Nikon, you sly dog, you

Secrets in the photography industry are no longer safe these days it seems. It was rumoured for weeks that Canon was going to announce their new line of digital cameras, headlined with the Canon 50D, on August 26, and subsequently Nikon was going to announce their new digital camera(s), headlined with the Nikon D90, on August 27. Well yesterday, Canon announced the expected upgrade to the Canon 40D, the Canon EOS 50D, and today, Nikon announced the Nikon D90. It had been rumoured also for weeks that Nikon was going to bring video to the D90, and the Internets were exclaiming, "Nikon wouldn’t do that!" Oh, but they did, and they did it well*. Wow.

I’ve got to head to the beach now, so I’ll continue this later, but wow is Canon lagging behind Nikon at this point. Makes me almost want to switch…

The Bayview bus comes only once an hour during midday. Absolutely shameful. I need to live in a big city with decent public transit after living in London in the Winter.

* Note: No auto-focus, only 5-minute clips, and only matrix-metering, but still it’s 720p and 24fps.