Going To Japan Around January

[GTR-N1]

I wouldn't go to Hokkaido - bloody freezing in January. Great scenery in summer. Lake Masyu holds the world record for clarity of looking down into it (being a caldera lake). I tried using my polarising filter there but the day was windy.

Further south, I'd do a drive from f*kuoka, Nagasaki down to Kagoshima and have a squizz at the active volcanos Mt Aso, Mt Sakurajima etc or others that are currently active. The turnoff to Mt Aso is from Kumamoto where there is another castle. Aren't there only 11 castles left in Japan?

Oh yeh, you must do the drive down through Irohazaka 80 apexes of pure adrenalin and experience it 1st hand. That's better than being a spectator!!!!! Can you hire a sports car for the day? You can go up there to Nikko and back to Tokyo in a day and hire the car with GPS. Hire one that steps out a bit (especially in the wet and sloshy snow lol). GPSs are funny sometimes when U R doing hairpins. They can get f*%&ed up after a sharp one and all of a sudden the GPS tells you to do a U-turn lolz. Tell us if Irohazaka does that to the GPS eh?

Are you interested in geothermal areas??

Shopping?

People?

Shiatsu Massages

Heian Temples?

Buddha?

Pachinko?

Fast Trains?

New R&D into cars? Nissan Museum? Honda Museum? I thought that the Lamborghini, Maserati, Ferrari places around Bologna, Modena, and Maranello were incredibly wild. All within half an hour of each other and still ran out of time before Ducati.

Tell us about your main interests, besides your research on racing events.

Tez

[GTR-N1]

Ahaha, well you are into the double digits of life are you not? Well into em, id wager.

A Rokor? Holy cow...you still have it i imagine?

Depending on the lens, they are stratospherically expensive last time i checked. They had a couple of Rokor lenses that would fund a year in many parts of the world in a shop i was checking out recently and that was in Yodobashi camera here in Akihabara!

Go ya halves!

PM'd

[akeenan]

what ....

[Beer Baron]

Yeh if BB can help me out, that's a given!

Took quite a few shots of & in Osaka Castle. That one is a massive sucker. Huge stone ramparts and it's like a massive museum inside.... If there were too many things on display I would start using the fisheye to catch it all.

The only pics of Kobe were from the plane flying over it to Osaka from down south (Kagoshima on Kyushu).

Many more pics of Nara & Kyoto the two old capital cities before Tokyo.

Cheers,

Terry

PS I must have known 32 years ago that these slides might be useful again for someone other than me lolz

here's some osaka castle by my hand!

Probably the most amazing part of Osaka castle is the castle walls, grounds and moat. Some of the stones in the wall are insanely massive. Amazing.

One of the biggest stones. The biggest one has a surface area of 60m2 and weights 130tonne!

Ok, the wet moat:

dry moat

miyajima is worth checking out too, about 40min out of hiroshima. it's an island accesible by a short ferry ride.

This is approaching the island by water.

and at night. breathtaking.

Miyajima is absolutely covered in wildlife. There are Deer everywhere, and they are not afraid to come up and try and snatch your stuff. Most of them have they antlers docked but some bad-ass ones higher up in the mountain still have them. You don't want to piss them off.

Here are two deer looked in mortal combat.

When I was down at Miyajima it was late autumn 2006. Very busy time as everyone wants to see the leaves change. The colours are just amazing.

5 Story Pagoda on Miyajima

[insanity]

I only have the slides BB.

Alternatively, I have all the slides in 120 slide carouselles and a projector + screen. I am aware though that taking pics off projected slides may hamper photo quality eh?

I haven't a clue how slides can be scanned appropriately - if you do, PM me your address and we'll work out a date and time.

I don't even know how to post up photos yet lol

Cheers, Tez

Terry,

My HP Photosmart C7180 scans slides, negatives and photos.

I would be happy to do this for you, only I am in Brisbane.

For the price, it may even be worth you going out and buying one to scan them yourself.... it's quite simple actually.

Prints out pretty decent photos too.

A review is here, though it also rates the Canon Pixma MP950 as a pretty decent unit.

Anyway, let me know what you think, as I would be more than happy to scan them if you got them to me.

Cheers,

Beau

Edited September 27, 2008 by insanity

[GTR-N1]

Thanks Beau,

Time for me to buy it and get a photographic lesson.

Funny over the past 30 years, technology has passed me by. What happened?

Cheers,

Terry (aka Rip Van Winkle) lol

Will contact you - for further advice eh?

[insanity]

PM me anytime Terry,

I've done a fair few of my Dad's old slides, and even though he's no pro, the quality came up pretty good.

Anyway let me know if I can help.

Beau

P.S. The review says they are upwards of $300, but I got mine for about $200, and some have a HP cashback deal going too.

edit.... sry to hijack the thread too guys... I'll PM Terry from now on about it

Edited September 28, 2008 by insanity