amateur photographer seeks unwitting subjects for technology study, apply within [open]

[haruno]

Ca-chick! Sure, maybe cameras weren't meant to make that noise. The ones she was used to had been more of a puff of air, a soft click, and then a bright flash of light when the bulb went off. This still had the flash, if it didn't always go, and some option that recorded video. Armed with a new toy she could actually sort-of almost work, Sakura

Comments

[bonnypiperlad]

There's a small Scottish boy (complete with a mini-version of a great kilt) in the mess hall, poking rather morosely at a pile of slop on his tray. He had been happy enough to eat it - right up until the point that he put some in his mouth and realized it wasn't porridge or brose or even anything resembling edible food.

Now? If there was a dog anywhere around, the poor unsuspecting canine would be getting some 'dinner'. Unfortunately for Jamie, there's not, so he's just prodding the mass and hoping it mysteriously vanishes. Or that a distraction appears...like Haruno.

The exclamation works well enough, getting to turn around and look at her, albeit in a rather confused sort of way.

"Hey? What do ye mean, 'Not again'?"

[haruno]

Sakura blinked the lingering effects of the camera's flash away, if it wasn't exactly working. She was still seeing the afterimage burned temporarily into her retinas when she forced her frown into a slightly more welcoming smile and waved the camera around at chest level. "I've done something to the camera again," she offered by way of explanation. "Last time, I turned the flashing part off. This time, it didn't flash until several seconds after it was supposed to."

Presuming the one talking to her knew anything about cameras. Sakura did, just not this kind. Digital cameras were a far cry removed from the box-style cameras more commonly in use back home.

[bonnypiperlad]

At the moment? Jamie doesn't, so much, thanks to the gap between the ship memories and his boyhood memories being a bit too much to handle - and his grumpiness over the food is quickly replaced with a look of utter confusion. "What's a camera?"

He's not at all sure what that's supposed to be, but she's got that thing she's waving around, and he peers at it thoughtfully. It made some light, didn't it? He's seen lightning and that flashes in a similar sort of way. Maybe it's something like that. "Is that wee box that ye you're waving around there?"

[haruno]

Sakura nodded, coming over to where he was. "Yes, it is. Cameras," she said, trying to think of a way to explain. "Cameras are a little like eyes, that can make realistic paintings of things they see when you want them to. People tend to call those paintings pictures, or photographs."

She sighed, staring at the back of the camera. "Normally, to make it work? All I'd have to do is point it at someone or something," she aimed it at Jaime, "Tell them to smile, and then press the button. Smile!"

She was going through the motions, pressing the correct button. Only it was followed immediately by a flash and ca-chink!

Of course now it was working perfectly fine.

[lives2annoy]

[haruno]

Silent observers she didn't much mind, as long as they weren't filled with killing intent or that vaguely shady, stomach churning feature that either meant they were bad news or just a creep. Giggling ones were a different matter altogether. "Oh, so the trees are laughing at me now, are they?" She was blinking away the afterimage burned into her retinas still as she approached the tree, camera in hand.

She looked up, quirking up an eyebrow when she caught sight of Marco. "Nope," she said. "Just a little monkey. Planning on hanging around up there all day?"

[lives2annoy]

[haruno]

"Don't make any bets on that count, kid." Not that she was moving to scale the tree -- honestly, it'd take one jump to get to approximately where he was. Which could be bad. Not like she wanted to frighten him on accident.

"I'm learning. Think I should practice on you?" She lifted up the camera, pointing it up at Marco. Here's to hoping the delay isn't still happening.

Ca-chick! Flash!

Nope! No delay at all, this time. Just what had she done?!

[nobel_berserker]

Allenby was about to jump up onto Nobel Gundam's open cockpit hatch when she saw the flash and heard the exclamation. She was paused in mid-crouch, looking around quickly, oh! It was that gal, what was the name...

"Sakura! Hey, long time no see," she said with a grin, straightening up and walking over. "Ooh, you got a camera? Awesome! Where'd you find it?"

[haruno]

"Got it back on XaXing, actually!" She smiled, waving with one hand. "You look better than the last time I saw you, if things were a bit crazy back then." Sakura had kept a general eye on the hangar when she'd come with MedBay staff in response to the pilots coming in after the last Ohm battle. "How's your -- ah -- Gundam, right?"

[nobel_berserker]

Allenby grinned at the mention of XaXing. She'd gotten a lot of pretty cool stuff there too, from mechanical and electronic parts she could use in projects to just... general knicknacks that looked interesting. But she looked a little puzzled as Sakura went on.

"My Gundam--? Oh, yeah... I think I remember seein' you back in the Hangar," Allenby said, catching on. The pink hair was pretty eye-catching. "She's fine. I got her foot back on no problem, so she'll be ready to go whenever we gotta fight next."

[haruno]

"I'm glad to hear the reattachment wasn't difficult." If it did make her think back to when they'd first met, which was really the only time they'd spent conversing. "How about you? How're you feeling after all of," she motioned to the general area with her hand, "That?"

[ghost_bait]

"Did you buy that on shore leave?" Miku asked as she tried to hide her amusement at the other girl as she stepped up onto the platform. "I always find that new cameras give you the most trouble." Even though it didn't look like any camera Miku had ever seen.

In fact, it looked more like the cameras Pakkun or Kara-chan would talk about. Instantly-satisfied, no time in the darkroom required.

[haruno]

Sakura looked up and toward Miku, blinking away the afterimage burned into her retinas. "I did, actually. Not that I've had a chance to bring it out before now, so it's been a steep learning curve." Waiting for other things to fall in place, and acting as her own distraction. So it goes.

"Do you work with cameras? You sound more familiar with them than I am, at any rate."

[ghost_bait]

"I do! Well, did. There isn't a lot of work for photographer's assistants on the ship, and that's what I was. Oh, where are my manners?" Miku stepped back and bowed to the other girl politely. "I'm Miku Hinasaki, it's very nice to meet you."

She stood back up and smiled, "Unfortunately, I'm not quite as adept with those sort. All of my cameras are manual." Even the ghost-catching one. "But Pakkun says that they're all point and click, anyway, so it shouldn't be too much longer before you're doing well at it!"

[haruno]

Sakura almost grinned, preforming a similar bow in kind. "A pleasure to meet you, Hinasaki-san. I'm Haruno Sakura."

When she'd straightened, it was with a look of curiosity evident on her face. "So simple an idiot could do it, huh?" She smiled, shaking her head. "It does seem to lack the set up and difficulty of the ones I know back home. They're all manual, too. Not that I knew how to use those either, if I knew the theory behind them. I read up on it once."

The name gave her pause, by association. "Pakkun is a friend of yours?"