What’s wrong with blue??
I’m so mad. I’ve been looking for a camera for WEEKS now. Read all the reviews. Read all the owners’ reviews. Looked at all the examples up on Amazon. And found the greatest place to see how a camera really performs is to check out your fave cameras on Flicker, and see how everyone’s photos look! You can see them by category, for each different camera: portrait, landscape, macro, etc, all taken with YOUR camera!
Come to me, baby.
So I decided on this one, for reasons too technical to go into, but it’s good. It’s the Panasonic DMC-TZ1, and if you join the group on Flickr for your camera (which of course I will), they call themselves Tizzies.
Did I say I wanted it in blue? It comes in black, silver and blue (and gold, if you live in Japan!). I want blue (or gold. Even though I live in Silver Lake.) Design counts, here as in everywhere. When I took an art class a few years ago, my esteemed teacher from Pasadena Art Center told us that whenever you have a choice, even if it’s a can of peas, choose the one with better design. So blue it is.
So then I had to look everywhere, to get the best price. And as it turns out, since the camera is just over a year old, that means there aren’t any. Anywhere. Boring black? Sure. No blue.
Someplace must have one. Tucked away, waiting for me. Blue as…the sky back east. Wah, I want to be a Tizzie, too.
Donna Barstow
Griffith Park is the 2nd biggest park in the US, and I'm just the person to investigate it! I've lived here for over 25 years. I was part of the PROS Committee in Griffith Park Neighborhood Council and am on the Housing & Tenants Rights Committee in the Silver Lake NC. I'm in the LA Press Club, and you can find some of my articles in the LA Weekly and the Los Feliz Ledger. I'm a cartoonist for Parade Magazine, The New Yorker, LA Times, Slate, & most major media. Questions and contacts welcome.
