One day＠Kabukicho #DAY185 - It's pretty rare to find someone who shares the same sense of humor in those not-so-mainstream comedy bits.
These days, when I go out, I usually just carry one camera in my bag, the Leica M-P Typ 240. But thinking back, in my mid to late 20s, I feel like I used to always have one camera in my bag and another one hanging around my neck, even when I was heading to work.
今は普段の外出時はカメラは1台、Leica M-P Typ 240 だけをカバンに入れているけど、考えてみると20代半ばとか後半とか、外出時（もちろん仕事の時も）にはカバンにカメラが1台、首からもう1台ぶら下げていたような気がする。
The combo I remember most clearly is when I used to carry the OLYMPUS PEN E-P1 together with the Leica D-LUX 4. The PEN was my main camera, and I'd only use the D-LUX when I wanted a wider angle.
一番覚えている組み合わせが OLYMPUS PEN E-P1 と Leica D-LUX 4 の組み合わせで持ち出していた頃かなぁ。PEN の方をメインで使っていて、たまに広角が欲しい時に D-LUX で撮る、みたいな。
I looked it up and saw that the PEN was released in July 2009, and I feel like I bought it pretty soon after, so that makes it more than 15 years ago now. By the way, the PEN was the first interchangeable-lens digital camera I ever owned. I think I bought the D-LUX 4 a few months later, though I don't remember the exact timing.
調べてみたら PEN の発売が2009年7月で割とすぐに買ったような気がするから、もう15年以上前の話になるのか。ちなみに PEN は自分が始めて手に入れたレンズ交換式のデジカメっす。PEN を買った数ヶ月後とかに D-LUX 4 も買ってたような。正確な時期は定かじゃないけど。
Lately in other articles I've been bringing up megapixels here and there. The OLYMPUS PEN E-P1 had about 12.3 megapixels, and the Leica D-LUX 4 had about 10.1. Even when I look at the photos I took back then on my iPad Pro today, I don't really feel like the image quality is bad or off in any way. Maybe if I had been cropping as much as I do now, there might've been times when it felt limiting... but then again, the Leica Q's 50mm crop is only around 8 megapixels. So having about 10 megapixels really isn't such a weak spec after all.
最近他の記事でちょこちょこ触れている画素数。OLYMPUS PEN E-P1 が1,230万画素、Leica D-LUX 4 が1,010万画素だったみたい。当時撮った写真を iPad Pro で見ていても特に画質が悪いとか違和感は感じない。たぶん今みたいにトリミングもしながら使っていたらキツい場面ももしかしたら出てきたのかもしれないけど・・・でも Leica Q で 50mm クロップだと800万画素くらいなんだよな。だから1,000万画素ってスペックは別にそこまで気にするほど低い性能じゃないってことだ。
As usual, I was hanging out with my friend this day, but there's this small shared concern between us. It's that the comedy videos we find funny are hard to share or relate to with other people. On the other hand, we talked about how maybe it's exactly because of that shared quirk that we can spend time together without having to be overly self-conscious.
さて、この日ももちろんいつも通りに友達と一緒にいたんだけど、自分と彼女の共通のちょっとした悩みがある。それは自分らがおもしろいって思うお笑いの動画とかをなかなか他の人と共有、共感できないってこと。逆に言うとそういった共通点があるから、うちらは大して気を遣わずに一緒に時間を過ごしているんじゃない？って話になったり。
I feel like I've seen this sign somewhere else in Kabukicho before, but I can't remember when or where that was.
この張り紙、昔歌舞伎町の他のどこかで見かけたような気がするんだけど、それがいつでどこだったか思い出せない。
The Lawson I mentioned in my previous article, the one that had been closed since May with no set reopening date, suddenly reopened without any notice. The interior and layout inside looked pretty much the same as before. It had been closed for about four months, but in the end, I never did find out why. Anyway, since I had just mentioned it in my previous article, I figured I'd give a quick update, the store has reopened.
前回の記事で触れていた、今年の5月から再開未定でずーっと休業していたローソン、何の前触れもなくいきなり営業再開していた。店内の内装もレイアウトも昔と特に変わっていなかった。4ヶ月くらい休業していたわけだけど、結局理由はわからずじまい。とりあえず、前回の記事でちょうど触れていたし、営業再開の報告でした。
I actually wanted to take more photos of people on the streets, but for some reason I just couldn't do it this day. So I ended up with more landscape-style shots. Maybe it's just the nature of street photography that we can't always get the shots we want. But if I keep chasing the kind of shots I want and still can't get them, before I know it, 3 or 4 hours have passed and it's already morning. I wonder what kind of shots I'll get next time.
See you then.
本当はもっと街行く人の写真を撮りたかったんだけど、この日はなぜかそれができなかった。だから風景系の写真多め。撮りたい写真が撮れるとは限らないのがストリートスナップ故なのか。だからって撮りたい感じの写真が撮れなくって3時間も4時間も撮りたい写真を追い続けていたら朝になっちゃうしね。さて、次回はどんな写真が撮れるかな。
ほなまたー。
