Aono Dam Northern Sanda

Ideal weather condition invited me to Aono Dam area Northern Sanda City today. Several shots on the way are here.
36,000km for 10 years used Audi A3 1.4T works well, tire noise has been reducing gradually after adjusting wheel alignment, front toe value Zero and rear total toe 10 minutes under thrust angle Zero conditioned.
As mentioned before, the biggest problem after fairly wheel aligning establishment is "Sleep" !  Very often the driver is attacked by Drowsiness, the vehicle goes straight without concentration, this is the inevitable reason. If we make it over there---.

Mino Park at Northern Osaka

Visited I Mino Park today, Northern portion of Osaka, no mischievous monkey was observed at all. They were moved into deeper mountain, the planning was successful few years ago.
Though reddish and yellowish leaves show fantastic scenery here in Autumn, now is out of the season, but a few visitors were there.
Cloudy condition made it difficult to shoot some good and impressive scenery, but I made desperate effort to accomplish to do that. As a proverb says, "Where there is a will, there is a way.", several targets were found as followings today.

Audi A3 1.4T ACC wiring

Inconvenient Cigar lighter 12V power supply on the center console in Audi A3-1.4T does not circuitry OFF, it is not done by ACC but continuous hot 12V.  A retrofit device needs ACC power supply, other wise cigar socket must be extracted in every use to the circuitry OFF.
This is often the case to be found out in European vehicles, Citroen, Peugeot, BMW, VW etc. Deeper consideration led me to the conclusion to wire from OBD-Ⅱsocket, #1>ACC+, #4>Body Grand.
The original Cigar socket position is not acceptable any jumped up socket, the position exists on the left palm traffic line, short head cigar lighter only. Also 2 USB connectors were set at the same time.
Fuse box position was checked by removing side cluster cover, this is one of an indispensable information to know as an owner of A3.
Clogged problems were solved at last today.
Web site information taught me ABA-8PCAX model had been produced in relatively short period of time, with Iron cylinder block material, later changed into Aluminum one. A specific oil filter No. is shown as W712/93.
Motor oil filters must be ordered for 2 VW vehicles, Golf 7 GTI and Audi A3 1.4T, both of them are exhaust turbine powered, so, no neglecting is allowed for motor oil condition checking, periodical replacement of relative parts.

Canon Demi 28mm/2.8 contributed as a sacrifice

I feel isolated staying at home following the suggestion by the Authority.
Killing free time, Canon Demi 28mm/2.8 old camera was operated to transplant its heart, marvelous lens. Original Iris construction should be done as it is at the beginning, 28mm forcal length has enough depth to ordinary use if iris is fully opened. So, deserted I the iris function. Though it's image circle is so designed to meet with half sized format, even full size format is acceptable under some endurance on vignetting at the corner a little.
Utilizing original helicoid, 4.40mm extension makes it possible to shoot 235mm close up at 1/6.8 magnification, now macro is necessary?
In spite of an Indigenous is in my stock, Canon 30mm/1.7 belonged in Canon Demi-17, this smaller Canon daughter would be invited without any quarreling.

Took a walk around neighbors

Just before Sunset took I a walk around my residence this evening. I happened to come across with old OPEL Calibra 16V with nostalgia, remembering the days I spent with Vectra 2.0 16V that trained me utmost in vehicle maintenance field. So hard period of time for me as to replacing shock absorbers by DIY, so, I owe Vectra at that time what I'm today.
I met with Hankyu Itami line with passing each other scenery on the way. Turning point of this walk was Tsukaguchi Shrine as a matter of fact, last Cherry Blossom was observed and also Sacred Tree was there. At the Sunset moment, tiny flowers were there with my shooting chance.

A new idea on an old lens

Modified Konica Hexanon 48mm/2.0 on SONY E-mount was completed with setting helicoid stopper adequately, the lens element had been equipped on Konica EE matic Range Finder 60 years old camera. Though rotating helicoid would not be extended till falling down, setting some mechanical stopper applies safety feeling in actual use. Trifles as it is, piled trifles are not trifle but worth doing.

I found out a grouped lens element, not a minute was required to remember how it comes here, yes, it is the rear group of Minolta Tele- Rokkor 135mm/2.8 and front group was lost because of mold invasion. As we know, rear group of these kind of lens construction is so designed to eliminate several aberration, so residual lens element does not play any part of performance. This is why this miserable lens  part has been deserted here in my junk box.
A curiosity comes out in my mind that what will happen if this lens is set on E-mount?  Then, I did it actually before pondering.
Nothing but poor and inferior pics could be obtained as a matter of fact, utilizing only an aberration correcting lens construction part with opposite direction, the result was reasonable at all.
All the engineer in designing lens construction seek and try to construct better one all the time, the better, the better.
From a completely different side point of view, this widow lens shows some different way of expression, not poor or inferior but just different, so I regard this! I feel some Fantagista in this marvelous jewelry. I would like to apply this new weapon on Table Photo field from now, let's see what'll happen.

Who and where the enemy is in WWⅢ？

The Sakura, Cherry blossom season comes around periodically as usual and it will soon diminish, but the unprecedented disaster by CV does not end.
Prime Minister Abe will declare "Contingency" today. The unusual state would last as long as 1 month till the end of consecutive holidays next month. What we can do now is not to go out, how come?
Even a strongest US aircraft carrier might be defeated by an invisible enemy? It's War Time now? But, the enemy is not a humankind nor specific strange nations nor different religious group. The enemy for all of us is clear at all, now is the time to be a Single Unity!