I just love those guys at B&H… Not only do they have the BEST online and on site service, but they have great price and write great articles. This time I am talking about the Epson Stylus Pro 3800.

For those who aren’t familiar with this printer, it’s probably the closest thing you can buy to print in professional quality (9 inks) up to 17×22″ @1440Dpi and 43.2lb (damn!) for less than $1,300!! So what do you get for the $$$??

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Not too long ago, I mentioned how those Swiss can be crazy sometimes… Not that often, but once in a while they come up with some pretty amazing shit, like the Seitz 6×17 160 mega pixel panorama camera!!

Ok, that thing looks funny the way the guy is holding it, it seems pretty big… Of course, the camera is hand-made in Switzerland and is unique.

Lensbabies are a very fun lenses to play with, giving creative results for little $$$!

Press Release:

“3rd Generation Selective Focus SLR Lens Locks in Bent Position, Allows Precision Focusing

Cologne, Germany; Photokina Hall 5.2, Booth D028 (September 26, 2006) ‚Äì Today Lensbabies, LLC launched its 3rd generation selective focus Single Lens-Reflex (SLR) lens, Lensbaby 3G, introducing new features that dramatically expand the Lensbaby product family’s capabilities.

The Lensbaby 3G SLR lens allows photographers to lock the Lensbaby in a desired bent position simply by pressing a button. Then, using a traditional barrel focus mechanism, photographers can do fine focusing and precisely place the sweet spot of sharp focus before pressing the shutter release. The Original Lensbaby lens and the Lensbaby 2.0 lens require the photographer to manually hold the Lensbaby in a bent position while pressing the shutter release.”

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Oh you heard me alright!! I am talking about a 21x magnification @ 256kg (+/- 500lbs) monster (also called the Apo Sonnar T* 4/1700)!!

Of course, that World’s largest telephoto lens is made by Zeiss… Told you those Swiss were crazy ahah!

I am curious how much $$$ tho :-O
P.S. Yeap, it’s a medium format attached to that big fucker ah!

Eventho if I know some Pro who are wetting their pants as I write this article, the Leica M8 can kiss my French ass!! With a street price of $4,750 (it’s not a typo…), NO fabric shutter, NO manually cocking?! Yeah, maybe I’ll pass…

There’s some interesting tech in it though. The sensor uses an uneven array of micro lenses to try to compensate for the light fall off inherent to larger sensors. But seriously now… 5 gees for this???!!!

SAMSUNG Announces First 40-nanometer Device — 32 Gb NAND Flash with Revolutionary Charge Trap Technology

Ok, I need to laugh out fucking LOUD!! Some might say “f*ck crapping out, that is a hard drive killer!!” but it’s all relative…

I doubt Samsung’s expecting P&S users to buy these.

But if you’re shooting with a MF back that takes CF (yes, they exist) where you’re dealing with 50MB RAW files, then you’re going to want some hefty storage.

You guys realize this card will most likely be, like… $10,000, right?

Price per MB of flash memory is ridiculously high still.