Speaking of girl geeks and their toys: I just bought myself a birthday present, an unbelievably gorgeous Olympus Stylus 710 digital camera, a long-time-coming replacement for my absurdly old Olympus Camedia D-360L with its ridiculous 1.3 megapixels. And I’m already in love with it.
I bought it so I could do some blogging from Worldcon next week, complete with images that people wouldn’t have to stand still for 10 minutes for, which the old Camedia daguerrotype-maker has been requiring of late. And I’m so incredibly backlogged trying to get ready to head to the con that I figured the first chance I might have to play with the thing and read the manual and such would be on the plane out to Anaheim. But I couldn’t wait.
First image taken with my new digital camera:
Pretty much my life: glass of wine (empty) in front of the computer, with something geeky on the TV in the background.
First video (holy crap, video! can I marry this tiny, shiny thing?):
An action movie! starring Sam the cat... (Yeah, it’s dark. But I wanted to be honest about this being the first video, so I couldn’t very well reshoot. Besides, it’s in Sam’s contract that he never does more than one take.)
My brother in Xer geekiness Mark Morford had a similar experience with the awesomeness of new digital cameras recently:
Occasionally you just gotta jump back. Occasionally you just gotta pause and take notice and try to gauge the astonishing wind speed of technological change and note just how much of your skin is being peeled away from your skull as a result of standing anywhere near it.
Yup, pretty much how I feel about this magnificently tiny, impossibly light camera. More Morford:
I am, right now, just young enough to take the current tech hurricane for granted, relish it and celebrate it and acknowledge it as a natural progression of things, even blithely expect our tech companies to race forward with new gizmo innovations so dazzling and irresistible, it will make whatever I bought just two years ago feel like a brick and string.But I am also old enough to be continuously dumbfounded and impressed and dazzled by the magic of it all, to remember back to my childhood when the microwave first came out, and Intellivision, and cordless phones. This perspective is what keeps it so interesting.
Damn, I remember when we got our first color TV, in like 1977, maybe. And now I can slip into the back pocket of my tightest jeans a mini TV studio. God. Damn.
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