3 posts tagged “ricoh gx-200”
Accumulated 5 years of mileage and I'd finally redeemed them for a few tickets for our family trip. Not exactly my type of vacation but it is still great (I've never done that but my dream vacation is very long and slow, beach and people, sunshine and camera, aircon and writing). I love the first day's visit to Mother Farm, we had very close encounter with animals and I was really surprised that the lambs are so kind and innocent to people even though they can be rude to each other. Many of the species there have huge scrotums too, almost like the size of your head! Almost every one of them looks like smiling all the time. One of them even liked me so much he/she marked me with his/her gland secretion repeatedly.
To me, Disney is totally kind of boring. I'm happy with the mechanical games though, especially roller coasters, but today Space Mountain was closed..... arrrhhhhh! Oh it was a great parade tonight though, featuring millions of colorful light bulbs on all of the performers and cars. I have to say that Japanese are highly sophisticated in crowd management and self-discipline in public space. During the parade, not only did the crew organized people in place very professionally, the crowd itself is like self-organizing units knowing where to go and what's the limit. Everybody was sitting down so everybody else can take great pictures and see the parade clearly. I love this crowd awareness, like flocks of birds. The firework was not as beautiful as the one in Hong Kong Disney though.
OK, this trip I'm carrying 4 cameras with me. I could not leave any one behind in my hotel because each seems to be suitable for certain condition and they work well together (imagine this perfect harmony between your wives!). Polaroid SLR690 is great for its square crop and unique color, Voigtlander R4A 35mm 1.2 + AGFA 400 film is great for low light condition and shallow DOF, Lomo LCA+ with Lomo 200 slide film is to create stunning e-to-c high contrast photos. Finally, Ricoh GX-200 is to fill-in the gaps, like snap shots and videos.
So I was carrying these 4 cameras for the past 2 days. I'm going to Hakone tomorrow leaving heavy luggage in Tokyo for 2 days. I will still carry these 4 cameras with me expecting to capture great imagery to share. CU in a few days!
Took me a few tries to get the right sunlight for a key photo to be used in the Travel Photo Cafe 2009 event (19th June - 2nd July).
Grabbed a new book from Jim Collins during lunch a few days ago.
Carrying Sausage Man with me all the time coz his recommendations are quite pleasing.
Made champion/#1 loser/#2 loser badges from leather for the dart event in June, people love them. I wasn't thinking straight and made this holder for pen or for darts I didn't know, now it doesn't quite work either way.
Looking at my blackboard some time ago realizing that things got done pretty much as planned, pleasing.
As for outdoor activities, a day with family to a fishing village. Fisherwomen selling their catches or dried seafoods from their sampan parked at the pier.
A dog waiting for the last sampan to get away from the remote island.
Loving the look of my camera and leather case I made.
Sunset getting later as summer approaches but still a signal to go home.
Mom always drop food/fruits to our house while we were not here.
Oh an amazing outing with colleagues, outdoor BBQ using charcoal, sunny and breezy day between rainy days, perfect day.
Went to a factory converted arts center called JCCAC (Jockey Club Creative Arts Center). 8 stories of innovations and creativity in compartments. Low rise building with a lot of breeze. Lovely but hot day.
Great gifts from Kelly, the last lecture book, tops bookmarks, graphite object, etc. Thanks Kelly.
Yup, lomo produces chocolate too, I can't eat it coz I don't want to destroy its nice packaging.
Admiring a return package of the notebooks I sent to Japan for exhibition. Midori was kind enough to give me loads of interesting postcards, charms and envelopes.
Produced only in small quantity, the Lomo LCA 25th Anniversary badge. Going to that birthday party on 19th June!
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I had finally grabbed a new digital camera after I broke my Canon IXUS last year in Shanghai. A Ricoh GX-200. I love the form factor and its wide 28mm lens but I hate the slow speed and noise in low light condition. I'm in love with this camera though, really because of how it looks more than its functionality. The leather case came with the camera is virtually useless and a nice looking camera like this deserves a nice leather case. So I searched the net and found 2 nice ones, Kojima Shouten's and Camera Hirano's. Both from Japan, despite their good quality judging from the look and my confidence with Japanese crafts, they are expensive.
So I set out to make one on my own, it is real cheap and I love the result. The cutting is my very own instead of copying what the Japanese were doing. It is not perfect but I learned quite a few things out of this tiny project. How rewarding it is to be able to create your own stuffs from scratch. You have a shape in your mind, you create a paper template, you try it on the camera and modify and modify and you dye and you stitch and sew. Every step is a test of patience and confidence.
We spoiled 21st century earthlings are too easy to give up. In the midst of almost all of my craft projects, I had multiple temptations to just throw everything away and start all over again. But I kept going and never stopped in the middle of any project even though an imminent failure was expected. This is so important. Because of certain small failures, you adapt by changing your approach, you try to perfect the imperfect and you learn so much more because it is never a straight line. So my advice here, for craft and for life, complete your project no matter how ugly it looks in the middle of the process, at least once, start all over again to use what you've learned. It makes huge differences.
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