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Li-Po is beautiful... when the object using it is just remotely ;) near you.
But having it on us, a lot of time in our pocket or bags, just begs a much bigger disaster than the few cases from...

Awesome, that was my first thought: a real life Nerd Herd for canonites :)
Go Chuck (Westfall), go!

Looks like I got it completely backwards... :(
Mea culpa. I led myself into believing some marketing blurbs, promoting LiPo as the next holy hellholey grail; sounds more like hellholey grail... Did...

Could be built by Sanyo or Panasonic (the heavyweights in the area, until consolidating) and still be asked more than what is reasonably safe; see the endless blunders in laptop batteries until...

@jimmy.walsh indeed, I was thinking about the new 105/1.4
And I still remember perfectly the 180/2.8, including the weird thing with having *one* differently coloured screw in the mount...

I really hope that either a new tech is developed (not a variant of Li-ion/LiPo) or we actually get powerful yet controllable supercapacitors.
Right now, the quest for more and more energy heads...

The only thing „pedestrian” is the boring ease at which Canon's 70-300v2 focuses lightning quick, not like some movie-pleasing „pulse motors” which mostly just give the impression of quickness,...

135 f/2DC was a borderline useless lens. You got so much more with the new 135/1.4, in basically the same package. Even the price was „updated” surprisingly modest, basically less than the real...

People repeatedly informed you (in this article and in several others back in time) that backwards compatibility is for when you get a new camera with an old lens, not the other way around. Because...

Fast for what? Landscapes? Never heard anyone daring to say that the P lenses are more than decent/mediocre when it comes to focusing speed.
Or, to put it another way: fast compared to what? Even...

Meanwhile the Canon 70-300 v2 costs less, in what seems to be the best recent 70-300 (or equivalent) from any manufacturer.
But if there is cost involved, Tamron has a very nice 70-300 too.

Of course that (at some point in time) there will be an update to the long all-in-one zoom. And for sure it will be „updated” in cost more than enough to make a significant difference, even if it...

AF: the pulse motors from Nikon are mediocre at best, maybe it's an useful update if they changed their tech.
VR: more than welcome, and looks like the only clear reason to update.
Electronic...

Closer MFD, but same magnification: focus breathing, aka this lens is about 300mm at the tele end only when focused towards infinity. Much like the second version of 70-200/2.8 (and apparently...

Nice to know!
Too bad the 4/3 sensors and the supporting tech are truly mature only now; I still wish that the 4/3 mount would make a comeback, for people that still appreciate a viewfinder. Too...

Wow, what a „bright side” you conjured from this story... At least the spammy site with the same name only shows mildly entertaining things, to get you clicking aimlessly.
You just went straight on...

The 9000F is a perfectly fine scanner. Still, as you can see in a few comments above, more and more people feel the need to have a better solution.

One solution would be a (backlighted) copy stand with macro rail, and maybe using a camera that can do multiple shots per image for extracting full colour information at every pixel: Olympus (with...

Umm... Great, Nikon already used that external colour sensor (for the whitebalance) in the D2h/D2x/D2Hs.
Still, it wouldn't hurt to have it (again) as an option.

Good. The fact that you can get 40c/year from a un user is great, even greater if you can do that with millions of users. Still, do remember that people that used Photobucket were (in overwhelming...