Thanks. I need to check when i was that I passed Utsunomiya on my way to Nikko during that winter. I used the cheapest local trains ("kaku-eki teisha") to travel, and a tourist bus for the area around Nikko.
The people's fashion was wonderful and every scene was very nostalgic! The early 90s still have the vibe of the 80s. Although I was not born at this time, I would like to live in this era. (I recently developed a hobby of collecting items from this era.) Unlike today, which is full of white LED lights, light yellow incandescent or fluorescent lights were common in this era. It's just a difference in the color of the lighting, but it makes any interior look cozier and warmer. 💡❤
The color of lighting is actually a really complicated thing. Firstly, it's exactly as you say and I agree with your sentiments. One thing I would like to point out though is the auto-white-balance features of cameras and human brains. Generally, in whatever lighting you're in, a white sheet of paper looks white due to this auto-white balance feature. My policy in 1991 was to lock the camera's white balance on "Daylight" during the day, to accurately record the various colors of lighting as I went indoors and outdoors, but to manually adjust the white balance at night to simulate the way the brain adjusts to whatever light color and see white as white. That's why the lighting in subways, for example, that I took in the daytime back then looks almost extraordinarily warm, but not so much when I was recording at night (when I manually adjusted the camera's white balance). All of that said, the lighting really was of a warmer color back then.
@@lylehsaxon yes. I agree that there is a difference between the colors recorded on the camcorder and the actual colors. In my case, I have little knowledge of camera techniques, but I have trouble expressing colors every time I use my smartphone camera. For example, when taking a photo of a clear sky, the sky is often depicted as a darker blue than it actually is. Of course, modern camcorders and cameras have various automatic functions to optimize shooting depending on the situation, but unless they are expensive digital cameras, they are not better than the human eye. Meanwhile, what was the performance of Mr. Lyle's camcorder in the early 90's? I think it's great quality that videos from 30 years ago are available in 480p on TH-cam!
Unfortunately, modern cameras tend to dial up the saturation of color to create crayon-color pictures, which is - I feel - an improper distortion of reality. I primarily used four analog Hi8 video cameras for my 1990-93 material, the most heavily used model being the Sony CCD-V800.
@@lylehsaxon Thanks for letting me know what device you used in the 90s! This Sony camcorder is old, but I was still able to find information about it on the web. Like film cameras, I feel that cameras of the past have very soft color expressions. Camera technology has advanced, but it's sad that everything now relies on digital sensors, causing distortions in the brightness and saturation of photos. I enjoy recording many moments in life through photos, but if there is a difference between what I actually see and what I see in photos, I feel like I am leaving a false record.
@@Snufkin812Until relatively recently, camera manufacturers aimed for color accuracy, but a lot of nitwits want crayon color instead of real color, so the manufacturers started making machines that over-saturate colors for that bloody crayon color look the nitwits among us love so much..... So I wouldn't call the old footage I'm posting "soft color", rather it's just real color that has not been crayon-ized.
So many bad events followed this time, the economic collapse, Kobe earthquake, the subway attacks, the Lehmann subprime loan impact, the tsunami and earthquake of 2011, the assignation if PM Abe, the lost decades.... if you could choose a time since you moved to Japan, which time would you choose to live?
The trouble with time travel is it's only really good if you can get back to Real Time. It's great to visit parts of the past, but getting stuck there means being lost in time....
Thanks for giving us this piece of japan's history! do you have some where you enter inside arcades in those times? that would be the best. P.S you looked a bit like Marty mcFly in BTTF
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宇都宮の動画、ありがとうございます。
宇都宮で生まれ育ち、今も宇都宮で生活している自分には、まさに宝石のような映像です。
LRTも開通し、街の様子も随分変わりました。
またいつか遊びに来てください。
当時にこんな動画撮ってるってすごい。。
アップロードありがとう。
I love traveling through Japan in the 80s and 90s, thank you very much for sharing your recordings
貴重な映像を残してくれてありがとうございます😭
貴重な映像ありがとう。
Can't believe how lucky we are that you recorded and preserved this footage from that time
ライルさん、こんばんは😊
今日も宇都宮の動画、ありがとうございます✨まさに今住んでいる家の近くが映ってます！
こんばんは。この間の宇都宮の動画は1991年9月, 今日の宇都宮の動画は1991年の1月です。
昔は東武宇都宮駅近くに西武百貨店があったり、JR宇都宮駅前のヨドバシがロビンソン？という名前の建物だったんですね！
今と違って凄く活気がありますね。
素晴らしい動画ありがとう！ 只今バブル追体験していおります
Thanks. I need to check when i was that I passed Utsunomiya on my way to Nikko during that winter. I used the cheapest local trains ("kaku-eki teisha") to travel, and a tourist bus for the area around Nikko.
