We went to Bic Camera with about an hour to spend there. I was delighted, to say the least. Erin opted to wait at McDonalds with our luggage while I went off and had my fun in the store. She told me, though, to keep an eye out for headphones since she needed a new pair. I went up the camera floor and had fun in my wonderland. I also took some pictures.
They carried almost every lens in the store; it was awesome.
See that big lens on the left? That is the Canon 600mm f/4L (I think, the aperture size might be off). Anyway, I got to play with that lens and the 40D it was attached to, it was a lot of fun. That lens costs about 6 grand I think.
The racks of cameras. They even carried manual cameras which was interesting to me. I really want a manual camera and I found out that there are somewhat modern ones available that fit different manufacturers lenses for about 2-500 bucks. I might get one eventually so I can do some film stuff.
The small bags and accessories.
Some other accessories and filters. Behind me was an entire wall of filters, it was amazing. I would have bought one for my 50mm but they didn’t have the manufacturer I liked.
Camera bags, they had hundreds of them and every brand. I was very excited to see them all in real life.
Another view of the tripod section.
On my way down from the camera floor I explored some others and found the headphone section for Erin. I left her some time to look for headphones and told her where they were located. They had, literally, over a hundred different pairs of headphones. All of which you could try. I waited in McDonalds while Erin looked at headphones. At about 1:07 she appeared with a bag. Apparently she found some. She couldn’t show me because we had to get to the station to make our train. We hurried there and then realized that we only had about 7 minutes until it left when we got to the station, so we almost ran. When we made it we had about 1 minute until the train pulled out. Whew.
We were on a Hikari Rail Star again, which was nice. I like those trains a lot. The ride was pretty uneventful, I blogged and Erin listened to music. We transferred at Hakata and headed for Nagasaki on a Kamome line pseudo-shinkansen. It might be an actual shinkansen, but it is a little smaller. However, it was really nice and even had leather seats. Pretty classy, eh?
Mmmmm, leather seats.
We arrived in Nagasaki after about 2 hours on the Kamome. I was impressed by the town right outside of the station.
Like Hiroshima, Nagasaki had a system of trams instead of a subway system, so we had to take a tram to our hostel. We hopped on the tram and headed out, shortly after we arrived at the station near our hostel. The walk was very pleasant and I took some pictures on a bridge we crossed.
After that we went up to our room where we discovered that we had very good internet with a solid connection. Immediately Erin and I thought “puppy cam” (for those who don’t know, while Erin and I were in Tokyo our dogs had puppies, so 90% of the time we call our parents we talk via web cam where we can also see the puppies) and then happily surfed the web and blogged (or at least I did). After a while we were both pretty hungry so we went looking for dinner. We found a Chinese restaurant near our hostel and decided to eat there. I believe that it was a good decision, the fried rice I had was delicious.
We went back to the hostel and decided to relax since we were a little beat from traveling. I blogged a few posts and then we called our parents, we also got to see the puppies. Eventually we went to bed.
2 comments:
Wow, that is an overabundance of cameras and camera related accessories.
I know... isn't it awesome?
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