Category: Pro photo
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Ritz Camera stores going down
Ritz Camera, the largest US retail photography chain, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It’s not the first one, but the size of it is impressive: 800 photo stores in 40 states, operating as Ritz Camera, Wolf Camera, Kits Cameras, Inkley’s and The Camera Shops going MIA… Nikon and Canon are clearly at the…
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Cameras delayed for fear of recession
Crisis, recession, deflation, financial crush, layoffs are all words that we hear about on a daily basis. Whatever you feel/think about them, there is a reality: the consumers are buying less. This is as true for photo hardware and software as for the other markets (maybe it’s worse for cars…) Now, this has a clear…
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Obama shot by Gigapan
Gigapan is this tripod and equipment set used to shot semi-automatically a set of pictures that will be stitched together in a major picture made of billions of pixels. David Bergman brought one to the Washington’s inaugural address of Barack Obama. With its small Canon G10, it shot 220 images, brought them to a Macbook…
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Canon for Obama
Barrack Obama is the first American president who had his official portrait shot by a digital camera. Pete Souza, the newly-announced official White House photographer, shot the picture with a Canon EOS 5D MkII.
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Photo reporter in a riot
You may never have to do it, but it is a kind of experience that only an excellent pro reporter could deliver: How to cover a riot. John Camp (Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist) gives us the essentials about shooting photos in this kind of high-tension, fast-action environment. The photographer (pro or amateur) does not want to…
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2008 Wildlife Photographer of the Year
This international photo competition hosted by the Natural History Museum in London and BBC Wildlife Magazine just announced its list of winners for 2008. View the 2008 shortlist gallery and the 2008 winners. Astonishing photos!
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Video/photo: Blurring the limit
With the arrival of new Single Lens Reflex cameras able to capture video sequencs (Canon 5D Mark II & Nikon D90), the limit is blurred between video and photo cameras. The presentation of some new impresssive accessories (or should I rather speak of hardware fixture or heavy-duty complements, to be more adequate?) is changing the…
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Free shipping on prints, posters!
Some of my best images are available are posters, cards, prints, laminated prints, etc. on RedBubble.com. I like the quality of their service, their prices and the broad support (including good discussion forums about photo). What you’ll like even more is that they reduced the shipping costs to NOTHING for a week. They are celebrating…
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Photojournalist James Nachtwey awarded TED prize
Part of the Prize is to grant a world-changing wish and TED is trying to help James Nachtwey reveal to the world the urgency of supporting a campaign of awareness against XDR-TB (a mutated and drug-resistant Tuberculosis). And it is our pleasure to participate for our part. If you want to see more photos from…