I've been noticing some people finding my page on Google searching for more detailed information about the 383 Super. Now, since both of my 383's are presently dead and I've started to buy Vivitar 285 HV's instead, I might as well provide yet another guide.

Finally, we're starting to see strobist-specific flashes at cheap prices!

I'm a little scared about the A-series from Canon.

The A-series has represented a great Honda Civic (Or Toyota Corolla, which is the most recent car we've purchased) sort of experience. It's not excellent at anything in particular. It's not the smallest. It's not the most impressive. It's not the best in the darkness. But, at the very least, it gets you most of the way there. It takes decent pictures, has a decent user interface, and doesn't suck in any major way. And because it's utilitarian and not sexy, you don't pay tons of money for it.

The DP2 is a parallel follow-on to the DP1, with a big sensor and a prime lens, this time less of a wide-angle lens.

In some way, I always figured if I were to have an urge to go digital and a lot of money, the Rollei/Leaf/etc. MF digital system would be the one I'd get. But the company that makes it has just declared itself insolvent.

Ritz Camera is filing for bankruptcy. I guess, in today's age of digital photography, a general purpose electronics store can do just as good of a job at hiring disinterested folks to sell you digital cameras as a specialty store.

I agree with this assessment. An A-series Canon without manual modes is a piece of crap.

Apparently Ektar 100 is enough of a hit that now they're releasing it in 120 format as well as 35mm format.

Remember what I said yesterday about waterproof being the new thin? Canon has an inherently waterproof digital camera now too.

One of my co-workers just got herself a waterproof Olympus. The selling point was the lack of a silly plastic case that you'd have to put the camera in.

I suspect that inherently waterproof is the next thin.

In a brilliant demonstration of why competition is a damn good thing, PocketWizard is trying to change the game with their latest flagship set of radio remotes for strobist photography.

If you don't like the weather in California, drive to the next microclimate. If you are sick of how cold it is, go east and eventually you will hit desert. If you want to see snow, go up. If you want to ski and scuba dive in the same day, you can. On the other hand, if you want rain every day, you need to go north to Seattle, because we've got a rainy season in the wintertime and that's it.

I went on a nice mountain climbing bike ride yesterday and I took two shots a few hours apart and separated by some miles...

This is, in my opinion, a very welcome change on the part of Fuji. The Super CCD EXR sensor has been normally reserved for big cameras, not compact cameras, even though the benefits, especially in terms of being able to shoot a reasonable-dynamic-range or a pixel-binned 6 megapixel image on a 12 megapixel sensor are great, even for small cameras.

Previously, I talked about the basic facts behind batteries. Now, let's talk about how to put them into practice...

Batteries are the lifeblood of all photographers. Even film photographers have fun with batteries, because our flashes and meters and whatnot all end up requiring power. And, even more than memory or film, batteries are one of the biggest items we're always frustrated by. My G7 and most digital SLRs are fairly nice, in that you can (and should) pull the battery from the camera after you are done shooting and stick it in the charger. But then I start dealing with batteries for my flash.