Canon adds 24 and 25fps HD Movie recording to the EOS 5D Mark II with Firmware 2.0.3 London, 2nd March 2010 – Canon today pre-announces the release of a f
Canon adds 24 and 25fps HD Movie recording to the EOS 5D Mark II with Firmware 2.0.3
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As ABC News prepares to cut hundreds of jobs and with news available more places than ever, the future for network news divisions is deeply insecure.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/business/media/01network.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
“I just looked out at the next five years and was concerned that we could not sustain doing what we were doing,” said David Westin, the president of ABC News, as he explained the decision last week to jettison up to 400 staff members, a quarter of the news staff, in the coming months.
Seventeen days after it began, the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver are now complete. A total of 258 medals were awarded, with the United States, Germany, and Canada collecting the most medals. The second half of the games went much smoother than the gli
via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/03/vancouver_2010_part_2_of_2.html
After years photographing in Iraq, Michael Kamber saw “The Hurt Locker.” He barely recognized the war that unfolded on screen.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/essay-15/
One of the greatest disservices of “The Hurt Locker” is the impression that soldiers in Iraq were masters of their destinies. If they snipped the right wire, made the right shot, cleared the right room, they would stay alive. In fact, the opposite was true. Certainly there were firefights, but the vast majority of U.S. deaths were from I.E.D.’s.
This is what was so absolutely terrifying about the war. A faceless enemy was catastrophically destroying U.S. vehicles every day with I.E.D.’s (and I can assure you the enemy did not stand in the open, as per several scenes in the movie). Regardless of your training, if you were in that vehicle when the button got pressed, you were dead.
“One guy got so upset that he physically assaulted a camera guy,” Cindy says. Another one fainted.
The winner of this bizarre and cruel stunt found out that Cindy was indeed alive and well when he was taken into the ambulance to donate his kidney. Cindy turned around revealing “her sexy nurse costume.”
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A Columbia Journalism Review survey and report
via Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/magazines_and_their_web_sites.php
Among the questions the Columbia Journalism Review survey asked: What fact-checking and copy-editing standards apply to magazine Web sites, if any? Who oversees the editorial content of online material, and with what consequences? And what business model is applied to these Web publications, and with what consequences for profitability?
[This is part two of a three part series on prisons in Africa. Part one featured Julie Remy’s photography in Guinea.] Muyinga prison Nathalie Mohadjer and I sat down and talked about her vita…
via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/prisons-in-africa-the-dungeon-burundi-jails-by-nathalie-mohadjer/
Most magazines said The Dungeon is too specific, too dark, and it is not part of a war.
I am not getting any money from it, I don’t expect to, but the issue is getting out there. People can actually see it and ask questions. The most important thing is that the organizations can use the images.
The Dungeon will show at Visa pour l’Image, Perpignan 2010.
Last month, the New York-based photographer Sze Tsung Leong was on location in La Paz, Bolivia, when he received a phone message from his New York gallerist, Yossi Milo. It had come to Milo’s attention that a Canadian photographer was exhibiting a series of works in Vancouver that bore a striking similarity to an ongoing series by Leong. An image of the Canale della Giudecca in Venice? The Canadian photographer had it, and from the same perspective as Leong’s. A cracking ice floe in Iceland? An Egyptian pyramid? A Japanese shrine? He had those, too, all cropped and composed in similar fashion.
Link: Did David Burdeny copy Sze Tsung Leong’s photographs? – latimes.com
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[slidepress gallery=’marcusbleasdale_therapeofanation’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls Marcus Bleasdale The Rape of a Nation play this essay The Dem…
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After successive waves of fighting and ten years of war, there are no hospitals, few roads and limited NGO and UN presence because it is too dangerous to work in many of these regions. The West’s desire for minerals and gems has contributed to a fundamental breakdown in the social structure.
Copying passages from another author used to be an unforgivable sin. But remix culture is coming to literature.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/weekinreview/28kennedy.html?ref=weekinreview
After a blogger and fellow novelist announced that Ms. Hegemann had blended sizeable chunks of his own writing into hers, Ms. Hegemann, instead of following the plagiarism-gotcha script of contrition and retraction so familiar in recent years, announced that appropriating the passages from that book and other sources was her plan all along.
Ever since he finished the summer games in Beijing, Magazine photographer David McIntyre has been looking forward to covering the winter games in Vancouver. For the last two years he has been training for his Olympics coverage, as much as the athletes themselves.
Hasselblad was showing off its brand new 40-megapixel H4D-40 medium-format digital camera at an off-site event during PMA 2010 this week and gave PDN Gear Guide some hands-on time with the camera.
Link: PMA 2010: Shooting with the Hasselblad H4D-40 (Sample Images)
Jamie Squire, represented by Getty Images, photographs the extreme action of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.
Link: Jamie Squire: 2010 Olympic Action | PDN Photo of the Day
Copyright Lewis Koch 2009 courtesy Lewis Koch & Borderland Books The subtitle to Lewis Koch’s Touchless Automatic Wonder is “Found text photographs from the real world”. There is no doubt that …
via PhotoBook Journal: http://thephotobook.wordpress.com/2010/02/27/lewis-koch-touchless-automatic-wonder/
The subtitle to Lewis Koch’s Touchless Automatic Wonder is “Found text photographs from the real world”. There is no doubt that Koch is attuned to the abundant text that we swim through on a daily basis, to notice those juxtapositions that naturally occur, or with a little sleight of framing, creating poignant stories. Many times, like the photographs of David Carol, these are humorous, witty, and ironic.
Magnum Photo Agency has established an internal fund to support long-form coverage of Haiti by its photographers for at least the next 12 months, says director Mark Lubell. “We had three photographers in Haiti shortly after the earthquake,” says Lubell, “
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2010/02/magnum-launches-fund-to-support-haiti-coverage/
Mark Lubell believes Magnum’s presence is particularly important to Haiti coverage, because its photographers own the rights to their photos. “When you own the story,” he says, “you hang out and you take a much more in-depth look. You don’t just jump off a plane take pictures and go home. Not only is [Magnum’s approach] in-depth, but also the quality of the work is so high.”
Collected here are images of the country and conflict over the past month, part of an ongoing monthly series on Afghanistan.
Link: Afghanistan, February, 2010 – The Big Picture – Boston.com
Yes, you read it right : “we don’t do paparazzi images”. Well, let’s take a look at your website and check :
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