So that's what it is! Being an amateur with a superficial knowledge of photography, whose kit is limited to a couple of crap digicams, a basic 35mm SLR, a tripod and a few colour-correction filters, I often wondered what the hell were those 'rangefinder' cameras pros talked about, and even when I asked people who should know the answer was quite fuzzy. At last, this page explains it, with the simple technical details I needed to understand. Hm, makes me want to play around with one. I wonder if there are any good Leicas in auction... 990000···

Film piracy, circa 1975, when 'film piracy' did mean 'film piracy'. I guess entertainment cartels acting like pricks isn't anything new. We actually owe film pirates a great deal, as Film History is full of lost masterpieces because of celuluid deterioration, accidents and studios that just didn't care about maintaining archives, and many old movies were saved because someone did a timely but often illegal copy.···

Something for the architects: The Tall Buldings exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art looks interesting, though most of the images on the Flash site look like constructions out of sci-fi comic books rather than real constructions. My favourite somehow is the Chinese Television building, the one that looks like a giant square arch, maybe because it looks so... impossible.···