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Is it okay to take a picture of a woman’s bare bottom at a park? The answer appears to be yes, if we follow this story from the New York Daily News. The guy, Robert Kabakoff (he’s an actor, but that’s another story), was at the Central Park when he spotted a woman tanning her …
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SatuGO is a combination of a bouncing ball and a camera, and it aims to make it more fun to take pictures. Throw the SatuGO camera and it takes a picture where it hits a surface; or set the timer and take pictures from far up in the air. It also has a built-in flash. …
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Nikon has announced the AF-S DX NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G lens, a fast-aperture fixed focal length DX-format lens that gives the equivalent 52.5mm focal length and produces a picture angle similar to the field of vision as seen through the human eye. Nikon’s intention is to give DX-format camera users (D40, D60, D90 and D300) the …
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What do you do on a weekend when all is quiet and calm? Why, you enjoy it of course! With yourself, with family and friends – with someone you love. Especially with someone you love. And then take photos because you’re a photographer. Write a photo essay. Here is a very touching photo essay by …
Hahnemuhle FineArt is introducing a new inkjet paper made largely from sugar cane fibers. The company said the new paper, to come out in the Spring of 2009, combines Hahnemuhle’s premium quality inkjet coating technology, with a beautiful paper substrate created from an ecologically friendly resource. Hahnemuhle Sugar Cane 300gsm is made from 75% sugar …
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Watershot Inc announces their first offering for the underwater photography market – the WDS-450D housing for Canon EOS 450D, also known as the XSi Rebel in the US and Kiss X2 in Japan. The company says the WDS-450D is machined from a solid block of aluminium. It features a standard flat port and zoom gear …
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Entries will be accepted beginning April 2, 2009 for the British Wildlife Photography Awards, open to photographers of all nationalities in the United Kingdom. The stated mission of the BWPA is twofold: to celebrate and recognize the talents of photographers and to highlight the great wealth and diversity of the natural history of the British …
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San Antonio, Texas-based professional photographer Rolando Gomez has launched a website, PhotographicTherapy.com, dedicated to showing the power of photography to build and rebuild self-esteem. One of its major goals is to encourage photographers, medical professionals and people to share their experiences and inspire photography as a healing tool to coincide with traditional, professional, medical treatments. …
Without much fanfare, Samsung today released its newest consumer-level compact camera, the 8.1-megapixel ES10, touting a pretty standard set of features: 2.5†LCD, ISO 1600, movie mode at 30fps VGA, and digital image stabilization. But the software algorithm inside the camera does some pretty complex tricks. The ES10 features a red-eye fix, face detection, self …
There’s a new firmware for the Canon Powershot SD880 IS compact camera, available for download from the Canon site. Firmware Version 1.0.1.0 corrects a bug in the SD880 that causes the camera to lose power when the shutter is pressed halfway and the AF frame magnifies without taking the picture. Canon notes that, if the …
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