| Canon releases firmware update for EOS 50D |
| Canon has posted firmware v1.0.7 for the EOS 50D. The update addresses "a phenomenon where captured images may tend to appear somewhat magenta" as well as corrects errors in the text of some non-English menus. |
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| Reuters features portfolio of work |
| Reuters features a Portfolio of work from photojournalist Zohra Bensemra. Also worth a look on the Reuters site is a gallery of the Strange and unusual. |
| July 31, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon unveils D300s, D3000 digital SLRs |
| Nikon has officially unveiled the D300s and D3000 digital SLR cameras. The D300s is a strategic upgrade that adds 720p video capture and a stereo mic input, 7fps burst shooting with the standard EN-EL3e battery, twin (CompactFlash and SD) memory card slots and several feature refinements to the D300 it replaces. The D3000 is a bigger departure from its D40 predecessor, incorporating a 10.04 million image pixel self-cleaning sensor, 11-area AF system, 3fps burst rate, 3-inch (diagonal) rear LCD and a new assist feature for novice photographers called Guide Mode. |
| July 29, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon updates 70-200mm, 18-200mm zoom lenses |
| Improved optical performance headlines the new AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II, while the AF-S DX Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II travel lens gains a zoom lock. |
| July 29, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Lightning gallery filled with flashy images |
| The Big Picture from The Boston Globe features a gallery of images from around the globe on Lightning. |
| July 29, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Photographers excel at aquatic championships |
| PIXCETERA from AOL news features The 2009 World Aquatics Championships where it appears photographers were seeking their personal bests as well by coming up with lots of interesting angles and peak moments. |
| July 29, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Reuters gallery explores Greenland |
| Reuters features Inside Greenland, a gallery of interesting images from photographer Bob Strong. |
| July 29, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Photo Journal editors do a fine job once again |
| They're always different but always good as editors at the Photo Journal from The Wall Street Journal add a pair of outstanding Pictures of the Day galleries July 27 and July 28. |
| July 29, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Gallery features three interesting stories |
| The Big Picture from The Boston Globe features three stories - one in particular quite heartbreaking - from various parts of the globe. |
| July 28, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Multimedia Wired Up Collection now shipping |
| Think Tank Photo is now shipping the Multimedia Wired Up Collection, a new series of beltpacks and bags designed for the digital SLR shooter capturing video and audio in the field. All six components are available for purchase direct from Think Tank, and dealers should soon be receiving stock as well, says Think Tank's Brian Erwin. |
| July 27, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Interesting blog on using film in a war zone |
| Fred R. Conrad writes Behind the Scenes: In a War Zone, With Film, a LENS blog featuring a story and photos on The New York Times website. |
| July 27, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Thieves make off with Nikon traffic cameras |
| Photo District News features a story and news clip about thieves stealing $88,000 worth of Nikon DSLRs which were being used as New York City traffic enforcement cameras. |
| July 27, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Gallery focuses on July weather |
| The Frame from The Sacramento Bee features a gallery of interesting images showing the Weather in July. |
| July 25, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| macProVideo.com releases video tutorials for Final Cut Pro 7, Color 1.5 |
| macProVideo.com has released video tutorials covering Final Cut Pro 7 and Color 1.5, two of the applications updated this week in Apple's Final Cut Studio. |
| July 24, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Apple updates Final Cut Studio video editing suite |
| Apple has rolled out new versions of several of the applications that make up Final Cut Studio. |
| July 24, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Iconic images sometimes not what they seem |
| The LENS blog from The New York Times features Essay: Icons as Fact, Fiction and Metaphor, an image gallery and story on some of the famous historic images not quite living up to the photograph's promise of truth. |
| July 23, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Photo Journal galleries good as usual |
| It seems like the editors always select good images for the Photo Journal galleries from The Wall Street Journal and the past two additions from July 22 and July 21 are no exceptions. |
| July 22, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Eclipse captured in The Big Picture |
| The Big Picture from The Boston Globe features a gallery of outstanding images from The longest eclipse of the century. |
| July 22, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| The Frame features Endeavour mission |
| The Frame from The Sacramento Bee features a large-image gallery of Endeavour's visit to the space station. Also worth a look is another gallery from The Frame on the Diving and swimming championships in Rome. |
| July 22, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Canon announces development of improved IS |
| Canon has announced that an SLR lens slated for release before the end of this year will incorporate a newly-developed image stabilization technology called Hybrid Image Stabilizer. The company claims the technology is the world's first to compensate for both angle and shift movement during the exposure, resulting in what is promised to be improved stability in macro photography in particular. |
| July 22, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Photographer explores The Places We Live |
| Between 2005-2007, photographer Jonas Bendiksen documented life in the slums of four cities of the world for a large project called The Places We Live. |
| July 20, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Lexar announces high-performance Crucial M225 SSD line |
| Lexar has released a trio of high-performance 2.5-inch solid state drives (SSDs) under the Crucial brandname. Available in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities, the M225 series utilize multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory. The 256GB model is specified to deliver 250MB/s read speeds and 200MB/s write speeds. |
| July 20, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| AP photographer talks about covering NBA |
| In an interesting multimedia feature, Associated Press photographer Mark J. Terrill describes the process of setting up remotes and covering peak action in National Basketball Association games in Los Angeles. The game action photography is outstanding. |
| July 20, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| DSLR Camera Remote for iPhone comes to life in v1.1 |
