Lotus on Loch Dalbeg

Thoughts about a recently announced product: http://www.meta35.com/.  It has a promotional video a bit like the one Nikon made for its Nikon Df camera.  Some lone photographer wandering around in the wilderness at one with nature.  In both products the message is that going retro is good.  For the Df I understand the attempt to make the user interface more like that found on F-series film cameras, although I disagree with the premise that such a user interface is superior to the ones found on modern digital SLRs.  For the Meta35 product, it is a replacement for a discontinued (and expensive) Nikon product that read in the camera settings stored on board certain late Nikon F-models, to allow the data to be exported onto a computer.  It may work quite well but the premise that I disagree with here is that film is superior to digital.  The only use-cases where I concede a film camera is still superior are framed in post-apocalyptic situations whereby mains electric power is not available.  On a similar vein, I used to think that for photographing penguins in the Antarctic a battery-optional camera like an FM-2 is the optimal choice, but I've seen enough excellent digital work from that part of the world to think the one plus-point of being able to operate in super-low temperatures without a battery has been eclipsed by modern technology.  So in summary, the Meta-35 is an interesting resurrection of a product designed to make film less painful to use.  But honestly, a DSLR is so much easier to use than a film SLR and a better choice if you're more interested in taking pictures than reminisce about ones youth.

A visit to this gem of a place: an Loch almost entirely covered with Lotus flowers.