I got word that Kodak is discontinuing some sizes of chemicals and even discontinuing selling some of them...

I've been out and about, which is why I didn't post about this earlier. Ricoh is offering a new system that allows the user to swap out a lens-sensor unit.

I'm not sure what to think of the Ricoh GXR. Clearly there's an advantage here. With a big-sensor prime lens and a small-sensor zoom lens, you don't have anything big and bulky... But the engineer in me figured we've got a few cranks of Moore's Observation (you know, the one that says that CPUs get twice as fast every 24 months?) such that the usefulness of the GXR as a long term system purchase isn't likely to be great. But, on the gripping hand, I should also note that my PC still has serial ports, even though it can go many times faster via USB, so maybe it's less of an issue than I think.

I am, however, very much impressed by how quirky Ricoh is allowing themselves to be. In a world of look-alike digital SLRs, it's nice to see some variety.

Galen Rowell is one of the links on the long chain of truly inspirational wildlife photographers. If Ansel Adams was the master of the super-sharp black and white print, Galen was the master of the 35mm Kodachrome and Velvia slide, taken while messing around up in the mountains.

I thought this story was worth sharing, about this while I drove through Bishop, off to photograph some of the same scenery that he'd photographed when he was alive.

I've been following these cameras for a while. Good thing I didn't pre-order the E-P1 now that the E-P2 is on the way out. :)

I want the impossible. I want a lightweight geared head vaguely like the Arca CUBE for under $200. Failing that, a good pan-tilt head with a ARCA-Swiss type mount. Unfortunately, neither of these are available. Actually, there aren't even any really good geared heads for cheap, heavy or not. So I ended up getting one of the fairly hard to find pan-tilt heads that doesn't have a quick release at all and I'll buy some proper quick release hardware later..

This is about the only way you could get me to shoot B&W digital. Actually, it's kind of a lust object now, along with a fairly comprehensive set of filters.

I was talking with a friend who is in the market for a new P&S camera and this came up.. She wanted a new compact P&S camera and isn't trying to be a hardcore professional photographer. Eventually, after we talked about it and looked at the huge number of different almost-similar P&S cameras, I…

Review of my current tripod

The Leica X1 is a fixed lens camera with a 24mm f/2.8 lens and a 1.5x crop factor APS-C sensor. Expensive, but gives the Sigma fixed-lens APS-C cameras high-end competition.

Panasonic is announcing the GF1, which is their equivalent to the Olympus E-P1. They've also got two nice Micro 4/3rds lenses to go with it.