Sarah Spencer

Another view of the barge Sarah Spencer at the Soo in 1998.

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I shot this photo with my Chinon Genesis III, an exasperating camera I had (still have) a love/hate relationship with. It's certainly capable of taking terrific photographs, but it's got a mind of its own (the documentation calls that mind a "microcomputer", which was already an odd usage when the manual was written), and it likes to argue about things. The idea was to build a fully automatic camera--it's fully autofocus, allows no direct control of exposure, is only marginally programmable, and by default it makes framing decisions for you. Not exactly an ideal camera for this photographer. At least a point-n-shoot doesn't offer its own opinions....

I've been playing with the camera this week. Still takes fine pictures; still drives me batty.