最近投稿者さんの動画を見始めました。まだまだ秘蔵の映像がありそうですね。これからも楽しみにしています。
The people's fashion was wonderful and every scene was very nostalgic! The early 90s still have the vibe of the 80s.
Although I was not born at this time, I would like to live in this era. (I recently developed a hobby of collecting items from this era.)
Unlike today, which is full of white LED lights, light yellow incandescent or fluorescent lights were common in this era.
It's just a difference in the color of the lighting, but it makes any interior look cozier and warmer. 💡❤
The color of lighting is actually a really complicated thing. Firstly, it's exactly as you say and I agree with your sentiments. One thing I would like to point out though is the auto-white-balance features of cameras and human brains. Generally, in whatever lighting you're in, a white sheet of paper looks white due to this auto-white balance feature. My policy in 1991 was to lock the camera's white balance on "Daylight" during the day, to accurately record the various colors of lighting as I went indoors and outdoors, but to manually adjust the white balance at night to simulate the way the brain adjusts to whatever light color and see white as white. That's why the lighting in subways, for example, that I took in the daytime back then looks almost extraordinarily warm, but not so much when I was recording at night (when I manually adjusted the camera's white balance). All of that said, the lighting really was of a warmer color back then.
@@lylehsaxon yes. I agree that there is a difference between the colors recorded on the camcorder and the actual colors.
In my case, I have little knowledge of camera techniques, but I have trouble expressing colors every time I use my smartphone camera. For example, when taking a photo of a clear sky, the sky is often depicted as a darker blue than it actually is.
Of course, modern camcorders and cameras have various automatic functions to optimize shooting depending on the situation, but unless they are expensive digital cameras, they are not better than the human eye.
Meanwhile, what was the performance of Mr. Lyle's camcorder in the early 90's?
I think it's great quality that videos from 30 years ago are available in 480p on TH-cam!
Unfortunately, modern cameras tend to dial up the saturation of color to create crayon-color pictures, which is - I feel - an improper distortion of reality. I primarily used four analog Hi8 video cameras for my 1990-93 material, the most heavily used model being the Sony CCD-V800.
@@lylehsaxon Thanks for letting me know what device you used in the 90s!
This Sony camcorder is old, but I was still able to find information about it on the web.
Like film cameras, I feel that cameras of the past have very soft color expressions.
Camera technology has advanced, but it's sad that everything now relies on digital sensors, causing distortions in the brightness and saturation of photos.
I enjoy recording many moments in life through photos, but if there is a difference between what I actually see and what I see in photos, I feel like I am leaving a false record.
@@Snufkin812Until relatively recently, camera manufacturers aimed for color accuracy, but a lot of nitwits want crayon color instead of real color, so the manufacturers started making machines that over-saturate colors for that bloody crayon color look the nitwits among us love so much..... So I wouldn't call the old footage I'm posting "soft color", rather it's just real color that has not been crayon-ized.
宇都宮に丸井、西武、上野、ロビンソンがあった時代？
MrLyle どれだけ日本を記録してるんですかｗ
So many bad events followed this time, the economic collapse, Kobe earthquake, the subway attacks, the Lehmann subprime loan impact, the tsunami and earthquake of 2011, the assignation if PM Abe, the lost decades.... if you could choose a time since you moved to Japan, which time would you choose to live?
The trouble with time travel is it's only really good if you can get back to Real Time. It's great to visit parts of the past, but getting stuck there means being lost in time....
@@lylehsaxon but the spacy taxi driver made a car that can get you back to the future.
Thanks for giving us this piece of japan's history! do you have some where you enter inside arcades in those times? that would be the best. P.S you looked a bit like Marty mcFly in BTTF
😂😂😂😂😂thank you
バブルがはじけた年かな？明らかに今より栄えていたし活気があった・・・
Hope you had 🥟🥟🥟 Gyoza!
懐かしい映像をありがとうございます。
当時の日本は、走っている車を見ると軽自動車の方が珍しいくらいですね。
今は軽自動車ばかり。この国は本当に貧しくなったのだと感じますね。