Apparently people are mad that the D3x is $8,000 for a 24 megapixel camera and the Sony A900 is $3,000 for a 24 megapixel camera (with Zeiss prime lenses available).

But you can always bring out an up-and-coming meme, I guess.

Personally, I hate Black Friday when everybody is out shopping for Christmas joy on the same day, with doorbuster sales that have me worried about dodging bullets and getting trampled.

You knew it was coming. The D2 line was split between the fast sports-oriented body and the slow landscape-oriented body. Now the same is true for the D3x vs. the D3.

Familiarity brings friendship, which is why my favorite lens is the lens I've owned the longest...

There are a lot of people who are stuck to the idea that a good camera MUST necessarily have a reflex mirror. What makes EVF's really good wasn't obvious to me until I started shooting my RB67, even though my RB67 has a reflex mirror...

I'm surprised. The G10 is actually not half bad, even with tiny pixels on a tiny sensor. And TOP admits they were wrong about being so negative about it.

I guess all of the Polaroid users who have been buying up the last of the Polaroid film have shown Fuji that there really is a market. The Fuji integral color film is pretty similar to the Polaroid stuff, just different sizes and shapes, so you need a new camera. But at least you can get a nice and instant film new in the stores again!

Sigma, who has been the only user of Foveon sensors for quite some time now, has now completed the deal by buying the firm up.

I've been keeping my eye on these three cameras, given that one of the three is my current option when my G7 dies. Although I'm also holding out hope for a bigger sensor serious compact.

I'm very stingy with gear. When I purchase anything, I spend a lot of time researching and agonizing over it. I think more than a hundred bucks is a lot of money to spend on a lens. I make lighting bits out of cardboard and gaffer's tape.

I like to view what people are hitting my site about so that I can make the content of my site more useful. Sometimes, I'll notice a search that seems to ask a question but I'm not sure if I've got a great answer for it, so here's some short answers...

A review of the slide films available in 2008.

If I look at the advances in sensors and sensor processing that are coming out of the labs and sometimes even shipping in products, I realized something interesting. The game has changed at the research labs. See, previously, the goal was to make a sensor that had the highest resolution. Now, the goal is to still ship sensors with more megapixels but without changing the "real" resolution. And this may be a good thing.

I'm really looking forward to the new apartment. There's a lot to look forward to about it. The problem is, I haven't done much shooting in weeks because of all the moving stuff...

So I didn't expect this. I don't even like posting on my sites during the day, just the evening or the morning. But Leica announced their S2 digital SLR system, which pretty much takes the smallest sized medium format digital backs sensor sizes and wraps an SLR system around it.

Much depends on what happens when folks get their hands on it and how it gets marketed. Leica has a habit of launching technically superior cameras that are purchased primarily by rich doctors and not by professional or even amateur photographers.