Those of you who follow my Flickr stream already know that I have been playing with the new LumiQuest Softbox III for a few months now.
Author: Trent
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Strobist: By Request: The LumiQuest Softbox III
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Radio Silence
Radio Silence is a selected visual history of American Hardcore Music. Compiled by authors Nathan Nedorostek and Anthony Pappalardo. The book is published by MTV Press and distributed by PowerHouse Books.
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Is the rich-hued Kodachrome era fading to black?
If Kodachrome should vanish, “we’d either change to a different type of film or do it digitally,” Link says, but long-term studies that hinge on image consistency might suffer.
Alarm bells have been ringing since Kodak exited the film-processing business in 1988. One by one, its Kodachrome home-movie and still-film formats have been discontinued, and only a 64-speed remains. (Film speed is a measure of its sensitivity to light; low-speed films require a longer exposure).
An even slower 25-speed version departed in 2002, an equally beloved 200-speed in 2006, a Super 8 movie stock in 2005 — all supplanted by standardized films far easier and cheaper to process. -
Leica S2 Reinvents 35mm: More Megapixels, More Millimeters, More Money | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
We imagine that there won’t be many other bells and whistles, but really, who needs them? Once the exposure and focus are set, everything else about a RAW image can be tweaked in post. The price? Seriously, don’t ask. You’re sure? OK. €30,000 for the body, which translates to $45,000.
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5B4: Errata Editions On-Press: Day One
I just landed after a 15.5 hour flight into Hong Kong so I thought my first post report from China should be the background as to how this project came into being. Since many of you desire to publish your own books, you might find some useful info in the posts over the next few days.
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Without further ado: Reverie « Vincent Laforet’s Blog
Here is the raw footage (downsized to 1/4 resolution) from the prototype EOS 5D MKII that Canon allowed me to borrow over a 72 hour period
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Photokina 2008
Photokina opens today with a number of exciting new product announcements. I will not be attending this year because of a timing conflict with my just-concluded Botswana safari / workshop. Instead I’ll be sitting back, comfortable though jet-lagged, watching the passing parade just like everyone else.
This page will be updated continuously (when I come across something interesting) during Photokina week, so check back here from time to time, though most major announcements are made either just prior to or in the first couple of days of the show.
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John Nack on Adobe: CS4: Sweating the Details
You’re going to see tons of flashier features in other write-ups, and of course I’ll cover them here, but for this cycle I want to lead with the little stuff–things you might not read about otherwise, but which can make a big difference while working
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Photoshop (CS)4 On The Floor!
I’m delighted to say that Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended, along with the entire Creative Suite 4 lineup, have been officially announced!
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photographylot: Susan Meiselas
Last week I went to the opening of the new shows at the ICP museum but as always with openings it was difficult to take in the work properly, so today I went back to check them out, specifically the Susan Meiselas retrospective. I call it that because there is work from the most famous projects of her almost 40 year career on the walls and the accompanying catalogue is a weighty tome featuring beautifully reproduced photographs, essays and interviews, pages from her published books and all manner of notes and clippings which cover a lot of the work she has done so far.
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Canon 5D MKII Pre-Preview Report – Luminous Landscape
This isn’t the 720P of the Nikon D90, which uses simple motion JPG as its codec . This is 1080 30i using the latest H264 video codec at a data rate of over 47 megabits / second. If these number are greek to you – relax. They won’t be after a while, because high quality video is coming to a DSLR near you a hell of a lot faster than you ever thought it would. (Scoffers – you can now eat your hats. Bon appetit!)
The bottom line on this is that at least as far as the specs go, image quality is full HD, 1920 X 1080 interlaced, at 30 frames per second. The recording data rate is faster than on some pro video cameras. The depth of field is that of a 35mm full-frame camera, not one with a sensor 5X to 9X smaller.
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New Work Online from Bigfoot – Juxtapoz
Bigfoot just updated his store with new original artwork (to hopefully appease everyone that kept asking about original work available!) in addition to the skateboard decks, prints, shirts
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A Photo Editor – What If Your Still Camera Also Shot Great Video?
And, the more I think about it the less dominant I feel video will be online because it’s just too slow when it comes to communication. If you’re offering the reader a headline with a lead photo and a story along with a video clip, audio clip maybe and picture slide show. The most hits will go to the headline and lead image and everything else follows depending on the time and interest of the viewer (headline writing is an underrated skill in the media world).
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METAL INQUISITION: Black Metal: Photo Analysis
The guy on the left didn’t get the memo about the difference between throwing the horns, and the sign for “I love you.” Apparently he also didn’t get the memo about not wearing flowing, pirate-style shirts, or his mom’s jeans when trying to look evil.
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Rob Galbraith DPI: Update to Nikon 50mm f/1.4 to ship in December
In December, Nikon will ship an updated version of its 50mm f/1.4. The new lens, called the AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G, features improved optical performance, a nine-blade aperture mechanism, 58mm filter size and Silent Wave focus. It has an estimated selling price of US$439.95 in the U.S, including the HB-47 Bayonet Lens Hood.
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Leica debuts S-system, 37-megapixel flagship S2 camera – Engadget
This introduction, however, stands alone, and Leica’s making some pretty remarkably bold statements about its new S-system. The first device to take advantage is the 37-frickin’-megapixel S2, which sits between Canon’s EOS 5D and EOS 1Ds MkIII in terms of body size. The company designed the camera to provide “the quality of medium format and the handling and flexibility of 35mm,” and the outfit also has nine S-system lenses on tap. As for expectations? Leica says it’ll perform “twice as fast as Hasselblad H-series cameras,” and if that wasn’t straight-up enough, the firm’s David Bell proclaimed that “[Leica] thinks it has the best professional camera system in the world with this.”
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MARK'D – Drinking with a Dead Man
When will we band together and demand to be compensated for the last 15 years of the digital revolution? Maybe it will have to wait for the Mark X’s. In the meantime I’ll sit back and watch as the industry continues to make its largest profit directly from the photographer himself, as we sink deeper into debt, in the name of progress
