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.

What about the 1 over focal length rule?
This came up the other day on the photo discussion list at work, where one of the guys pointed out one of the many millions of flame wars on the subject and stated that there had to be one correct answer to the question of how the 1 over focal length rule (meaning if you have a 50mm lens, you need to have your shutter at least at 1/50) applies to digital SLRs with crop-factor.
The Nokia N95 demo in San Francisco
Just a quick note that I'm going to be helping demo the Nokia N95 (which has one of the better cellphone cameras on the market right now) next week.
TFP Documentary / Image Theft / Leica M8
Somebody's writing a documentary about the TFP modeling community, some more thoughts on image theft, and a Leica M8 is shown to be pretty awful for real use in Iraq.
Arc
Ella making arch forms
Arch
Ella making arch forms
Melinda liked her peacoat
Melinda in her Peacoat
Spaceship construction
The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco taken in Infrared.
Desert cameraphone experiment
The Anza-Borrego Desert taken by the Nokia N95
Anza-Borrego in IR
Desert and mountains in infrared.
Desert landscape
A desert strewn with plants, with mountains in the background.
Sutro Tower at night
The Sutro Tower at night, complete with star trails.
Ruined Tower
A wooden tower, falling apart, and sinking into the marsh, from the abandoned ghost town of Drawbridge
Santa Cruz Lighthouse
A lighthouse at night with funky concrete forms along the path
Martian Landscape
A landscape from Point Reyes that happens to look fairly outworldly