{"id":2325,"date":"2004-03-15T15:46:18","date_gmt":"2004-03-16T07:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/15\/size-matters\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:54:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:54:37","slug":"size-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/15\/size-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Size Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11506,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/user.itl.net\\\/~kypfer\\\/110film.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050406014805\\\/http:\\\/\\\/user.itl.net:80\\\/~kypfer\\\/110film.htm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 17:04:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 17:04:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11507,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.craphound.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260311172717\\\/https:\\\/\\\/craphound.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/craphound.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11508,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.gizmodo.com\\\/archives\\\/whats_in_your_gadget_bag_cory.php&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20110710171057\\\/http:\\\/\\\/gizmodo.com\\\/archives\\\/whats_in_your_gadget_bag_cory.php&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 17:05:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 17:05:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11509,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/exilim.casio.com\\\/s3model.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.casio.com\\\/resource\\\/HTML\\\/ExilimUSA.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>This is actually fairly amusing now that I stop to think about it, but I think I&#8217;ve finally figured out why, no matter how good they are or how many features today&#8217;s pocket-size digital cameras have, I still can&#8217;t ever stop lusting after the bigger, fancier (more expensive) cameras that are out there.<\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid, I had one of the little, flat, <a href=\"http:\/\/user.itl.net\/~kypfer\/110film.htm\" title=\"Kodak 110 Film Cameras\">Kodak 110 film cameras<\/a>. Simple, portable, took decent pictures, and was cheap enough to entrust to a kid without having to worry about it too much. Meanwhile, dad had a nice SLR of some kind. When dad&#8217;s camera eventually died, I&#8217;d spend hours playing with it, and even looked into getting it repaired at one point when I was in high school (though at that time, the repairs were far out of my budget).<\/p>\n<p>When I graduated from high school, I got a camera as a present from my grandparents. While it wasn&#8217;t an SLR, it was the film equivalent of today&#8217;s high-end digital cameras &#8212; it could work quite well as a point-and-shoot style, but it also had a number of more manual controls, a good zoom lens, and had the size, heft, and weight of what I associated with a &#8220;real&#8221; camera. That camera lasted me for a good few years, until it disappeared (along with a few other belongings of mine) when I had to <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/best_of_times_w.html\" title=\"Best of times, worst of times\">kick out a roommate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, of course, that distinction between small &#8220;kid&#8221; cameras and large &#8220;adult&#8221; cameras is firmly ingrained in my head. I see people like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craphound.com\/\" title=\"craphound.com: The literary works of Cory Doctorow\">Cory Doctorow<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.com\/archives\/whats_in_your_gadget_bag_cory.php\" title=\"What's in your gadget bag, Cory?\">geeking out<\/a> about their <a href=\"http:\/\/exilim.casio.com\/s3model.htm\" title=\"EX-S3 Camera Page\">ultra-tiny cameras<\/a>, and while I <em>know<\/em> that they&#8217;re quite right, and these are damn cool cameras, and they&#8217;re worth every penny&#8230;I just can&#8217;t get over feeling like they&#8217;re toys. It&#8217;s silly, stupid, and outmoded thinking&#8230;and I&#8217;m stuck with it.<\/p>\n<p>Well, not entirely stuck. At least I recognize my problem (that&#8217;s one of the twelve steps, right?). And if all goes well, come payday, I&#8217;ll be getting a tiny (but very full-featured) camera of my very own.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a start, right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Justify My Love (Hip Hop)&#8221; by Madonna from the album <em>Justify My Love<\/em> (1990, 6:35).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is actually fairly amusing now that I stop to think about it, but I think I&#8217;ve finally figured out why, no matter how good they are or how many features today&#8217;s pocket-size digital cameras have, I still can&#8217;t ever stop lusting after the bigger, fancier (more expensive) cameras that are out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2050],"tags":[13,27],"class_list":["post-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-photography","tag-life","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}