Clear statement from Zeiss - now with the ZF system. Cosina takes on the role of Kyocera - including the production of Zeiss lenses. And parallel to ZF, there will also be ZS - M42 lenses. However, the use of M42 lenses on Canon EOS cameras is quite boring, as there is no aperture function. With ZF, the full status of manual Nikon lenses should hopefully be supported.
Hmm. I think I need to take a look at the D200 with a manual lens to see if it's possible to achieve usable focusing. With the EOS, it simply doesn't work - at least not with the 10D or 20D, as these do not allow changing the focusing screens and the AF indicator does not work with lenses connected via adapter. On the tiny focusing screens of the AF-digitals, you can't focus by focusing screen at all - completely unusable for critical situations, where focusing estimation by scale is still more precise ...
Actually, this would be exactly my dream system - a solid, robust camera with decent focusing aid, something around 8 MP in the chip and in front of it the Zeiss lenses that I like very much.
Katz Eye Focusing Screen for the Canon 10D @ KatzEyeOptics.com - Replacement focusing screen for the EOS 10D with split-image indicator and microprisms and - optionally - composition lines. Fished from my comments - thanks, Wolf. The focusing screens are also available for other camera types. Unfortunately, the AF point illuminations no longer work with the EOS, so suboptimal for mixed use.
RapidWeaver has been around for a while, but I hadn't seen it until now. Quite a funny idea: essentially a GUI editor for websites, not just individual pages. There are pre-made templates for various purposes (blogs, photo albums, etc.) and integrated, specialized editors for these elements. With a plugin API to program your own page types. But absolutely not WYSIWYG, just an integrated preview.
The HTML source - this is now my second great homepage tonight - looks somewhat okay. At least more than just DIV tags are used. However, the strange HEAD with all the LINK tags does irritate me a bit. But the result is already usable.
The templates themselves are not as slick as those from Sandvox - they seem a bit homespun and somewhat clunky (e.g., the font selection in the body text on my example page looks a bit ugly - I can't quite pinpoint what bothers me, but the Sandvox page just looks better).
What I don't like: only FTP and .Mac for publishing. SFTP is really not entirely new; this should be supported. Otherwise, it is most comparable to my good old PyDS for me - specialized editors for each content type with automatic rendering to HTML and automatic uploading to the server.
Oh, and the program handles 39 images in a photo album without any disasters, doesn't consume the computer's memory and small children to achieve the result.