http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lomography/the-lomography-petzval-portrait-lens Here is a Kickstarter project some of you may be as interested in as I am. While the cheap seats are already taken at this party, the remaining offering is still a hundred bucks less than the $499 normal retail price. I love using older...
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St. Paul MN based Fly Boys Aerial Cinematography‘s drone fleet was grounded by the FAA last week for flying without a proper FAA permit. Asked for comment, Fly Boys response was the FAA doesn't anticipate issuing commercial permits for UAVs until 2015. What are we...
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William Klein has lived many lives. One of the world's most influential photographers, he pioneered the art of street photography and created some of the most iconic fashion images of the 20th century. William has also made over twenty films, including the first ever documentary...
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In a robot lab at TEDGlobal, Raffaello D'Andrea demos his flying quadcopters: robots that think like athletes, solving physical problems with algorithms that help them learn. In a series of nifty demos, D'Andrea show drones that play catch, balance and make decisions together -- and...
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Bastille Day from TheCameraForum on Vimeo. A day with my Fuji X-E1. My lovely wife and life partner, Suzanne, and I were married on July 14th, Bastille Day. We didn't plan it this way, it was pure coincidence but a very pleasant one. Where ever we happen...
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Platinum Palladium Printing with Leica M Monochrom from Luís Oliveira Santos on Vimeo. Footage, edition and film direction by LUÍS OLIVEIRA SANTOS Manuel Gomes Teixeira, photographer and Platinum Palladium printer, usually uses traditional methods with photographic film in medium and large format cameras. Invited by the exclusive...
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What is neorealism? from kogonada on Vimeo. As a cinema experiment: would you get if you pitted the director of The Bicycle Thieves against the producer of Gone with the Wind, and turned them both loose on the SAME raw movie material? History does have a...
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animation tutorial part. 1 AKA "the secret of animation" from giovanni braggio on Vimeo. Giovanni produced this short character animation tutorial for every level that explains clearly the secret for a great acting performance. LET THE COMPUTER DO IT! This was his final project for the professional...
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Zack Arias, just another crazy old goat. Like myself folks, he feels that a rangefinder mirrorless experience is the best of photographic life. He's also either plagued by the voice of a departed Bresson spirit, or he could be onto something enlightened with his internal...
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[caption id="attachment_3847" align="aligncenter" width="680"] The First US Public Exhibition of Genesis on the walls at Peter Fetterman Gallery in Santa Monica, CA[/caption] Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado has spent much of the past nine years trekking to the farthest reaches of the globe, to the last wild...
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[caption id="attachment_3780" align="aligncenter" width="680"] Leica PR Photo[/caption] Picking up cues from Apple Computer's retail theme, Leica brings it's Brand to retailing with this first grand experiment. From the outside, the new Leica Los Angeles store looks much like one of the many other upscale boutique stores that surround...
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Last June, FujiFilm issued their lens development "roadmap" (see chart below) for the two XF mount cameras at the time, the XPro-1 and X-E1. I purchased my X-E1 with the highly regarded and most excellent 35mm f/1.4, deciding to place my bet on Fuji evolving this camera...
Last June, FujiFilm issued the...
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FUJIFILM today announces X-Pro1 and X-E1 firmware updates to offer faster AF and the addition of a “Focus Peak Highlight” function The upgrades will provide improved AF performance for all FUJINON XF lenses and, amongst other benefits, will add a ‘Focus Peak Highlight’ function for manual...
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I am reposting below Roger Cicala's blog post of "A Photography Consumer's Bill of Rights" in its entirety. I could not agree more with Roger's position that these should be basic consumer rights for retail photography products sold here in the United States. Unfortunately, the situations do...
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Back once again from Calgary Alberta, Chris Nichols joins with studio still portrait photographer Rob Caleffi to test the new Fiilex P360 and P200 lighting setup inside Rob's working studio. Rob normally shoots his still portraits using powerful professional grade flash, so it makes for a...
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The Light Inside: Dance at Princeton from Jon Roemer on Vimeo. My good friend and kindred spirit Jon Roemer did a blog post this week that caught my attention, as I hope it will yours. I've followed this project from its initial shoot for the vertical print...
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