Thursday, December 29, 2005
Tough Day
I've had much worse days. But, spending half the day at a hospital waiting to talk to the family of a teenager taken off life support following a multi-car accident, is below average. To be honest, I fought and grumped at the desk to cut my time at the hospital short, but they wouldn't budge.
(Read the story at the papers web site. Link to story
In the end, staying -- even after shooting some pretty emotional photos of the father -- "paid off" in terms of capturing the grief the family was feeling.
Lesson: Don't give up on an assignment.
Best point-and-shoot ever
For years, I did not own a point-and-shoot camera. Wasn't studly enough for a photojournalist. Well, the old studster never shot photos of family and friends because dragging an F3 around was no freaking fun.
I finally broke down sometime around 1993 and bought and Olympus Stylus, then broke it and bought a Stylus Zoom. Oh, man I loved that camera (technically, my first p&s was a Nikon LiteTouch, but broke it immediately.) I went crazy with it. So now I have a tub of photos of plenty many nights in LoDo in the roaring 90s. Good times...
Anyway, fast forward ten years and I was on the l look out for a digital camera that I wouldn't feel bad about using to shoot precious baby photos (and precious photos of babies). Our Canon Powershot 230 is well past it's prime and shoots a lame 2-ish megapixels. (Have you seen the hilarious commerical where the elf making digital cameras out of wood, sprinkles "megapixels" on it. Oh, I'm easily amused.)
So, I dug around and watched and waited and low and behold, found the camera I've bene looking for all these years.
The Canon S70. Best part? It is discontinued! So, cha-ching, bargain priced! Better news? Its replacement is the S80 and it now used SD (Secure Digital) cards instead of Compact Flash. Since I have about 1,000 CFs -- mostly very very old 128 mB sized -- the S70 works out even better. Also, the S70 is black and the S80 is sliver adding to the S70's "studliness."
Makes me think I ought to go buy a spare?
Canon Powershot S70
Dave Black talks about using a similar camera to cover parts of The Masters.
[UPDATE: The S80 is silver and black, where the S70 is dark grey and black.]
I finally broke down sometime around 1993 and bought and Olympus Stylus, then broke it and bought a Stylus Zoom. Oh, man I loved that camera (technically, my first p&s was a Nikon LiteTouch, but broke it immediately.) I went crazy with it. So now I have a tub of photos of plenty many nights in LoDo in the roaring 90s. Good times...
Anyway, fast forward ten years and I was on the l look out for a digital camera that I wouldn't feel bad about using to shoot precious baby photos (and precious photos of babies). Our Canon Powershot 230 is well past it's prime and shoots a lame 2-ish megapixels. (Have you seen the hilarious commerical where the elf making digital cameras out of wood, sprinkles "megapixels" on it. Oh, I'm easily amused.)
So, I dug around and watched and waited and low and behold, found the camera I've bene looking for all these years.
The Canon S70. Best part? It is discontinued! So, cha-ching, bargain priced! Better news? Its replacement is the S80 and it now used SD (Secure Digital) cards instead of Compact Flash. Since I have about 1,000 CFs -- mostly very very old 128 mB sized -- the S70 works out even better. Also, the S70 is black and the S80 is sliver adding to the S70's "studliness."
Makes me think I ought to go buy a spare?
Canon Powershot S70
Dave Black talks about using a similar camera to cover parts of The Masters.
[UPDATE: The S80 is silver and black, where the S70 is dark grey and black.]
