Evolution of PINHOLE System
Till now, I made quite a lot of Pinhole to take pictures for my
Canon, Nikon and invented “Concentric-Double-Density Pinhole,
and Wide-angle Pinhole.
On top of those, even Double, Triple Pinhole, Tri-Color Pinhole
— on the end, it’s a mess. = In order to rationalize, I designed a
Convertible Type = Simple Single Pinhole, up-to-4 Multiple Pinhole
and Concentric-DD Pinhole with Selecting Tab, on the Nikon Mount
(Which is easily converted to the Canon) together with Detachable
Wide-angle Lens on front.
So, the sample images were, Top photo Left = by Single Pinhole,
Middle = Triple Pinholes, Right= Concentric-Double-Density Pinhole.
In this photo, Left is the Detachable Wide-angle (Diverging) Lens.
In the Middle, Triangle-ish panel which got 3 selection of Pinholes can
be moved to each position. Right is a NikonAI to CanonEF adapter.
Photo left is my kitchen.
Or you may call my work shop.
—– you may realized, how
my work is casual. 😀
Still, it’s OK to produce
properly machined like quality !
And the photo here showed the effect of = with or without the
wide-angle lens.
And the photo here, right, the panel shows 4 holes — by moving
rear panel, the selected Pinhole will come to the position.
Photos from the window —
Left = Single Pinhole, Middle = Triple Pinhole.
Right = Concentric-DD Pinhole.
—– So, I have to go out to make worthwhile pictures !
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Incidentally, a test shot of “that rose” with this DD Pinhole was:
Considering it IS mere hole, without focus or any control, still
the image was somewhat comparable to a good German lens
—– isn’t this, amazing ?
—– Or, unlike the Leiz, the Zeiss might have kept their belief
on “Natural Optical Image” like this !
—– Mind you, the Pinhole is not a “Light-bending” Lens or a
Grass, therefore neither has aberration inherent to the Lens at all.
Still, the outer (larger) hole of Double-Density Pinhole here is
acting as a “Dispersed” Light-pass, hence showing similar effect of
the Spherical Aberration (= effect of light coming from not only the
center but the outer area of the lens as well which is not necessary
converges the light to the same point = make the image softer.
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Kyocera Junk Macro — in Practice
I’m well aware, making lens etc is one thing and actually use it is the other.
Still, whether any worthwhile photo was created by it or not, is totally
different matter. —– I know, in this world, some of the people is having
a pleasure of possessing something rather than use it = just for a show-off
(of his, her wealth or So-called Good taste) —– and the manufacturer is
well aware of this phenomenon too. So that they are producing specifically
designed outrageously expensive model for this target, with “Art” or “Opus”
kind of the name. A camera, recently introduced from Leiz, Leica SL is one of
the extreme case, = the camera which can takes more or less the same kind of
picture but priced whopping $7450 for body. Even if non of the photographer
would buy it, still 10 of the “Leica Collector” in the world ought to buy = because,
it was made by Leiz and listed in their catalog. (Collection has to be complete.)
A Camera lens, I made out of junk
Camera has been with me a
while = waiting to encounter
good subject. ————————
Then, I found a tiny tiny dot on a Fig = it was an egg of the Green Lacewing.
Not very fashionable subject still, it is good for a macro-photography.
So, that’s how the top photo was made. ( x4 Magnification. though, quality
of the lens in comparison to my previous work, was not very impressive
—– shows chromatic aberration etc, hence, not very sharp.)
—– still, it was a proof that the lens was in operation.
(= I’m not feeling happy for just possessing the lens.) 🙂
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PS : In order to have a bit more sharpness and the evenness of the image,
I put a hole of Black tape to reduce the effective F-Aperture to half of the
diameter (equivalent of 2 F-stops down) = the image quality was dramatically
improved ! — You might be realized that how the optics behave in simple
manner and lost a faith to worship expensive lens. 😀
(In fact, we are paying for the Brand image, not necessary for the quality,
otherwise who pay £3000 to a plastic camera ?)
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Shake shake (2)
There was a very similar photo of this, taken by a completely different technique
in this blog. = It is interesting to see an image of the 3D movement (depth) in
that photo was still captured as a 2D spread (shift) of the element.
What ever the technique or accident created its image, the matter is how the image
boggle the mind. And what ever the origin of the image, some of them stuck and
remained in the depth of the mind very very long time.
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Shake shake (1)
There is nothing special of those photos, no trick, they are just
blared photos because of the camera shake.
