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the queen is dead; long live the queen
Apr. 10th, 2011 05:19 pmScene from a pawn shop:
INDI: ".... a fully manual option for the shutter and aperture or else I really can't do anything with it."
BLEU: "You do realize you're talking Chinese to me right now, right?"
INDI: "Ni hao, meimei. That's Chinese."
SALESMAN: *snerk*
(Thank you, Joss. )
I was at a pawn shop to complete my Birthday Quest: a new camera. My beloved Vera snuffed it when I was shooting the lunar eclipse on the winter solstice, in a completely unexpected manner. The catches that hold the battery door shut spontaneously snapped off, and since the thing relies on a lot of tension to keep the batteries in, I couldn't hold it together with tape. It worked well enough for the rest of that evening, but afterwards... not so much.
I kept saying what I needed was a Vera upgrade - since the full DSLR is out of my budget, I'm firmly in prosumer rangefinder-with-manual-options land. And what I wound up finding was exactly that. Same Fujifilm S series, but a much more recent model, with twice the megapixels (eight instead of four) and twice the amount of space on the memory card, which is XD so I can still use the older ones. The new camera is a bit smaller, and the lens doesn't lengthen when it zooms, so it's better protected. Things are basically the same - a few new features, and some of the controls are in new places, so I'll need to spend a while tuning my muscle memory up. It's been dubbed Vera II, since it's sort of a reincarnation of the original Vera. The queen is dead, long live the queen.
We also met a bunch of interesting people at that art studio that had been scalped by the tornado. Bleu picked up a fantastic Warhol-style print of four Mona Lisas and ran into an old friend, while I got to hear the story of exactly what it's like to be targeted by a tornado. Scary stuff; I'm glad they're all right.
After we found Vera II, we went to the swamp, because there's no better place for me to put a new picturebox through its paces.
The gators were plentiful, and part of the boardwalk was still submerged after the rains last week. Full set is here.
It's funny how all feels right in my world now that I have a camera again. And just to confirm that it is in fact mine, I've already lost the sodding lens cap. But that's all right -- need to fit her with a skylight filter anyway.
INDI: ".... a fully manual option for the shutter and aperture or else I really can't do anything with it."
BLEU: "You do realize you're talking Chinese to me right now, right?"
INDI: "Ni hao, meimei. That's Chinese."
SALESMAN: *snerk*
(Thank you, Joss. )
I was at a pawn shop to complete my Birthday Quest: a new camera. My beloved Vera snuffed it when I was shooting the lunar eclipse on the winter solstice, in a completely unexpected manner. The catches that hold the battery door shut spontaneously snapped off, and since the thing relies on a lot of tension to keep the batteries in, I couldn't hold it together with tape. It worked well enough for the rest of that evening, but afterwards... not so much.
I kept saying what I needed was a Vera upgrade - since the full DSLR is out of my budget, I'm firmly in prosumer rangefinder-with-manual-options land. And what I wound up finding was exactly that. Same Fujifilm S series, but a much more recent model, with twice the megapixels (eight instead of four) and twice the amount of space on the memory card, which is XD so I can still use the older ones. The new camera is a bit smaller, and the lens doesn't lengthen when it zooms, so it's better protected. Things are basically the same - a few new features, and some of the controls are in new places, so I'll need to spend a while tuning my muscle memory up. It's been dubbed Vera II, since it's sort of a reincarnation of the original Vera. The queen is dead, long live the queen.
We also met a bunch of interesting people at that art studio that had been scalped by the tornado. Bleu picked up a fantastic Warhol-style print of four Mona Lisas and ran into an old friend, while I got to hear the story of exactly what it's like to be targeted by a tornado. Scary stuff; I'm glad they're all right.
After we found Vera II, we went to the swamp, because there's no better place for me to put a new picturebox through its paces.
The gators were plentiful, and part of the boardwalk was still submerged after the rains last week. Full set is here.
It's funny how all feels right in my world now that I have a camera again. And just to confirm that it is in fact mine, I've already lost the sodding lens cap. But that's all right -- need to fit her with a skylight filter anyway.
