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My father-in-law's new camera

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2007.09.03

My father-in-law's camera packed it in. I did a bit of shopping, and determined that the Fuji A610 looked like a capable and no-nonsense model. It's a reasonably inexpensive and trivially easy-to-use model with a good-quality lens and a modern sensor.

He's enjoying it, and I've seen some impressive results. The quality of the images actually exceeds my expectations.

Well done, Fuji.

rand()m quote

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

—Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.