Musings

I was asked a few months ago to do some field testing for Samsung. They've just released their new NX20, a prosumer level entry designed for folks who want a small, compact mirrorless camera but don't want to sacrifice image quality. And that's what they've produced.

A photographer saying, "I'll get you some pictures, I promise," translates roughly, into "Hell will have frozen over for a million years before I get around to emailing these." The kind folks at the Granville Island Broome. Co deserve better.

Photographers are a curious lot when it comes to the things we collect. Every shooter I've ever known has a closet filled with boxes upon boxes of odd mementos, faded press passes sporting more youthful (and thinner) headshots, and favorite photos made by our friends and idols.

Okay, so it isn't exactly Robert Capa's "Falling Soldier," but my discovery this week of a long lost negative of Ray Charles performing in 1983, underscores just how tenuous our collective hold is on the past.