This was a particularly good morning, so I’m posting today’s photos for your enjoyment.

There’s a camera backstory here. I have to confess that I’ve been thinking about buying a new camera that focuses fast enough to properly capture the dogs we meet in the morning. I do “okay” with my current collection of cameras, but have far more out-of-focus rejects than would be the case with a faster camera. And it’s more work to learn to trust my own sense of timing, guessing what the dog is going to do next and planning ahead to catch “the moment.” It’s a lot easier to rely on the latest tech to remove more of the guesswork.

But I’m also cheap, so have managed (so far) to fight off the urge to splurge. Instead, I decided to give a bit more life to my oldest current camera. It’s a Sony RX1, a wonderfully small full-frame digital camera with a very sharp 35mm fixed lens. The camera was first introduced in 2012, and I bought this copy used a couple of years later from KEH.com. It’s a bit worn by now, but still is capable of great photos. But its batteries have worn out, and don’t hold much of a charge. I thought about trading the camera in, but instead I checked out the cost of a new battery or two.

And there, courtesy of Amazon, was a set of three third-party batteries, with a charger, for half the cost of a new Sony-branded battery. But Amazon won’t ship the batteries to Hawaii. The timing was right, though, and I had them delivered to Meda’s brother in Portland, and we picked them up from him while we were there last week.

I carried the RX1, with new battery, yesterday and today. Both day’s photos were posted to Facebook, and I decided to share this morning’s photos here as well.

When push comes to shove, I love this letter camera, old and slow as it is modern digital terms. I like the colors, the sharpness that this lens produces, I even like being slowed down a bit by the camera.