@Renzo: Tripods usually areren't that great a place to skimp, but if you're willing to wait a bit, I'd go 055XPROB from Manfrotto. It's a great tripod, and very tall and sturdy.

@Atsumi AKA Tiff: Yea, I noticed the dust afterward. :p

I do hope it doesn't devolve into hundreds of "Rack focus to minimum, widest aperture, point at lights" pictures. At least it's not Christmas anymore, so we have that going for us.

@EHinesNWI: What? I can't see anything past the 50mm f/1.2. Drool.

@MTVAH: Huh, maybe it does. I swear I read that wall of press release 4 times trying to find anything relating to it, but couldn't find anything.

@MTVAH: Neither of these have a manual focus ring...

@Warmonger: The marketing department. And those who like giant smears of a picture in anything other than broad daylight.

@Cribbage Left: Sensors in SLRs and company don't have the necessary circuitry to turn off the ability to capture light. Therefore, an object must be placed in between the lens and the sensor to prevent additional light from contaminating the read out.

I dunno, it's nice to see someone making dSLRs in colors that aren't black. I prefer the less seizure inducing designs from Pentax, but I can't hate on anyone for bringing color to a bland segment.

I wish they'd make cars with lower beltlines again. Every new car I've looked at recently (mostly hatchbacks) has the bottom of the driver's side window in the neighborhood of my chin, and I'm 6'1". Can't see anything.

Shame the sleeve numbers are positioned wrong. Phillies home uni sleeve numbers shouldn't be facing forward like they are in this shot. Very odd looking.

Kinda surprised these aren't considered photo illustrations by the NYT. Usually major news publications take a severe stand against any editing past cropping and minor simple editing to make it show up right on newsprint.

Neat technology, but from what I could tell it's only rolled out at a few ski resorts, and only one of them was located in the USA. I wonder how much it costs to add these onto a lift.

Couldn't this involve having to retrain every Department of the Interior employee on Google Apps instead of MS Office? That seems like it would be a reason to restrict it to MS products only.

@JohnnyricoMC: Kilogram is a unit of mass. Newtons are the unit of weight (and all other forces as well) in the metric system.

Used to be able to do this from New York to London. Would tell you to swim across the Atlantic Ocean.

@Wheema: There are plenty of countries working on Watt balances. NIST just happens to have the most accurate one at the moment I believe.

@Bluecold: Well, I have been thoroughly out-scienced. Good show sir.

@WestwoodDenizen: Basically any material will change mass over time given this amount of time and level of precision. Defining the kilogram in terms of an elementary constant is much more accurate long term.

@Lemonade: The integrity of the kilogram is important to everyone.