Rues of Roo

Holland Village - Fishy

About a year or two ago I bought a Canon Powershot A85. It was in the aftermath of the pillage of my Canon Ixus v3 and perhaps I was not thinking quite straight, but nevertheless I still bought it. A rather ugly beast, yet still very practical. It was supposed to be an upgrade from the v3, and in essence it was. It took better shots, with manual focus and aperture and shutter speed controls. Yet, for some reason, the joy of using the camera dissipated gradually as I used it.

The interesting thing I find about photography, and probably with most things, is if you don’t enjoy using the tools at hand, chances are you’ll lose interest pretty fast. Call it superficial nonsense but welcome to the land of commercial hedonism. Regardless, lack of interest led to lack of care and finally to a shutter button that failed to operate properly.

Somewhere in between all this, I actually bought a couple of lenses for the Powershot. Another advantage it supposedly had over the Ixus. Inevitably though, use was sparse. However, all was not lost, because as you can see, the use of a wide angle lens with new Ixus 800 produces some rather charming effects. In case you’re wondering, I actually hold the lens with my left hand while take the Ixus in my right. Crude, rather bizarre looking… but hey. You get used to the odd stares which you forget when you see the results.