Camera Balance…

Posted on 17. Aug, 2007 @ 9:50 am by in Crazy Consumers, Gadgets Views: 267

You don’t need a good camera to take bird pictures.

Just a gianormous lens!

I spotted these birdwatchers while on the Fukuchiyama railway hike.

Look at the size of that lens… Look at the size of that camera! It’s a similar model to the camera I use to take JapanNewbie snaps.

By the way, totally off-topic but… I can talk about off-topic things right? You guys don’t mind do you? Anyway, I recently re-watched the 1986 animated Transformers movie. (なつかしい！) I remember it was one of the first movies to make me cry when I was a kid… Most of my favorite Transformers die in that movie… (T_T)… Anyway. In one scene one of the transformers uses the phrase “gianormous” to describe Unicron after he eats a planet.

“Gianormous.”

I had a friend who uses that word all the time… I wonder if that’s where he picked it up…

- Harvey

  • http://www.victorymanual.com Alex

    I think your friend probably heard it from the more recent movie Elf. My mother and little brother use it all the time.

  • http://pixelscribbles.com/journal Heather Meadows

    I heard it on the internet, though usually spelled “ginormous”.

    And wow. That is one ginormous lens.

  • http://voodooserpent.deviantart.com JCD

    My relatively tiny 70-300mm lens cost $356. He probably saved up all year living in an alleyway for that thing.

  • http://www.japannewbie.com harvey

    Ginormous!

    By the way, Transformers is -not- as cool the second time around. I could hardly stand it.

    Photography looks like a great hobby… But the gear is too freakin expensive… These days I just have to buy guitar strings every month to feed my habit!

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