Photo library Getty Images is being bought by US private equity firm Hellman & Friedman for $2.4bn (£1.2bn).
The offer exceeds the expectations of City analysts, who had predicted the stock photo giant would sell for around $1.5bn.
Despite its move into online photos, uncertainties about the future of the stock photography market have pushed Getty Images’ [...]

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Ever been asked to do a job for nothing “coz it’ll be great publicity for ya”?
Then you must watch this rant from Harlan Ellison. Just as applicable to us photographers as to writers…
link: Pay the Writer

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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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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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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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You may recall that since April we’ve been making podcasts available from some of the speakers at the Democratic Image Symposium. Also covering the symposium were the Open Democracy bloggers. When I revisited their site recently I came across a fascinating piece of work on Abu Graib by Giuseppe Di Bella in the form [...]

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The Rob Galbraith web site is reporting that Canon have announced dates for accepting EOS-1D Mark IIIs that are eligible for the sub-mirror fix. Canon will cover the cost of receiving the camera and returning it after the repair is complete, plus the cost of the repair itself.
3rd December Canon USA service notice on the [...]

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There are special considerations to take into account if you’re shooting RAW and you want to be sure that you’re getting a proper exposure.
In his article on Digital Pro Photo Andrew Rodney explores the concept of Exposing To The Right (ETTR), that is, exposing for highlights and developing for the highlights.
link: Andrew Rodney – Exposing [...]

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Canon is apparently stopping shipment of all 1D MKIII units in the UK (and perhaps global) and recalling all existing supplies from store shelves.
Prophotohome.com has reported that…
1) The autofocus problems are not caused by sun or heat.
2) They are not caused by operator error. Although, many, many reports out there are obviously operator error. [...]

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Lightroom will be updating in mid-November and this should address any issues with OS X 10.5.
In the meantime Tom Hogarty has written the following notes…

The Print module may not load
The Import dialog and other dialogs can “disappear” below Lightroom’s main window. The dialog can be retrieved by switching to another application and then [...]

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Eye-fi is a 2gb SD card that has a built in wireless capability to upload JPEGs to your home network on PC or MAC.
Once you have installed the Eye-fi software on your wireless-capable computer, your card is married to your home network. Slot it into your camera and anytime it is in range of your [...]

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There are reports of people having problems installing CaptureOne on Leopard OS X 10.5.
It seems the issue is not with the application itself but with the installer. So here’s what to do if you’re faced with that problem…
Simply right-click (or control+click) on the installer to ’show package contents’ and you can find the app itself [...]

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Growing Coalition of Artists’ Groups Call on Getty Images
to Remove RM Collections from $49 “Web Use” License
Earlier this week, six leading photo trade associations sent a joint letter to Getty Images CEO Jonathan Klein objecting to the drastic price cuts and calling for the company to remove all Rights Managed (including Rights Ready) imagery [...]

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