journal features

Minolta, back from the brink

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a 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

Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

—T.S. Eliot