By Aimme Baldridge for PopPhoto.com:
“Carl Zeiss has released a new wide-angle prime lens. As its name indicates, the Distagon T* 2/28 has an f/2 maximum aperture and a 28.5mm focal length. Weighing 18.7 ounces, it takes M58 x 0.75 filters and features a manual focus ring and metal casing. Its minimum aperture is f/22 and [...]

From Guardian Unlimited:
“For 60 years, Jane Bown has been capturing the world as she sees it, from her iconic portraits – John Lennon, Bertrand Russell, Bjork – to her heartfelt images of the everyday – a Grimsby docker, a gypsy child, a ball of string. But she was never happier than when out and about [...]

By Ciar Byrne of The Independent:
“They were the pioneers of photography, the artists of a medium that would transform our perceptions of reality through the invention of the calotype – a delicate print made from a paper negative – by an Englishman, William Henry Fox Talbot.
Now, the first major exhibition of this British art form [...]

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By Daryl Lang at PDNonline.com:
“With photography groups protesting a new plan that sets a standard $49 rate for web usage of stock images, Getty Images announced a small concession Friday.
“In listening carefully to feedback from photographers, we have decided to reduce the duration of rights-ready and rights-managed web-resolution licenses to 3 months,” said Nick Evans-Lombe, [...]

By Joanne Jarvis of the Evening Telegraph:

“A TALENTED photographer with a thirst for travelling journeyed 3,500 miles on the back of a motorbike to visit poverty- stricken children affected by the world’s worst nuclear power accident.

James Kenny (23), who studied photography and journalism at Peterborough Regional College, has just returned from Belarus and Ukraine, taking [...]

By Daryl Lang for PDNonline.com:
“The farmer, Andrew E. Marsinko, filed a lawsuit against several people and companies involved in the photograph and the greeting card, including stock photo heavyweights Getty Images and Jupitermedia.
The suit was filed Sept. 12 in Roanoke County Circuit Court in Virginia.
The greeting card features a black-and-white portrait of Marsinko holding a [...]

Martin Gayford of Bloomberg.com writes:
“Lee Miller told a reporter in 1932, “I would rather take a picture than be one.”
That’s the nub of her career, which moved from model to surrealist photographer and war reporter, and the central ambiguity in a new show at [...]

Peter Kolonia of PopPhoto.com writes:
“Love is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 ($59, street) out today from Rhino Media is the musical equivalent of an archeological dig. A 4 CD boxed set of Bay Area classics and rarities from dozens of bands, famous and obscure, it’s not your typical nostalgic compilation for aging [...]

As reported by Rich Davies at Slashgear.com:
“With a scalloped rim guaranteed to make all the ladies say “cheese!” the latest in Hasselblad’s range of so-bloody-good-you-sob digital-SLR cameras, the H3D-II, turns the hotness dial all the way up to 39… megapixels, that is.  It’s all handled by a whopping 48 x 36mm CCD (there are 31 [...]