Time to stand up

The existing old media, dominated by dirty money, will be driven out and wiped away by the new wave formed by the newly developed web. The distorted truth can no longer win, and in an instant, the disguise of a lie is exposed as the truth. No matter how many times a lie is announced so repeatedly, it will never turn into the truth. Not the difference of the way of expression nor that in how to receive, the Truth and the Fact are not movable. 

We Japanese people are not intentionally taught modern history, but here too there is an intention of foreign powers. It is not too late to start learning. Looking back at the past from the current situation, it is easy to understand the connection between the present and the past. We can see how we have been oppressed and exploited. It is well hidden and camouflaged as nothing.

When you watch variety shows that are easy on the brain, you will be brainwashed and become stupid without realizing it. Just stop it!

Unconscious brainwashing by instantaneous insertion images, so to speak Subliminal stimuli. Prayers, spells and hypnosis are no longer effective in the age of science.

It is important to gather information and make your own judgments. Money cannot turn a lie into a false truth. The Japanese have finally gone from being junior high school students to adults. They have grown smart and wise. We will no longer have our emotions manipulated by boring foreigners, whether East or West.

Strange and primitive religions will also disappear from our country. 

You have to decide yourself by yourself, for yourself and on yourself.

The time has come to establish ourselves without relying on external forces as before.

The right of self-determination is a priority for every nation. 

What we lost in recent lens technology?

Ernst Leitz Wetzlar Summitar 50mm/f2.0 and Elmar 90mm/f4.0 are the tool I would like to use for shooting on Nikon Z8 for the time being. Former has angled illis window and latter does no or slight coating on every glass element. Both of them have L39 screw mounting flange.

Summitar is a predecessor of famous Summicron because of its extraordinary performance in resolution. Less power of resolving is more moderate edge drawing leading to gentle line. More softer pics would be obtained as a matter of fact, probably because of residual Spherical aberration. Consequently, I dare chose Summitar than commonly prevailing one, both of them are designed similar with Gaussian symmetric with the iris brade between, also the fuselage construction with retractable are the same, so it's difficult to tell which is from a distance. The way of atmospheric resolutions are different each other, this is not a title which is the sharper.

As for Elmar 90mm/f4.0, earlier model, black painted, no coating and a bit heavier because of brass fuselage construction, has tasty character.Triplet design invited this Elmar has les inconvenient reflecting surfaces, 6 in total leading to more transparent resolution. I know that recent lenses are produced with multi-coating and more lens element to eliminate abberasins also aspherical element application. And eye-openingly clear and brilliant pictures are common especially corners. Complicated lens designing requires so sophisticated machining technology, lens element it self, lens case also does and increasing reflection surfaces also coating surfaces inviting resorption of light source, establishing the centricity of every element, precise matching and fitting between lens element and its case. Product quality must be checked so carefully on the way of production. 

From this point very selfish and self-contented opinion would be described, I feel that something is lost in the pics taken by such a recent lens designing---something important that should not be lost. It's a very difficult task to explain it in word, resolution of atmosphere, smell of air or temp and moisture, very small sound that is difficult to be discerned at that time. This tendency is discerned when monochrome method is invited for the works. This is why I prefer old less lens element design to new and modern computer done ones.

All the ancient lenses take good pics also newer ones, my opinion is just depending on the comfort level of ones Hobby.

Trifle is nothing but piled ones are not so but great.

The joy of life lies in noticing small, little and tiny things?  

Hankyu Awaji station

Hankyu Railroad Awaji station has been under reconstruction for long time. The date of completion also postponed several times, newest one is 2032, so announced. In 1960, the broad road plan was established from Toyosato to Utajima connecting Shin Osaka with Awaji. JR Osaka East Line has opened JR Awaji station already with the distance of 300 m from Hankyu leading to increase of passengers. So, I make it a rule to record old scenery meeting with the constructive step, before complete destruction. Newer construction is convenient of course, but old and historical memory is above all, losing good days is lonely.

Aibetsuriku

Shimenawa Kazari that has been decorated on the gate of entrances is burned in the Shrines nearby after the Oshogatsu season every year. Every family brings them and they are thrown into the fire, the warm is very convenient for the people came around. I happened to visit Tsukaguchi Shrine to buy a amulet bag for niece who comes back her mother country Peru. Departure for separation is brilliant but sorrow.  We call this kind of situation Aibetsuriku.

 

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.

 

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.