Award-winning photographer Steve McCurry has published the photos taken with the last roll of Kodakchrome to come off the production line on his WordPress blog. McCurry has shot more than 800,000 photos including his iconic ‘Afghan Girl’ portrait, with the film. In a National Geographic article in 2009 McCurry equated ‘losing the medium to losing a dear friend.’ Click through for the link the gallery.
We’ve added the Nikon D5200 to our database of studio comparison images. We’re in the process of running a production D5200 through our studio tests, so wanted to present the results of our standard test scene. These test shots are also available from other reviews and the standalone tool, which can be accessed via the ‘Review Comparison Tool’ link in the Reviews menu on any page of the site. We’ll be adding a complete set of studio and real-world sample images to our previously-published preview in the coming days, but in the meantime, click through to see how the D5200 stacks up to the competition in terms of JPEG and RAW image quality.
Apple has added Raw support to its OS-X operating system for nine additional cameras, including Nikon’s D5200, Pentax K-5 II/IIs and Sony’s DSC-RX1. Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update v4.04 also brings Leica X2, D-Lux 6 and V-Lux 4 support to Aperture and iPhoto. The update requires Aperture v3.4 or later and iPhoto version 9.4 or later. Click through for the complete list of cameras and download link.
Professional photographer Kevin Kuster, who lives in Chicago, was recently approached by the charity Watts of Love to help with an interesting photography project that seemed a perfect opportunity to make use of his newfound love of mobile photography. He will now travel to the Philippines and shoot 50 weddings in one day – with his iPhone 4s.
Nikon has published a YouTube video to celebrate the 80th anniversary of its Nikkor branded lenses. The video offers behind-the-scenes look at the manufacturing process from making the glass to final assembly of the lens. In a press release, the company has also listed out few milestones of the brand’s history – starting with the first shipment of Aero-Nikkor aerial photographic lenses in the year 1933. Click through to watch the video.
Just posted: Olympus M.Zuiko 17mm F1.8 sample gallery. We’ve been shooting with the Olympus 17mm F1.8 lens for a while now and have put together a sample gallery showing the sorts of things it can do. We’ve also prepared some notes on the experience of shooting with the 34mm equivalent fast prime for Micro Four Thirds and included some shots that match ones we included in our Sony RX1 gallery. Beyond that we’ve tried to show a the lens at a series of apertures to show how the lens behaves.
We’ve just posted our review of the Samsung Galaxy Camera on Connect. The Galaxy Camera takes components from Samsung’s WB850F long-zoom compact camera and its flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S3, and combines them in one device. The result of this fusion of technologies is a compact superzoom camera with a 23mm wideangle, 21x zoom lens and pop-up flash that offers the ability to edit images on the go. You can also share images via Wi-Fi or 3G/4G data connectivity and install a plethora of apps from the Google Play Store. Click through to go to the full review.
Ricoh exhibited a concept camera at CP+ that captures spherical panoramic images and sends them wirelessly to smartphone or tablet. Apparently produced mainly to gauge market reaction, Ricoh released no technical info on the camera apart from the fact that it uses two opposed 180-degree lenses whose images it combines into one spherical panorama. Users can zoom in on the image elements and swipe to look around the sphere; they can also zoom out to a circular image. The company imagines printing images on spheres as a potential product concept, and is considering video capture as well as stills.
The World Photography Organisation has announced the shortlists for the professional, open and youth categories of the 2013 Sony World Photography awards. This year’s competition saw the highest number of submissions to date with more than 122,000 entries from 170 countries. The shortlist offers an insight into an impressive gallery of images. Winners are scheduled to be announced in March and April. Click through for more information and a look at some of the photographs.
The makers of Raspberry Pi – the popular low-cost computer – have announced the development of a new camera module, expected to cost $ 25. Since the first version of Raspberry Pi was released early last year, more than half a million of the low-cost boards have been sold to eager enthusiasts all over the world, and put to use doing everything from running games to powering a voice-activated coffee machine (yes, really). Details on the forthcoming camera module are vague, but it is expected to offer at least 5MP resolution and the ability to capture HD video. Click through for more details.