[The last renewal of this page: Nov. 3, 2015]

Hello, everybody! Welcome to the MAFNET! Thank you very much for your vist.

The MAFNET is founded and is operated for the purpose to amplify my hobbies and dreams, that take important portion of what keep me going, together with those who can share and go in sympathy with each other.

It is founded in 1989, when the Internet was released to the public. Since then, the MAFNET has been growing up by increasing its contents everyday, and improving with many version-ups. There are many forums which were created and closed on its way up to now. Now we have nearly twenty thousand of files on the server, and even I am not able to check all of them around. The capacity on the server reaches to 1GB, that I should be a good customer for the Rapidsite , which has been providing me its rental server service. Hi hi.

The MAFNET has independent menu for several themes. Each of theme is called a "Forum". Selecting one of these forums from the menu in the top page, your screen will be separated in a few windows by frame. The left part is a break-down menu for each forum, and you can see all of the menu by scrolling its window.

Foreign languages are also one of my hobbies, well, actually they are tools to amplify my other hobbies and dreams, and this site is designed in four languages principally. However, I do not have enough time and power to translate all the pages for all the languages, and you may find certain pages in the menu of each forum has an icon of a national flag of English or Japanese. (They are under translation) In that case, the relative pages are shown in Japanese or English despite the mode is run in another languages. (Basically, each content is created in Japanese first, and after that translated in other languages, firstly maybe into English, and additional translations to other languages follow.) You can select the language by clicking relative national flag in the top page, as well as by clicking small flag icons in the menu of each forum.

Each forum has message boards for each language. (Depending on forums, some are designed to be used under a few languages together. You can identify it by national flags shown in each icons the message board.) Please enjoy leaving your messages freely to them. Let's enjoy our dreams together!

(Jul. 3, 2007)

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== Self introduction of the Webmaster ==




Koichiro Oka

Timelapse Photographer
SKYPIX JAPAN, President

Address: 741-4 Iwasawa, Hanno, Saitama, 357-0023 JAPAN
E-mail: admin2@mafnet.jp


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Born in April, 1952
Language: Japanese, English, Spanish, Korean, etc.
Overseas residence experience: Spain (Valladolid), Fiji (Nadi)
Characteristic behavior: Creation, Action, and Challenge
My own motto: "A life is love and man's adventurous spirit."

Working for Mizuho Bank, Ltd., actively involved as one of the pioneers of the digital photo technique in the astronomical photography field for many years.
After the retirement, living in Fiji, started to shoot timelapse movies being fascinated by drifting clouds in a clear blue sky, a cobalt blue sea, and full of the stars and the Southern Cross in a dark night sky.
After return to Japan, established SKYPIX JAPAN which deals with motion timelapse equipment.
Actively involved as a pioneer of the professional motion timelapse photographer in Japan.

(Renewed on Nov. 13, 2015)



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