Knuckledragger

I'll echo the faster and zero timeouts comments. Yay tkam!

I like everything about the Balancing act except for the power light. It look like a 1980s motel phone. From what I recall (and can see from the above pic) the Moth gear used faceted light covers that looked both more classy and vintage. I really do like the sloped front and upward facing knobs. It (duh) recalls the storied Xana and has a great "mad scientist" feel about it.

These are current production models, and supposedly one can order them.

I love the ginormous 650 connectors.

Rorschach's journal. May 21st. The club is dying. Dancers are swaying and turning, like condemned hanging from the gallows. Their hearts are trying to go on, but their minds and bodies are dead. It's 4 am. The club is bleeding sweat like an open wound. I don't stop dancing. I try to keep everybody going, but it feels like the night is already dead and rotting in the gutter, being feasted on by stray dogs.

^^ Okay, that, ruled. I haven't seen it in about a decade.

Bad perfume?

Represent, Represent!

I disagree. Once one has calibrated how nuts and biased K-Rock is, it's possible to subtract that quantity from his reviews and extract some meaningful information. Additionally, he's often quite an entertaining read, though seldom in the manner he intends. The Fake Ken Rockwell can be amusing as well. For serious reading, I prefer The Online Photographer, who is wonderfully articulate and very cranky. His decimation of the Leica M8 is one of my favorite reads. Sadly, the field test of the M8 in Iraq he sites appears to be offline now. Back when Mike was known as the Sunday Morning Photographer, he wrote a guide to 35mm lens focal lengths which was instrumental for me my early days of SLR shooting.