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Its the LX3 once more. A recent night shot at 400 ISO.

We still hear about good old film. Is film better than digital is it more stable, safer to store etc. Many reply with ridiculous self serving full of themselves artistic reasons while others, and there are many, reply with nerdy technological reasons. The real post that sort of irked me was one where the interlocutor replied that if kept, under a "cool and dry place," film would be a better archival medium as we did not have to keep replicating digital files as new storage medias came out. MY REPLY WAS THIS: What you say about cool dry places is in itself chimerical but even if you could find someone who would be able to do so, after you are gone, film begins to age and change from the moment it's manufactured. Black and white film, begins a slow process of "fogging" while stored and the negatives, even stored in a cool dry place, do deteriorate slowly. With color, the problems increase as each layer ages differently. Prints of course are a different matter. I ...

It's NYC this time. A night view from Queens of Manhattan. Taken with the superb Panasonic LX 3. A follow up on my impressions of this gem will soon follow.

We like to keep things simple here. We love photography and not equipment that tends to get in the way or tries to make one a "show off." Olympus new micro 4/3 camera, a sort of re emergence of the legendary Pen F of yore, is such a camera whose outer simplicity and good looks hide a true picture taking machine. Steves Digicams one of our links below, has published a great and detailed review of this fascinating camera. Please click on the link below. Let us know what you think.

Back to Tuscany. San Gemignano, know for it towers. Only a few of its more that 60 now remain on this hill top town. Taken in April of 2007 with a Nikon D200 and the 18-85 kit lens. Great travel lens.

It's back to the incomparable Brooklyn Botanic Garden. It's early spring, Apri2 2, 2009, and the place is coming alive as spring tries to win it's long battle with winter. The camera is the Nikon D700 and the lens is the Nikkor 14nn f2.8.

It's Sicily again. The camera is a Canon A620 P&S. August of 2006.

I'm re-posting this article as the buzz about it's inclusion in the new Nikon DSLR's is inevitable. Yet there are those who tenaciously and quite stubbornly will not accept it's inclusion. They feel somewhat threatened by such an innovation that blurs that demarcation, that until recently, was inviolable. Change is hard as we all know. Therefore i will reprint the original post in order to explain my view on this important topic. The buzz word today is VIDEO. Its creating quite a stir on many photo websites and blogs. There is great passion for and against video in a still camera. Personally, I have no use for video. Many of my cameras have had video but never used it. However, the profession is changing especially in photo journalism and internet reportage. We now have so called "webisodes" and other areas of interest to the younger photographers who really have no attachment to cameras as such. We, and I speak for myself and many like me who began decades a...

It's again to the "oh what 4 megapixels can do" theme. Shot at dusk in April of 2004, with a Canon 1D and the 15-35 f2.8 L.

Back to Sicily and back to the theme that fancy, high powered cameras are not always needed. August 2006. Taken with a Canon A 620 P&S. Not bat at all.