Leica M9 made a brief appearance in Japan | Leica Rumors:
The site was taken down, but not before Google cached it.
Leica M9 made a brief appearance in Japan | Leica Rumors:
The site was taken down, but not before Google cached it.
Under Pressure, Photo Festival Drops Text From Gaza Exhibit – PDN:
Organizers of the Noorderlicht photo festival have removed a text essay about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from an upcoming photo exhibit, blaming pressure from the Associated Press, which supplied some of the pictures.
PDNPulse: One Year Later, Iraqi Photojournalist Remains in Military Prison:
Iraqi photojournalist Ibrahim Jassam remains in a military prison in Iraq a year after his September 2, 2008 arrest. U.S. officials insist he remains a security threat, despite an order last year by an Iraqi court order that he be released.
Photographing Gaza – do pictures speak of politics? | David Campbell — Photography, Multimedia, Politics:
It seems AP threatened to withdraw their Palestinian photographers’ work or purse legal action against the exhibition organizers. Outraged by AP’s attitude, Franklin withdrew the essay and left the photographs without accompanying text, while Noorderlicht charged AP was acting contrary to any principle of free speech.
via Conscientious
The NFL and Social Media at Strictly Business:
Leave it to big business and old thinking to try and control Social Media. In a report released this week the NFL has revealed their plan for a Social Media Policy. One of the new rules of the policy would prohibit players or anyone representing them from posting to social media networks during a prohibited block of time spanning from 90 minutes prior to kick off to 90 minutes after game time. This new rule applies not only to players but also to coaches, team personnel, and officials. The media has also been put on notice.
Leica’s Flat and Fast Panasonic Pancake Lens | Gadget Lab | Wired.com:
Leica shows just how small a lens can be, if you have a camera with a half-sized sensor and no big mirror-flipping gap between it and the lens itself. This is the new LUMIX G 20mm ƒ1.7 ASPH, and it aptly belongs to the class of lenses called “pancake”.
A Pair of Loners: Photos, Friendship and Figuring It Out in Delhi | Raw File | Wired.com:
The photojournalist has long been known as the lone wolf, traveling solo to the far-flung corners of the world to document experiences few are capable of seeing. By function, it’s often a solitary quest, lonely and alienating; rarely as romantic as the photographs make it appear.
So it’s significant when a couple of fledgling photographers meet at a card table in New Delhi, far from their respective homes, and form a friendship. Even more so when, two years later, those same photographers, Adam Ferguson and Zackary Canepari, score almost simultaneous covers of Time magazine and The New York Times.
Panasonic DMC-GF1 Hands on Preview: Digital Photography Review:
We’ve been playing with the GF1 for a month or so now (and have had a full production sample for a couple of weeks) and I have to say that, even before we start the formal review process, we’re very impressed with it indeed. When we reviewed the Olympus E-P1 we commented that it was a camera you’d buy with your heart; with the GF1 there’s now an option for those who like to buy with their head, too. We’ll be bringing you a full review as soon as we can, but for now here’s a preview and extensive samples gallery to keep you going.
Panasonic Micro Four Thirds ‘Rangefinder’ with Leica Lenses | Gadget Lab | Wired.com:
The main differences between this and the Olympus EP-1 Pen are the looks (plain, black or colored aluminum instead of fancy faux-leather), a pop-up flash (the Olympus has none), size (the Panasonic is “artistically flat”). Other standard features include image stabilization, face detection and HD video recording and ISO of up to 3200.
But the best feature goes almost unmentioned in the press release: The camera can be fitted with Leica lenses out of the box
Rob Galbraith DPI: Additional photos, video clips added to Canon EOS 7D first look:
We’ve added more nine more full-resolution photos, as well as four video clips, to our first look at the Canon EOS 7D.
Must See: A New Kind of News – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
A new genre of reporting — the Web documentary report — will be formally recognized this year at the world’s most influential photojournalism show, Visa pour l’Image, in Perpignan, France. An award will be given Wednesday to the best of nine entrants, winnowed from more than 100. It is named for the news channel France 24 and the news radio station RFI. Watch this post for an update.
Meanwhile, I’ve chosen four English-language nominees to highlight.
U.S. Department of Transportation Responds to ACLU by Telling Us What We Already Know, Photographing the Exterior of Federal Buildings is Perfectly Legal | Thomas Hawk Digital Connection:
it’s not illegal to photograph the exterior of their buildings and structure
DHS photography guidelines – Boing Boing:
As part of a back-and-forth regarding the harassment of photographers at U.S. Department of Transportation headquarters in Washington, I’ve gotten my hands on the Homeland Security Department’s official guidelines for photography of federal buildings.
Showcase: Uneasy Congo – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
He has slept in churches in Congo for safety while photographing refugees fleeing their own homes. Though he is only 25 years old, Dominic Nahr’s photographs of those refuges and of Congo’s brutal conflict are being exhibited in Perpignan at Visa pour l’Image, the most important international photojournalism festival.
Lance Armstrong in 4 minutes flat | Robert Seale Photography Blog:
Lance was preparing for his Tour de France comeback, so he was only in Austin for one or two days in the time period that would make our deadline, so there was a very narrow window to schedule the shoot.