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  • Steve McCurry talks to WordPress.com about his work, and why he blogs

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    Steve McCurry, the award-winning photographer responsible for the iconic ‘Afghan Girl’ portrait for National Geographic, has given an interview about his work and why, despite his fame, he maintains a blog of his latest images. In the interview, on the official WordPress blog, McCurry explains how photography as a career has changed over the course of the past few decades, and the vital role now played by the Internet. Click through for extracts and a link to the full interview at blog.wordpress.com, and to Steve’s own blog. 

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • The Atlantic’s In Focus publishes its Year in Photos 2012

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    The Atlantic’s excellent ‘In Focus’ photo blog has published the third and final part of its 2012 Year in Photos. The three-part series includes 135 images from around the world, covering a great breadth of events and subjects. As you’d expect of such a review, there are some occasionally graphic images that some readers may find disturbing but there are also some astonishing photos giving a surprising views of other countries and cultures.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Apple and Google teaming up to buy Kodak patents

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    Financial news service Bloomberg is reporting Apple and Google are working together to purchase some of Kodak’s imaging patents. The companies are said to be working together – lending more weight to reports in the Wall Street Journal from back in August. The story suggests the two companies, along with the groups of smaller companies with whom they’d been preparing bids, will offer more than $ 500m for the patents. Such a figure would give Kodak access to $ 830m of external funding that is dependent on the value of the patent deal.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Leica invites entries for its Oskar Barnack Award 2013

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    Leica has announced the Oskar Barnack Award 2013 international photo competition will open for entries from January 15th, with a first prize worth €15,000 (~ $ 19,400). The 2013 winner will receive a Leica M digital rangefinder and lens in addition to a €5000 (~ $ 6500) cash prize. To enter, participants need to submit a portfolio of up to twelve images expressing ‘the interaction between man and the environment.’ In addition, the Newcomer award, open to photographers under 25 years of age, offers a Leica rangefinder camera and lens as the prize. Submissions are open until 1st March 2013.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • DxO Labs announces v1.1 of its ViewPoint distortion correction software

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    DxO Labs has announced version 1.1 of its ViewPoint distortion correction software, promising more accurate tools and faster operation. Viewpoint is designed to correct keystone distortions (converging verticals and horizontals), and restore more natural proportions to objects towards the edge of the frame when using wide-angle lenses. It is available either as a stand-alone tool or as a plugin for Adobe PhotoShop (CS3 or newer) or Lightroom (version 3 or newer), and for both Mac and PC.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Adobe announces updates exclusive to Creative Cloud members

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    Adobe has announced CS6 updates that are exclusive to Creative Cloud subscribers. Adobe Photoshop 13.1 offers among other things, the ability to apply Liquify and Lens Blur effects as Smart Objects and use conditional statements when creating Actions. However, these changes are unavailable to those who’ve bought traditional versions of Photoshop CS6, and Adobe has not said when, or even if, ‘perpetual users’ of CS6 will have access to these features. Retina Display support for Mac, also announced today, is available for all users.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Fujifilm X-E1 preview extended

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    Just Posted: an extensive update to our Fujifilm X-E1 preview. With a sensor and imaging pipeline that is identical to the X-Pro1’s the X-E1 promises much of the X-Pro1’s fun in a more compact and affordable package. We’ve been working with a production sample X-E1 for a couple of weeks and we’ve been working towards a full review, which we hope to publish early in the new year. In the meantime we’ve added seven pages to the preview, including our studio test shots and a sample gallery. Click through for a link to the expanded preview, including our 49-image real-world sample gallery. 

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Carl Zeiss announces 2012 photo competition for users of its lenses

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    Carl Zeiss has announced its annual photo contest for images shot with one of its lenses. Any Zeiss lens is considered valid, from Nokia smartphones through Sony compacts, such as the RX100, to the company’s high-end interchangeable lenses. This year’s theme is ‘The moment that knows no limits’ and first prize is one of the company’s manual focus SLR and rangefinder lenses, with a variety of other Zeiss-branded prizes for runners-up. The contest runs on Flickr until January 15th.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Microsoft releases Camera Codec Pack with Raw support for 34 extra cameras

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    Microsoft has released an updated version of its Camera Codec Pack for Windows Vista, 7, 8 and RT. The latest update allows applications such as Windows Explorer, Windows Photo Viewer, Media Center, and Windows Photo Gallery to deal with Raw files from 34 additional cameras. The cameras include the Canon EOS M, Olympus OM-D E-M5 and Sony NEX-7.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Flickr brings much demanded updates to web interface and iOS app

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    Flickr has updated its web interface and released an updated version of its iOS app as it tries to reassert its relevance in a post-Instagram landscape. The refresh of the web interface sees the navigation bar at the top of the site get slimmer, to devote more page space to photos. The ‘Explore’ page has also been redesigned – taking on the full-width, large tiled design used in the ‘My Contacts’ page. Flickr has also updated its famously poor iOS app, adding processing filters and better discovery tools.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)