If you look at a famous painting, you don't wonder what brand of brushes the now-decomposing artist used. Of course, if you go to a painters forum, you'll see passionate debates about which brand of brush to use.

Only a poor craftsperson blames their tools, but a good craftsperson will tend to get better results with better tools.

I'm primarily a film shooter, even though outside of photography, I'm quite "digital". My tastes in cameras are best described as somewhat idiosyncratic. I like to own reasonably priced cameras that can be made to produce excellent results.

Disaster Time! Part II: The Canon G7
So, my Canon A95, which was part of the Wirehead family between December 6, 2004 and June 10, 2007, with 11,800 pictures taken, was officially not repairable...
Disaster Time!
So, there I was, knee-deep in the bay, with water soaking into my camera gear. I returned to that point in time repeatedly over the next day or two. I could go back, without wanting to, and relive the experience, complete with the smell.
Chains
Ursula with a chain
A battle between
A battle between two sides of color, with a woman in the middle
Behind a Field
A pair of legs and a lightpainting with purple and blue lights
Blue Leg
A pair of legs and blue illumination
Butterfly
A butterfly created with multicolored lights
Lava tube
A woman and a glowing tube
Snapdragon
This is a snapdragon I grew from seed that I took extreme closeup pictures of. At this level of closeness, there's a whole new world you can see in the snapdragon.
Dancing through light
A model being painted around by blue lights
Fire in the hand
A streak of fire
Blue Hand
A hand lightpainted with blue
Neon Dance
A orange checkerboard pattern in the air with a model
Green Hair
A streak of green playing in the model's hair
Back and water
Ursula with her back turned to the camera and a water bottle.
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