Camera shake because of the slow shutter speed = 1/2, 1/4 sec’ kind. — And
to have such slow speed, lowest ISO setting and a dark ND filter was used.
Make the situation worse, I was in a moving bus. 🙂
So, it’s easy to have un-sharp pictures —– just shake the camera.
(Of course, if you like.) 🙂
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Junk to Macro Lens = Recycle of Kyocera Zoom Lens
You might be misunderstanding that I’m playing with cameras for the
sake of blogging. Far from it, behind the scene I’m disassembling
3 times more lenses or cameras. I only showing them if I found a fun.
In most of the case, I’m doing it just looking for a spare parts or
particular component such as when I needed to get a mirror for an
ultra-low-angle photo-adapter. —– I was disassembling a Yashica
compact Zoom camera, looking for a Motor and a Gear mechanism.
— Some old film cameras had auto-wind and rewind mechanism which
I could utilize in the other mechanical design. So, from Yashica, I got
two motors with each gear mechanism, and not only that, I found an
extending Zoom lens barrel seems to be very useful.
I had used a same kind of barrel to make a focusing helicoid.
This Kyocera-Yashica 38~115 mm zoom lens seem to have a quite
fancy design. Front group convex lens has a Canon like Arc-formed
motor for focusing and having aspherical lens, and rear group is pure
diverging concave lens. And I found the front group lens works well
as a macro lens (used in reverse) = So, mount the lens into the
extending lens barrel = Here I have a x1~x3 (about) macro lens.
This front group lens had a Shutter-aperture-combined blade which
I removed therefore there is no F-Aperture = always fully open !
—– still, this sample photos showed rather good quality and giving
beautiful out of focus bokeh.
But with further test, lens showed strong curvature of the image =
image is not flat = good for 3D subject but not good for a flat object.
(When lens was designed, the aberrations, inherent to any single lens
were corrected by the combination of the other lens. Yet, in this case,
such strong curvature of the image needed to be corrected by the
strong diverging lens of the rear group. But, as only front group lens
was used here, the uncorrected aberration became too apparent.
—– Photo above Left showed x3 image. Its coloring was caused by the
Chromatic aberration. Photo Middle (x1 size), the best focus was made
to peripheral. And the Right, best focus was made to center. The focus
to the center is 4mm different ! = If the subject was 4mm deep shallow
dish, this lens will make a good focus from center to the corner.)
I need to find a good subject. = Ideally, Halloween Costumed insect. 🙂
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Not heal by Buddhism ? ! 仏道からの癒し－－－それともコーヒー？
彼岸寺といふ仏教サイトに面白い事が書かれていました。浄土宗の日下と言う僧侶が書いたもの
だそうですが，彼は何故か仏道に癒しが感じられない －－－むしろ一杯のコーヒーや家族に
癒されるとのこと。浄土宗では教えないのかも知れませんが元々の
釈尊の教えは「無私」ですからそもそもコーヒーを愛でる己れ，家族に愛着した己れどころか
対象としての仏教なるもの自体が存在しない。
－－－という現象を学ぶ為に仏教では延々と続く勤行を繰返し，それを無意識，無感情でする
（無私無心）訓練をする。＝無私無心でちゃんと生活が成り立つ ＝では誰が生きているのか？
＝ それが法 ／ ダルマであるのです。
己れにしがみつきながら，どこか彼方から 癒しが得られるのでは，と期待するのは
お門違いでは？？？
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In one of the Buddhist’s site “Higan-dera” in Japan, a monk called Kenyu Kusaka
wrote a short essay saying that he noticed that he is not feeling the heal from
Buddhism, but from coffee ! He was a Pure-land sect monk, so that expecting him
to have the understanding of what Buddhism IS, might be too much to ask.
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The core of the teachings of
Lord Buddha was, First, there IS no such thing like SELF (Atman) exists.
And to learn this truth, the followers practiced long repeated practice
until they could do it automatically (= without thinking) and without emotion
(= no-emotion / not having a feeling of SELF = hence realize No Existent of the Self )
Without knowing this teachings, the monk may still thinking that there IS the
subject called Buddhism and a person who is learning it.
No such things there or anywhere = if only a person doing the practice and the life
without having the SELF, what prevailed there IS the Dharma.
(= if the person IS NOT there, who is living there = That IS very Dharma)
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But a monk like Kusaka, clinging his SELF and attached to his family AND a cup of
COFFEE, Buddhism is too remote, yet wanting to feel a healing ? What he is asking ?
