A Photo Affair
I‘m being unfaithful. I’m a dirty dog, two timing cheater, and I can’t stop. I’m having an affair behind my camera’s back.
…the new one is fast, loose and inviting…
My camera is a solid little number from the prehistoric days of digital photography. She cost me an obscene amount of money when I picked her up in 1999. Her 3.3 megapixels and her six times zoom lens lovingly crafted by Carl Zeiss were an immediate attraction. We went everywhere together, recording life and light in binary sequence; sticks of digital memory. She’s a little big compared to other cameras available now, but she still takes a good image.
Then came the phone, but she was more than a phone. She took pictures too. I told myself when this phone camera madness started spreading over the globe that I’d never take part in it. But I got suckered in by technology. It’s a phone, it’s a PDA and oh ya, it takes photos too. “OK”, I thought, but I just wouldn’t use the camera part. How wrong I was.
The old camera was big and bulky, the phone fits on my hip.The old camera takes time to set up, the phone is always ready, and worse, is always willing. I have to manually transfer files from the old camera, I press a button on the phone, and the picture is posted to my blog with a wink and a smile. The old camera takes much better shots, but the new one is fast, loose and inviting. So for now I’m having a little fling… Perhaps when this seven year photo itch is over, I’ll return to my senses and my old trusty companion.
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I WONDERED why your old camera called me up crying the other night…
She’s lucky it’s a local call