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Sony NEX Camcorder Revealed: SLR Sensor in $2,000 Package
A new camcorder from Sony lets movie-makers use SLR lenses to shoot pro-level footage for just $2,000. The NEX-VG10 uses the same APS-C sensor as the NEX mirrorless line-up, and also uses their E lens-mount, Sony’s equivalent of the compact micro-four-thi
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/sony-nex-camcorder-revealed-slr-sensor-in-2000-package/
A new camcorder from Sony lets movie-makers use SLR lenses to shoot pro-level footage for just $2,000. The NEX-VG10 uses the same APS-C sensor as the NEX mirrorless line-up, and also uses their E lens-mount, Sony’s equivalent of the compact micro-four-thirds format. With an adapter, you can also use any of Sony’s Alpha mount lenses.
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Hands-On With the Quad-Sync LumoPro Flash
For the last couple of weeks I have been testing out the low-cost LP160 camera-flash. The successor to the LP120, the flash is designed for full manual control, and can be triggered pretty much any way you like. The strobe is aimed at Strobists, photograp
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/hands-on-with-the-quad-sync-lumopro-flash/
For the last couple of weeks I have been testing out the low-cost LP160 camera-flash. The successor to the LP120, the flash is designed for full manual control, and can be triggered pretty much any way you like. The strobe is aimed at Strobists, photographers who use small, off camera flashes in manual mode to get amazing, creative results.
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Financial genius: US record industry turns $16M in legal spending into $391K cash
The title of this Recording Industry vs The People post says it all, really: “Ha ha ha ha ha. RIAA paid its lawyers more than $16,000,000 in 2008 to recover only $391,000!!!”: If the av…
I’m excited to announce the Conscientious Portfolio Competition 2010, the second of its kind (after a great start last year). As before, the winner(s) will have their work featured here on this website, in the form of an extended conversation/interview. This year, two guest judges, Elisabeth Biondi (New Yorker magazine) and Susanna Brown (Victoria and Albert Museum), are joining me to pick the winner(s) – and there’s a twist.
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The photographer Matt Lutton speaks of “segregated schools where Croats go in the morning and Serbs in the afternoon, each using a different set of textbooks which tell a different version of what should be considered a common history.”
Link: Unending Divisions of the Bosnian War – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
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justin maxon – when the spirit moves
[slidepress gallery=’justinmaxon_whenthespiritmoves’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT EPF 2010 Finalist Justin Maxon When th…
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Those living in Chester, PA, USA, grow up in an environment where forces everywhere are against them; where gravity seems to be stronger and less forgiving. It is a place where pollution alters cognitive development, violence and crime are commonplace, poverty is oppressive, jobs are virtually non-existent, and people with nothing take from others who have little
If you walk these streets, you pass people in a trance, who speak without being heard. You see children with shallow eyes, with scars deep. Ghosts are everywhere, fading from neglect. There is little for people to grasp a hold of for support, to deliver them through. People are forced into carrying this burden of weight and thus are required to be strong to withstand it.
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Andy Spyra: The Shadows of Srebrenica
travel photographer
Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2010/07/andy-spyra-shadows-of-srebrenica.html
The Shadows of Srebrenica is a collection of black & white photographs by the incredibly talented Andy Spyra, and is a powerful reminder of that era, and also reminds us that many of those responsible for this genocide have yet to be apprehended, especially Ratko Mladić.
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I mainly shoot on 6×6 medium format with my Rolleiflex. I like this camera, which does not cover my face when photographing. Also as film is expensive and photographs limited, I generally spend more time in composing and thinking about what I see and working out what is worth photographing.
Link: contact blog: Mona Simon
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Photos by Daryl PevetoWithin a day I was clearly overwhelmed with the intensity of the trip. I began to look at details of my journey and tried to use my camera not just to document the story, but also the personal aspects of the trip. I shot the view out of my hotel room each morning. I photographed where I was each time I missed my son and wife – well I missed them constantly, so I shot when it felt so strong that I felt I was about to lose it. I also shot the Tea Party experience aboard a bus travelling 7,000 miles across America.