There is a big irony, —– as long as the person asking, never given, as long as
the person looking for, never find. = The EGO of want push the goal away.
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Focus-Shift Flower image
Somebody in the USA contacted me to use one of my old photo which was
taken by a technique of Focus Shift, hence the image has big off-focus
bokeh superimposed on it. In fact I’ve published such photo many times
like this or this. (though, the gear used or the lens may not be the same)
And even there was such drastic approach. 🙂 But this time, focus ring
was moved manually, and in order to have a slower shutter speed, shooting
took place in the evening, under rather dim light.
And to make off-focus, shift to near or far, or the setting of F-aperture etc,
above all, how far the subject, will make the picture looks quite different.
(still, there is no fixed manner = it’s just case by case. 🙂 )
Funny things of Focus Shift is, first moment, it was focused to the main
subject, then move the focus, generally till completely out of focus though,
why not focused here and there. = Two subjects will have each clear focus
(and bit of bokeh) 🙂
Camera used here was the Nikon D810 — having had 37Mp image-censor,
there are ample of space to crop the image.
A radio DJ mentioned Xmas —– Oh no, soon it will be the November
—– still, flower patch has few flowers left. Thanks Goodness.
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Tofu-Tofu
Since last time when I’ve talked about how I was annoyed by the Chinese Tofu,
I didn’t have any Tofu cooking —– it has been completely disappeared from
my mind. (Same as like when I stopped to touch woman or smoking, or even
just stopped to go particular club or shop.) A funny thing was, that Tofu has
been in my fridge, thus, seeing it everyday all through those period. Though,
I didn’t even think about to chuck it away. It was not exists in the world. 🙂
So, I don’t know why I got an idea to buy it again and make a particular
cooking. (That cooking will appear in this blog soon.)
And for that, I did a special shopping at a Japanese food shop. (Then
I noticed that the Japanese Tofu (though, they were made in USA) having
pretty long shelf life = enlarge the photo above to see each “sell by date” )
(Those Tofu I bought, were either made by Morinaga or House = both are
pretty big company thus, least likely do any cheating while taking a risk.)
—– And, I show you “That Tofu” after 7 months. (Photo above Right) =
looks quite edible if not poisonous. Japanese Tofu sold in a Japanese
food shop is twice more expensive, therefore I never bought them before
—– but there is no alternative left to me.
( And I’m not such keen to make a Tofu from the Soybean. 😀 )
And I didn’t know that the Japanese Tofu is having up-to 6 (six) different
grade of firmness ! = how civilized, how sophisticated !
= almost obsessive Japanese over quality ! 😀
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Incidentally, a feedback for eating “Japanese Tofu” first time was, — I’m
not necessary like Boxed Morinaga one. Their texture is artificially smooth =
almost plastically. —– I rather like to have more natural-food like uneven
texture = like the one, made by the House Food.
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Still, this is the Zen
Seeing a scratch on the surface of the washing-up
bowl in my kitchen which I’ve been using since I have
started to live in this flat, I realised that the dirt or
stubborn coating on the surface of this plastic bowl
could be removed by just scouring hard. —– I was
thinking to remove such limescale mixed stubborn
dirt needs to use a strong chemical such as limescale
remover kind of acid.
—– There was the choices.
Throw away old bowl and buy new one.
Anyhow, it was only a couple of pound cheap item though, strangely
I couldn’t find the same shaped one in any shop.
Other choice was do nothing. = as it has been used 15 years, why not
another 15 years. — utterly lazy and sound hopeless though, to make
nothing happen is a kind of peaceful choice and cost nothing too.
One of the famous Japanese monk, Ryokan said to have one pail and
he used it for everything, to wash his foot to serve a rice. So, use one
bowl only for washing-up many many years wouldn’t make any crime.
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If I can clean it by just scouring, why not to try. = When a spoon edge
made a scratch, a scouring pad made by metal mesh should work well.
—- So, I did. (to the half extent) It IS a simple work = just scouring,
scouring and scouring. The more scour, bowl become the cleaner.
While scouring, I just scouring (=Mindfulness) = no thinking.(Mind is
in the Mushin / Void state.)
This is the Zen. —– soon or later, the bowl will get perfectly clean state.
Exactly the same process, the Japanese Sword was perfected. (Strangely,
we aim always the better — who asked ? or because of our nature/Dharma)
You may laugh though, the bowl which became clean is the equivalent
of the enlightened soul.
—– Yet another teachings may say, neither a bowl nor soul kind of
things was there in the first place, who get enlightened ?
Good question.
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