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The Halcyon Days of John & Yoko

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Oct 1st, 2007

By Jack Crager for PopPhoto.com:
“Of the myriad pictures made of John Lennon, perhaps none is more iconic than his last formal portrait, with the former Beatle in the nude and holding his wife Yoko Ono, made by Annie Leibovitz just hours before Lennon’s death. After it appeared posthumously on the cover of Rolling Stone, the [...]



Canon introduces new compact Selphy ES2 photo printer

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Sep 27th, 2007

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 [...]



Lensbabies: Intuitive photography in an electronic world

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Sep 27th, 2007

 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 [...]



An opportunity missed at 1/250 of a second

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Sep 27th, 2007

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 [...]



Talking Books with Aperture’s Lesley A. Martin

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Sep 27th, 2007

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 [...]



WWII Vet Says He’s Subject Of Famous Robert Capa Photo

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Sep 26th, 2007

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 [...]



Olympus 18X Optical Zoom Digital Compact Camera

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Sep 26th, 2007

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 [...]



Broadband Emmys Go To MediaStorm, Freep.com, SFGate.com

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Sep 26th, 2007

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 [...]



Zeiss Introduces New Wide Prime Lens

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Sep 24th, 2007

 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 [...]



‘Some people take pictures. I find them’

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Sep 24th, 2007

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 [...]