September 24th, 2003
The difference between men and boys…
Well, I _had_ a nice post from about 30 minutes of work but because this stupid thing is rooted in POST/GET architecture, if the internet connection conks out, blogger will send your data into oblivion. Anyway, here’s a not-as-verbose summary.
I’m somehow starting to rationalize the purchase of a fist-sized piece of technology that costs nearly as much as my first car. I was whining to my mother on the phone last week about how I want to make a little money from my hobbies, be taken seriously as an artist, etc., and I informed her that I can’t develop my imaging skills any further with the pinhole handicap I currently employ. So she said “How much would one that will let you do the things you want cost?” I told her I didn’t know because I hadn’t done any research into, fearing that if I did I might actually go out and buy something.
I am usually immune to nearly all forms of Japanese train advertising, but last week I caught sight of poster for the Kiss. This mechanical wonder carries the grand Canon EOS tradition into the digital realm with more features than I can currently translate. However, it costs about four times that of my current photographic apparatus. My old Casio is small enough that it still turns heads when I produce it from my pocket, and does a fair ~two megapixels (emulated), but the CCD sucks and the quality of contrast in dark/light scenes (basically anything outdoors involving the sky) is virtually non-existant. This results in me often trying to salvage the poorly sampled saturation values by dolling things up with gaussian blurs and color balances in Photoshop. Anyway, the EOS Digital family sports resolution in the six megapixel range and has the option of interchangable lenses, each which costs roughly twice the entire package I currently employ. You really should check out the sample images from some of the cameras. They’re like 32 megabyte raw tiffs. I was quite impressed by the sharpness of little hairs on the raspberries myself.
Anyway, we’ll see how I balance this with the much pined-for DV camera and 55-key synth… and of course the obligatory 600$ a month in loan payments.
A recent attempt at artistry.
PS – Today there was a guy standing on the train platform eating a sandwich and drinking a Kirin — at 9:16am. That rocks.
