My DP2 camera
It all started when…
I discovered my Sigma DP2 camera, deep into a drawer. Bought it nearly 20 years ago at B&H and it was marketed back then as “the art camera”. Why ? Because of its weird sensor, that is not a CMOS censor but a FOVEON X3 one, which works in mysterious ways ( I will not tire you with tech talk). It has a 24.4 mm fixed lens and a weird battery that took me ages to find new in eBay, somewhere from deep China. ( As you can understand the batteries were long dead already. ) So i took the camera around for a few days for a spin, to remember the years of hustle and bustle in NY, and the times the S&P was merely 669 points, following its terrible 48% dive of the Lehman Bros crisis. Here are a few photos with the camera, and you can clearly see how “differently” the camera absorbs and manipulate the light. Just as different was the film “The substance” I saw recently, a Cannes script winner, a film about vanity, getting old with dignity ( or not getting old at all ), a film that makes pretty clear how difficult is life for women and what great heroes they are and what respect they command and why they fight men so much and why they endure so much and why they don’t give up the fight. Yes all this had to be said in one sentence, dear spell and grammar checker. I don’t think i will make another post before the US election, do i have a favourite ? Unfortunately not. Do i have a candidate that i think will win it? Yes. Is this candidate better for the World order ? Yes. The Markets ? Yes. As i write these lines, the unemployment is 4,1%, inflation at 2,2%, S&P with 77 record days and near an all time high. Numbers are prospering. America is great anyway.