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Haven't posted in a long time. Here, have something unoriginal and trite.


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Due to a comedy of errors (I'm not laughing right now), it turns out that my macro lens hit the floor tile in my hallway. Frantic testing produced abnormal behavior, which tugrik confirmed to be damage to the USM ringmotor ( Read more... )

Ladies and gentlemen of the LazyWeb, I am about to give back to you.

I shoot in RAW format on my Canon 40D. I have grown weary of the fine folks at Canon dicking around and being utterly unable to provide a codec for 64-bit versions of Windows. All I want to do is be able to see thumbnails of my photos in RAW format that are on my CF card or hard ( Read more... )

I got email back from the Canon factory service center. They received the 40D yesterday and have done a preliminary evaluation. That being said, $202 is the current estimate to repair my broken dSLR.

They also sent along a little note that hey, if I Really Want I could upgrade to a refurbished 50D for $699 ( Read more... )

It's official, Kodak is retiring Kodachrome film at the end of 2009 ( Read more... )

I haven't felt like using my camera in quite some time. I don't know if I'm working too much, depressed or just having a bout of self-doubt about my limited photography skillset. I did actually bring my kit with me as I had meant to shoot some more neon on the way back from Kenosha last night, but we were so late when we left (and we still had Jazz ( Read more... )

According to this New York Times article, New York cops think it is -- even though they're dead wrong. Not that being wrong stopped them from harassing, arresting and issuing a number of summons to the photographer. Lawsuits will probably (and quite rightly) ensue, with the tax payers of New York ultimately footing the bill for the ignorance and ( Read more... )

Except, perhaps, when you're being encouraged by Amtrack to take pictures of their trains. I don't even know what to say about this.

Armed with his Canon 5D and his new Lensbaby lens, photographer Duane Kerzic was out to win Amtrak’s annual photo contest this week, hoping to win $1,000 in travel vouchers and have his photo published in Amtrak’s ( Read more... )