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Leica Camera AG is expanding the range of accessories for the Leica S2 professional camera system with three new Leica S-Adapters. Beginning August 2011, these latest accessories will allow users to attach medium-format lenses from other manufacturers to Leica S bodies. The Leica S-Adapter V can be used for Hasselblad V System lenses, the Leica S-Adapter P67 for the Pentax 67 system lenses and the Leica S-Adapter M645 for the lenses of the Mamiya 645 system.
From Vice Magazine…
Ken Miller’s 1995 book, Open All Night, is an explicit, at times brutal, and occasionally comic look at the underbelly of San Francisco in the 80s. The book prompted us to hunt him down for this year’s Photo Issue, and when we found him via his wedding photography website we discovered he had a ton of fantastic unpublished work. We called him on the day he was re-flooring his back room with some Asian Walnut, so the timing wasn’t ideal, but he was happy to talk about the Tenderloin, San Francisco skins, and getting very, very stoned at medicinal marijuana dispensaries.
Ed Ou, a Reportage by Getty Images photographer, has received this year’s City of Perpignan Young Reporter Award. He wins an exhibition at Visa Pour l’Image and a €8000 cash prize
Spiegel Online via Conscientious…
Concerned about security problems, the East German communist regime ordered border guards to snap photos of the Berlin Wall in the 1960s. The images, which were top secret, were lost in an archive for decades. Now a new exhibition will reveal hundreds of the photographs, digitally spliced to create remarkable panoramic views of the infamous landmark.
This is a set of posts about inspirations and influences. I know you may have landed here following a search about camera equipment, but to quote Peter Adams, “A camera didn’t make a great picture anymore than a typewriter wrote a great novel.” Photography is about seeing and making any camera of any sort work for you. This post should cite many examples of that.
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/07/14/londons-street-photography/#1
There are some terrific photographers in the Museum of London’s current exhibition, London Street Photography. The photographers range from John Thomson, who was a 19th-century pioneer in this genre when long exposure times and bulky cameras made such photographs minor miracles, to Nick Turpin, who founded the website In-Public
You can't forget those adorable self-portraits taken by a group of vain monkeys on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The shots are amazing, so amazing that a controversy is brewing over their copyright.
via Gizmodo: http://gizmodo.com/5820714/if-a-monkey-steals-your-camera-who-owns-the-photos
So who in this chain owns the rights to these photos? Is it the monkeys who took the pictures? The man who owns the camera but didn’t take the photos? Or the news agency that merely sent them out? This issue has not been ironed out, but it could be soon.
By John Kennerdell “I’ve finally figured out what’s wrong with photography. It’s a one-eyed man looking through a little ‘ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that?” —David Hockney “An extension of my eye,” Cartier-Bresson famously called his…
via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/07/the-liberated-camera-part-i.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+typepad/ZSjz
I’d like to talk about another approach: the handheld camera as an extension of the hand, or simply as an unobtrusive device off to the side as we engage directly with the scene before us, both eyes wide open.
Once Magazine claims that it will publish three stories of about twenty-five full-screen photographs with captions, an introductory text essay, and interactive features. The magazine will allow photographers to tell their stories by using the iPad as one of the mobile platforms.
Doug Mills has come up with a simple but strangely elegant solution for shooting video and stills simultaneously.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/shooting-twice-at-once/
When shooting stills and video simultaneously, Doug Mills, a staff photographer in the Washington bureau of The New York Times, has tried a creative trick or two. He once strapped the video camera around his neck, using his stomach to hold it in place. The results, he said, were “freewheeling and dangling and very difficult to work with.”
PENTAX Imaging Company has announced it will offer a limited edition 645D camera kit produced to celebrate the PENTAX 645D being named Camera Grand Prix Japan 2011 “Camera of the Year.” This limited edition camera features an elegant, lacquer-finished body.
I don’t want to get on a jag about copyright infringement here, but a lawsuit filed this week against Ryan McGinley illustrates how copyright can potentially impinge artist’s creative expression if taken too far. Rachel Corbett of ArtNet.com writes: Artis
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/07/13/can-copyright-be-bad-for-photography/
I don’t want to get on a jag about copyright infringement here, but a lawsuit filed this week against Ryan McGinley illustrates how copyright can potentially impinge artist’s creative expression if taken too far.
With images having become so ubiquitous online, the old distinctions between elites and the rest are actually fading away rapidly: Anyone can look for images online and do something with them.
The Rape of a Nation , Photographs by Marcus Bleasdale . Published by Schilt Publishing , 2010. The Rape of a Nation Reviewed by Sa…
Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2011/07/photo-eye-book-reviews-rape-of-nation.html
As sobering as the images (and their brief accompanying captions in the black margins of the pages) are, there is often a deft sensibility at work here, one that captures beauty and humanity, in the midst of dire situations.
“Just as social media and its uses continue to evolve, so will our policies related to this topic,” wrote Tom Kent, AP’s deputy managing editor for standards and production, in a memo to staff.
Since its launch back in October 2010, Instagram has quickly become the spiritual successor to the Polaroid. But it’s limited. There are third-party services that let you view Instagram images on Android or the web, but good luck getting Mom to use those.
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/07/better-cameras-google-plus-and-other-instagram-hacks/
There are also a whole lot of other ways to take and process pictures that offer more features than Instagram. Here are a few Instagram hacks.
While mainstream sports photography has become blunted by the controlling instincts of administrators and the ubiquity of same-brand digital SLRs, a select band of shooters – often focused on “adrenalin” sports that offer greater co-operation and freedoms – are finding new perspectives on the action. Diane Smyth talks to six of the best.
Keith Davis Young was born in a small town known as Bryan, TX. After picking up a degree from Baylor University and getting his fill of fluorescent lighting, boardrooms, and 5 years in ad agency experience, he struck out on his own as a full-time freelancer.
Dangerous Minds recently did a nice image gallery of selected bubblegum trading cards of the 1960s and ’70s, including some sci-fi classics, Bo Derek, What’s Happening, and Dukes of Haz…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/07/12/an-appreciation-of-6.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag
Dangerous Minds recently did a nice image gallery of selected bubblegum trading cards of the 1960s and ’70