给PZ-1P和大公主合个影

很喜欢这台经典胶片老机，手头暂时没底扫，不知何时又可重温胶片的味道。这个世界上可能永远不会再有像PZ-1P这样对老镜头支持这么好的全自动相机了。又读到一篇PZ-1P的reveiw，这让我有种欲望又把玩了一下它，给它配上大公主，拍张PP的片片吧。

Sadly Pentax discontinued this model in favour of their new flagship MZ-S. Let me tell you they're different cameras. While the MZ-S is a fully pro- oriented body, PZ-1p is an outstanding all-around gear. It has many features only found in great great Canon or Nikon models, obviously much higher priced. Examples of this is its 4 fps drive motor, 1/8000 top shutter speed, or 1/250 flash sync, and interchangeable focusing screens.
Another great feature is the so-called Hyper Program mode, that allows the user to switch from a full programmed mode to an aperture-priority (or shutter-priority) just by moving the aperture (or shutter-speed) knob. Or the Hyper Manual mode, when you have total exposure control, but can ask the camera to aid you setting the proper exposure with a touch of a button.
LCD display is large enough to be clearly seen from a meter away, and shows any information you need. It can be backlit at the touch of two simultaneous buttons. Almost every info in this display is available at the viewfinder right side also.
Build is good enough for an all-around body. It is not air tight and it has not 72 molybdene silicon-rubbered-thermo gaskets just because it is not intended for carrying it during an Everest climb. But any photographer can safely rely on it for almost every kind of work. Body is metal-carbonate compound, and unlike some mass-market models from a very renowned brand, it has a metal (not hard plastic) lens mount.
Add to this the fact that remarkably puts Pentax above any SLR manufacturer: lens compatibility. You can use PZ-1p -along as ANY modern Pentax body- with ANY K-mount lens you can get. Of course you'll not enjoy the autofocus feature with old lenses, but you can set the PZ-1p to aid your manual focus with a mark on the viewfinder and/or a beep sound. Try to find that feature in any other of the great SLR brands. Just forget about...
So, if you own an old faithful K-1000 with a couple of reliable and solid SMC lenses and want to enter a new photographic era, stop thinking about: this is the camera for you.

Fisher Fine Arts Library of Penn(1)

The following is cited from Wiki:

The Anne & Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library, also known as the Furness Library, is located on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, on the east side of College Green. Designed by the acclaimed Philadelphia architect Frank Furness (1839-1912), the red sandstone, brick and terra cotta Venetian Gothic giant -- part fortress and part cathedral -- was built to be the primary library of the University, and to house its archeological collection. The cornerstone was laid in October 1888, construction was completed in 1890, and the building was dedicated in February 1891.[4]

The library's plan is exceptionally innovative: circulation to the building's 5 stories is through the tower's staircase, separated from the reading room and stacks. The 3-story fireproof stacks are housed in a modular steel-and-glass wing, designed to hold 100,000 books, and to be expandable, with a movable south wall.[5] The Main Reading Room is a soaring 4-story brick-and-terra-cotta-enclosed space, separated by an arcade from the 2-story Rotunda Reading Room. The latter has a basilical plan, with seminar rooms grouped around an apse (like sidechapels), the whole lighted by clerestory windows and skylights. Throughout the building are leaded glass windows inscribed with quotations from Shakespeare, chosen by Horace Howard Furness (Frank's older brother), a University lecturer and preeminent Shakespearean scholar. The architect collaborated with Melvil Dewey, creator of the Dewey Decimal System, and others to make this the most modern American library building of its time.[6]

Within a generation, Frank Furness's exuberant masterwork was considered an embarrassment. The University Museum moved to its own building in 1899. In 1915, the Durhing Wing was added to the south end of the stacks, making their designed expansion impossible. Plans were made to cloak the entire building in sedate Collegiate Gothic brick and stone. The first step toward this was the 1931 addition of a reading room (now the Arthur Ross Gallery) facing College Green (which masked the steel-and-glass stacks). Almost perversely, the incongruous Collegiate Gothic addition was dedicated as a memorial to Horace Howard Furness.[7]

In 1957, the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin columnist and cartoonist Alfred Bendiner invited Frank Lloyd Wright to tour the Victorian behemoth, then threatened with demolition. The architect proclaimed: "It is the work of an artist."[8]
Fisher Fine Arts Library, from the northwest. Skylights light the 1st-floor seminar rooms. Arched clerestory windows light the Rotunda Reading Room, with a 2-story auditorium (now an architecture studio) in the apse above.

The building served as the main library of the University of Pennsylvania until the construction of the Van Pelt Library in 1962. Today, it houses collections related to architecture, landscape architecture, city and regional planning, historic preservation, history of art, and studio arts.

The Furness Library was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972,[2] and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1985.[3][1] Between 1986 and 1991, the building was restored by a team that included Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc., CLIO Group, Inc., and Marianna Thomas Architects.[9] On the occasion of its centennial in February 1991, it was rededicated as the "Anne & Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library" (after the restoration's primary benefactors). The $16.5 million restoration garnered rave reviews from New York Times critic Paul Goldberger,[10] and received national awards from the American Institute of Architects (1993), the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (1992), and the Victorian Society in America (1991).[7]

The Fisher Fine Arts Library was featured prominently in the 1993 film Philadelphia.

扫街-------无法归类的杂片

啥时候国内的算命先生也能像这样堂而皇之的开个体面的铺子





花下的打坐者











美国NB的一大基石---宪法第一修正案





Penn溜冰馆旁边绽放的迎春花

一个摄影试验------陷阱对焦 at Rittenhouse Square

坐在Ritthenhouse Square舒服的长椅上，看着过往或西装革履或punk打扮，或溜狗，或溜小孩的人们，这个也许是费城最有名的square上，打量每一个路过的人是一件有趣的事。突然有个灵感，我随机的拍下过往的人，为了做到足够随机，被拍与否不由我决定，而是由路过行人无意识的自发启动快门，要实现这一点，就只有用陷阱对焦来实现。考虑视野的大小，28mm显得过广，50mm比较合适，于是我换上SMC 50mm f1.7手动头，我将焦点对于5米开外行人路过的某点，相机置成全手动模式，但是对焦旋钮还是放在AF.S上，这样的话，我将快门线接上并按下保持在引发快门的位置上，没行人的情况下，因为无法合焦，快门不会启动，当行人经过对焦点时，相机能合焦自动引发快门拍下相片。于是对于每一张片子来说，被摄者与我共同参与了每张片子的完成，某种程度上来说，这些片子都是这些路人的"自拍照"，只是他们没有意识到这一点罢了。

关于Rittenhouse Square说个有趣的事是,好莱坞的土人拍Tranformer 2（变形金刚）的时候也来Rittenhouse square来取景，之所以来这里取景是把这里表现成巴黎。

Mural Arts in Philly------downtown

13rd Street& Locust







Broad street& Lombard


13 street& Pine






12-13 street& Lombard

12nd street& Walnut





9th street& Chestnut



Chinatown