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Photo Files
Scrapbooking With The Minolta DiMAGE X, The Ultimate Picture-Taking
Pocket Pal
Text And Photography By Seth Weber |
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Right from the beginning, digital
was compared to film. Like any replacement technology, its valuation
was based as much on a comparison to the past as it was on wild
speculations about how it would change our future. In obsessing
about the “photo-quality” standard, much of the real
magic of digital photography has been overshadowed by a fixation
on megapixels. This article is about anything but pixel counts
and resolution. Rather, it’s about a whole new way of making
pictures a part of your daily life—recording visual details
that heretofore would have been considered a “waste of
film” or carrying a camera at times when it would have
been inconvenient (a strap pulling on your shoulder, a bulge
in your purse or pocket)—then sharing and revisiting these
images in useful or whimsical ways. |
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One exemplary tool of the new age of photography
is the Minolta DiMAGE X. It’s so small that it fits in
a pocket, but so thin that the pocket could be on a snug pair
of blue jeans or in the makeup pocket of an evening bag. In
keeping with our purpose for these pages, we won’t dwell
on the bells and whistles of the “X”, as they have
been adequately published in this and other publications and
Websites. The mission here is to reinvent uses for a camera,
to think outside the black box, collecting visual images as
you would reminder notes or random thoughts.
Case in point, the “X” stowed away on our brief spring
vacation, making itself available on all the occasions when
the 35mm SLR was too much to carry or the action didn’t
justify filming with DV (we travel with all the weapons). Terms
like “omnipresent” or “ubiquitous” are heady
descriptions for the little camera that netted so much information
and so mini-memories.
Since our spring break, we’ve used the “X” to
digitally try new aftermarket wheels on our car before buying
(cut and paste in the PC), leave explicit visual directions
for the gardener and plumber, “photo-copy” literary
criticisms at the library for our son’s term paper, and
more. The possibilities are endless. No wonder Minolta provides
a belt-clip case so the “X” can buddy-up to your cell
phone.
Any more words would contradict our picture-rather-than-1,000-words
point, so here’s a sampling of the hundreds now stored
neatly on a CD and our hard drive. |
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