I just got a new Japanese Lumix Digital Camera at work! After a lot of tinkering, I've managed to get past the learning curve (which consists of understanding Japanese) and take advantage of 16x optical zoom on this 8mm monster. Just an idea of what it can do, below is an image of a 7cm (about 3 inches) gashapon figure of Rei. (No photoshop except ( Read more... )

So I photograph toys for a living. Japanese toys, to be specific. One of the greatest and most frustrating line of toys to photograph are called Gashapon. They are little 2-4" figures that come in vending machines, so you have to assemble them from perhaps 6 to a dozen pieces. This a a great deal of fun sometimes, especially in the past 2 years ( Read more... )