Emotive Images

Like many people, I tend to “see” words and phrases as pictures in my mind - this might explain my spelling errors and typos all over this blog. If I want to remember something written I think of the page and see the writing as a picture rather than letters and words. A photo will give me a much stronger memory and re-create feelings than poetry - like the smell of Castrol R oil, the image of the vincent motorbike a couple of blog posts back churns my innards with a range of emotions.

Getting images is so simple now - my friend Barbara has just got a new digital camera with almost no delay from “seeing” to pixels - the gazillions of images on Fkickr and other photo sites is only possible due to digital photography - but is it only me who “sees” less in these images than in the old chemical prints.

So this new miniature digital camera from Minox should satisfy me -

my first serious working camera was a Leica M3 - I am not sure if I really want one of these digital facsimilies, but it looks good. If anyone is coming to see me from the USA - bring one over, they can be bought for under 125 dollars now and I can give you euro.

Another camera I have written about before and I would like is the Lomo Fisheye - again it seems it is only in the US and is under 50 dollars

Although is is basically rubbish - I rate this higher than any super wizzo digital camera as it takes real photos and all the discipline this entails, including thinking.