Not sure when they’ll be available but there aren’t going to be many of them.

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London Underground’s Film Office has published a 10 minute film on its web site about film and stills production in the Underground.
It also reminds you that you do need a permit to photograph there.
link: London Underground Film Office
Location permit

Rates start from £350 plus VAT per hour

Two-hour permit

Crew size: Five
Lightweight equipment only
£300 plus VAT

Student/Non-professional permit

Crew [...]

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The attempted purchase by private equity firm Patriach Partners of the Polaroid corporation for $59.1m, has been rejected by a US judge after other ‘angry’ bidders objected.

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 The Metropolitan Police, contacted by BJP, has apologised for using Section 14 of the Public Order Act 1986 to move a group of photographers and journalists during the G20 protests.
link: BJP http://bit.ly/svtTS

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Teenagers armed with only a £56 camera and latex balloon have managed to take stunning pictures of space from 20-miles above Earth.

Read in full: Telegraph http://bit.ly/dcZF9

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Thanks to Bob for this breaking news…
For all of those interested in software advances , Funino ( Japan ) have developed a new sensing software for digital cameras along the lines of face recognition. It’s a “golden  ratio ” algorithm that  detects  composition based on the  Fibonacci sequence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number). It disables the shutter release [...]

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A bit of a departure here into the realms of traditional art. But what the hey!
Jonathan Glancey goes behind the scenes of the newly revamped Whitechapel Art Gallery
Video:  www.guardian.co.uk
Guardian architecture critic Jonathan Glancey takes a first look inside, with director Iwona Blazwick and artist Rachel Whiteread

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‘The Lightroom and Camera Raw teams would like the community to help verify the quality of this update through normal usage as this will ensure that the application is tested on a wide variety of hardware and software configurations not available internally at Adobe,’ the company adds.
Camera Raw 5.3 now supports the Nikon D3X [...]

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Lots of stills photographers have been getting excited about HD video possibilities now open to them on some of the latest pro cameras. Vincent Laforet is one of those who has grabbed the opportunity by the scruff of the neck and since last November has been exploring the potential of the new Canon 5D MkII, [...]

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As a young architect, Cris Benton wanted sharp images of his buildings’ upper reaches, so he pioneered the art/science of of aerial kite photography. Now a professor of architecture at UC Berkeley, Cris is still a leader in the aerial kite photography community, constantly developing new ways to rig remotely controlled cameras to customized kites [...]

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Away from the hullabaloo of the crisis on Wall St the Orphan Works Act passed the U.S. Senate . It was amended at the 11th hour with a small concession for copyright holders.
According to the PDN web site… The bill spells out, for the first time, what is considered a “diligent effort” to search for [...]

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With the current announcement of CS4 there’s a healthy discussion of the latest improvements Photoshop’s processing abilities as well as its new capabilities, over on the Prodig email List.
Well we thought you might like to read this insight that Russell Williams, one of the Adobe team, gave in response to a recent question…
Q. Will it [...]

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Dropbox is a service-application that runs cross-platform. It allows you to share and constantly update the contents of a specified folder across all your computers, and even those of your colleagues.
Created by a bunch of young guys out in San Francisco, its currently in Beta and available for you to use free with a 2gb [...]

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David Riecks’ site, Controlled Vocabulary, has drawn our attenion to photographer and web designer Laura Cotterman, who has discovered that resizing images on your website using the popular server-side application GD can inadvertently remove metadata from your image files. Many PHP scripts resize (or watermark) images with GD. Cotterman  wrote the code for a couple [...]

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