Mystery Object Help?
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 4:07 pm
http://neco.aki.gs/neco99/neco30/02/sakura/s9011.html
A few days ago I found this charming little object in a charity shop, and after a day's deliberation I dipped out the 1,50 it cost. Thing is I don't know what it is.
There's a sticker at the bottom with instructions how to use it - of course in Japanese. I can order beer, discuss music and say there's a purple elephant in my garden in Japanese, but I read at the level of an 8-year-old, and using stroke order based dictionaries, that's not working. I could see the word "rensu", lense, but that's about it.
After much searching I found the brand name is Sakura - besides the Japanese word for cherry blossom (googling it gets you lots of pretty pictures) it was apparently a camera related business; the page I linked to is the only source of photos of the item I could find on the WWW. Google Translate gives something about camera focus aid.
Anybody here know what it is?
A few days ago I found this charming little object in a charity shop, and after a day's deliberation I dipped out the 1,50 it cost. Thing is I don't know what it is.
There's a sticker at the bottom with instructions how to use it - of course in Japanese. I can order beer, discuss music and say there's a purple elephant in my garden in Japanese, but I read at the level of an 8-year-old, and using stroke order based dictionaries, that's not working. I could see the word "rensu", lense, but that's about it.
After much searching I found the brand name is Sakura - besides the Japanese word for cherry blossom (googling it gets you lots of pretty pictures) it was apparently a camera related business; the page I linked to is the only source of photos of the item I could find on the WWW. Google Translate gives something about camera focus aid.
Anybody here know what it is?