Knuckledragger

aussiehole?

Then it really is Schiit.

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Technicolor yawn.

I want an S95 ...so I can convert it to infrared. My 30D provides me with little joy, but Canon has yet to make a camera that I want enough to pay for it. Likewise, Nikon hasn't quite lured me to jump ship to their system, either. If the D700S ever materializes, I just might do it. Fortunately for me, Nikon are the kings of heel dragging. On the other hand, I've been carefully studying film bodies. Not 35mm, either. I'd like a medium format rangefinger. A Mamiya 6 or 7 would do nicely. Such things do not come cheaply. To wit: Body + "kit lens": $3700 50mm wide angle: $2323 The 43mm super wide angle lens is cooler, but it requires an external finder, which is a PITA. 150mm portrait lens: $1800 I could save myself a little bit by buying the M7II as a body only. The 80mm is the least interesting lens for the system, and it adds over $1300 to the cost. Obviously, used prices are lower on all this gear. Not as much lower as one might imagine. It's a buyers market for 35mm film bodies, but medium and large format have not been so swept by the digital tide. In the medium format world, this is particularly true for the Mamiya rangefinders. They are much smaller, lighter and easier to carry around than tanklike Hasselblads. With the 50mm or 43mm, the 7 is less cumbersome than many DSLRs. Adorama has an older Mamiya 7 Mk I used for $750 and a couple used 150 and 80mm lenses. No used wide angles, though. Again, this is for a reason. The larger the film format, the better it lends itself to wide angle shots, and the more landscape photographers like it. Ansel Adams lugged around an 8x10" camera the size of a microwave. Of course, then I'd need a substantial amount of infrastructure to develop, print and scan my exposures. The total cost of which would buy a decent used car. Expensive stuff, indeed. I really like the idea of a camera system that excels with the use of only two lenses, and isn't going to get much more obsolete in one year or ten than it is now.

Glad that wasn't around here.

Morning Head-Case. You're up early.

Impossibly good Detroit electro.

Portal Cat.

Sega returns to console gaming with its Toylet | Electronista WTF, Japan Sega?

I just went outside for a second. Man, it's really windy out there. Very nasty. Curiously, there hasn't been much accumulation beyond what was there last night. I might stumble out in a bit and take a pic. The wind dies down, that is.

I always wanted an AT-AT as a kid. I was in Sprawl-Mart last week, and they had the current version for $100. I felt an urge that goes back three decades to buy the damn thing. (I didn't do it.) Curiously, the AT-AT was about $100 in 1980, too. Damn kids don't know how good they have it.