I want to take pictures, I want to touch my camera and lens, but it’s hot. Too hot and dangerous. It’s September, a month of lingering heat, when the sun and hot winds prevent me from walking around taking pictures. I have been forced to fight against the heat as I do every year, but this year, the situation did not improve even in the middle of September.
So, I decided to take a photo at Haneda Airport, where there is no shortage of air-conditioned shelters, as it has become a regular annual event.
This is a view from the observation deck of Haneda’s Terminal 3 looking toward Terminal 1.
The G9PROII and the Leica DG 12-60mm produce a tight and sharp image of the control tower. The shape of the clouds and the color of the sky make the scenery look autumnal and refreshing, but the sun on the observation deck is quite scorching, so I couldn’t stay there for long.
The takeoff of the China Southern Airlines plane, which is about the size limit of the Leica DG 50-200mm, but I was able to get a good shot with the help of the camera’s AF performance. The three-dimensional effect that emerges from the background is quite good.
Back indoors where it’s cooler, it comes alive. In the shopping zone of Terminal 3, I blurred out the lights of Edo Koji in the background with Japanese accessories in the foreground.Leica DG 12-60mm
I used Cinelike V2 for the photostyles (not shot out, but shot in RAW & retrofitted in PhotoLab), and it clearly has more dynamic range than when I was shooting with the GX7M2 and G99.
Finally, an extra shot at the deck of Terminal 3, because I was able to capture something unexpected that was not an airport scene.
The Umihotaru PA and viaduct of the Tokyo Bay Aqualine stretching toward Chiba on the opposite shore. The huge structure rising out of the water in the right foreground is the “Wind Tower,” a ventilation facility that stands in the center of the Aqua-Line tunnel section. I didn’t know it could be seen so well from Haneda Airport T3.
So, with the G9PROII in hand, I will head to T1 and T2 in the next installment of my tour of Haneda Airport terminals.