HIGH QUALITY FOR A SONG

(images; compact film camera Fuji CARDIA 700 ZOOM 1988 model, sample photo temple Fuji color 100)


I bought a compact film camera for a song. it is twenty years old model. On the Internet auction, nobody put a price on it.
I tried a shot by it.
It was very low picture quality.
I thought it cheap trivial film camera, and would disassemble it as a junk. By the way,
Please look at sample images. I discovered ring screw for focus adjustment at the top lens.
I managed to adjust it.
I tried a shot again. It was a wonderful quality.
But such many cameras like this are thrown away as a junk now.

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Thursday,October,15
Can you(this blog writer) write more interesting story? Sometimes I have no idea about what you say. I may have better idea than you. Good writing has something lowbrow.
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No ,we can't.

(Image;Chinese bamboo partridge)


We were a poultry. Now we enjoy wildlife. My many comrades run about in the bush of bamboo. Nobody hunts us. We originated from china.We can't go back to a cage any more.

Or,perhaps "Yes, you can." Someday you will come back to the cage.

Really great? Negative Film

Image 1
Image 2
Image 3
Image4
Image 5

Image 1,3 are scanned at about 450,000 pixel.(kodak Ekter 100)
As a total of 35mm film, the amount of pixel is 36~45,000,000!
By the way , maximum picture size on this blogger is 1,713,600(1600 x 1071)pixel.
I used cheap zoom lens ( nikkor AF 35-80 4.o 5.6D).
Image 5; Left side ,scan level 1.8Mega pixel/a 35mm film,Right side,36Mega pixel/a 35mm film

Film or Digital?

(image; Nikon F3 HP,my collection)

Until a few years ago, there had been the controversy "which is the better,Film or Digital in the picture quality".But I didn't care such trivial matters. So I am using Film camera still now. Simple people thinks " the newer the better,every thing."
I worked at a publisher, I realized digital would replace Film at once. The Answer is simple. we can do away with the troublesome reversal film. Reversal Film was mainly for publishing use.
To say precisely, Digital replaced reversal film. Most amateur camera freak don't know the true performance of NEGATIVE FILM. And they always misunderstand reversal the better than negative.Especially MONOCHROME FILM IS INCREDIBLE performance. Therefore Negative Film is used for an aerial photograph still now.

Obsolete word

Famous fashion brand files for bankruptcy in Japan. Yohji Yamamoto (Y's) , his name remind me 80's. And I remember a large number of obsolete word. I won't drag Japanese word. But actuary
many terms in a fashion magazine disappeared in the world.
Recently I don't see "Groovy" and"Foxy"in English . In Yahoo Answers(Japan) someone answered that they could be used with children. It sounds like "obsolete word". "bubble 80's" "lost90's",some Japanese use often such phrases. Many things have faded away for last two decades.

chicken head

Learning languages is tough business to most people. Although much effort,most people forget what he learned. When I was studying for the examination to enter university, classic Japanese trouble me very much. After six years of learning English in school, English for examination was already easy for me.( I managed to enter university ;law)
I am embarrassed to confess the fact that I taught high school student English when I was in the university. Please don't be surprised, one of my student had American mother. I felt more dead than alive.
　As for "chicken head" , in classic Japanese it means to become a leader of small sect or organization. (To become followers in a big group is " cow's hip".) in modern Japanese, it means to forget everything only after a short time. How to use is following."He forget every things after three steps walking."Then people say "He is a chicken head".
By the way, what does "chicken head"mean in English?I didn't learn such an English phrase in the school. Someone use a phrase" chicken head girls". what does it mean?