The Nikon D800 book triggered a series of new tips and leads. Those are the most reliable rumors I received so far (please note that because a potential announcement is months away, some of the specs and/or release dates may change): The Nikon D700 replac
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Olivier Laude grew up a poor illiterate shepherd on the idyllic Island of Corsica, off the coast of France and Italy.
The new Nikon instant rebates are pretty much unchanged from last month: Nikon D300s rebates: 70-300mm VR lens kit: $200 instant rebate 18-200mm VR lens kit: $250 instant rebate 16-35mm lens kit: $300 instant rebate 24-70mm lens kit: $300 instant rebate 1
Tim Hetherington’s “Infidel” (Chris Boot Ltd., 2010) is more of a family album than a traditional photojournalism book. There are of course powerful images of life for a platoon in the Korengal valley in Afghanistan that Hetherington and Sebastian Junger documented in the film “Restrepo.” But there are also thorough catalogs of the soldiers’ tattoos, their official Army ID photos and the magazine centerfolds in their barracks, and remarkably revealing interviews with seven of the soldiers. The book stands on its own, separate from the movie.
Here is a picture of the new Leica M9 Neiman Marcus limited edition: The price will be $17,500.00 (including a Summicron-M 35mm f2.0 ASPH lens, ostrich leather strap, a personal letter from Leica CEO Alfred Schopf and a private training and orientation se
recently, some of my photographer friends have been carrying around a Canon S90 or S95. Why?
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What did Agence France Presse know when it distributed without permission freelance photographer Daniel Morel’s images? What was Getty Images’ role? And why isn’t TwitPic in court?
Remember Aisha? The poster girl of how great our invasion of Afghanistan has been. The girl who has her ears…
an excerpt from an interesting interview with the journalist Ann Jones who also interviewed Aisha several weeks before Time got there
If people have concrete ideas as to how to make anything at Visa or around Visa better, more engaging, more…
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Abdollah Momeni, a former student leader, described in vivid detail in a recent letter how he was brutally beaten dozens of times by his interrogators, kept for weeks in a tomb-like cell and forced to confess to crimes he says he did not commit.
“All this treatment is carried out in the framework of a religious regime, justified by claims of protecting the state,”
UPDATE Jean Francois Leroy has emailed duckrabbit to say he will be responding within the next 48 hours. Some of…
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But Morel didn’t post any pictures on Twitter. Nobody ever has, because – as most 10-year-olds could explain to the NPPA – Twitter is a text message system: it can’t host pictures. Morel’s pictures were posted to Twitpic, an entirely separate legal entity from Twitter, with entirely different terms and conditions; therefore it is the Twitpic terms that are applicable in the Morel case. That’s the kind of very basic legal point one might expect a lawyer to notice.
Must be that time of the year/decade, because I can smell the schadenfreude in the air. Mayhill Fowler is a Huffington Post blogger who claims to have written the “one big story out of the last presidential election to live on.” She understands that the b
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2010/09/29/journalist-works-for-free-produces-great-work-asks-to-be-paid/
I walked into a bar with my camera. I had my iPhone. Not a Holga. That would have been the trifecta. To save face, I did walk in there with a sizable posse of other photojournalists, visual artists, and editors during this past weekend’s Geekfest in St. Petersburg. For those that don’t know, Geekfest is a weekend of photo juiciness and inspiration put on by aphototday.org founder, Melissa Lyttle (above).
In a New York Times article today by Charlie Savage, news that the Obama administration is proposing new legislation that would provide the U.S. Government with direct access to all forms of digita…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/27/obama-administration.html
New York Times photographer Tyler Hicks gives a first-hand account of a firefight in Afghanistan.
Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/picture/2010/sep/27/photography
The 52 minute documentary film by director Thomas Nordanstad is almost exclusively based on raw footage, rushes and DV tapes from the reporter’s camera, building up narrative stories with elements that could represent “a day at work” for a war reporter. Adler spent nearly 20 years of traveling around the world, covering wars and conflicts in more than 30 countries.
Update: Today (Monday) Leica published the last video from their Photokina coverage: Megapixel website interview with Stefan Daniel at Photokina. Recap: no plans for other DSLR solution below the S2 line, no plans for a new M film camera. Leica V-Lux 2 ha
via Leica Rumors: http://leicarumors.com/2010/09/26/last-day-of-photokina.aspx/
Thank you for your response to my post yesterday critisizing the way way certain photo agencies seem content to abuse the rights of indvidual photographers. I am sorry that we misunderstood you. Might that have something to do with upholding a logic that many people find is at odds with your self stated remit of ‘defending professional photographers’?
This Leica X1 limited edition was created for the 30th anniversary of the Parisian boutique and concept store L’Eclaireur. The camera was designed by Gilles Ouaki (see related Leic’art). 1930 pieces will be produced, the release date is October 14th. No w
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“Wow!” is all I can say. I was shocked and surprised at the quality of images I first downloaded. The first thing you notice is the sharpness, these are the sharpest images I have ever had the pleasure of owning. It’s not just the great lenses, it’s also the lack of an anti-aliasing filter on the sensor.
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/22/AR2010092203806.html?wprss=rss_world
A day after Iran’s president defended his country’s record in permitting criticism, opposition Web sites reported on Wednesday that the second dissident Iranian journalist in less than a week had been incarcerated on charges including “propaganda against the state.”
Netflix has had to apologize after it was revealed that the “enthusiastic customers” talking to the press at its Canadian launch were actors hired for the occasion, reciting lines from …
A day after Iran’s president defended his country’s record in permitting criticism, opposition Web sites reported on Wednesday that the second dissident Iranian journalist in less than a week had been incarcerated on charges including “propaganda against the state.”
You can see more images from Florian Wagner and a Q&A session at the Leica blog. Related posts: Opening of the Leica Store in Munich (video) Are you afraid of shooting strangers on the street? Watch this video! Chiun-Kai Shih: “Focused on Fashion” (video)
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Four videos from Photokina