While repeated as a researcher (Associate Professor Tsukuba) who specializes in controlling light and sound waves, he has also been active as a media artist.Yoichi Ochiai.He always hangs his camera on his waist, and is constantly shuttering at meetings and interviews.I post it on his own Twitter and Instagram account.
Mr. Ochiai, who loves cameras since he was in the fourth grade of elementary school for the first time, said in his recent book ( * 1), saying, "I want to share my perspective with someone by continuing to transmit the world I saw with my own eyes.Maybe there is a feeling. "This month, Mr. Ochiai, who holds a solo exhibition centered on photos, interviewed his camera and love for photography.
――Is the camera model you always carry Leica?
Until a few years ago, it was a different model, but now I have two Huawei mobile phones, mainly Leica and Leica lenses for shooting.The reason why I started using Leica is that the decisive factor is a rangefinder model that is easy to carry.Originally, I liked SIGMA's Foveon sensor, but since I started using Sony's α7, I started using Leica lens with a mount adapter (editor -in -sheet: a part that connects the camera and lens).I changed the model because it was still heavy.
Even if you carry three lenses with a camera body and about 1.4 to 1.8, it will not be 2 kg in all.If you ask a camera from another manufacturer for the same performance, it will be very heavy.Of the Leica M10 that I have, I have a model that has no back monitor called M10-D today.After shooting this, I think it would be nice to be not very concerned about how it appears.Use a medium format Leica to print it out.Because it looks sharp and looks good until the edge.
Leica M10-D that Mr. Ochiai had on the day of the interview
――The three I have today are the so -called old lenses.
Ochiai: I have almost all the new Lens of Leica, and I really like the blur, but the photos taken with the old lens have a sense of mass.If you want to make a picture like a picture taken with an old lens and a film camera, it's very good to use an old lens to the M10.Old lenses will be a smooth edge.If you calculate the flare and blur that you want to do with each light source with CG and make it fluffy, you can take a picture that it will take a lot of time.
There is the word Natural Computation.It is a field of computing calculations using natural phenomena, but I often think that old lenses are expressed only with natural composition.
――How about the number of pieces a day?
Isn't Ochiai about 300 sheets?For me, photography is like muscle training.If you only do research, management and education, the right brain or the "creative brain" will be weakened.For me, "dialogue with images" is an important key, and shooting can gradually be able to interact with images and revive the creative brain.
――What do you think when shooting?It's a self -imagination, but if you look at the viewfinder, you may be wondering where the light source is placed if you reproduce the scene you are watching with CG.
Ochiai That's right.For example, if it is here (the cafe at the interview place), the cloth is hanging from the ceiling on the large glass surface, so the shadow of the cup placed on the table has a "direct sunlight component".The fluffy scattering light component is living together.I'm thinking about that.When shooting, I'm often aware that the spectrum is interesting, the light is mixed, and the surface reflection there is beautiful.
――If you shoot with a digital camera, will you take a lot of time using the software of the RAW?
Ochiai is quite a lot of "shooting out", but things that exhibit at something will be developed with a lot of spirit.If you look on Twitter or Instagram, I don't think it's a problem to take it out.The reason is that the resolution is low.If you print a high -resolution one at the same time, wouldn't the noise ride when you lifted (shadow)?I don't know if that noise is a screen.
However, when posting to SNS, it is downsized to about 1000 pixels and 2000 pixels in the width, so it is about "I wonder if there is noise."I don't know unless I print it.I think this difference is a new feeling for the digital generation.I think many digital generations do not have the value of the printed photos and the values of dialogue.I don't know if it is this size (pointing to a B5 format book), but if you print it in the size of this desk (A1 size), it will be different.
At present, the resolution is very low because most of the ones that are about this desk are displayed digitally on the screen.If you print a medium format photo with an advertising photo, the resolution is high, but most of them are printed with people, so noise is adjusted using Photoshop.I'm not really bothered.I think there are such problems.
He is still looking for a good old lens for Leica
――There is now a photo with a smartphone -equipped camera and it will be corrected to a beautiful picture based on the results of machine learning.How do you think about such an automatic correction function?
I think the technology of identifying things in Ochiai Machine Learning and taking optimal photography is very good, but the role of humans is a mobile robot arm.Now, anyone can take pictures, but the photos taken with a smartphone are not very quality.To realize that, you may not know if you look at a large size like a 8K monitor or print it.It is a difference that you will not find unless you talk directly to pixels and films.The difference is that you have to be aware that Photon (Mitsuko) passes through the lens and burns into the film.
