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Nikon and Canon both announce delays for upcoming DSLRs

01 Aug

Both Nikon and Canon have warned users that forthcoming DSLRs will be hit by delays: The 100th anniversary edition of the Nikon D5 and the Canon 6D Mark II kit with the EF 24-70mm F4L lens are both going to arrive at your door later than expected.

According to a statement on Nikon’s website, the 100th anniversary edition of Nikon’s D5 has been put back by a couple of weeks from July 28th to ‘early August’ while final adjustments are made. The company promises to inform users of the new release date once it is determined.

More seriously perhaps, Canon has issued a statement letting hopeful shoppers know that demand for the EOS 6D Mark ll kit with the Canon EF 24-70mm F4L IS USM lens has exceeded expectations, and that orders will take some time to fulfill. The kits were supposed to ship on August 4th, but Canon has not revealed when it will be able to satisfy the initial demand.

The EOS 6D ll is also offered body only and as a kit with the 24-105mm F3.5-5.6 IS STM lens, so those desperate to buy the camera do have other options.

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

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Getty Images and Instagram announce grant winners

22 Sep

Getty Images Instagram Grant Winners Announced

Photo by Girma Berta, @gboxcreative, Getty Images Instagram Grant Recipient 2016

Getty Images and Instagram have announced the winners of the second annual Getty Images Instagram Grant, a program founded to support photographers using Instagram to document stories from underrepresented communities around the world.

The three winners will receive grants of $ 10,000 and will also have their work exhibited at the Photoville photography festival in New York from September 21-25. Click through to learn about the recipients and to see their winning images.

Christian Rodriguez

Photo by Christian Rodriguez, @christian_foto, Getty Images Instagram Grant Recipient 2016

Christian Rodriguez, a documentary photographer from Uruguay, received a grant for his project Teen Mom, which depicts teen pregnancy in Latin America. Directly impacted by teenage motherhood, Christian hopes to raise awareness of the issue and highlight its impact on local communities. He finds inspiration in the literary trend of magical realism and considers Instagram a powerful tool to gain feedback and information about the realities many teenagers are faced with.

Christian Rodriguez

Photo by Christian Rodriguez, @christian_foto, Getty Images Instagram Grant Recipient 2016

Portrait of Graciela (13) , Norma (8) and Lupita (7) hiding behind their house in a small village called Ocotal Grande in Veracruz. They belong to the popoluca community. Popoluca is a Nahuatl term (meaning “gibberish, unintelligible speech”) given to various indigenous communities of southeastern Veracruz.

Christian Rodriguez

Photo by Christian Rodriguez, @christian_foto, Getty Images Instagram Grant Recipient 2016

Gloria (13) belongs to the Mixe Community of Maluco, a small village in the north of the “Itsmo de Tehuantepec”, Oaxaca. She lives with her mother and 8 of her 10 siblings, who are between 4 and 20 years old. Gloria became mother at the age of 12, consequence of the constant sexual abuse of her father who has also attacked two of her sisters, aged 8 and 16.

Christian Rodriguez

Photo by Christian Rodriguez, @christian_foto, Getty Images Instagram Grant Recipient 2016

Angela Mieres (15) hugs her sister Patricia during labor. Her boyfriend and father of the baby was shot dead 20 days before birth.

Christian Rodriguez

Photo by Christian Rodriguez, @christian_foto, Getty Images Instagram Grant Recipient 2016

Micaela and her son, Franco. Micaela’s mother was, like her, a teenage mother.

Ronny Sen

Photo by Ronny Sen, @ronnysen, @whatdoestheendoftimelooklike, Getty Images Instagram Grant Recipient 2016

Children wait for their parents to return from work, both of whom are coal pickers inside a coal mine in Jharia.

Ronny Sen, from India, received a grant for his work documenting the fires that have burned for just over one hundred years in mineral-rich Jharia. A documentary photographer compelled to visually document his immediate reality, Ronny’s work uses both photography and videography to spotlight the plight of people who have been affected by big corporations and depicts survival in an apocalyptic-like landscape.

Ronny Sen

Photo by Ronny Sen, @ronnysen, @whatdoestheendoftimelooklike, Getty Images Instagram Grant Recipient 2016

The wall of a broken temple in a village near a coal mine in Jharia. Due to the blasting and the underground fire lots of the buildings and houses in nearby villages are being destroyed.

