I’ve divided the test into night and day shots. Neither video is colour-corrected. I wanted to share exactly what I got out of the camera with the community. To my eyes, up to ISO 1000 the camera produces clean video images. Also, please take a look at “24h in25p”-night, 0:49min. Surprise – the “rolling shutter” effect is almost a thing of the past!

The portraits were part of the assignment that photo editor Joanna Milter sent me on the road with. I liked the idea: these Marines had been living and fighting on the often forgotten front line of this war, and I thought that photographing their faces, as opposed to their bodies in action, would remind us that actual people, in this case young Americans, are putting their lives at risk.

“Dude! There’s so many megapixels!” is one common refrain. “Dammit, they didn’t make a stripped down D4 this time!” is another

Link: Lens

Misha Friedman’s photographs of tuberculosis are dark, black-and-white glimpses of passing lives. In many of the frames — shot in Uzbekistan, Ukraine and Russia — there is a wandering, ghostly presence.

Link: LightBox

Photographer Alessio Romenzi has been among just such enemies of the Assad government: with fighters of the Free Syrian Army and with the people of Bab Amr, a rebellious district in the besieged city of Homs. On assignment for TIME, he took shelter with local families in a basement of Bab Amr. No one dared to step outside or even venture upstairs for fear of government shells crashing onto them. Bodies were dragged into homes from the street so they would not rot in the open. The dead littered the corridors. It was too dangerous to hold funerals. Romenzi counted 25 civilian fatalities in just two hours of bombardment in his immediate area. As he wrote in an email, “The word ‘safe’ is not in our dictionary these days.”

Link: PDN Pulse

With a quite a few new camera models mimicking the retro look of classic rangefinders, Olympus has turned to old film single-lens-reflex cameras (remember those?) for inspiration on it’s newest digital camera, the 16.1-megapixel E-M5.

POYi judging begins in the morning. Live streaming returns through Adobe’s system with a lot more hours to be streamed than last year

Link: PDN

Olga Kravets, Maria Morina and Oksana Yushko have been working on “Grozny: Nine Cities” for more than two years

The D800 appears to be slowing down web servers right and left today, as photographers clamor for more information on the new Nikon digital SLR. Here are links to stories, pictures and videos on and from the D800 and its near-twin, the D800E.

Link: It’s Nice That

I came across the mini-spectacularity of Ben Wilson’s jewell-like paintings on chewing gum mere days ago, though I’m a little slow on the uptake (he’s been doing them for nine years).

Link: Lens

Evgenia Arbugaeva has warm memories of a very cold place.

She grew up in Tiksi, a port town on Siberia’s Arctic coast — to her, a magical realm of wonder and discovery where she reveled in the “little miracles” of her endless natural playground

The new EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM professional zoom lens is an update to the popular EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

Canon today also launches the new EF 24mm f/2.8 IS USM and EF 28mm f/2.8 IS USM – the world’s first 24mm and 28mm fixed wide-angle lenses to feature optical IS technology

Link: Rob Galbraith DPI:

Nikon has unveiled the D800, a new camera whose headline feature is its 36.15 million image pixel full-frame sensor which, as of this writing, makes it the highest resolution available or announced for a digital SLR camera, ever.

The contrarian this time is On the Media host Bob Garfield, writing for The Guardian. He satirizes Patrick as “the Great Satan” and says “let him suffer the fate of the frog!” He then raises that pesky question: “Don’t all journalists alter reality?” Finally, he asks this rhetorical humdinger: “[d]id he [Patrick] misrepresent the story, or did he perhaps just make it clearer?”

Do you know that feeling? The one when you’re showing images to someone (perhaps an editor that you were hoping to work with) and you get to that picture, the one that looked perfectly acceptable moments before, but as soon as you show it, you’re filled with regret.

Link: LPV Magazine

Christophe Negrel

One hears this a lot; “photojournalism is changing and even dying.”