Samsung has today officially launched a new generation of its A-series smartphones, and although the new devices range below the high-end Galaxy S and Note models in the Samsung line-up, they come with promising-looking specifications – especially in the camera department. Read more
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The Holga camera – a 120 film camera from the 1980s which has recently seen a resurgence among low-fi photo fans – is going digital, thanks to a project seeking funding on Kickstarter. The Holga Digital camera features original optics that are known for their dark corners and vivid colors. Read more
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Lomography has launched its new Petzval 58 Bokeh Control Art Lens, the second lens it has introduced based on the Petzval optic invented by Joseph Petzval in 1840. This newest Petzval lens features Russian glass optics, is constructed by hand, and is offered in a brass finish. The lens results in photographs with a ‘swirly bokeh,’ and the strength of the effect can be controlled via a Bokeh Control Ring, a feature not available in Lomography’s existing 85mm Petzval. Read more
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A poor built-in LED-flash is still one of the smartphone camera’s most glaring weaknesses. We’ve seen a number of accessory makers addressing the problem with different external light solutions. The latest one comes from Vision global which has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund mass production of its Flasher accessory. Read more
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Michael Reichmann, the founder of The Luminous Landscape, has announced the launch of The Luminous Endowment for Photographers, a charitable organization whose mandate is to provide grants to photographers world-wide who are in need of financial support for their photographic undertakings.
Today also sees the publication of Michael Reichmann – a Twenty Year Retrospective. This large format, cloth bound, hard-cover book has 400 pages, containing 380 images. It was designed by Arturo Chapa, one of the world’s top book designers. This book is available in two editions; a signed and numbered limited-edition (500 copies only), contained in a clam-shell style slip-case, and also in an open series hard-covered edition without slip-case.
The design, printing and production of this book is Michael’s donation to The Endowment. The book is available to you in both editions through your donation to The Luminous Endowment For Photographers. This book will only be available as a gift to people who donate to The Endowment, and will not be available in bookstores.
The are two new article online here today… Announcing – The Luminous Endowment for Photographers and Michael Reichmann – A Twenty Year Retrospective.
Or, visit The Luminous Endowment for Photographers directly to find out more.
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The Luminous Landscape – What’s New
For the last few months we have been busy on a number of projects at Luminous-Landscape. One of these was getting LuLa workshops up and running. Luminous-Landscape pioneered the all inclusive workshop years ago and was one of the first workshops ever offered in Iceland. In January this year Kevin Raber joined the LuLa team and with his experience in running the PODAS Workshops for Phase One he has once again launched a top notch workshop series for Luminous-Landscape. Today Luminous-Landscape officially launches its workshop site Rockhopper Workshops. Read about it HERE.
Michael and I (Kevin) will be in Buffalo June 5-8 as part of the Silo City Workshop. This workshop conducted by Mark Maio will be photographing one of Michael’s and my favorite things; abandoned buildings. In this case these will be the abandoned Buffalo Childs Street grain elevators. If you are free and want to have a great few days shooting these amazing structures inside and out then go to the Silo City Web Page and register today. There are only a few spots left. Another bonus is Capture Integration will have a rep there with Leica Gear as well as Medium format digital gear if you are so inclined to try this gear out. Hope to see you there.
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The Luminous Landscape – What’s New
Update: Fujifilm UK has officially announced a service allowing certain X-series cameras to be customized with a range of different colors and body textures. The company showed customized cameras at The Photography Show earlier this week in Birmingham, UK, and partially functional pages for an ‘X Signature’ went up on its website, but the service is now live. Click through for more information.
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After many, many months of design and testing we are happy to announce the official unveiling of our studio test scene. The new scene was designed to address certain drawbacks with the previous test scene, as well as providing the opportunity to show more real-world relevant information about how cameras behave. We’ve increased the number of cameras supported to 23 and we’ll be continuing to add models (old and new) in the coming weeks.
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Aviary has announced a significant update to its Android photo editing app. Version 3.0 of Photo Editor by Aviary introduces a sleeker interface, modifications to some existing editing tools and availability of new filters previously only on the iOS version of the app. Click through for more details.
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Congratulations to my good pal Chris Chabot on the launch of his new photography services internet site today at LeWeb, Snapsation. Snapsation is an innovative new site that matches photographers and clients looking to hire photographers.
If you are a professional photographer or just an amateur looking to buy a few new lenses, either way you will want to check out this new place to market you and your work. You can find me there at http://snapsation.com/thomashawk
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