Ronny Sen

Photo by Ronny Sen, @ronnysen, @whatdoestheendoftimelooklike, Getty Images Instagram Grant Recipient 2016

A contractual labour inside one of the coal mines in Jharia. He will make two dollars after loading almost five trucks with coal in Jharia.

Ronny Sen

Photo by Ronny Sen, @ronnysen, @whatdoestheendoftimelooklike, Getty Images Instagram Grant Recipient 2016

Coal scavengers work very early in the morning before the mine officials come inside the mines in Jharia.

Girma Berta

Photo by Girma Berta, @gboxcreative, Getty Images Instagram Grant Recipient 2016

Girma Berta resides in Addis Ababa and uses his iPhone to capture the vibrant color and grunge of street life in the capital of Ethiopia. Girma uses his background in graphics and painting as a guide for lighting and composition, playing with colors and infusing street photography with fine art. Girma’s project, Moving Shadows, showcases local street scenes against backdrops of color. A member of @everydayafrica, he uses Instagram as a platform for self-expression and to share his work with the rest of the world.

Girma Berta

Photo by Girma Berta, @gboxcreative, Getty Images Instagram Grant Recipient 2016

Girma Berta

Photo by Girma Berta, @gboxcreative, Getty Images Instagram Grant Recipient 2016

Girma Berta

Photo by Girma Berta, @gboxcreative, Getty Images Instagram Grant Recipient 2016

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Magnum and LensCulture announce inaugural Photography Award winners

16 Jul

Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016 winners

Harrodsburg © Dougie Wallace / Institute. Street Series Winner, Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016.

The winners of Magnum’s first photography competition have been announced, honoring a total of 44 photographers from around the globe. Twelve photographers took top honors for series and single image entries in Street, Portrait, Photojournalism, Fine Art, Documentary and Open categories. The competition was open to anyone over 18, and submissions came in from 127 different countries. See above for a look at some of the winning entries and visit LensCulture for more.

Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016 winners

Six Degrees of Copenhagen © Jens Juul. Portrait Series Winner, Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016.

Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016 winners

Kajol with a customer. She thinks she is 17 years but does not know her exact age. She was married at 9 years old. Her aunt sold her to the Kandapara brothel. © Sandra Hoyn, Photojournalism Series Winner, Magnum Photography Awards 2016.

Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016 winners

C.E.N.S.U.R.A. © Julián Barón, Open Series Winner, Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016.

Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016 winners

Dad & Josephine © Aaron Hardin. Fine Art Series Winner, Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016.

Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016 winners

Horgos, Serbia, August 30, 2015. At dusk, Roujin Sheikho, on the left, carries her daughter Widad followed by her son Nabih, on the right. This group walks among other refugees from Syria, who are allowed to cross the barbed wire in the dark into Hungary, on their long road to Sweden. © Mauricio Lima. Documentary Series Winner, Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016.

Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016 winners

Passover preparations, Mea Shearim. Passover is a holiday in which the Jewish people commemorate their liberation, by God, from slavery in Egypt as well as their freedom as a nation under the leadership of Moses. Passover preparations are very chaotic. There are large centers, scattered in different locations across the neighborhood, where each group of residents burn their old bread to make room for something new. This type of bread is made especially for Passover and is named “Matza.”

I took a large amount of pictures that day and I was exhausted from the weather and heat from the bonfires. The picture presented here is the last picture I took that day, after climbing a small hill to get my shot. © Ofir Barak. Street Single Image Winner, Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016

Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016 winners

This photo was shot in a dying coal-mining town, St Charles, which is situated in the beautiful Appalachian Mountains behind the fog. © Hannah Modigh. Portrait Single Image Winner, Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016.

Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016 winners

Civilians escape from a fire at a house destroyed by an air attack in Donbass, a village in Luhanskaya, eastern Ukraine, on July 2, 2014. © Valery Melnikov. Photojournalism Single Image Winner, Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016.

Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016 winners

Ahmad, a young man in his early twenties, is a member of ISIS (The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria). In February 2015, Kurdish YPG militia arrested him after he was seen and revealed in their territory in the northeastern part of Syria. © Asger Ladefoged. Open Single Image Winner, Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016.

Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016 winners

Palm Wine Collector, Kunene Region, Namibia. 2015. © Kyle Weeks. Fine Art Single Image Winner, Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016.

Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016 winners

Israeli soldiers shoot tear gas during a demonstration against Israel’s controversial separation barrier in the West Bank village of Nilin. © Cris Toala Olivares. Documentary Single Image Winner, Magnum and LensCulture Photography Awards 2016

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

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Hasselblad and DJI announce 50MP medium-format drone kit

13 Jul

The first product of the collaboration between Chinese drone maker DJI and Swedish medium-format camera manufacturer Hasselblad will be a long range drone fitted with the same 50MP CMOS sensor that is used in a number of current medium-format cameras, including the new X1D mirrorless camera.

