Garden/Museum

Visit to Ashikaga Flower Park -3

The Ashikaga Flower Park's two main attractions nowadays are the "Grand Wisteria Festival" in spring and the "Illumination of the Gard...
Plant / Animal

Visit to Ashikaga Flower Park -2

So, here is a report on the night time at Ashikaga Flower Park. I thought I was visiting the park off-peak during Golden Week, but the...
Plant / Animal

Visit to Ashikaga Flower Park -1

I have been wanting to visit Ashikaga Flower Park for a long time. I went in late April to visit the park before the flowers were in f...
Cameras & Lenses

“PENTAX K-3III monochrome” on sale

The PENTAX K-3III monochrome was launched! As a PENTAX user, I thought I'd like to mention a little about it. I don't mean to reiterat...
Garden/Museum

S5 + K-mount lens break-in, etc.

I got a full size Lumix S5, but I haven't been able to operate it much. Frankly speaking, I am still not comfortable with the full-siz...
Impression

Good novel “A Retro Camera Store in Yanaka”

The other day, I visited the Japan Camera Museum in Hanzomon. The Ichibancho Building of JCII (Japan Camera Industry Institute), where...
Garden/Museum

HAYAMA 1952-1953

There is a building in Hanzomon, Tokyo that is home to an organization called the Japan Camera Institute (JCII), and I was intuitively...