Kodak is dedicated to film for a while, they just realize that kodackrome's niche is pretty tiny. They did introduce Ektar, which is a pretty nice fine grain negative film. I just wish they sold it in 4x5 sheets. I am a big fan of ektachrome VS, can't beat the colors and resolution, too bad it's $5 every exposure I make. I look at it this way, film is pay as you go, and digital is pay it all up front. I could have bought a nice digital rig by now, but I would have had to get $10,000 pulled together. Instead I use a camera that is as old as my grandma and good ol' film.

I have ubuntu studio installed on my machine along side XP. I like the idea of opensource, and I want to try using it for a photo project. I know I will miss my standard adobe apps, and it will be a transition. I think the reason I want to do this is so that I ca work it into a not for profit photo course curriculum and a community project. It would fit the bill and run on cheap hardware. I have one problem I cannot overcome, and it's my own fault. I have a ntfs raid that I store all my photo data on (raid 1, sil soft raid card, sata) and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to mount and use the raid in ubuntu. Everything else has worked fine.... or I have been able to figure it out. I want to like linux and I guess maybe my system is just weird, but I figured this sort of stuff would be easy to make work. I think for educational projects it is a good fit, it would make a small budget have a little wiggle room by eliminating the need for $500 worth of software. Ubuntu Studio is an interesting option and I want to try to exploit it.

Yeah, when I bought my phone, I asked for a monochrome phone with no camera... apparently those don't exist unless you use a tracfone. I want long battery life and small form factor. All the features I could have with this phone (mp3, video, gps) require service charges. I am a photographer, I usually have a way batter camera close at hand, I only use it to take embarrassing pictures of my drunk friends, and even then I would have rather just saved 50 bucks, the camera is not better than the first digi cam I owned. pffft. Iphones are pretty cool, but still, I typically just make calls.