For the last full day of The Parks for the Thirty-Fourth – Tokyo Drift, I decided to spend the day perusing a selection of Tokyo’s famous secondhand goods stores like Book Off, Hard Off & Hobby Off, Nakano Broadway or the well known Super Potato store in Akihabara looking for all sorts of Japanese domestic treasures – from old games consoles like GameBoys and Famicoms to vintage electronics like classic and quirky cameras and even collectibles like model cars. I also stopped by a Pokémon Centre, had breakfast at the popular chain Cafe Gusto – featuring the quirky robot waiters, ate a sizzling lunch at the appropriately named Pepper Lunch and capped the trip off with one last Katsu Curry at my beloved CoCo Ichibanya.Continue reading →
I was going to do a little Vlog about this trip, but it wound up being impractical to do much vlogging while walking around the SEA LIFE London Aquarium, so I just focused on doing what I was really here to do: testing out my new Sony α7C II. So this is just a simple little test video, demonstrating the quality of footage I was able to capture of all the cool fish and other aquatic critters to be found at the Wonder Under London. I also took this as an opportunity to experiment with migrating my finishing workflow to Final Cut Pro from LumaFusion and see how the grading of the footage and any additional stabilisation it could add in post would come out and with moving to a 60fps master from 30fps. So this one is primarily of interest to me, but it’s here for anyone to take a look and see what these tools are capable of even while still getting up to speed.Continue reading →
