Stephani Stephenson on mon 1 dec 03
As if a new computer wasn't enough to humble me,
I also purchased a new digital camera.
a Canon SD10 .
O.... my..... golly
it is tiny, it is sleek, it has more memory than I do.
it also has so many features my eyes glaze over.
It is so small I can carry it easily in a pocket,
I suppose I can also lose it quite easily.
I am amazed at how far the technology has progressed in a few short years.
It will take some experimenting.
settings for all different kinds of light, different 'film' speeds, etc.
different ways to arrive at focal points,
macro and wide angle and telephoto,
The old digital never gave me so many choices.
I am trusting that a small lens can do well, and that this will give me
print quality
photos to some degree. this camera has 4 mega pixels, though to me this
number is somewhat meaningless
I find that I must relearn a lot , carve some new trenches in the
seemingly calcified gray matter!
So I do read with interest how others are using the new cameras to shoot
pics
If the set up mimics a setup for a SLR shoot, (I still use the SLR too,
a 25 year old Canon AE1)
and if the digital info can translate into slides as well for those
instances where an SLR is not available.
RE your digital magazine pictures ,mel, how large were they? in terms
of pixels, or MB (or whatever format you remember). Just trying to get
an idea of what to aim for. My old digital could take pics good enough
for web transmittal, but not much more. Of course THEN it seemed
entirely adequate...now I am also looking forward to being able to save
images to CD.
When I was 5 years old, I stood on the back step of our house in
Portales, New Mexico, and watched
a tiny light cross the sky. It was John Glenn in a space capsule. I
thought, this is the new beginning of the
space age and I imagined what the space age would feel like.
This was way before cassette tapes and home word processors, mind you!
I have been realizing everyday that this is it, this is the future,
the evidence is nestled in my palm.
A wee camera that James Bond would have coveted.
To think that it sparkles up at me after a day
that I have spent working in clay,
often with tools from the stone age.
boggles the mind.
Stephani Stephenson
steph@alchemiestudio.com
http://www.alchemiestudio.com
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