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Along with Hatsuka river I went up to North yesterday with visiting several shrines and temples, that supplies Sengari Water Source. Very few traffic and pedestrian were there even in the country side. Light source for photo shooting was enough except an incredible mistaking that I left a battery for Alpha 7 behind on the charger, so all the photos yesterday was on Alpha 6400 APSC format.

The target today for photo shooting was Kyuuanji-Temple at Fushio-cho Ikeda-city. Light source was enough to get good transparencies.
Leitz M-Tele-Elmar 135/4, MD Macro-Rokkor 100/4, Rokkor 45/2.8 and MD Zoom-Rokkor 35-70/3.5 were accompanied with SONY Alpha 7-Ⅲ Digital format camera.
Only a aged couple was there, no other visitors were recognized at all. Because the cafeteria is closed, the gate of the temple should be closed, so everyone thinks. I believe in God, protecting me from external irritations.

I visited Hirota Shrine at Nishinomiya Taisha-cho today. Fine day supplied good enough lighting source for photograph shooting. As Minolta MD Zoom 35-70mm/3.5 lens has cleaned and prepared for testing, I could not help doing the behavior, also long deserted MD Macro-Rokkor 100mm/4 was the same situation.
The second group lens of MD Zoom had apparent a-spherical surface curvature in the rear, it was recognized while cleaning. Strictly speaking, this is not a zoom lens but a vari-focal lens, because focusing step should be done in every change of focal length, every change of picture angel.
Careful and polite maintenance procedure should be done periodically to clean every surface to establish transparency, light cloudy is the worst phenomena to reduce the picture quality, especially the cloudy exist in the Balsam layer is fatal for the lens itself.

Old lens Minolta Rokkor 45mm/2.8 was transplanted on SONY E-mount. The original camera is Minolta Uniomat-Ⅱ Range finder produced over 50 years ago, 1960. As a matter for regret, lens shutter construction does not have Iris leaves independently, eye closing is done by shutter blade. So, it's very inconvenient for my use, removing shutter construction thoroughly and make use of an original Iris system. Deeper consideration led me some conclusion, following the original concept on iris setting, fixation of shutter cocking shaft at some adequate angular position make it possible to control iris closing rate by rotating controlling inner ring.
Consequently, this small 45mm standard lens is applicable on SONY digital format, and it will show remarkable result as a Triplet old lens.

Incredible discrepancy was found in newly obtained Jeep Rubicon 2 seat model. Toe-in adjusting rotating amount shows how much it was! Extended tie-rod is threaded part not painted portion. It is nod that my son complaining much about bad steering feel. He would like to drive like this for the time being, after some distorted arm bushes setting in adequate shapes, I will do the same procedure again.