Japan Day 8

[dr4b]

I'm sleepshifted to Japan time goddamnit.

Today we went to Hiroshima. The peace memorial is REALLY depressing. I guess it's neat too in some way, to see that building that was literally at the epicenter of the explosion, and the pictures of the city at the time, and I did learn a lot, but it was just really sad after a while and I made Carl go to Hiroshima Castle instead. Only problem is, I was sort of having heat exhaustion problems due to all the sun and heat and humidty and it sucked and I couldn't even climb up the castle, and no elevators. Bleh.

Afterwards we went to a Carp-Dragons game, which I just wrote about. We had to get our train back at 9:51, and ended up leaving the game at 9:15 in the ninth inning with the Dragons winning 7-6. I got back to the hotel, turned on the TV, and the Carp tied it up and came back to win 8-7 in the tenth arrrrrrrrrrgh!

I didn't get a picture of myself in my Phillies shirt with the Hiroshima Carp mascot, who looks like a big blue Philly Phanatic. Sigh.

I gotta get off the computer and go to sleep.

BTW, something to mention yet again -- I am NOT reading my friends list while I am here, so if you want me to know something, email me or comment here. I will NOT see your entry if you expect me to, until the 18th or 19th, if at all.

OH come to think of it, anyone with a Nikon D50 or D70 -- if I put my camera in manual mode and I can't make the exposure longer than 1/30 and it just says "bulb" when I try to, what on earth does that mean? It's REALLY annoying, I don't know if I broke something or if it's just on some weird setting because I pushed something by accident or whatever.

Comments

[thatenglishguy.livejournal.com]

Bulb means it will keep the shutter open until you close it, probably just keep your finger on the button until you want to close the shutter. 1/30 is at the upper end of what's possible to shoot handheld without getting camera shake - you need to be really steady for that.

[dr4b]

no, but see, even in BRIGHT LIGHT it won't let me set it HIGHER. It will go to like 1/5, 1/10, etc, but I can't set it to like, 1/200 or anything ABOVE 1/30, anything quicker. That's fucked up, isn't it?

[thatenglishguy.livejournal.com]

Yes. Maybe your appeture is set to something like f22.

[the2belo.livejournal.com]

Bring it tomorrow and let me take a look.

[metroid23.livejournal.com]

In addition to what the above poster said, Bulb is just what you use for long exposures (i.e. things you might use with a tripod). You can get a nice little remote that will open when you press it and close when you press it again- that way you're not touching (read: moving) the camera :)

[dr4b]

see what I said above.. it won't let me set the exposure FASTER than 1/30 for some reason and it's a major pain in the ass.

[katharos.livejournal.com]

Are you sure you're not trying to set it past 30 seconds? because that's where it tops out. Sometimes it can be hard to tell between 30 and 1/30 because it's just a little quote mark.

[dr4b]

you were totally right -- i was. oops. I got it right now :)