What the companies are calling a ‘fully integrated aerial photography platform’ will combine DJI’s industrial Matrice 600 drone with Hasselblad’s recent A5D aerial camera. The camera, which has no moving parts of its own, will come with an adapted HC 50mm F3.5 lens that has its focus set to infinity. When used with the 50c sensor the lens offers a view similar to that which we would expect from a 42mm lens on a 35mm system camera.

DJI’s M600 can carry a maximum of 6kg/13.2lb which the company says means it can carry the Hasselblad A5D and a Ronin-MX gimbal ‘with ease’ – together the camera, lens and gimbal will weigh just over 4kg/8.95lb.

As both products are already on sale the bundle deal is available now priced $ 25,999/€24,400/¥189,999 (Chinese yuan) – all before tax. The UK price has yet to be announced. For more information see the Hasselblad and the DJI websites – below are a couple of official samples from Hasselblad.

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Press release:

DJI and Hasselblad introduce first joint aerial photography package

First fully integrated aerial photography platform combines DJI’s M600 with Hasselblad’s A5D.

DJI and Hasselblad today announced a fully integrated high-end aerial camera-platform bundle made up of Hasselblad’s aerial medium format camera A5D and DJI’s professional flying platform M600.

The A5D-M600 bundle is the first joint product following DJI’s recent investment in Hasselblad. The combination of the M600 and the A5D provides users with today’s most advanced aerial optics and sensors integrated with one of the world’s most reliable aerial platforms. In addition, the two companies are looking at additional joint products for the future.

‘Combining best-in-class aerial optics with the world’s most powerful aerial platform is a natural development for DJI and Hasselblad. We are delighted to provide this unique bundle to professional photographers, surveyors and mappers’, said Perry Oosting, CEO of Hasselblad.’

DJI’s M600 is designed for maximum performance and smart flight safety. The M600 is fully compatible with DJI’s advanced gimbal system the Ronin-MX. It comes fully equipped with 6 intelligent batteries, A3 flight controller, Lightbridge 2 Professional HD transmission system, a dust-proof propulsion system and powerful app control.

Hasselblad’s A5D camera combines the world’s best optics and sensors with a modern, compact design. The sensors are almost twice the size of those used in today’s best 35 mm DSLR cameras and the A5D lens comes in 50 mm.

Hasselblad’s Natural Colour Solution (HNCS) comes standard and helps optimize difficult color gradations straight out of the box. The A5D has a strong seal on the camera body and sensor unit preventing dust in the optical system.

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

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Hasselblad to announce ‘game changer’ next week

18 Jun

Hasselblad is on the verge of announcing a new camera that it claims will be a ‘game changer in the world of photography.’ Details are vague but the teaser image, showing a low viewfinder hump supports the rumors of a high-end mirrorless model aimed at the enthusiast and semi-pro camera market.

The camera will be the first expansion of the Swedish company’s product line since it abandoned its much-ridiculed attempt to sell ‘luxury’ versions of Sony-derived models. In an interview with DPReview earlier this year, CEO Perry Oosting suggested the company had learned from the experience and would offer products that build on, and are more consistent with, the brand’s heritage as it sought to expand into different markets.

The launch will be broadcast live June 22nd at 5:00AM (PST) via the company’s YouTube channel.

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

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Leica and Huawei announce partnership to ‘reinvent smartphone photography’

27 Feb

We’ve seen established members of the optical industry partner with smartphone makers before – Nokia high-end phones used to come with Carl Zeiss branded lenses, and Schneider Kreuznach optics have been used in various models from Chinese manufacturer Oppo. Now it seems we could soon see Leica-branded lenses and other imaging technology in Huawei smartphones. Read more

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The New Photographer’s Ephemeris Desktop Beta Version Announce

07 Aug

The Photographer’s Ephemeris for Desktop: All Change!

Some important news for users of The Photographer’s Ephemeris (TPE) for Desktop: on 2 September 2014, Google will switch off the Google Maps for Flash API. On that date TPE for Desktop will stop working.

When TPE for Desktop was first launched in 2009, we still lived in a pre-iPad world and Steve Jobs had yet to write his thoughts on Flash. Building on Adobe AIR provided a convenient cross-platform technology that allowed users on Windows, Mac and Linux to run the same application.

