Zeiss Sonnar 135mm F/2.8 - 30 year old Castle grounds.

Bifurcator · May 23, 2011

Drove out with my GH1 and a new Zeiss C/Y Sonnar 135/2.8 to Komaki city to see the replacement castle they built just a few decades ago. It happened to be next to a US Air Base and oh boy was there a lot of air traffic in the area! I have no idea why so many Air Force cargo planes would be landing and taking off from that area but there was one every 4 to 6 minutes for the 3 hours I was there. :huh There were some jets too but not many... I saw only two in that time-span.

Here's two 100% crops taken at F/2.8 of one of them:

I got off about 6 shots of it but they're all similar to that last one there.

Here's some shots taken on the castle grounds (I think also all wide open at F/2.8):

This is a statue of the guy who sold the land to the Japanese Government on which the replacement Castle was built. I call it a "replacement" because as I understand it there used to be a real functioning castle there long ago which was completely destroyed. Some private rich guy built a building that looks just like a castle about where the old one was - about 30 years ago. The whole area has a very interesting and fairly recent history with warring "families" fighting for control of the area. Oh, "recent" in Japan to me is around 300 years ago or so.

Anyway, it's all a big public park now and the castle thingy actually serves as a museum.