Even though I love film, digital photography still fills a roll in my life. I often use my iPhone to take quick snaps of things, especially for art reference.
But I also need it for my day job of working with Emee and her event planning biz. What would be handy was a digital camera. While I got rid of my last dedicated digital camera shortly after I got back into film, Emee did have one.
Like many folks, she had one she used back in the aughts, and when smartphone cameras became adequate enough at the dawn of the teens, it got forgotten about. I used it a bunch during our second Columbia Gorge trip at the end of March. It came in handy for our multiple site visits. The Lumix has a bit of heft and includes a shoulder strap.
And it also has a viewfinder, so I enjoyed looking through that vs. Mind you, the viewfinder was also a screen, a pretty lo-res screen at that, but I preferred it to using my phone. The photos I got were generally decent. Nothing too exciting, but adequate to my needs. It makes sense, as digital cameras is such an evolving technology. Camera bloggers would be talking about the next big things, not lingering on this middle-of-the-road machine. Compare that to the present film blogging community, where I can find articles praising cameras even older than this Lumix.
Certain old film cameras will get multiple loving tributes. Typing this, I realize this may be the only retrospective account of this camera. There appears to be some renewed interest in the earliest late nineties through mid aughts digicams, but most of it seems based around simple nostalgia which usually is about things at least 20 years old or the quirky results derived from such primitive machines.
