The new Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3, successor to the now two-year-old LX2, sports a Leica-branded 5.1–12.8mm (24–60mm-e) ƒ/2–2.8 lens, which as far as we know is the fastest, widest lens yet on a small-sensor camera.
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Author: Trent
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The Online Photographer: New Panasonic has Superwide, Superfast Lens
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In Burkina Faso, Running Afoul of Mr. X – washingtonpost.com
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — He came at us like a hound chasing a squirrel.
“No! No!” he shouted, waving his arms and his laminated government ID card at us.
As it turned out, he was the bureaucrat in charge of this street, the deputy assistant associate section head of something or other. The Man.
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Facebook photo makes him a jailbird – BostonHerald.com
Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party in an orange jumpsuit labeled “Jail Bird.”
The resulting photos ended up on the social networking site Facebook, and then in court.
Prosecutor Jay Sullivan used the pictures to paint Lipton as an unrepentant partier who lived it up while his victim was in the hospital. An outraged judge called the pictures depraved and made a real jailbird out of Lipton, with two years in the slammer.
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Across the Universe – 'Elric – The Stealer of Souls,' by Michael Moorcock – Review – NYTimes.com
Rather than immediately leaping to the woman’s rescue, our protagonist tells the intruder to find a safe haven of his own. It is only when the barbarian refuses to leave that our hero draws his sword, attacking with such swiftness and ferocity that the would-be rapist is cleaved in two. Who said chivalry is dead?
Some readers — those with a complete collection of Hawkwind albums and possibly an old Phototron growing dust in the closet — will recognize this moment from one of the earliest tales of Elric, the brooding, amoral adventurer first set down on paper by Michael Moorcock more than 45 years ago. And to them I won’t need to explain why a long-overdue reissue, titled Elric: The Stealer of Souls. Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melniboné, Volume I (Del Rey/Ballantine, paper, $15), about the exploits of an aging swashbuckler whose heyday predates the Pentagon Papers, could not have arrived at a more opportune moment.
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The Aquabats! post clips from "The Aquabats! Super Show" pilot
The Aquabats have begun posting clips from the pilot of their long-in-developer TV project, The Aquabats! Super Show
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Show Business: The Portfolio Review Diaries
We asked a photographer, Doug Menuez, and a gallery director, Debra Klomp Ching of Klompching Gallery in Brooklyn, to keep notes of their experiences as reviewee and reviewer during Review Santa Fe, the portfolio review organized by the Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It is one of the only portfolio events which uses a jury to screen applicants. This year, 95 photographers were selected to attend the review, which took place June 5 to 7.
Here they share their very different perspectives on the three day event: from preparation through the marathon review process and even their reflections afterwards.
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Cop busts guy for taking his pic: "It's illegal to take a picture of a law enforcement officer… if you don't give it to me, you're going to jail" – Boing Boing
Conover quotes the police officer as saying “… you took a picture of me. It’s illegal to take a picture of a law enforcement officer… if you don’t give it to me, you’re going to jail”.
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Inky Dreadfuls at Corey Helford Gallery – Boing Boing
Michael Mararian has a new show of his macabre, mischievous, and darkly comedic Inky Dreadfuls opening this Saturday, July 19, at the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, CA
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Tim Hussin: Pikeville, KY Dips
Catching Up — This is the series of diptychs I shot during the American Diversity Project. The idea was to show a contrast between the wealth in Pikeville and the poverty in the surrounding areas, but it ended up branching out to a more general theme. The Web site has been up for a while now, but check it out if you haven’t yet.
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SFGate: Daily Dish : Paparazzi Fire Hoax Disgusted New Mom Gyllenhaal
Maggie Gyllenhaal had an early taste of what it’s like to be a famous new mom when members of the paparazzi reported a fake fire at the actress’ apartment block – just so she’d come out into the street with her baby
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Liz Wolfe Relaunch – Josh Spear, Trendspotting
Anytime photographer Liz Wolfe releases new work, you know it’s going to be a good day. But when she revamps her website and launches a new online store, that’s even better.
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Behind the Lens at the Beijing Olympics
Zach Honig presents a photographer’s guide to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, including everything you need to know to cover the games or watch from home.
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Me and My Girls – The Night of the Gun – David Carr – NYTimes.com
Here is what I deserved: hepatitis C, federal prison time, H.I.V., a cold park bench, an early, addled death.
Here is what I got: the smart, pretty wife, the three lovely children, the job that impresses.
Here is what I remember about how That Guy became This Guy: not much. But my version of events is worth knowing, if for no other reason than I was there.
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adidas’ Sieben & Friends – Josh Spear, Trendspotting
All summer long adidas has been trumpeting their Celebrate Originality campaign with a series of unique web films, and this week the final chapter made its debut. Sieben & Friends, an adidas Adventure
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Heavy Metal Monk Wows Fans – Truveo Video Search
62-year-old Italian Capuchin Friar Cesare Bonizzi is nor ordinary heavy metal rocker
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Is being in-focus overrated? – Inside Aperture
The better way? Most D-SLRs in the menu setting let you take the autofocus away from the shutter release and move it to the little button on the top-back of the camera to the right of the viewfinder window.
This is my preferred technique, and its value is revealed if you tend to shoot things that move as opposed to still subjects like landscapes.I can now keep the focus mode on continuous-tracking and have the best of both worlds.
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Apple – Trailers – Man On Wire – Trailer
On August 7th 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between New York’s twin towers, then the world’s tallest buildings. After nearly an hour dancing on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to jail before he was finally released. James Marsh’s documentary brings Petit’s extraordinary adventure to life through the testimony of Philippe himself, and some of the co-conspirators who helped him create the unique and magnificent spectacle that became known as “the artistic crime of the century.”
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The weird science of stock photography. – By Seth Stevenson – Slate Magazine
A while back, a friend of mine—a guy who does a lot of directing work—was asked to shoot some rather odd film footage. It was all brief scenes of people ignoring each other. Families talking on cell phones, couples tapping at adjacent laptops, everyone looking in opposite directions.
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