Aerial view of Takano River and Shimogamo, Kyoto
posted September 14, 2005
A telephoto shot from a small northern mountain, looking at the Takano River heading downtown. The greenbelt on the right is the little Shimogamo Shrine forest between the rivers, and at the south end of Shimogamo is where the Takano and Kamo Rivers converge. a bit of the water treatment plant can be seen in the right foreground, the first bridge is Kitaoji St. and on the left (East) end of that bridge the two large buildings are the new department store Qanat and the Holiday Inn.
Thanks Nils. Beautiful view. I miss Kyoto.
MKF, San Diego
Very nice. How big a telephoto? The buildings in the background look fairly close, but they must be 4+ km away, no?
BTW, Nils, the “Remember info” feature of your blog comment-entry page has never worked for me. Is it supposed to?
Jeffrey
I think you are just about right on the distance. That was my estimate, too. The max telephoto on my camera is 12X, equivalent to a 420mm lens on my dusty old Nikon, which never let me down and was my pal for so many years (sniff). The camera is a Panasonic Lumix FZ10 (link in the upper left column) with a gyro-stabilized lens designed (but not actually made) by Leica, so what gets to the chip is pretty good.
Oh, yeah, ahem, that feature is broken for me, too. I really ought to do a complete database dump and reload the site into Textpattern or WordPress (I’ve tested both), but I can’t manipulate databases and I would probably get one path wrong and screw up the whole deal.
I wouldn’t bother moving just for that one feature (WordPress is crappy, too). But, FWIW,
http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/search?p=movable+type+to+wordpress
has lots of stuff that should be useful…
Jeffrey
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