I have spoken, frequently, of the stupid ding dang camera, the thing that instantly becomes part of your personal brand once you buy it. On the one hand, there is no need for another camera. Cameras are solved now to me, personally. I bought this camera the same way most people buy a car or refrigerator: you get it, use it, turn your brain off, don’t think about it until you have to. In the meantime, you sometimes take a step back, look at the object, see all of the lived-in dings & scuffs it’s suffered, and admire where you’ve been with it. I went through a lot of personal transformation in 2020–1 and feel like I’m living a second life in many ways, and the arrival of this object on April 09, 2021 is a non-negligible part of that.