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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

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.