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Toronto, 2012.09.18

My camera-buying days are over for the time being. As I've been obsessively documenting in this journal, I'm plowing it all into education right now (if there were two of me, I'd be taking more courses). And today's most interesting camera, while exactly what I've been waiting for, is more than the entire certification process I'm going through, and that's just with a single lens.

This summer, I spent $80 on replacing an old and worn lens that suffered from my having dropped it the first day I took Kenny out of the home way back when (it was drop him or drop the camera) and lucked into a mint-condition sample. It's all I'll spend on camera equipment until our financial situation changes drastically.

But wait. What's this! A $6,000 camera that would shame Liberace? Could I have been wrong with all I wrote above?

http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/.a/6a00df351e888f8834017c31f610c6970b-800wi
well, maybe not *shame* Liberace...

Though obviously a thing of beauty, it seems to have its imitators and detractors. Some have said that it's "oil sheik" garish.

P.S. The rear view of the camera is not to be missed. Is it even stable when you set it down?

rand()m quote

Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, then the particular balance of success or failure is of less account.

—John Gardner