Thursday, March 08, 2007

my new pencil

Twyla Tharp, in her book The Creative Habit, recounts a story of a kid, a baseball idol, and an autograph lost. The kid asks for an autograph, and the idol says "Sure, kid, got a pencil?" The kid, unfortunately, doesn't have a pencil, and so doesn't get the autograph.

That kid, and the man he grew into, never ever went out without a pencil again.

Twyla expands this to include any/all tools any person may need to do what is important to them.

I've been thinking about this, and I decided that if I'm serious about taking pictures, I need a pencil.

I love my "real camera." It's not too big, it's not too heavy. I can carry it all day without my shoulders or back hurting. But it's big enough that it is obtrusive to carry alllllll the time.

Hence:



















This is not a very little camera, as little cameras go. Nor is it a very capable camera, as big capable cameras go. I'm hoping that it is little enough, and capable enough, to serve as my carry-it-everywhere pencil.

Isn't it cute? And 6x optical zoom...........

I miss a viewfinder. (Little cameras only have viewscreens.)

And I'm annoyed that even though both my cameras are Panasonics, I can't use the same plug-into-the-wall power source, nor the same connect-the-camera-to-the-computer cable. Maybe the new generation of the big camera uses the same connections as the new camera?

Ha ha, yeah right.

Luckily, because it is *not* all that little, it is a lot less expensive than the really little ones. It's more capable than the really little ones, too.....

It does a good job, don't you think?

1 comment:

I need orange said...

Thanks! So far I have used it every day.... The first day, I forgot to put a chip in it. It has on-board memory.... Enough to hold six (6) images. :-) That night I put a chip in......

I usually post versions of pics that have been seriously compromised. I resize 'em small, and then save them "for the web" at a "low" quality level.

I have heard too many stories about people whose images have been stolen and re-used.

My current plan to foil that is to post poor-quality images.....

But if I am going to talk about my camera's capacity, I really have to post a full-size, reasonable-quality image..... :-)

So the amaryllis here is one of the few large not-so-poor-quality images I'll be posting.