It is clear when you print, but the photos taken with the smartphone are surprisingly noisy, such as dark places, and I feel that they are on top of it.But for those who haven't felt it, there is no problem.For example, it's like a restaurant from a slightly luxurious chain store from overseas, and you can eat some delicious food with some store.It is a very good mechanism and is very good.However, although it is a delicious dish, every shop has the same taste, so you have to think about how to make a difference.It is said that the quality of the smartphone camera has increased, but since it creates uniforms, I am very worried how to make a variety of things that are not.
―― Even if you do not press the shutter button yourself, the camera with a smartphone keeps recording automatically, and it is likely that the era will only save only those that are determined to be photos. right
Ochiai In fact, I have tried something close to that.About 2013, I was hanging a small camera from my neck for about a year, and I shot about 1 million copies a year.While I was awake, I automatically took one in 30 seconds, so it was about 2000 sheets a day.Other than that, there were 300 photos that I shot myself, so it was about the number of pieces in one year.
I have done it by doing that.Shooting for records and memories is enough for a small camera with a neckdown.That's fine if you take the food you ate.However, in order to save "impressions" or "your mood at the time", you need to remember that you bothered.It is enough to go back to what you ate as data, but if you have an image of a neckdown camera, you can leave words on Twitter or take pictures on Leica to know how you face the dishes.Or that kind of action is very important.
The framing, that is, how to grasp the rays, has the meaning of how humans look at the eyes, and it is useless even if the camera is on the back of the eyeball.Lens choices and focusing are meaningful in the shooting person who wants to reproduce what the brain is looking at.
If something that someone is watching can be taken directly from the brain as an image of high resolution, that may be fine, but it is not possible yet.That's why, if you want to shoot in the same way as what your brain is capturing, and to correct the image you have taken a little, the process of taking photography that starts with lens selection has been cultivated for decades.I think it's the wisdom of human beings.
The task that smartphones cannot be solved forever are that the lens size is not large, so you can not express it unique.I'm trying to make up for it computational, but it's difficult to say that one lens can make a very wide expression.If you compare it, the chemical seasoning does not have a bonito chopped taste.I like the chemical seasoning because it is delicious, but the bonito dashi has a bonito dashi, and I feel that there is a difference.No one feels the difference so that audio enthusiasts and optical enthusiasts are not extinct even after digitizing.In addition, I think that lens nerds are less likely to be extinct than the display otaku.
――I think Mr. Ochiai is one of them, but will the old lens enthusiast be gone?
Ochiai I think that the lens I have today is probably made before World War II, looking at the serial number.Another one is soon after the war.The rest is in the 1960s and is almost an antique.Did you buy it at a store around Czechoslovakia?I think it's amazing that lenses can be used after 60 or 70 years.It is also good to attach these old lenses to a digital camera.In other words, because it's digital, you can return the guy who went to the dark side to some extent later.
I think that I did not know at all in the film era because it matches the CMOS and CCD (both instructions: both image sensors), but if you squeeze it sharply with an old lens and increase the sensitivity characteristics, it will be reflected neatly.I think that the popularity of old lenses is now increasing because of the goodness that such characteristic values come out neatly.
I think digital cameras and old lenses are compatible.The performance of the coating is poor, so it is weak to backlight, but it can be taken well under other conditions.This 73mmF1.9 lens is one I just bought as my Christmas present, but when I look inside, there are some black dots.It seems to be bubbles, not garbage, but it tastes.At that time, bubbles seemed to be in the glass manufacturing process, but it was still sold normally.If it's modern, you'll be hit by checking the shipment.I think that's a good value.
Mr. Ochiai looking into the bubbles created in the old lens
――Please tell us about the use of film cameras and digital cameras.
The time required to check the image taken with the M10-D without a monitor on the back of Ochiai via Wi-Fi is about 1 minute.The time to check the film camera may take 5 days if it is a black -and -white Kodak film, but let's say it is necessary for one day.For me as a digital generation, there is only a difference between digital and film cameras, whether you can check the image one minute ahead or one day ahead.The mass is about the same.
The essential difference is whether the film camera resolution can be made digitally, how the noise rides, and how the contrast comes out. It is a good idea to select the texture of the phyzical (film camera) and the texture of the digital camera. I think the camera is now beyond the classification of digital and analog. You can choose which one. Let's take both. You can change it depending on the mood of the day. Recently, digital is often better, but the film has a flavor of film, so it feels good when you take a film and make a clean hit. Maybe many photographers say something close to it. There is no need to stick to film abnormally or digital. I think that both naturally can be selected, and the range of expression has expanded.
(Continued to the second part) (Sento & M editorial department Ryo Land, photo, Takumi Yano)
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