| When onOne Software's DLSR Camera Remote 1.0 emerged in May, we saw the iPhone app for controlling Canon digital SLR cameras as an interesting proof of concept that wasn't quite ready for the sorts of remote work we do. Version 1.1 of DSLR Camera Remote changes that. onOne has previously said the next version would support Nikon cameras, and it does. But the upcoming free update is about more than just bringing Nikon users in from the cold. It also introduces just enough vital changes - including smarter RAW+JPEG handling, burst shooting, a slick Auto Bracketing feature and a more responsive Fire button - to transform DSLR Camera Remote from a curiosity into a useful tool. We have a first look at v1.1. |
| July 17, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon issues D5000 service advisory |
| Nikon has issued an advisory saying they will soon begin providing free repair of "an electronic component related to power control in some Nikon D5000 digital SLR cameras [that] does not meet factory specifications and may, in certain circumstances, prevent the camera from turning on..." |
| July 16, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| National Geographic posts interesting gallery on Kamchatka salmon |
| National Geographic features Where the Salmon Rule, the interesting work of photographer Randy Olson on Russia's Kamchatka peninsula. |
| July 15, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Apollo 11 trip to the moon feature outstanding |
| PIXCETERA from AOL news features Apollo 11 40th Anniversary, a multimedia presentation with great images and a fascinating commentary from the astronauts during their trip to the moon. LENS from The New York Times features the photography of David Burnett in Showcase: Our Moon, showing people watching the historic event. |
| July 14, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Multimedia show focuses on Cardinal Culture |
| It's all about team in Cardinal Culture, a collaborative effort by the staff of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch who put together an interesting multimedia feature on Major League Baseball's St. Louis Cardinals and the team's effect on every aspect of life in that city. |
| July 11, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| LPA Design releases firmware updates for PocketWizard MiniTT1, FlexTT5 |
| LPA Design has released firmware v4.300 for the Canon versions of the MiniTT1 and FlexTT5 wireless radio remotes. Significantly improved operation with the EOS 5D Mark II leads the list of changes, plus the new firmware implements numerous other tweaks and bug fixes that benefit all compatible cameras, including faster flash recycling after a full power burst, refined remote camera triggering, compatibility with the Speedlite 270EX and more. |
| July 10, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Times photographer talks about photographing every-day life |
| In Lens, The New York Times photojournalism blog, photographer Todd Heisler talks about photographing the quiet portraits and every-day life in New York City for the One in 8 Million series. |
| July 10, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Photographers excel at the Tour de France |
| Photographers have done a good job of finding interesting perspectives in this Reuters gallery of the Best of Tour de France. |
| July 10, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Running the mean streets of Pamplona |
| The Frame from The Sacramento Bee features a large-image gallery on the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain. |
| July 9, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Altered photos pulled from The New York Times |
| The Photo District News reports that the New York Times has withdrawn an online version of a photo essay from Edgar Martins after it was discovered by a reader that many of the photos had been digitally manipulated. The feature ran in the New York Times Magazine. |
| July 8, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Canon presents the best of UK press photography |
| Canon features a gallery of outstanding images from UK photographers in The Press Photographer's Year 2009. |
| July 8, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Shipping of AlienBees MAX monolights delayed |
| Lighting maker Paul C. Buff has begun informing pre-order customers that delivery of the AlienBees MAX monolights will be delayed while the company undertakes a power supply redesign. A revised release date has not been set. Other recently announced Paul C. Buff products, including the high-efficiency PLM umbrella system, new-design reflectors, Cyber Commander and CyberSync Transceiver (CSXCV) wireless remote units are on track to ship before the end of this month. |
| July 7, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Reuters posts best of June |
| Reuters has posted Pictures of the month: June, a large gallery of the best images from the news agency's photographers located throughout the world. |
| July 3, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Post blog features U.S. Marines in Afghanistan |
| Captured, the Denver Post blog, features an interesting gallery called Marines Pour into Afghanistan. |
| July 3, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Galleries from msnbc full of good images |
| The weekly galleries from msnbc are always top-notch and the offering from July 18-25 is no exception. Scroll down the page and check out the Week in Sports Pictures as well. |
| July 2, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Feeling the heat across the globe |
| The Frame from The Sacramento Bee features It's hot outside, a gallery of images demonstrating the hot conditions around the world. |
| July 2, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Journal images from July 1 worth a look |
| The Wall Street Journal's Photo Journal, a large-image gallery, features a fine selection of the day's best images from July 1. |
| July 2, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Revamped MacBook Pro line delivers top-notch display quality |
| What a difference six months makes. Back in January, we wrote about the suitability of the screens in several notebooks for editing photos in the field. At that time, Apple's MacBook Pro 15 inch was pegged as being acceptable for this purpose, but barely: hue accuracy trailed the other portables we looked at, while the display's glass front meant it was a battle to keep reflections at bay. Fast forward to today and the overall MacBook Pro story is quite different: not only does the recently-revamped MacBook Pro 15 inch now ship with a superb colour-accurate display, but the new MacBook Pro 13 inch does too. Plus, the third member of Apple's MacBook Pro trio - the 17 inch - has both a great laptop display and the option of ordering it in a much-needed antiglare version. Taken together, the current MacBook Pro lineup offers the best displays for photographers we've ever seen from Apple, with a potential solution for the remaining bugaboo - display glossiness - coming a bit later this year. |
| July 1, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| NPR features gallery of old Kodachrome images |
| National Public Radio features a story on recently discontinued Kodachrome slide film and The Picture Show: Great Moments in Kodachrome History, a gallery of old images. |
| July 1, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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