This afternoon I’ll be taking pictures of a Jazz performance at St. Andrew’s-Wesley Church in downtown Vancouver. It is a good break from work because I really miss my primary hobby which is photography.

I am using a Minolta Dimage 7i Digital Camera with a reasonably good lens and 5 Mega Pixels resolution. It is of course an SLR camera. So an hour ago I stopped by the local camera shop to by a 512MB memory card and some extra batteries, and I saw some those new latest digital cameras in the Market. They all take actual camera lenses like the good old SLRs and have faster memories, and end of story my Camera is now 2 years old which in computer years is a long time. Turns out that my ideal camera with all the additional gadgets will go above 3000.00 CAN$
I don’t mind buying one, I just think buying a digital camera right before Christmas is the biggest mistake because prices are really high at this time of the year. Specially that a year from now same product will be significantly cheaper.

Anyhow now I am worried that people at the Church might laugh at my small camera, the Director might even ask me to leave, so I am going in with the attitude of “Size doesn’t matter it’s how you use it”

Hey! wasn’t Helmut Newton once using a small Lecia camera to become the most famous Glamour and Fashion photogrpaher of 20th century?

Did I mentioned that this is the first time in my life that I am going inside an actual church? I’m not sure how people will react to see that I am agnostic AND have a small camera! This is just all wrong … who let this guy in?

So I’ll just go in, do what I am supposed to do and I’ll leave. I hope the whole photoshoot thing will go nice and smoothly.

ps: I want that 3000.00 + camera so bad :(

Rastin