Since then, the popularity of Flash has declined significantly and Adobe AIR was repurposed towards mobile development. It has served TPE for Desktop well, but it’s time for a change.

A New Photographer’s Ephemeris Web App

The new web app is already live

Happily, this hasn’t come as a total surprise! We have a new TPE for Desktop ready to step into the breach. The new TPE web app is already live and available at app.photoephemeris.com. You can start using it right now. We’re keeping it in Beta until September 2nd, and will continue to refine it over the coming weeks as you send us your feedback.

The web app runs in a variety of modern browsers. It has been tested in the current versions of Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer (11) and Opera. As with the old TPE, it is designed for use on desktop computers or laptops equipped with a mouse or track pad.

One advantage of the web app: you no longer need to install additional software or to continually update to a new version of Adobe AIR. You get the latest version automatically each time you visit the site.

New Features

TPE has a loyal following and this is going to be a big change for some. The user interface may look different, but the new web app includes the same functionality as the old desktop version and comes with a number of enhancements.

Celestial events for the day are displayed in the events timeline below the map. At a glance, you can see the day’s information chronologically.

A chart of the sun, and moon’s, journey throughout the day is displayed at the bottom of the screen. Scrolling the time slider changes sun and moon information relative to your selected pin position and date.

Same features as the old desktop version, but with some great additions.

New features include:

Sharing: look up locations; set date and time, then share the URL of the web page
Saved locations can be used to set the grey pin position as well as the red – great for planning both camera and subject placement
Six degree shadow circle: this new feature shows sun and moon shadows, and highlights, when the sun or moon sit between +0° and +6° above the horizon – times when there’s often good light (so-called “golden hour”) or when the moon can be photographed against features in the landscape
Use Google Street View directly from the map
Timeline and chart toggle on and off to increase map “real estate” – great for users with small screens
Support: you can submit feedback or a support request directly from the app

Look after your locations!

Locations stored in the old desktop version can be exported and saved as a KML file, and then imported into the new web app. We’d encourage you to do this now ahead of the September 2nd deadline.

Once imported, the web app saves locations in your browser’s local storage. In order to ensure you don’t inadvertently lose your locations, we advise exporting and saving the KML files as backups. Look after your saved locations the way you look after your photos.

It’s time to switch

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Say goodbye to the old TPE desktop app, it’s time to switch (caption)

Just like the original TPE for Desktop, the new desktop web app remains free to use.

You can send feedback to TPE at any time using the support tab in the web app. TPE is used by so many professional and amateur photographers around the world, and this is a great opportunity for you to help shape this useful tool.

We’re adding updated tutorials to the TPE website in the weeks leading up to September 2nd. There is also a Quick Start Guide you can download directly from the web app page. It outlines the major functionality along with a list of useful keyboard shortcuts.

Go ahead and try it out today!

Get The Photographer’s Ephemeris available free of charge. Tutorials are available.

Here’s a few dPS articles that mention TPE so you can try it out:

It’s all about the light: The Photographer’s Ephemeris
Finding New Photography Locations Just Got Easier With ShotHotspot
8 Simple Guidelines for Capturing Spectacular Sunrise and Sunset Images
5 Hot Tips For Improving Your Summer Photography

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Western Digital announce My Passport Pro Thunderbolt Raid storage

10 Apr

Western Digital have just announced a new portable storage solution for photographers and digital content creators! The My Passport® Pro Thunderbolt Raid, the first portable, Thunderbolt™-powered dual-drive solution, comes in a 2 or 4TB flavour and has the cable built into the drive as you can see in the photographs below.

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Here’s the official press release;

SYDNEY, Australia, – Mar. 28, 2014 – WD®, a Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) company, and world leader in storage solutions for the connected life, today introduced My Passport® Pro, the first portable, Thunderbolt™-powered dual-drive solution, providing creative professionals and enthusiasts high performance and capacity in a truly mobile solution. For Mac systems, My Passport Pro has user-selectable RAID functionality to deliver needed performance for the most demanding applications in the field, without the need for power adapters or extra cables. My Passport Pro is available in 2 TB and 4 TB capacities.

“The only Thunderbolt dual-drive solution that’s bus-powered, WD’s My Passport Pro enhances the workflow of mobile creative professionals by providing fast transfers and data protection for the large amounts of digital content they generate outside the studio,” said Jim Welsh, executive vice president of branded products and worldwide sales, WD. “From photographers, videographers and musicians to graphic designers and architects, people who depend on portable storage for their livelihood will find My Passport Pro defines a new level of performance, reliability and especially portability.”

