Monday, September 23, 2013


Reds game, back in May of 2000. It rained. Pretty hard. People left. Here we have texture, color, repetition, rhythm, order, and more.

The camera? T'was a Sony DSC D-770, 1344 pixels maximum dimension. At the time, it was an expensive leader - about $1800 and beyond a megapixel - 1.4 I think. A very, very good consumer-grade image for its day. Some (or arguably all, though some may not be marked as such) had very good 3X Zeiss lenses, starting at 28mm equivalent to about 80. This was a very useful range for many things. Used the first generation Memory Stick. Still a fine camera for 4x6 inch prints (no cropping of the long dimension!) and, especially, images destined for web pages. Some, including mine, had some back-focus problems on closeups. Too bad Sony didn't fix this design and upgrade the sensor. I really thought it was a very smart and ultra-modern design.

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