Category: Asides
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Obituaries: Frederick Keesing, retired photo editor for the Courier-News | NJ.com
Obituaries: Frederick Keesing, retired photo editor for the Courier-News Frederick Keesing CLINTON TWP. — Frederick Keesing died on Friday, Aug. 20, 2010 at the Country Arch Care Center in Pittstown. Fred was born on January 26, 1913 in New York City. He lived through the Depression and many wars,… via nj: http://www.nj.com/hunterdon-county-democrat/index.ssf/2010/08/obituaries_frederick_keesing_r.html The past few…
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Cosina Joins Micro Four Thirds Team, Announces ƒ0.95 Lens | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Cosina Joins Micro Four Thirds Team, Announces ƒ0.95 Lens
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Ansel Adams Trust Sues Over Negatives – ArtsBeat
Ansel Adams Trust Sues Over Negatives A dispute over negatives bought at a garage sale ends up in court. via ArtsBeat: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/ansel-adams-trust-sues-over-lost-work/?partner=rss&emc=rss I mention the following probably just because I have Leicas on the brain after the past couple of days, but it strikes me that the S90 and S95 might be the up to…
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Sony’s Transparent-Mirror Cameras Repackage 1965 Canon Tech | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Sony’s Transparent-Mirror Cameras Repackage 1965 Canon Tech Sony has announced a camera with a new kind of mirror that gives it the fast-focussing of an SLR and the shooting speed and live-view of a mirrorless camera. Sony claims this technology as “ground-breaking”. The problem is that Canon already did it back i via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/08/sonys-transparent-mirror-cameras-repackage-1965-canon-tech/…
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Middle-aged woman, unaware of video camera, drops cat into trash can – Boing Boing
Middle-aged woman, unaware of video camera, drops cat into trash can A middle-aged woman throws a cat into a trash can. It happened near the Sacred Heart School in Coventry. Too bad for her there was a camera pointed at her. She will be identified, maybe with the he… via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/23/creep-unaware-of-vid.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 It is…
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World’s First Digital Camera Used Cassette-Tapes for Storage | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
World’s First Digital Camera Used Cassette-Tapes for Storage Take a lens from a Super 8 camera, a whole stack of ni-cad batteries, a digital to analog converter from a voltmeter, a highly experimental CCD and what have you got? Kodak’s first digital still camera, cobbled together with hand-soldered wires and circui via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/08/worlds-first-digital-camera-used-cassette-tapes-for-storage/ It…
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Canon PowerShot G12 Leaked By CNET « Canon Rumors
Canon PowerShot G12 Leaked By CNET We were wrong about the sensor in the G12, makes sense that it’s identical again to the S9x camera. cr via Canon Rumors: http://www.canonrumors.com/2010/08/canon-powershot-g12-leaked-by-cnet/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+canonrumors%2Frss+%28Canon+Rumors%29 A complicated mix of politics, media and the freedom of both are colliding again in Venezuela after a national court ruled that “for the next…
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Nikon Digicam Doubles as Computer Projector | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Nikon Digicam Doubles as Computer Projector Nikon’s year-old S1000pj, a pocket-cam packing a projector, has just gotten updated. The new version improves the old in almost every way: it is smaller, cheaper and way more useful. It also comes in some pretty weird colors, like the lime-green seen abov via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/08/nikon-digicam-doubles-as-computer-projector/ The USA is…
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Herman Leonard, Jazz Photographer, Dies at 87 – PDN Pulse
Herman Leonard, Jazz Photographer, Dies at 87 – PDN Pulse
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First pictures of the Nikon D3100 and the four new lenses | Nikon Rumors
First pictures of the Nikon D3100 and the four new lenses – Nikon Rumors Continuation from my previous post – this is the new Nikon D3100 scanned from the German magazine ”Foto Digital” (click on image for larger view): and the four new lenses (click for larger view): I have a scan of the whole…
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Reporters Without Borders: Wikileaks set "a bad precedent" – Boing Boing
Reporters Without Borders: Wikileaks set “a bad precedent” Reporters Sans Frontiers, among the most prominent advocates for a free press, writes that Wikileaks’ recent disclosures–which inadvertently exposed the names of Afghan collaborators… via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/12/reporters-without-bo-1.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 Maria was drifting off to sleep on the bedroom floor. She could hear women getting raped in the next…
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Appeals court orders judge to reverse ban on publishing suspect's photo | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times
Appeals court orders judge to reverse ban on publishing suspect’s photo Link: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/08/court-tells-judge-abandon-ruling-or-make-case-on-restricting-la-times-photos-of-murder-defendant.html Mario Tama, 39, has covered war in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has witnessed death and destruction on a grand scale. Yet he had never seen what he saw in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. And it was not just the the people…
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Hillary Clinton Drags Taliban Leader's Body Through Streets Of Kabul | America's Finest News Source
Hillary Clinton Drags Taliban Leader’s Body Through Streets Of Kabul
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Football club bans press photographers [update] – British Journal of Photography
Southampton Football Club has banned, from last week-end, all independent and press agencies photographers from covering its home games
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1Ds Mark IV for Photokina [CR1.5] « Canon Rumors
1Ds Mark IV for Photokina [CR1.5] Is it really? I’ve been told that a 1Ds Mark IV announcement can be expected for the Canon EXPO & Photokina. Availability of the camera could be some tim via Canon Rumors: http://www.canonrumors.com/2010/08/1ds-mark-iv-for-photokina-cr1-5/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+canonrumors%2Frss+%28Canon+Rumors%29 I am also participating in the beta testing of a new social micro-payment called Flattr. If you register…
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Leica M9 firmware version 1.138 is out | Leica News & Rumors
Leica M9 firmware version 1.138 is out – Leica Rumors Leica M9 firmware version 1.138 can now be downloaded from Leica’s website. Here is the list of improvements: Camera Performance: Improved compatibility of SDHC cards. Nevertheless, we recommend our customers the “Extreme III” cards from the leading brand via Leica Rumors: http://leicarumors.com/2010/08/06/leica-m9-firmware-version-1-138-is-out.aspx/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LeicaRumors+%28LeicaRumors.com%29 Leica M9 “Urban Camouflage”…
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Pentagon orders Wikileaks to delete classified documents – Boing Boing
Pentagon orders Wikileaks to delete classified documents In a briefing at the Defense Department, Pentagon Spokesman Geoff Morrell ordered Wikileaks to remove classified documents and return them to the U.S. government. “It was reported on Tuesday … via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/05/pentagon-orders-wiki.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 Leica M9 “Urban Camouflage” limited edition
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Rolling Stone reporter Afghan embed approval rescinded | dvafoto
Rolling Stone reporter Afghan embed approval rescinded
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A Photo Editor – Ask Anything – Printed Portfolio vs. iPad Portfolio
Ask Anything – Printed Portfolio vs. iPad Portfolio – A Photo Editor Former Art Buyers and current photography consultants Amanda Sosa Stone and Suzanne Sease have agreed to take anonymous questions from photographers and not only give their expert advice but put it out to a wide range of photographers, reps and art buyers via…
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Wooster Collective: Fresh Stuff From Princess Hijab
Wooster Collective: Fresh Stuff From Princess Hijab via Wooster Collective: http://www.woostercollective.com/2010/08/fresh_stuff_from_princess_hijab_2.html Henri Cartier-Bresson… Garry Winogrand… Helen Levitt… Robert Frank… André Kértész… William Klein… Jacques Henri Lartigue… Marc Riboud… Raymond Depardon… Elliot Erwitt… Joel Meyerowitz… I started this list as I thought of who all the great street photographers might be. But I stopped early, realizing…