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Broadmoor Rather than belaboring the details of how and why I ended up at the Broadmoor, suffice it to say that a few weeks ago I had the opportunity to spend a weekend at one of the most beautiful/pretentious hotels in the world. The Broadmoor is in Colorado Springs, tucked right at the foot of [...]

Photokina, the world’s biggest photography equipment show is coming up, so there have been tons of announcements of new products in the lead-up to it… Leica has finally announced the long-awaited M8 digital rangefinder. I really like the idea of a (relatively) small, quiet digital camera with interchangeable lenses, but unfortunately since it’s Leica the [...]

Chris and I got together last Saturday to take some pictures. It was raining pretty vigorously off and on, so we ended up just walking over to the Botanical Gardens, which are right near my apartment but which I don’t visit nearly enough. Between the two of us we were carrying enough photo gear that [...]

So earlier this week Nikon announced what looks to be another killer camera, the D80. For the “I’ve misplaced the manual and I need to know what this button does” preview, DPReview’s got your back as usual. For a more concise overview of the new camera and functionality, I’d look at Rob Galbraith’s take. For [...]

I’ve found myself fascinated lately by the upcoming DSLR from Panasonic, the Lumix DMC-L1. I’ve run across a handful of pages related to this camera over the last couple weeks, and I thought I’d share them. DPReview have gotten their grubby mitts on one, and have a hands-on preview up. Panasonic have an interesting set [...]

D2oo: First Light Above is literally the first shot out of my new D200. I figure since 200 is about 3x 70, this new camera should make me a 300% better photographer, right? Just kidding, of course. But the D200 is definitely a nice step up from the D70. It’s not my intent to do [...]

I suppose this was probably inevitable, sooner or later. Nikon has announced that they’re seriously curtailing their film-based camera business, cutting their film body production back to just the new F6 and the entry-level manual FG10, dropping all but a handful of their manual-focus lenses, and stopping production of things like their large format lenses. [...]

Yesterday, Adobe announced Lightroom, a “professional photographic workflow tool” similar to Apple’s Aperture. It won’t be released for some time, I think, but they released a Mac-only beta when they announced it yesterday. Far more experienced and qualified photographers than myself have weighed in on it, but I thought I’d give my impressions from playing [...]