NASA released their satellite view of Sendai, and I made the Animation for the comparison. This Image was captured at February 26, 2011 and March 12, 2011. You see the devastating grand erosion by the quake and tsunami. Now Rescue teams is coming from around the world, and a lot of the victims are taking off by them from the new gulf. Flooding from Tsunami near Sendai, Japan : NASA http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1892.html

Tokyo Tower Bent by japan quake, and closed until confirming safe conditions is done. I believe they’ll be able to solve their problems.

Today, Nintendo 3DS was released in Japan. The game console was closely packed by a lot of the 3D and communicative ideas. 3DS have a 3D Display with stereo camera. You can take 3D pictures and see on the display. Now, I converted the picture data ( 3D MPO format ) to stereogram movie. The camera’s basic performance is not good. It may not be able to memorize good image data with enough resolution and exposure. But The 3D pictures will be amplify the user’s communication, and they will be memorized the special experiences with their Friend and Family. It’s just for fun :-)

Last month, I went to see H-IIB Rocket with HTV2 Launch at Tanegashima. The Launch was succeeded and HTV2 has been docked to International Space Station( ISS ). And this morning, the ISS with HTV2 flew over the National Art Center, Tokyo. I could see HTV2 again :-)

January 22, 2011, H-IIB rocket and H-II Transfer Vehicle(HTV) was launched from Tanegashima Space Center. H-IIB is in 10 largest rockets and it’s capable to carry the HTV to the international space station( ISS ). 300 kg of water, food, crew commodities,science experiment materials, fluorescent light, LED and such as the component was packed into the HTV in this mission. HTV was given the nickname Kouno-tori( White Stork ). HTV will be continue to carry science and space materials carefully as a new born baby, after the space shuttle years. I went to see the launch and took the movie. you see not only the launch but the burned Launch […]

When viewer watch a picture, they doesn’t only see in the picture but over the frame. The clipped picture is spread over the viewer’s mind by their imagination. But there is a person who cannot believe such as the viewer’s imagination. He just hope to capture 360 degrees whole around picture in our sight, without clipping. That’s me :-) Few years ago, I tried to take 360 degrees pictures and compiled to a movie. There was no spherical fish-eye lens for APS-sized sensor DSLR at the time, and I used wide lens with fish-eye converter. But it had not enough resolution. Today, I can use spherical fish-eye lens dedicated DSLR, […]

I have thought that star watching looks so hard works. It’s required to carry a heavy expensive telescope and difficult equipments, go on sleepy midnight ways to country side, and peer over a Planisphere for hours and hours. But I didn’t know that we could do star watching at anyplace, even if we were in downtown area. And today, there is good Planisphere Apps for iPhone and iPad to find stars easily. Finally, I got a small telescope and put iPhone on it to take star’s pictures. I used Borg’s Pencil Borg(175mm f/7) telescope and Vixen’s LV5mm eyepiece. In the case, 35x telescopic image was shown by the system. I […]

I tried to make DOF(depth of field) Adapter and put iPhone 4 on it to defocus background images. DOF Filter is darker filter and It can’t use for a sensitive camera. But iPhone 4 have backside illumination sensor, it’s very tough for such as the darker conditions. And I could take LOMO like old cinema image by iPhone 4. The Movie is here. Today, We have DSLR Camera Movie and we can get high quality image with less effort. I couldn’t find any of the reason to use iPhone 4 on DOF Adapter ;-) I found that iPhone’s Retina Display is best Electronic View Finder to adjust Manual Focus, I […]

Recently, My friends get some tablet devices, foo-Pad and bar-ndle :-) But I got cheapest electric pad, Bookie Board. The Simply Device allow Writing, and Deleting. That’s it. The device looks no Digital Circuit, and the (Analog) resolution is very high. And it keep the writing with no electricity. I like the simplest tablet. Boogie Board http://www.myboogieboard.com/

In this spring, I got new DSLR camera allow video capture, at last. it’s available Manual video capturing in inexpensive price range. In the season, you see beautiful Sakura in Japan. and I tried some capturing test. #1 Dark Place In DSLR movie, available in dark place. But not too sure. I see some noises in the movie. And I need to care not to jiggle my hand in such as the macro movie. #2 Take movie on motor bike I rode my Ducati bike for the movie capturing. But Ducati is worst bike for that. The heavy vibration is characteristics of the feeling while riding :-) I want to […]