First Sunrise, Black Rock City, Canon SD10 Digital Elph
Wednesday night at Burning Man, eleven-year-old Kalea did for the first time what she'd been wanting so badly to do for the last three years: stay up all night to see the sun rise on the playa. When she started to wear out around 1:00 in the morning, we gave her a pep-talk, and then she gagged down her first espresso drink at the Center Camp Cafe, a double mocha (or a "hot chocolate with espresso" as Michael called it to make it sound a little better). It had the desired effect, as Kalea found her second wind, drug us all over the playa with the energy of youth on caffeine, and when dawn came, it found us snuggled with almost our entire camp on a couch on the Esplanade, watching the sun rise. A right of passage.
On another note, now that I'm back in the city, I'm back to my photography techno-lusting. Canon came out with a new digital SLR this week, the Canon 20D, and I'm drooling for it. I'm trying to come up with ways to convince myself that I don't need to sell my Digital Rebel and replace it with 8 megapixels of more-modern photographic wonder. If only michael would buy my Rebel, we'd be in perfect photographer couple bliss, me with my shiny new black 20D and he with a less-than-a-year-old Rebel, happily shooting away together (do all girls have fantasies like this?)...
And I've got another new camera! Actually, my dad picked up this beauty at Boeing Surplus a few months ago, so it's not actually mine, but now that I've seen it, I'm dying to start shooting with it. It's a Horseman View Camera, a large-format professional camera that can do all kinds of optical trickery I'd never even imagined possible until I started playing with the camera last night. And to make it even more fun, it's got a polaroid back and a medium-format film back. I made myself bring home only the book yesterday, so I'd have a clue what the camera could do before I start running really expensive film through it. So much to learn. And I think I've got dad convinced to put in a black and white darkroom now, which makes this baby even cooler.
At the other end of the technological spectrum, I just ordered the upgrade for my Sidekick/Hiptop phone, and the new version has a built-in camera with flash (among other improvements). I'm hoping the camera in the Sidekick/Hiptop II is better than the old one (which was basically useless), because I'm excited to add a real-time Flickr stream to my web site.
Posted by Dawn at September 20, 2004 01:31 PM
where to start. i love the story about staying up all night. i would have loved to do that too, maybe next year. :) strangely the fiance was sitting here reading about the 20D at the same time i told him you had mentioned it. i'm totally jealous of the camera your dad found and the consensus is that we need to get to boeing surplus more often. is it 4x5? it looks like it is. i have a bunch of stuff for 4x5 cameras, most of which won't do you any good but i do have some old film (standard, the 4x5 polaroid will actually get used in my pinhole) but i'd be happy to donate a box of regular film to the cause since it's a couple years old and i'm not close to using it all up. drop me a note. :)
Posted on September 25, 2004 11:20 PST
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