{"id":8523,"date":"2015-12-21T08:10:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T08:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.wordpress\/?p=8523"},"modified":"2016-08-11T16:44:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T20:44:44","slug":"filmmaker-travel-diaries-part-iii-japan-revisited-with-the-canon-c100-mark-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/filmmaker-travel-diaries-part-iii-japan-revisited-with-the-canon-c100-mark-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Filmmaker Travel Diaries Part III: Japan, Revisited with the Canon C100 Mark II"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019ve been reading my travelogue you may be wondering why I decided to test the Canon C100 Mark II<\/a> in Japan. Or maybe you\u2019re wondering why this is my second trip to Japan and what brought me there in the first place. Well,\u00a0my first visit was to meet with an\u00a0artist named Salome MC<\/a> . She\u2019s known as Iran\u2019s first female rapper, but Salome is much more than that. She\u2019s a talented artist. And that\u2019s what I set out to show the first time I visited Japan;\u00a0to film a documentary about her life. Currently in the post-production phase, the\u00a0documentary will show why she moved to Japan, talk a little about her past, and meet some of the wise people she\u2019s come to know. One of those people is Shin-ichi Kato, whom I came to call Kato San.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Kato San showing photos to Salome MC<\/td>\nLooking at photos in Kato San\u2019s home<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

In 2011, when the earthquake hit Japan, Kato San was in his Sendai home very close to the ocean. It was his quick thinking that saved him and a few of his neighbors lives. They narrowly escaped the tsunami, but a lot of his neighbors were not so lucky. You can read a full article with his story here<\/a>. Kato San is a man who works with his hands. And many years ago he built his home to withstand any earthquakes. After the the 2011 devastation in Japan, he was still surprised to find that his house had survived both the earthquake and tsunami. His neighbors didn\u2019t have homes to come back to like Kato did. And many feared rebuilding so close to the ocean where another tsunami could cause more death and damage. Kato San did the unexpected – he fixed his home and moved back. Kato\u00a0San tells Salome MC in the documentary, \u201cAlthough most of my properties were swept by the tsunami, my feelings were not swept at all. I wanted to build this place again and make it my home. And because it is a home, people come here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Canon 7D \/ Sigma 17-50mm f2.8 lens<\/td>\nPhotograph filmed on Canon C100 Mark 11 \/ Canon 70-200\/2.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

People did come. He continually opened up his home to visitors, including people like Salome MC and\u00a0me. And most departed his home feeling changed and inspired. Two and a half years after the tsunami wiped out a town, it was hard to imagine this place once had any other inhabitants. I couldn\u2019t even fathom that at one point tall trees blocked the sky and the sun here. And here I was filming in a man\u2019s home, whose optimism and perseverance was not only admirable, it was infectious. You can see why on a personal level I\u2019d want to visit Japan again and reconnect with the deep and wise people I had filmed during my first trip. But on a professional level, I needed to go back to Japan to film again, this time using a professional camera with better lenses. For my first trip, I filmed on a Canon 7D and used a Sigma 17-50mm f\/2.8 lens. It wasn\u2019t bad, and I was able to film enough to complete a music video for Salome MC.<\/p>\n

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