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.

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.