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M. James Thompson
One Fine Adventure: Shanghai, China
Directions:
This market is directly across the street from Shanghai Railway Station and the metro stops at the east end of the station. The street intersection of Meiyuan and Moling has a low fence along the street, but there is an underground walkway that will give you access from northwest corner of the street, where the station is located, to the southwest corner, where the market is located.
Review:
I finally let go of my reliable Canon 24-105 f/4L IS USM lens along with a 20-35mm f/3.5-3.5 and a 40mm f/2.8. The latter two lenses were rarely used, but when I did pull out the 40mm it was a joy to use. A tiny, cheap, and barely noticeable joy, but despite that fact I found myself using either the low end of the 24-105 of my 50 f/1.4. The gods were with me in Shanghai and I managed to walk out with a new 28 f/1.8 and more cash than I was expecting.
The deal was done at Huanlong Photographic Equipment City 环龙照相器材, one of the Shanghai photography malls. If you have any gear junky dreams they can be fully realized in either of the camera malls in Shanghai. I saw a Canon 50 f/1.0, a $4000 lens, perched on a shelf near each and every telephoto monster that frequent NFL sidelines and New York Fashion Week. Unfortunately in China the price of reliable and genuine gear is well above US rates. Even more unfortunate is that their buy-back rates are much lower than selling to a private buyer in the states.
This story will serve as a tale of caution for anyone considering buying or selling their gear in China and the underlying lesson will be as follows, “Know thy gear and know it well.” I spent hours researching reasonable values for each of my lenses along with realistic prices for the lens I wanted to get from my deal. Before I booked my ticket to Shanghai I had absolutely concrete minimum values for my gear.
After carrying a lens through enough countries I am bound to build an emotional attachment to it and so will any other photographer, but finding an honest asking price is important when trade-in time comes around. I was willing to take the trip to Shanghai and return with all of the lenses if I could not get the value I was asking for, but part of my equation was reducing the weight in my pack and the total number of lenses in my collection.
The escalator deposited me in the photo gear heaven on the third floor of Huanlong Photographic Equipment City (环龙照相器材) at 8:45 am. The shopping center doesn’t officially open until 9 am, but I was hoping that at least a few shops would have their doors open. After haggling with one early bird owner I managed to find a shop with a clerk who spoke a bit of English. After about thirty minutes the deal was done and I was outside testing my new lens.
Westerners are not usually accustomed to having to really duel over prices with a shop owner and these malls are not a place to cut your bargaining teeth. If you are new to China you should head down the subway line a few stops where you can find several fake markets for items ranging from $2-$200. You can bargain all day and if you pay $15 for a $10 item your wallet can absorb that and you can learn from the experience. Losing $100+ because of a lack of Chinese bargaining skills will hurt much longer. Walking away from a long conversation about a watch is awkward, but it is the only way to get the real price and the photo markets are no different. Know what your gear is worth and refuse to compromise. The shop owners work on small margins so keep cracking at a price until they look offended. After that you should get up and leave. If they chase after you, keep bargaining. If they don’t chase, you are close to the real price.
Happy bargaining and let me know if you have any experiences from any Asian photo markets. Cheers!
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TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Asteroidea
Order: Forcipulatida
Family: Asteriidae
Genus/species: Pisaster ochraceus
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS: Color varies from orange, violet, dark brown or mottled, but very rarely ochre. One study showed that less than two percent of the individuals in three local Northern California populations were “ochre” in color. When dead and dry they become ochre in color.
The aboral (top) surface contains many small spines (ossicles) that are arranged in a netlike or pentagonal pattern. Papulae or coelomic pouches give the seastar's surface a soft, fuzzy appearance. They are used for respiration and waste excretion. P. ochraceus may have an arm radius of up to 28 cm (11 in), but the more common radius is half that figure. They typically have five arms or rays, but the number can range from four to seven. Like all sea stars, an adult P. ochraceus has tube feet which they use for locomotion and for handling prey.
DISTRIBUTION/HABITAT: Ochre stars range from Alaska to Santa Barbara County, California. They prefer the low-to-mid intertidal zones on rocky shores, especially on mussel beds, and are also found in the subtidal zone to a depth of 88 m (288 ft). Juveniles are found in crevices and under rocks.
DIET IN THE WILD: California mussels are the favored and locally abundant prey. They also consume acorn barnacles, emarginated dogwinkles, gooseneck barnacles, owl limpets, etc. They can insert their stomach into slits as narrow as 0.1 mm between the valves of bivalves and begin digestion.
ACADEMY DIET: Manila clams, chopped fish, large krill, chopped squid; it also eats other exhibit inhabitants.
PREDATORS: Adults are eaten by sea otters and seagulls. According to Dr. Thomas Niesen, the sea otter can crunch them up but is also known to bite off the tips of the arms and suck out the gonads.
REPRODUCTION: They are mainly dioecious. The male gametes develop, but later only females ones are produced. During a transitional period, both eggs and sperm are produced. The gonopores of the individual gonads open at the bases of the arms. Fertilization is external. Larvae are free-swimming and plankton-feeding.
LIFESPAN: Up to 20 years
REMARKS: P. ochraceus tolerate strong surges, large temperature changes, dilution by rainfall, and dessication. It is resistant to dessication and it can tolerate a loss of thirty-percent of its body weight in body fluids.
Sea stars can regenerate lost arms with a portion of the central disc intact and in some species from a single arm.
NOTE: Sea star wasting syndrome has become a major problem in both the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean since 2013.. For an excellent summary check this link to the University of Santa Cruz 9-9-14
www.eeb.ucsc.edu/pacificrockyintertidal/data-products/sea...
Fitzgerald Marine Reserve.
www.fitzgeraldreserve.org/newffmrsite/wp-content/uploads/...
Reference: Source: Dr. Thomas Niesen
Author and Professor Emeritus in Marine Biology
San Francisco State University
Marsha Cohen, Docent California Academy of Sciences
11-17-14 Recent research identifies a virus (Parvoviridae) is responsible for the wasting disease. Introduced virus was
able to infect healthy sea stars with the virus, which then leads to wasting symptoms. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
Additional References
California Academy of Sciences Steinhart Aquarium Tidepool 2017
Encyclopedia of Life eol.org/pages/598469/details
Woods Hole www.whoi.edu/science/B/people/kamaral/SeaStar.html
Bishop Museum hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/op11-8.pdf
Animal Diversity Web, U of Michigan animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Pisaster_ochraceus/
Walla Walla University www.wallawalla.edu/academics/departments/biology/rosario/...
Ron's Wordpress Shortlink wp.me/p1DZ4b-sC
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