Dying Villages
The Japanese countryside offers the same views and Hokkaido is no exception: dying little villages.
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Somewhere in Shinjuku, near Isetan, one of the best Salad Bar I have ever seen: lot’s of fresh and exotic raw vegetables.
Creamy Bokeh
The Mitakon Zhongyi Speedmaster 35mm f/0.95 Mark II is now my favorite lens and seldom leaves my X-H1: well built, sharp where the focus is done, soft creamy bokeh in other areas, perfect color cast. It reminds me of the 50mm/f1.2L that I had on my 5Dmk3: only smaller, sharper and easier to use (with…
Japanese Breakfast
In addition to the uncomfortable pillow, the one thing I do not like that much is the traditional Japanese breakfast we always get in a Ryokan. Just too much of the salty stuff and not enough of the sweet one. Not to mention the lack of coffee.
Coffee Break
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SAMYANG RF 85 – not good enough
Second part of my adventure with my Samyang lens. I bought a lens station and updated the firmware to the latest version (v2) but still no major improvements: between 1/2 and 1/3 of my shots remain out of focus: slightly at best, quite substantially in the worst cases. I even went to my favourite camera…
Office Walk
The Nocticron 42.5mm wide open at f/1.2 in daylight (thanks to an ND4 in front): nice results, no?