Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

The frustrating circle of measuring measuring.

The most difficult photograph to take is of my camera. I need another camera to take a photograph of my camera. I don’t want a poor-quality photograph of my camera, so I need a second camera that is just as good or better than my camera.

If I had a second camera that is just as good or better than my camera, it would be my camera and I would discard my first camera. Now I need another camera that is…I think we are going around in circles.

Hence, we are stuck with the problem of measuring a measuring device. How do we know the second measuring device is as good or better than the first measuring device. If it is better, we must replace the first measuring device and…wait, we are back in that circle, again.

There must be a better answer. I don’t know what it is, but I would like to believe there is a better answer. All I wanted was a picture of my camera.

This science stuff isn’t so easy.