Justine demonstrates a small sample of what this Nikon rig of 48 D700s can do. The scene is the red carpet interview spot outside the MTV Movie Awards.

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Leica User Forum has begun making videos. This is the first L-Camera TV movie and it show us a behind-the-scenes look at the maker’s facility in Solms. Interestingly it reveals some of the labour intensive production methods behind the 35mm M7 and MP rangefinders.

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There’s a new iPhone app on its way from onOne to control your Canon DSLR.

Here’s a quick run down.
1. You need either an iPhone or an iPod Touch
2. You need a supported Canon EOS DSLR
3. A laptop or desktop computer running the free companion DSLR Remote Server software
4. A USB cable to connect your supported [...]

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Are you meta-smart?
If you create, distribute or use digital photos, you’d better be!
Prodig Listee David Reicks is leader of the Stock Artists Alliance ‘Photo Meta Data project’…
In partnership with the Library of Congress, the Stock Artists Alliance created the Photo Metadata Project to promote industry wide use of standardized photo metadata in every digital file. [...]

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More from my CCTV photography project – bit less dystopia and a bit more narrative than ‘Reality TV’. Most of photographs in this video come from a background magazine I’ve done as part of the project.
The title? If you’re of a certain age you’ll remember the new wave classic by ‘The Normal’

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Mountainstorm has produced a free tethering application for Mac OS X 10.5 users shooting with Nikon, Canon or Fuji and using Lightroom v2.

Remote control of your camera & onscreen display of camera settings
Nikon LiveView support at 60fps! (recording [...]

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Sean Mcgrath at MCG studios has released a batch of Lightroom Presets.
link: mcg lightroom presets

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Jonathan Warren recorded the follow meeting regarding Police/Press relationships, which was held in light of recent confrontations between the two parties.
Jonathan is a freelance photographer based in London working for daily newspapers, magazines and news websites.
On Monday (18 May) Commander Broadhurst, head of public order at the Metropolitan Police spoke at the NUJ Photographers [...]

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Shot entirely on Lensbaby Lenses and Canon 5D Mark II SLR Camera
“Last Day Dream” by Chris Milk
Produced for the 42 Second Dream Film Festival
Beijing China 2009
42×42.com

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Submissions are now invited for the third IPG/ Terry O’Neill Award.
This year’s awards exhibition will be held at at Getty Images in September.
And for the first time entry is open to International Photographers.
Judges include:
TERRY O’NEILL – photographer
ROBIN MORGAN – editor Sunday Times mag
BRETT ROGERS – director Photographer’s Gallery London
IAN BERRY – photographer Magnum
MELISSA DEWITT – [...]

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Some of the first work I did after leaving college was to teach photography classes at Open Eye Gallery. At that time it was housed in what had been a rambling old pub in the centre of Liverpool.
Since then its moved several times  and now its on the move again. This time to swanky [...]

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Has Adobe Photoshop CS4 caused your system to slow down?
Here are some tips to help…
1. Install the 11.0.1 update.
2. Go to the Nvidia website and download the latest driver for your card.
3. Turn off “Enable GPU Drawing” in the performance panel of Photoshop
Preferences.
There’s a more extensive article at:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/404/kb404439.html
via: Russell Williams

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Stefan Hafeneger has a Nikon Tether app. Soforbild is for Mac OS X
There is currently no support for Nikon D50, D70, D100, D1 and D2 in Sofortbild as Nikon does not provide camera drivers for third-party developers for these models.
link: Soforbild

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Here’s a #FollowFriday link… we thought this Dutch photographer’s web presentation style was worth a mention…
link: Advlemmix.com

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