The other day, when I came upon "Rayovac 4.0" batteries, which use "Lithium" all over the package, I was wondering if there was a new battery formulation that I wasn't aware of...

I'm somewhat sad about this. The latest Rollei 6x6 system sold as the Leaf AFi and Sinar Hy6, is the closest digital to having the Mamiya RB67 user experience. But Leaf is now owned by Phase One... and Phase One is already committed to the Mamiya system. But Rollei has been in bad shape for a long time now, so I'm not surprised.

The Online Photographer provides a size comparison for the E-P1.

I'm betting that I can pocket it, based on that.

As somebody who griped up a storm about Kodak's previous film discontinuations, I have to say that they are discontinuing film with the appropriate amount of respect for our loss this time...

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...