Kodachrome is gone.

Several years ago, I looked up how big the old APS film cameras were, under the assumption that, given that a dSLR is the same size as an old film SLR, it will eventually be possible to make an APS-C digital camera the same size as an old APS film cmaera. This turns out to be awfully small, especially with a prime lens. I also eventually read about the Olympus PEN series. And the Pentax Auto 110 SLR system.

Okay, feeling digital camera lust for the first time in at least a year.

I'll write more about this later...

The most important pictures are often the ones the authorities have damn good reason to not let you keep.

This could be very interesting. The long-rumored micro 4/3rds camera that is actually tiny, unlike the G1?

I'm unsatisfied with the present set of tutorials out there about how to make panoramas, so I thought I'd write my own. Most of the tutorials were written using many of the assumptions that old software enforced upon you. Modern stitching software is leaps and bounds above that and Hugin has become very modern very recently...

I love and hate the lomographic society. It's nice that they can market film to the masses as something that is cool and special and stuff.... but there's a point at which they become an obstruction to the market. I'm certainly not paying what they want me to pay for their cameras.

I found a nice JavaScript panorama viewer, so I upgraded the site...

Just so you know, I'm presently obsessed with panoramas...

I love the *idea* of stitched panoramas. I've been more in love with the idea until very recently, because I kept having problems getting them to stitch...

I'm wondering what's going to really turn out to work in the market. Right now, the Serious Compact market is mostly tiny sensors cameras like the G7/G9/G10 or the LX3. There's the Sigma large-sensor compact...

It's $2250, but I still kinda want the Voightlander Bessa III 6x7 folding rangefinder. Not bad enough to pass around a hat.... yet. :D

The crash-landing of Flight 1549 was amazing. A brilliant counter-example to the whole bland "Planes can fly themselves" thing. When both engines eat geese, I really do want a person in the cockpit making decisions, not some robot. Might as well pray for divine intervention instead of land the damn thing (which has happened in the past, too). Anyway, a photographer got access to the plane and the recovery process for the crane company... and now people who don't have the right to tell him he can't post the images online are telling him he can't post the images online.

Sadly, the Pentax medium format lineup seems to have reached it's final end, much to the dismay of my friends who are too limp-wristed to carry a Real Man's Camera (i.e. the Mamiya RB67/RZ67)

Canon's 220EX has been out for ages to represent the "tiny little flash" market. The only problem is, it has no useful features to speak of that the built-in flash already has, just a smidge more power. It has no bounce or zoom, for example. The 270EX zooms and tilts up for zoom and even lets you control the advanced features on most of the modern G-series and EOS-series cameras via the rear LCD.

Sounds cool, but it's a little expensive, given the flash power.