The cameras we bring

robert blu

robert blu

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Thanks to this blog of my friend Pega I found this short video on Vimeo. It's about the camera we bring with us...enjoy it!
robert
PS: not sure this is the correct forum where to post this, I hope so.
 
Nice video.
My mandarin is so-so, but I love the way she explained why she choose to take picture with cameras that makes her disappear in the crowd (right around the time she uses the the Pentax Mini). Roughly translated it says:

"There are times when I don't want the world to intrude into my being there, therefore I also do not want to intrude into the world (with my photography)"

I think she says it beautifully.

NOTE: I know there is the subtitle, but somehow the subtitle doesn't quite convey that part, which is strange. I assume the subber speaks better mandarin than I do :)
 
thanks, Robert!

As a side note, the more videos like this that are out there, the better - to counter the photographer-phobia narrative elsewhere in the media.
 
thanks for sharing, i really related to the part where she still has keys from her house overseas and thinking about it in the same way i do. :eek:
 
kaiwasoyokaze said:
thanks for sharing, i really related to the part where she still has keys from her house overseas and thinking about it in the same way i do. :eek:
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Its a funny thing, but still have the key to my parents old house. I hadn't lived there for 10 years before they sold it 3 years ago. I've still got the key, and I even know what drawer its in at home. I'd never actually thought about it until now...

Michael
 
shadowfox said:
Nice video.
My mandarin is so-so, but I love the way she explained why she choose to take picture with cameras that makes her disappear in the crowd (right around the time she uses the the Pentax Mini). Roughly translated it says:

"There are times when I don't want the world to intrude into my being there, therefore I also do not want to intrude into the world (with my photography)"

I think she says it beautifully.

NOTE: I know there is the subtitle, but somehow the subtitle doesn't quite convey that part, which is strange. I assume the subber speaks better mandarin than I do :)
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Interesting comment on the subtitling! As a translator by trade I'm painfully aware that it can be a real art to accurately express in the target language the full meaning of the source language. The subber's Mandarin might be better than yours but perhaps your English is better than theirs ;)
 
jonmanjiro said:
Interesting comment on the subtitling! As a translator by trade I'm painfully aware that it can be a real art to accurately express in the target language the full meaning of the source language. The subber's Mandarin might be better than yours but perhaps your English is better than theirs ;)
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Somehow I doubt that, Jon :)
 
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