I Had To Fill Up $30 In My Tank Just To Get Around the Weekend

Sep 09, 2007 22:54

Fairly long weekend spent at Mikomicon. Quick thoughts and highlights:

Mikomicon thoughts )

concert photography, cosplay photography, anime conventions, mikomicon, photography

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cherrypop September 10 2007, 07:36:02 UTC
*LOLs at the idea of 1-UP mushrooms on one's car* I LOVE Dig Jelly. Didn't know they would be at MikomiCon. o_O;

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blueyeswhtdragn September 10 2007, 08:22:42 UTC
Oh wow, Dig Jelly was there?? How's Rayko doing nowadays?

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slave_to_anime September 10 2007, 18:44:01 UTC
Rayko appears to be doing just fine.

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burmecian_storm September 10 2007, 14:24:33 UTC
We <3 you, Jason. Thank you SO much for everything you did this weekend. You definitely made the con really enjoyable. Always a pleasure seeing you!

And your new rear view mirror dangly is super awesome! XD

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burmecian_storm September 10 2007, 14:35:08 UTC
P.S. It was great meeting you, kamuishirou1999! :)

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kamuishirou1999 September 10 2007, 15:38:50 UTC
it was great meeting you as well. =D

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burmecian_storm September 10 2007, 16:05:14 UTC
Mind if I add you to my friends' list? :)

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kamuishirou1999 September 10 2007, 15:43:13 UTC
haha. 'easiest con dealer hall job'. that just depends on the event. otakon was not easy. i'm sure AX won't be easy. The small events like Nisei Week and Mikomicon are fairly easy because there's hardly anyone around to talk to or for me to try to sell stuff to. =D

my camera does not weight a metric ton. =D you also had your own camera which probably made it seem heavy. it's only hard initially since you don't get the turn wheel other cameras use to choose which exposure mode you want. a lot of multi-button pushing to get to a setting. the 40D and 5D are not as complicated. =D

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slave_to_anime September 10 2007, 18:12:18 UTC
I suppose. Since at those two events, all you had to do was stand around, while you had all those meetings for the other conventions.

Your camera is definitely heavy, though. Maybe not a full metric ton, but it still weighs a lot. And that was on the hands, and since I don't generally hold 2 cameras at the same time, it's not like the XT could influence that. I don't even want to think about how bad that'd be with a 70-200/2.8L IS or something, since I'm sure at that point, I'd prefer to have an anchor around my neck.

I understand Canon's whole philosophy there of pros not wanting accidental changes, so making sure that each serious action seemingly requiring at least 2 item changes or even 3. But damn, that makes changing settings slow. I'm sure if I actually knew how to make the changes before, it'd be faster, but still, that's a damn lot of buttons to have to know.

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moriyama_umi September 10 2007, 17:54:58 UTC
HOMG I got heat stroke on that stage it was SOOO hot and the sun was hitting the microphone just so it was always blinding me when I was in front of it ~___~ I'm sorry you had to see us in such conditions but thanks for coming anyway! Sorry I didn't get to hang much. We were only at the con for a few hours and most of that we spent trying to take refuge from the heat in the green room XD Come see us some other time preferably at an indoor stage, it will for sure be better XD

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