From DCviews.com:
“Canon announces the SELPHY ES2 compact photo printer. The new ES2 offers an easy-to-use operation panel, a 3-inch LCD monitor and multiple creative options for photos, including frames, clip art and image effects. With the Easy-Photo Pack cartridge, ink and paper come together in one integrated system, offering a variety of paper types and [...]

 By Steven Shankland for CNet’s News.com:
“I’ve tried Lensbabies’ 3G selective-focus lens, and I like it.
This lens, which looks more like a miniature Lunar Excursion Module than a traditional SLR lens, restores some physicality to a world of photography that’s ever more electronic and automated. And the images it produces can be compelling.
The [...]

By Yasemin Sim Esmim of Turkish Daily News:
“Imagine intending to capture a specific moment on film, only to feel as if the moment has passed you by or has not even surfaced yet. Merih Akoğul believes that his latest exhibition, ”As if,” on display at the Istanbul Photography Center in Beyoğlu until Nov. 3, showcases [...]

By Darius Himes of PopPhoto.com:
“Lesley A. Martin, who has been with Aperture off and on for the last ten years and has been executive editor of the book-publishing program for the past four, was recently promoted to Publisher. Her promotion was “reinforcement,” as she put it, that the revamping of the book-publishing program that she [...]

By Daryl Lang of PDNonline.com:
“On D-Day, June 6, 1944, Robert Capa was landing at Omaha Beach with American soldiers, famously shooting his series of frantic, blurry pictures. One soldier in particular, wearing a resolute expression as he emerges from the sea like some prehistoric amphibian, came to symbolize the landing at Normandy, France.
“I remember it [...]

Robert M. Poole reports for the Smithsonian:
“The most improbable object imaginable—the lowly, lumpy potato—played a leading role in the Great Leap Forward of color photography. The story begins in 1903, when two imaginative French inventors, Auguste and Louis Lumière, seized the pomme de terre and made it the basis for a dazzling new imaging process [...]

From Shutterbug.com:
“September 25, 2007 — Olympus has introduced the SP-560 Ultra Zoom digital camera with 27mm wide-angle to 18x optical zoom) and an 8-megapixel image sensor. Its super-macro captures from as close as one centimeter. The compact lens construction combines high-refractive, aspherical and extra-dispersion (ED) lens [...]

From Daryl Lang of PDNonline.com:
“Newspapers won two of the four new Emmy Awards for broadband, while multimedia photo production company MediaStorm won a third. The nods from the TV-centered Emmys are an important validation of print outlets that have invested in multimedia
The winners were announced Monday night in New York as part of the 28th [...]

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Kathryn Bennet from MacDevCenter reports:
“When Joseph Nicephore Niepce snapped the first photograph of his courtyard in 1826, it required an eight-hour exposure. Suppose that just after beginning the process, Niepce realized he should have moved the table with the flowerpot a few feet to the left to better balance the photo’s composition. The next eight [...]