“Thunderbolt™ technology makes new approaches possible for high-performance workflows,” said Jason Ziller, Intel’s Director of Thunderbolt Marketing. “By combining dual storage drives on a portable, bus-powered device, the My Passport Pro from WD is a uniquely powerful storage solution with high capacity for today’s demanding users.”
Directly powered via the integrated Thunderbolt cable — a design unique to WD — performance of My Passport Pro clocks in at speeds up to 233 MB/s, providing super-fast transfer, edit and backup capabilities. Another key feature of the dual-drive My Passport Pro is its user-selectable RAID function, which lets users choose data striping (RAID 0) for high performance or mirroring (RAID 1) for data redundancy, depending on the user’s needs. Superior to both FireWire 800 and USB 3.0, the integrated Thunderbolt technology of My Passport Pro makes video manipulation quick and easy—with the ability to copy a 22 GB high-definition video file in half the time typically required by a USB 3.0 drive working in RAID 0 format.

Consisting of two 2.5-inch hard drives housed in a sleek aluminium enclosure, My Passport Pro is thoroughly shock-tested for extra durability to perform reliably when working on the go.

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Here’s what I think;

I’ve had the “My Passport Pro” for a few days now and this is by no means enough time to fully get used to working with a new device, but having worked with storage of all different kinds for so long, it’s enough to get a good feeling about something. Now I just want something to fulfill a certain storage need that I have, so I was very impressed when the WD team pulled out this little beast and handed it to me over a nice chicken schnitzel sandwich (yes, really). The build is solid with little rubber feet to keep it steady, and a fan that’s built in to keep the temperature within its working range. The fan doesn’t come on much – I’ve had the drive sitting running for a couple of days, and even under a lot of load it hasn’t activated – nice and quiet.

I have it configured to speedy Raid 0 for now, checking out the performance of the drive. The 2TB version is going to be more than enough for almost any shoot, even when setup in Raid 1 (mirrored) giving you just under 1TB of useable space. The real test of this device will be in a couple of months when I take it to Israel for a week long photo tour with Kinetis (and our very own dPS writer Oded Wagenstein) and will be writing about the drive and how it performs along the way!

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The My Passport® Pro has filled a gap in my workflow and has filled it nicely – time will tell in terms of drive stability and build quality, nothing beats three copies of important content, but a mirrored raid disk in the field is a great start.

You can buy one of these little beauties on Amazon:

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Transforming Dhaus Designers Announce Origamic DTable

03 Apr

[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture & Houses & Residential. ]

dhouse unfolding architecture

As featured previously on WebUrbanist, the Dhaus is a radical transforming building with eight specific configurations and all kinds of deployments in between. This time around, we have even more from its creators, from models and videos to a new piece of furniture based on the same concept (video and images of the latter at the end!).

But first, a refresher and new details on the house design: “Conceived for the harsh, climatic extremes from ‘Lapland to Cape Horn and Aleutians to Auckland’ The D*Haus concept can respond dynamically to its environment by controlled adaptation to seasonal, meteorological and astronomical conditions.”

dhouse real life prototype

Imagine a view you can control on demand, and exposure centered around annual weather cycles: “The flexibility of the D*Haus allows adaptation from winter to summer, and day to night by literally moving inside itself.”

dhouse modular season models

Aside from the seasons, there is also security and open-plan versatility: ”The thick heavy external walls unfold into internal walls allowing glass internal walls to become facades. Doors become windows and vice versa.”

dtable modular rotating design

Their most recent design is a table based on the same modular principles of the house – something more people have space for and can afford to own. The D*Table launches on Kickstarter tomorrow. Like its larger counterpart, it consists of four pieces that can be swung inward, out and around into various functional settings fit for different uses and interior layouts.

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Panasonic posts firmware for DMC-GH3 and announce GH3-Minute Movies

29 Mar

Panasonic has posted the promised firmware updates for its movie-focused Lumix DMC-GH3 mirrorless camera, the 14-42mm and 45-175mm power zooms and the 45-150mm lens. The GH3 update adds the ability to shoot 1080p60 footage in MP4 format and lets users connect to a computer via Wi-Fi by entering the computer name (NetBIOS names for Mac). Meanwhile the lens updates promise improved autofocus performance in AF Continuous mode when mounted on the GH3.

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