News entries for September, 2012

Happy Friday, everyone!

Photographer Blake Andrews has posted this humorous graphic detailing the mind of the street photographer on his blog.

Which region of the below illustration do you usually reside in when you're out taking pictures?

(Via The Click)

 

 

 

 

Many of us have been drooling over the new compact, full-frame Sony RX1 that was announced earlier this month. And while the specs are indeed impressive -- 24.3 megapixel fullf-frame sensor, 35mm fixed Carl Zeiss f/2.0 lens, nearly pocketable size -- what we've been really waiting for are some sample photographs...

 

 

The other day I came across the famous photo of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec posed as both the artist and his model. On that very same day, I saw that Adobe announced its latest version of Photoshop Elements. It seemed a good moment to take a look back at the history of manipulated images, mostly as a reminder that...

 

 

Portrait photography sessions can be rapid-fire-affairs with a photographer often shooting hundreds of frames in succession while looking for that perfect moment.

Photographer Harry Borden demonstrates this in a short film -- shown below -- where he strings together every portrait he shot of British comedian...

 

 

During Photokina 2012, Imaging Resource's founder and publisher Dave Etchells interviewed five senior executives from Panasonic about the company's latest technologies and cameras, especially the newly released, single-lens mirrorless GH3.

The panel of executives from Panasonic Corporation included:

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Now that large, high-resolution screens are commonplace, camera interfaces have come along in leaps and bounds over the last few years. The same can't really be said for the interfaces on external flash strobes, though. Even on high-end strobes with an LCD panel, the interface typically features a few soft buttons...

 

 

In the world of action sports photography, female shooters are few and far between. One of the few women in action sports photography who is not only surviving but thriving these days is Mirja Geh, who captures a range of action sports from ski divers to extreme skiers to base jumpers.

In this video interview...

 

 

Could you be the next David Bailey? If you live in the United Kingdom and share the same name as the famous British photographer, you've already got a head start on the road to being the next big pro--or so Samsung UK cheekily suggests with a new publicity campaign for the Samsung NX1000 digital camera,...

 

 

Remember when we showed you how much trouble NBA star Kobe Bryant was having using his Canon DSLR at the London Olympics this past summer? We're assuming Tyson Chandler of the New York Knicks doesn't have the same problem with his camera, as evidenced by the sweet photography show he put on last night in New York...

 

Mr. Haruo Ogawa
President
Olympus Imaging Division

Olympus has been in the news recently for a lot of different reasons -- some good (the popularity and positive reviews of its new cameras, in particular the OM-D E-M5), some bad (financial scandal) and some very interesting (Sony's rumored new...

 

 

Last month, Nikon revealed the Coolpix S800c, the first mainstream digital camera to be based around Google's Android operating system. Today, it turns out that the greater Android ecosystem will also benefit from that camera, as the first app created for that camera also turns out to support many other...

 

 

Canon updated its wide angle primes with image stabilization - and after 24 years with the Canon 24mm f/2.8, the Canon EF 24mm f/2.8 IS USM is a worthy update. Redesigned with a new optical formula, curved aperture blades and image stabilization, we have had the opportunity to put the lens through its paces in our...

 

 

The grueling footage below was captured by an unnamed U.S. solider's helmet camera during a firefight in the dangerous Kunar Province of Afghanistan.

According to a write-up below the video on YouTube, the soldier was hit by enemy fire but survived without permanent injuries. The helmet camera, however, did not...

 

 

Think you're a big fan of Adobe Photoshop? You've got nothing on designer Meghan Orsi whose Internet handle has become "The Girl with the Photoshop Tattoo" thanks to the unique toolbar illustration on her arm.

Orsi is a web designer from Pittsburgh, PA who has always loved tattoos and Photoshop and decided to...

 

 

Dave Etchells had a chance to sit down with senior product planning and marketing executives from Fujifilm at Photokina 2012. He came away with a lot of insight about Fujifilm's development process, especially the X-Trans sensor, and some nice tech tidbits about the inner workings of the X-Pro1 and the new X-E1 and...

 

 

New downloads today from Ricoh Co. Ltd. add a couple of features to the rugged Ricoh G700 and G700SE digital cameras, and correct issues in the Ricoh EX1 software package with which they're bundled.

Announced in quick succession back in late 2010, the G700 and G700SE have had an unusually long shelf life by...

 

 

The Photokina show in Cologne, Germany is a time for the world's biggest imaging manufacturers to show off their latest wares to the buying public.

But Photokina is also a time for the gear obsessed to come out of their basements and totally geek out on new...

 

 

Almost a year ago, Olympus Corp. was rocked by an accounting scandal that obliterated four-fifths of its stock's value within a frantic month's trading. Over the following weeks, it became clear that the fraud took place at the very highest levels of the company's management. Several high-level executives at...