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...

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. <br /> <br />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.