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Minolta, back from the brink

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2004.10.23

Today, while waiting for a postponed haircut appointment, I walked into a camera store. I asked the fellow what he recommended in a 3 Megapixel camera for about $300. He took me to a Nikon model, then told me that for $10 more, I could have a 4 megapixel Minolta.

This surprised and delighted me. Minolta, being recommended in a camera store? Not something I've seen for... well, forever. I know that they have turned around their marketing thing, and I'm usually immune to all marketing as a rule, but it's good to see your favourite manufacturer doing well. God, I sound like a Macphile.

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.