The archive of negatives are ones that Capa took during the Spanish Civil War. The Observer newspaper reports that they were left behind in a Paris darkroom after the photographer fled Europe for America in 1939. He assumed they were lost during the Nazi invasion and he died in 1954, on assignment in Vietnam, still [...]

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Press Release: Tokyo, Japan – Sony Corporation today announced the development of a 35mm full size (diagonal:43.3mm/Type 2.7) 24.81 effective megapixel, ultra-high speed high image quality CMOS image sensor designed to meet the increasing requirement for rapid image capture and advanced picture quality within digital SLR cameras.
link: read Sony press release in full

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Over the last couple of years we’ve kept you up to date with Mikkel Aaland’s trip to Iceland. Now we’re happy to give you a link to his latest article about Lightroom colour management on O’Reilly.
You can also download a sample chapter from his book explaining Lightroom’s modules here.
link: Inside Lightroom O’Reilly Digital Media [...]

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Congo is a huge country in Africa, but one that many of us in the industrialised countries know little about.
It has vast natural resources but civil war has raged for many years keeping its citizens in poverty. Children are recruited as child soldiers and later forced to work in the gold mines. It is [...]

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Getty Images, the world’s biggest supplier of photographs and movies to media and advertising companies, has put itself on the auction block and could bring in more than $1.5 billion, according to the International Herald Tribune.
link: read the IHT article in full 

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Seems there are moves afoot to help with the general photo education of the masses.
National Geographic have it with tips from some of their pro contributors in a special gallery.
PICTURE THIS is a Channel4 collaboration with Flickr. The programme features a competition between a handful of emerging photographers. Each submits a proposal and an initial [...]

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How do you get rid of needless cables dragging around the studio… linking multiple flash heads on location… control the output of multiple flash heads from a central location?
Daunting eh?
Not to worry, technology is starting to make it possible. So here’s a quick guide…
The technology options – Infra Red (IR) or Radio?
IR is favoured by [...]

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