Got out yesterday to enjoy our amazingly stable central Colorado backcountry snow. While pockets of instability no doubt exist, much of our mid-alpine snowpack is a bonded birthday cake topped by fluffy cotton candy — yielding that blissful experience that’s…

Canon A series digital cameras were some of the best ever, learn about the past and what was good.

We became flower children this weekend. Hiking to Silver Creek Pass near Marble, Colorado. Flowers at timberline and just above are in full bloom. Sharp yellows and blues you can taste, punctuated by numerous columbines with their elegant pastels. Soul…

One of many option sets that the A640 firmware hack provides. Customizable real-time histogram shown. One of the best things about today’s digital cameras is that many models can be hacked by software engineers who write new “firmware” that adds…

Canon A600 series compact digicams. I love that they work with AA batteries, have a fold-out LCD, this is a review comparison A640 and A620.

We’ll, after more than a year of abuse we finally found a Canon A620 weakness. It was cold the other day in the backcountry, and my new Black Diamond Covert pack didn’t have external camera storage so I stuck the A620 in the vest pocket of my soft shell.