hundred of the flowers were blooming.
(Still, it would be a week away to see it’s full blooming)
There are hundred of different cherries even in this country.
So, a kind of Kan-Zakura (Winter Cherry) has been flowering
already, yet still, this is the first typical Japanese Cherry =
Somei-yoshino’s flower I found.
—– How I can tell this IS the Somei-yoshino was,
(1) The leaves come out only after the flower.
(2) The fertility of the Somei-yoshino was very restrictive =
Somei-Y’ x Somei-Y’ can’t germinate (= with other variety can)
Therefore, we never see the Seedling under the Somei-Y’ tree.
So that, the propagation of Somei-Y’ could only be done by
grafting = Cloning = in other words, ALL the Somei-yoshino in
the world originated from a single tree found in the Somei Village,
a northern corner of Edo (Tokyo), 200 years ago. It’s mean, if the
tree was grown off a seed, it is NOT a Somei-yoshino. (= So, some
Koreans claimed that “That Cherry grow naturally in our country”
is a proof of their ignorance, how they didn’t know the history
NOR biology. = Same kind of ignorance like they claims that the
Chinese-character was invented in Korea. 😀 )
—– What so ever, I’ve been enjoying the bloom on this tree
for the past 15 years ! (But I’m not necessary happy to see the
flowers in such early timing = it’s not even April yet)
(Photos taken by the Tamron 500 mm Mirror Lens/Canon 5D Mk-3)
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And now, the same Cherry have had the full bloom !
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Peach flower
—— (Photo above: taken by a homemade, so-called Gaudy Lens)
Peach flower is much more appreciated in China than in Japan.
In Chinese myth, the famous Shangrila was written as 桃源郷
which mean The place where the Peach Blooming. = (neither
Cherry nor Banana.) The reason why Chinese value Peach more
than Cherry is, not only its juicy fruits but the color of flower is
more reddish.
The color Red mean prosperity and the longevity to the Chinese.
In a stark contrast, Cherry Blossom is the symbol of the ephemeral
life, even the death to the Japanese (in the Buddhists context.) So,
Japanese appreciate its moment of the flower falling like a snow
storm, as well as when it was fully blooming.
——- (Photo above Left : by Canon Fisheye Zoom 8~15mm —
——–Photo Right : Converging Lens from Tokina Wide converter.)
The reason why Chinese likes Red was originated from the vermilion.
Vermilion is the Mercury Oxide = deadly poison = therefore it is a
very effective preservative to the timber. So, the Chinese temple etc
has been painted with Red Vermilion = never rotten for thousand of
years. So, Red Vermilion is the demonstration of the longevity !
And there was a fancy story of the Vermilion, whether it was a
fabrication of the novelist or not, there said to be an Elixir of life made
from Vermilion, which was repeatedly oxidized and deoxidized 9 times,
called 九還丹 in China. (If you found it in the Net, you may try ! )
—— (Photo above : Converging Lens from Tokina)
To the Japanese, the appreciation of Peach flower was in its
association with the girl’s festival (桃の節句) on 3rd of March
other than that not much special feeling in the Japanese mind.
So that, other than in the fruits orchard in a country side,
we don’t see as many Peach trees like Cherry in town .
—— (Photo above : by converging Lens from Tokina
Wide Converter mounted on a Bellows = Photo right
= As the lens was mounted on a bellows, it can focus
from ∞ to 1/3 close-up)
Front element of the Diverging Lens has been used somewhere
else, and the left over converging element was used here. 😀
(You may amazed, how photography can be done in such a casual manner.)
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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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