2025年1月12日日曜日

Ebessan

Top 3 person are celebrated as Fuku-Otoko(Lucky man) who passed through Nishinomiya Shrine on 10th January every year. So to speak Tohka-Ebis is based on the concept of thriving business, 15 hundred people gather together early in the morning running at Omote-mon to Honden with 230 m distance. Everyone knows it's nickname Ebessan.

 

2025年1月4日土曜日

Landing failure


A tragic plane crash occurred in South Korea at the end of the year, killing nearly 200 people.

During the landing phase, you must always face a headwind, lower the gear, activate the flaps and slats, raise the spoilers, raise the nose, slow down until you are almost at stall, and reverse thrust as soon as you touch down. Only by following these golden rules can a landing be successful.

Looking at the landing of the crashed plane, none of these steps were taken, there was residual fuel, and there was a pillbox-like cement structure on the extension of the runway. And then, engine stop, the tailwind landing approach, and a one-shot deal.

There were far too many conditions that could lead to a major accident.

We tend to fly for the simple reason that it saves time and is easy, but perhaps we need to reconsider the dangers of traveling by plane.

Once an airplane takes off, it must land, but the most dangerous phase is the landing phase. Life and death depend on whether it can land safely. A gamble on the cliff is always played on every flight.

There are many uncertain factors for failure, and they must all be eliminated. An airplane is a machine made up of tens of thousands of parts, and all of them must be functioning normally, but is that really the case? No, it can't be. It's statistically impossible. There must be some malfunction or problem somewhere. And yet the airplane takes off, pretending to be normal.

Needless to say, humans have not evolved to be able to fly. If you fall, you will die. This is for sure. You cannot stay in the air. Nevertheless, do you understand the reality that you are being thrown into the air in a closed space like an airplane cabin? Do you really mistake it for safety? Do you know that your feet are not on the ground touched?

If you encounter an airplane accident, you will almost certainly die. Is the need for life-risking air travel really necessary?

Wouldn't a boat or train work? Do you need to fly yourself in a hurry?

The smaller and lighter, the better

Brazen photographers tended to carry around bright, wide-range zoom lenses. If you didn't like zoom lenses, you had to carry around three types of lenses: wide-angle, standard telephoto, and short-focus. And you had to endure the torture of carrying heavy equipment.

However, with the release of camera bodies equipped with large APS-C-sized image sensors, this common sense is about to be overturned. The pioneer of this idea was Leica, a high-resolution, fixed-lens, high-pixel camera. Probably the Q series. In other words, the idea is that standard and telephoto can be covered, or can be covered, with digital zoom.

With the increase in pixel count of image sensors, the usefulness of digital zoom has come into the spotlight. This is not due to the simple and short-sighted idea that if you make it wide-angle, you can freely crop it on a PC LCD.

The concept of framing to determine the balance on a flat surface and framing to match the subject in three dimensions are fundamentally different.

In other words, this is why the image at the moment when the photographer's three-dimensional concept is incorporated is different from the image cropped on a computer.

Even if the number of pixels is reduced with digital zoom, the difference is clear on LCD.

The high pixel count of image sensors shows another side, leading to the promotion of high-performance wide-angle prime lenses.

This is not limited to the present, but for women and the elderly, it is better to have equipment that is even 1g lighter. It's a different story if you are in a state of madness that blindly believes in high image quality, but small and light is the most important and required thing from the bottom of our herat.

Professional photographers who work hard to endure heavy equipment should think the same way deep down.

So, the Konica EE Matic 42mm/f2.8. This is an original rotating helicoid transplanted to a micro 4/3 mount using a donor lens. It can get as close as 40cm, and the aperture can be adjusted with original blades.

If you remove unnecessary parts such as the lens shutter, it weighs 47 g and looks like this. The ultra-compact and lightweight 82mm/f2.8 lens with 3 groups and 3 elements can be transformed into any shape.

Using a computational photo system, high-resolution shooting is possible and the pixels can be increased several times.

We old-school photographers live in a world that was unimaginable in the days of silver halide film. It feels like we live in a dream world. 

2024年12月29日日曜日

Legal Murder?

War is the treaty done between nations to kill the enemy each other legally. No murder punishment no guilty. Various methods are invented to carry the explosive on the opposite, guns, missiles and artillery, etc.

By the way, is there any reason that murder is not a crime? Destruction of the human body is not allowed, no matter who is an enemy or not.

We cannot repair or reborn the living thing that was once destroyed, our scientific research could not reach the point to do that.

God does not forgive to stop the life of human being with any reason.

Even if we create powerful destructive weapons and use them to intimidate others, we will not be able to understand each other.

What is most important is to break the cycle of consistent hatred and look to the future. Without mutual respect between the parties, it is very difficult, for things to work out, really unlikely.

Our desires expand endlessly and never seem to stop, but what we actually need to survive is limited. We don't consume many of the Earth's resources while our span of lives. So, let's stop fighting over things and try to coexist by giving each other what we lack.

Isn't it about time to put an end to the history of massacres and conflicts that has been repeated since prehistoric times? 

Haven't we done enough already? Even if we don't kill each other, humans can only live for a hundred years at the longest.

War cost is consumption only, no productivity, it's just wasting of resources.

If we redirected the huge defense and military budget to peaceful uses, the world would be a lot different, far better.

 

Conflict repeats for hundreds of years


Weapons used in war are generally made with the basic idea of ​​destroying the enemy with explosives.

On land, cannons fire large ammunition at the enemy, causing it to explode all at once, and machine gun bullets cut them to pieces.

On the sea, cannons are mounted on ships and large bullets are fired at each other, and missiles are also used.

In the air, missiles are fired at each other, and machine guns are also used to kill each other.

In other words, the only difference is whether guns or artillery are used in the air, on the ground, or on the sea, and this has not changed in 100 years.

In particular, when looking at the armaments of infantry, although there is a sense of refinement, they have not changed at all from before.

The appearance of a 30kg haversack on one's back and a 4kg rifle on one's shoulder is almost the same. If the purpose is the same, there is no change even if times change.

Atrocities are repeated under the guise of annihilation of enemy soldiers. 

Military logistic is equivalent to weapons


When soldiers are sent overseas, not only weapons and equipment must be sent, but also sufficient food. This logistics is difficult even during domestic training periods, but the food must still be transported and delivered to the deployment site. The achievements of logistics units are less talked about than those of combat units, but in fact they are more important in boosting the morale of soldiers. The US military is well aware of this, so much so that they even provide ice cream to soldiers on the front lines. This was already done 80 years ago on the southern front of the US Pacific Strategy. Meanwhile, the Japanese army, who were engaged in guerilla warfare while sipping muddy water, apparently saw the ice cream truck left behind when they counterattacked, deciding it was a poison trap and disposing of it, but the truth is that it was beyond their comprehension. 

The Japanese Imperial Army at that time had a tendency to neglect logistics, and food was often procured locally. Not only soldiers, but people as well will die if they don't eat. If you focus on this point, there is no need to destroy the enemy with explosives. There is no doubt that this was the reason why the former Imperial Japanese army was defeated. 

The American army, which was heading to enemy territory far away across the sea from their home country, would be attacked from the rear by transport ships following them. If their logistics were cut off, they would have no choice but to turn back.

Air accident


The accident rate in air transport is low, but if you do encounter one, it will likely be fatal, as your chances of survival are extremely low.

The human body is not designed to stay in the air or move at high speeds. It is only sealed and moves under the illusion of safety. It must not be forgotten that if something goes wrong, our body construction is extremely vulnerable and can lead to death so easily.

Aircraft accidents tend to occur quickly again. Be careful.