Camera and Equipment Manufacturers

Canon U.S.A. -- One of two companies to hold the majority of the market share in cameras and lenses.

Lexar Media -- Makers of quality flash memory for cameras and other devices.

Nikon U.S.A. -- The other company to hold a majority of the market share in photographic equipment.

Olympus -- The first company to produce cameras and lenses for the four-thirds imaging sensor format.

Panasonic -- Makers of the Lumix line of digital cameras which also use the four-thirds imaging sensor.

Pentax -- Though not as popular as Canon or Nikon, they still produce equipment capable of taking excellent images.

Samsung -- Samsung manufactures cameras that are compatible with the Pentax K lens mount so they can take all Pentax lenses.  Their cameras share many of the same features that Pentax cameras do.

SanDisk -- SanDisk is a highly regarded manufacturer of Flash Memory for cameras and other devices.

Tamron -- Tamron makes a number of photographic lenses to fill the needs of the budget-minded photographer, although their lenses are used by working professionals as well.

Tokina -- Tokina's lenses are of very high quality.  Their build quality is in my opinion the best out of all the third-party lens manufacturers.

Equipment and Software Vendors

Adobe -- Creators of the workhorse standard imaging program by which all others are judged: Adobe Photoshop.

Adorama -- This New York City-based retailer has a wide selection of gear at competitive prices.

B&H Photo -- Another New York retailer with a wide variety of gear and competitive prices.

Breeze Systems -- This company, owned by photographer Chris Breeze, makes several software titles designed to increase the efficiency of your digital workflow.  I use Downloader Pro and love it for its simplicity and wide range of image naming conventions that are available when downloading images off of memory cards.

General Production Services -- This company makes the excellent lens cleaning solution LensClens.  Finally, a cleaning solution that doesn't smear.

HDRSoft -- Creators of the excellent HDR imaging software program Photomatix.

Imaging Luminary -- This company is responsible for Essential HDR, an alternative to Photomatix for HDR processing.

Integrated Color Corp. -- Integrated Color engineered the excellent monitor profiling software Color Eyes Display Pro.  Highly recommended if you desire accurate display profiles.

onOne Software -- Makers of a wide assortment of plug-ins for Photoshop and other software capable of using Photoshop plug-ins.

PixelGenius -- These guys truly are geniuses.  They've created an outstanding sharpening plug-in for Photoshop called PhotoKit Sharpener.  Check out the free trial.

Stephen Trainor -- Developer of the excellent donation-ware program The Photographer's Ephemeris, which is one of the most useful tools I've used for determing sunrise/sunset times and directions.  Loads of other cool features too.  Read my blurb on it here.

VisibleDust -- Why spend $40 (at least) to send your camera in for sensor cleaning when you can do it yourself?  It's not as hard as the manufacturers want you to believe and all you need is a couple simple tools.  These folks have what you need.

Photography Related Websites

Aspen Creek Photo -- A subsidiary of West Coast Imaging where I currently send all of my digital files to for printing.

DPhoto Journal -- An excellent website on all aspects of digital photography.

Outdoor Photographer -- One of my favorite magazines for reading up on and learning about the work of other landscape and nature photographers.

PC Photo -- Another magazine that I subscribe to that is packed with lots of information on digital photography.

West Coast Imaging -- An excellent digital lab based in California which I use for all of my prints.

This page will be updated with links as I find products or items which I've used that I think will be helpful to others.