God's Palette

This time, the reception staff flickered a little.

"You guys are really smashing your own signs." Xia Xun said.

Compared with Mian Yu's untrained oral English, her skillful voice is obviously not easy to mess with.Moreover, her appearance is too high, so high that it can make the other party feel that any slight incompetence is blasphemy.What's more, for a young girl who can have this appearance, most of the males in the world—and some females will help her out.

This is a problem...

Xia Xun then shifted his gaze to the old white man who seemed to be traveling with him: "It's not disrespectful, and I hope to understand that we don't accept carpooling in our scheduled itinerary."

But she didn't know what to do, since the old man was able to join the pre-determined team, it meant that the other party was someone the company didn't dare to mess with—or paid a considerable amount of money.Moreover, if you want to participate in this trip at such a high price, maybe there is something hidden?

"You two young ladies, I'm taking the liberty." The old man changed his attitude, took off his hat and saluted like a kind old gentleman.He has a thick Spanish accent, and he doesn't hide it, "but I hope you can understand the old guy who has only a few years left. He just wants to overlook the bluest part of the world, so he has to disturb the two of you."

"... But I think you are quite healthy, you were aggressive with the staff just now." Mian Yu looked disbelieving.

"Oh, in order to fulfill my last wish in life, I have to show the courage that matches it, isn't it the last courage in life?" The old man squeezed out a smile on his wrinkled face, and his teeth were obviously fake.Then, he let go of his hand on crutches, and slowly groped for something out of the handmade leather bag, "I'm a photographer with some achievements, and the scenery is there, so I'm going."

Hasselblad X1D, and a 21mm lens—Xia Xun immediately recognized it.This set of guys looks very inconspicuous, but the price is worth more than the Contax 300 2.8 that Xia Xun just bought.

More importantly, the camera and lens seemed to be heavily used, and it was indeed a photographer—Xia Xun asserted this in his heart, and then immediately deepened his intention to refuse.

A photographer who can speak well is not a good thing!No one knows this fact better than Xia Xun.

Chapter 236: Hasselblad

Isidro Granero - is an expert in the photography industry since he was a child.

It has been more than half a century since I was a child in a small town in Spain, making a living with my family by taking pictures with a bulky large-format camera, and now as the oldest optical consultant in the Hasselblad brand. .Over the long years, he has seen all kinds of things——

All kinds of wars, the development of science and technology in the world, from film to digital.

Moved from Spain to Sweden and joined Hasselblad, which was still a small workshop, but slowly transformed from a photographer to a full-time professor of optics.

From the small Hasselblad workshop making the first camera, to landing on the moon and being world famous...

In the end, it was an honorable retirement after old age. I thought I could always guard the word Hasselblad that I had been fighting for my whole life and was proud of, but welcomed the foreign nouveau riche to buy their history and glory...

Even I, who lived a leisurely retirement life, had to be called back by the understaffed Hasselblad to solve some extremely troublesome optical problems-this is nothing, if it is to solve the problems for Hasselblad.

But when I went back and inquired, Ysidro found out that this was an order from the damn upstart in the East.Ask them to come up with a good lens as a gift for someone very important - so it is said...

Therefore, Isidro, who gave up his vacation, contacted the upstarts to express their protest.

At the same time, he wanted to see who had the guts to own this lens.But he got one thing wrong, he was just a technical person after all.Even if a camera can be built to take pictures of the moon, it underestimates the vastness of the earth.

The so-called nouveau riche—in fact, the ruler who has been hiding in the depths of the world and has existed for a long time and history, has a lot of power that Isidro can't imagine.That's not some upstart that can be seen everywhere, and its historical background is much more terrifying.

But fortunately, the person in power who bears the surname "Xia" is a kind and good man from the East.Seemingly willing to respect his skills and not hold grudges against Ysidro for his rudeness at the time, promising that as long as he does what he is supposed to do - which is to provide a good lens - then everything will be fine.

Also, the kind ruler, with great pride and pampering, said something like this——

"That's the best photographer in the world, and your gift won't go unnoticed."

So, Isidro wanted to learn more about what kind of person this so-called best photographer in the world is.Even this meeting and encounter at the airport was arranged by the Xia family.

After a while, they seemed to be coming to Hawaii to pick up the photographer, so they extended their power to the territory of the United States, and air traffic control was a manifestation of their power.And incidentally, it was also used to give Ysidro face and let him have an intersection with Xia Xun.

This unimaginably large handwriting made Isidro wonder about the photographer. What kind of monster would this be so valued by an ancient family?

——The result is a bit weird.

According to his established impression of the master photographer of Panda Kingdom, that is, the image of a certain war photographer who died young, he substituted the one he was about to meet.Probably the image of a typical oriental, handsome, mature, middle-aged handsome guy...

But... something is not right.

If it is said that this is the best model in the world, then I understand, but it is said that this is the photographer... He couldn't help muttering in his heart, after all, this one in front of him is really... How should I put it?It is the girl that any photographer would like to photograph, probably like this, in line with all human fantasy of the image of a girl.

But it doesn't fit the photographer's image.

On the other side, Xia Xun was actually looking at each other.The probability of being a scumbag among photographers is unexpectedly not low. This is what Xia Xun concluded after a long career, because to be honest, he himself is a person who will do extreme behavior for the sake of photos.And this eloquent old man in front of him, who looks very contrived and fake smile?That might not even be fun.

Observing the expressions of characters and gaining insight into the true meaning behind them is an absolute compulsory course for battlefield photographers, and Xia Xun is well versed in this.This not only makes photography better, but also avoids many dangers.

As for now, Xia Xun has more or less guessed the other party's intentions: This old foreign photographer with malicious intentions undoubtedly wants to come here to take pictures of beautiful girls shamelessly!

Of course, this is understandable. In the previous life, Xia Xun would have definitely stood by the old man's side, and even fooled the beautiful girl with him... Sadly, his position has changed.

"I respect those elderly people who have only a few days left in their lives." She said in a not very kind tone, "If you want to take some good photos and record this scene, then I have a suggestion."

"Oh?" Isidro asked curiously.

"Exactly, I'm also a photographer." Xia Xun lifted the backpack forward in a neat way. As soon as it settled down, Xia Xun's fingers gently caught the zipper and lifted it up.The sound of the zipper had just stopped, and the nimble fingers had already left, opening a corner of the curtain instead.

In the corner of the backpack with her two slender and white fingers open, the big SONY logo is facing outward.

"Sony..." Isidro was a little disappointed, "The stability of the A7R3 is not good, but young people like it."

"...that thing in your hand, X1D."

"Oh, you know?"

"A camera worth tens of thousands of dollars, that's right." Xia Xun was a little unhappy because the equipment he chose was criticized face to face.Whose camera has no black spots?If they hurt each other, the Hasselblad in his hand is not a good thing, "but even the most basic skin, don't fall off too easily."

"...uh... have you used it?"

"That's right, of course I have used it. Even the one in your hand, isn't it because you applied glue yourself? It's because the skin is not sticky..." Xia Xun said a common X1D problem, and then she went black again. Other places, "And the damage rate of the inter-lens shutter of your 21mm lens is a bit high? It's not stable enough, and the distortion control is not good, but the asking price is nearly [-] dollars. I think it's a bit of a waste of money. gone."

But in fact, Hasselblad lenses are not their own independent designs, and are often provided by other manufacturers—such as Zeiss or Japanese manufacturers.In the same way, there are many electronic optimizations including the autofocus system, which are not Hasselblad's own.