It's always tricky talking about buying camera gear. This becomes frequently a case of "Hey, please rob me!" or "Hey, look at me, I'm a douchebag with a well paying job" or other stuff. But since this story involves rage, my own stupidity, and a few thoughts about the whole freaking point of a lensless camera, I'll tell it.

This seems to be the "If I had to buy a new camera" camera at the moment. A worthy upgrade from the E-P3 that I still very much like

Kodak joins the Micro 4/3rds party. This is unexpected on one level, but Kodak has long been a member of the 4/3rds consortium, so on another level it isn't.

The first photographic expedition of 2013 was east to Yosemite to play in the snow and take some pictures of majestic scenery while it's nice and snow covered... and to enjoy Yosemite while it's not loaded down with tourists looking for easy hikes...

Some people think that digital photography has destroyed our industry. It's too easy to endlessly copy digital files in lieu of going back to the photographer for official reprints, too easy for a bad photographer to spray-and-pray their way to a good shoot, etc.

So I spent... well, the time starting around March of the year until very recently not doing much shooting, not doing much editing, etc. Now, some of this was because of silly drama completely unrelated to photography, but I had some conversations, made some daring moves, etc. and took care of that stuff but photography was still not happening.

Canon EOS M means that Canon has decided to really compete for the mirrorless camera market. Hm.

Being told by cops to put my camera away bothers me from both the freedom-and-civil-liberties angle and also the taking-nice-pictures angle. Nice to see occasional victories on this front.

Another nice pocketable large-sensor compact. If compact camera makers want to stay relevant, they need to make cameras more like this instead of cameras that largely duplicate your cameraphone.

It would be really really nice to be able to stick your phone where the LCD screen of your laptop is. On the first approximation, it makes perfect sense. Arguably, it's silly for one of the camera manufacturers to not make a really good phone-backpack P&S camera to try and rescue their declining…