On 5/22/2016 8:16 PM, Mort wrote:
Hi Fred,

I am grateful to you for your comments.

Digital photography, and digital music recording, have indeed progressed
quite rapidly. I clearly remember Kodachrome 10 going up to ASA 25,and
it was a big deal. Younger photographers do not realize the anguish and
uncertainty that occurred when a shoot on Kodachrome was sent to Kodak,
and one had to wait 10-14 days for the slides to come back.Likewise,
going from my 28 pound Revox tape recorder to a pocket sized digital
recorder was a step toward musical heaven.

I am now content that my newly gifted Canon G7X and my pocketable Canon
S-120 are both reliable and meet my current needs.

Mort Linder


Mort

The thing I *don't* like about the S-120 is the lack of viewfinder. I
still occasionally use an even more humble Canon viewfinder compact. In
the UK it was called the Ixus 850 IS, I think it had a different
designation in the US.

I don't go back to 10 ASA but I started shooting on Kodachrome II,
sometimes exposing for several seconds in gloomy English weather (on a
magnificent Yashica rangefinder camera).

The Ixus really is small enough to take everywhere, and although it gets
noisy at high ISO at least it lets you shoot hand-held (the image
stabilisation lets you hand hold to 1/8) and it was also pretty good for
macro. Good enough to use for forensic work. As you imply, digital makes
that a lot less fraught!

But of course it is really the photographer who takes the picture, not
the camera. It's easy to get too obsessed with the "tech". Assuming you
are the guy with the Flickr page, you don't need to apologise for your
hardware!

Steve