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kate stone – at the seams
[slidepress gallery=’katestone_attheseams’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls EPF 2010 Finalist Kate Stone At the Seams play this essay In “At th…
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In “At the Seams” I used photographs of domestic interiors and common architecture to construct impossible, uncanny spaces that evoke a feeling of hesitant curiosity, a nervous desire to explore the room, to peek around the bend or to see what lies behind the door at the end of the hall. Our acceptance of photography as reality makes these images hard to understand, especially for those who know the original place. At first glance the rooms and buildings in these photographs appear real. Upon closer examination, however, something is clearly wrong. Doorways are misplaced and once rigid walls are twisted and torn. Distorted perspective creates incongruent angles and improbable shadows. These spaces are literally falling apart at the seams.
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Nikon’s President comments on the upcoming mirrorless camera again – Nikon Rumors
In an interview with Pen News Weekly, Nikon’s president Makoto Kimura made few more comments on the upcoming mirrorless camera from Nikon (see the previous interview, where he dropped the bomb about an upcoming Nikon mirrorless concept): Nikon plans to re
Award-winning photographer Peter Turnley talks to CNN’s Jim Clancy about his experience in Haiti and challenges ahead.
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LensCulture – Contemporary Photography
Discover and share the best in contemporary photography
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In an effort to convey an understanding of the current political situation in Iran, photographer and journalist Paolo Woods compiled these 123 images that he found on the internet, most of which were uploaded by citizen journalists. Since the contested elections last year, and continuing today, mainstream media has been severely hindered in its ability to photograph, film and report in Iran. Woods provides commentary on these photos and the situations he has encountered in Iran in recent times.
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Under threat of violence, Somalis play soccer — or watch — at their peril
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/10/AR2010071002033.html?wprss=rss_world
Al-Shabab, a hard-line Islamic militia that is waging a campaign of terror across Somalia, has banned playing soccer in many areas it controls. The al-Qaeda linked militia, along with Hezb-i-Islam, a rival extremist group, prohibited broadcasts of the World Cup, describing the sport as “a satanic act” that corrupts Muslims.
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U.S. denies visa to Colombian journalist Hollman Morris, citing Patriot Act
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/09/AR2010070905438.html?wprss=rss_world
Al-Shabab, a hard-line Islamic militia that is waging a campaign of terror across Somalia, has banned playing soccer in many areas it controls. The al-Qaeda linked militia, along with Hezb-i-Islam, a rival extremist group, prohibited broadcasts of the World Cup, describing the sport as “a satanic act” that corrupts Muslims.
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Maven
Coalition of Mavens – Find your maven
Al-Shabab, a hard-line Islamic militia that is waging a campaign of terror across Somalia, has banned playing soccer in many areas it controls. The al-Qaeda linked militia, along with Hezb-i-Islam, a rival extremist group, prohibited broadcasts of the World Cup, describing the sport as “a satanic act” that corrupts Muslims.
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To Their Own Beat
In her unclassifiably elaborate novel, Jennifer Egan creates a set of characters linked to the music business and lets relentless time have its way with them.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/books/review/Blythe-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
The book starts with Sasha, a kleptomaniac, who works for Bennie, a record executive, who is a protégé of Lou who seduced Jocelyn who was loved by Scotty who played guitar for the Flaming Dildos, a San Francisco punk band for which Bennie once played bass guitar (none too well), before marrying Stephanie who is charged with trying to resurrect the career of the bloated rock legend Bosco who grants the sole rights for covering his farewell “suicide tour” to Stephanie’s brother, Jules Jones, a celebrity journalist who attempted to rape the starlet Kitty Jackson, who one day will be forced to take a job from Stephanie’s publicity mentor, La Doll, who is trying to soften the image of a genocidal tyrant because her career collapsed in spectacular fashion
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