While having a coffee with Andreas a few days ago, he whipped out a magazine titelled "Black & White Photography". In the latest issue, there was a portfolio article on Tony Mendoza's grand pictures of Ernie, his flat-mate's cat. Tony snapped over 10000 negatives of Ernie over a two-year period, resulting in a photo-book which I have now ordered at a very reasonable price.

Reading the beforementioned magazine this evening, a leaflet fell out, advertising books on photography. My eye quicky recognised Martin Evening's "Adobe Photoshop CS For Photographers", and got me thinking. Has the latest edition been printed yet? Sure enough.

Imagine my surprise when I scoured the best Swedish online cheapest-book-finders, Bokfynd and Prispallen, checked them out thoroughly and found they not only displayed different prices, but also somewhat different suppliers. I'm not shocked by this fact, but it's drab none the less: these book-pimps are allied with a number of retailers. Should the cheapest and best retailer in the world not be allied with them, well, their books aren't very likely to show up in the Bokfynd/Prispallen roundabout. This is, of course, not limited to these two mentioned online advisors. They've got to make a living too, right? Still, I'm guessing a naughty (read: brilliant) programmer will (hopefully soon) plod along and create a web page that works without sponsors, i.e. not skewing the results according to cash-flow, but merely displaying the truth.

So, what happened? While hunting, I entered the online site of Akademibokhandeln where I could quickly see that the book is in stock, isn't expensive at all, and can probably be picked up tomorrow! Weee! Here's the link to it at Akademibokhandeln, and for all of you living abroad, here's the cheapest place I could find for you.

I love the predecessor to this edition of the book I've ordered, which I've loaned off [avatar:/bilder/avatars/staffan.gif]Staffan[/avatar]. The book still comes with a CD-R packed with demo films and pictures, making it easy to follow the leader. If you're interested in the book, read more about it here.

Now to bed. Tomorrow afternoon I'm meeting an English specialist in an area where I am most definitely not a specialist. I hope the person who's summoned me to this meeting knows what he's doing.

update: now that MS says it's adding RAW support to Longhorn, I guess the format's here to stay. Now, I'd only wish for Nikon to get a grip on reality and say they're letting go of the NEF file white balance encryption business.