If you look at a famous painting, you don't wonder what brand of brushes the now-decomposing artist used. Of course, if you go to a painters forum, you'll see passionate debates about which brand of brush to use.

Only a poor craftsperson blames their tools, but a good craftsperson will tend to get better results with better tools.

I'm primarily a film shooter, even though outside of photography, I'm quite "digital". My tastes in cameras are best described as somewhat idiosyncratic. I like to own reasonably priced cameras that can be made to produce excellent results.

17 Lies and half-truths in the Camera business
There are a lot of half-truths going around about photography. Generally, the various photographic equipment companies spread one or two of them, and then the various photography magazines and megasites play along because they realize that to go against what the photography companies want is a great way to not get access to the latest and greatest for review.
The last word on PMA 2008
There's been some hope that we're going to stop seeing the fairly stupid megapixel race progress and might actually see some new features in cameras. As usual, it didn't happen this PMA.
2/20/2008 lunar eclipse: Early HDR
A three exposure blend of the lunar eclipse
2/20/2008 lunar eclipse: Later HDR
A three exposure blend of the lunar eclipse
A polaroid pinhole photograph
A blue-tinged picture of chairs and sculpture in San Francisco.
Start of the 2/20/2008 lunar eclipse
The eclipse was starting right around moonrise....