September 14th, 2009 – 12:03+0000
In 2004, I bought the camera I wanted: a Nikon FM3a. I bought it after selling my Nikon N60, Pentax K1000, Canon AE-1, a Nikon kit zoom lens, and some other stuff I can’t even remember. I did all of this selling and buying on my feet in Kathmandu, Nepal, at the end of my Peace Corps service.
Five years later, again I’m selling so I can buy, selling my Nikon FM3a and the select lenses I bought to compliment my FM3a. So what camera could force me to part with my beloved? The Leica M9. And it’s not just a matter of selling this camera and several lenses to cover the purchase. I’m cleaning house, frankly, and selling whatever camera gear I have that I don’t use at least weekly.
Which, it turns out, is pretty much most of my gear.
If you’re interested in picking up the best film Nikon made, period, in my opinion, and the excellent and rare Nikkor 45mm 1:2.8P lens, you can check out my eBay auctions.
You can be confident that after I get my first ‘real’ Leica that I will write all about it.
April 21st, 2009 – 12:22+0000
When it comes to Web sites for smart phone software, be it Blackberry or Windows Mobile, it all seems rather sploggy to me. I can’t seem to find a Jabber client for Windows Mobile that doesn’t strike me as malware. One I downloaded had Google Adsense integrated—excluded, of course, from the screens on its homepage.
Blackberry has tried to follow the model of the Apple App Store, and Verizon provides a dodgy link to Handango (which is practically a splog, really). Granted, there is so much software out there for these two platforms it’s impressive. But there is absolutely not community commenting on it and reviewing it. I guess it’s sort of a trade-off between people doing their own thing and people being told what to do.
Anyhow. Someone please point me in the direction of a Jabber client for Windows Mobile. That will not brick my HTC Touch Diamond.
January 25th, 2009 – 19:46+0000
This evening, I lost a Voigtlander 28/35 minifinder off my Lumix LX3 hot shoe at the Woodside/61st St subway station. On the 7 train. Very disappointing.