Topic: PHOTO - on March 3, 2012 at 12:47:00 PM CET
Kodak Kills Off Its Color Reversal Films
Kodak announced today that it has decided to discontinue its color reversal (AKA slide) films due to a steady decrease in sales and usage. The films discontinued are Ektachrome E100G/E100VS and Elite Chrome Extra Color 100. The company estimates that based on current sales pace, you’ll still be able to purchase the discontinued films for about six to nine months. If you were a loyal Kodak slide film shooter, it’ll soon be time to switch over to negative film or to Fujifilm color reversal films.
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Topic: PHOTO - on March 1, 2012 at 11:15:00 AM CET
Photography in the Police State - How to Avoid Dealing With the Police When Shooting in Public
Are you a photographer in the US? Congratulations. In the eyes of some of your more dimwitted fellow citizens, you are now potentially a member of al Qaida.
Thanks to ridiculous government posters like the one above, people are now conditioned to be suspicious of photographers. And photographers using flashes on location are all the more noticeable to people who are predisposed to phone in anything out of the ordinary, just in case.
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Topic: PHOTO - on January 26, 2012 at 10:03:00 AM CET
Insane English copyright ruling creates ownership in the idea of a photo's composition
In a bizarre ruling, an English court has ruled that in favor of a commercial poster company that argued that a photo that showed a similar (but different) scene taken by a different person in a different place nevertheless infringed the copyright of a poster. What the judge ruled was that photographing a scene that is "substantially similar" to a scene someone else has already photographed infringes the first shooter's copyright.
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Topic: PHOTO - on January 19, 2012 at 11:02:00 AM CET
Kodak stellt Insolvenzantrag
Eine Umstrukturierung des Foto-Pioniers soll bis 2013 erfolgen. Erst vor Kurzem wurde bekannt, dass das Unternehmen Samsung, Fujifilm, HTC und Apple wegen Patentverleztungen anklagt.
Der Foto-Pionier Kodak hat nach einem langen Überlebenskampf einen Insolvenzantrag gestellt. Das Unternehmen wolle aber weiterarbeiten, hieß es in der Mitteilung am Donnerstag. Dafür sei eine Finanzierung von fast einer Milliarde Dollar vereinbart worden, die von der Großbank Citigroup zur Verfügung gestellt werden soll. In den USA ist es nicht ungewöhnlich, dass sich Konzerne mit Hilfe des Gläubigerschutzes sanieren. Kodak hatte einst die analoge Fotografie entscheidend geprägt. Mit dem Wechsel zu digitalen Bildern kam das US-Unternehmen jedoch nie klar.
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Topic: PHOTO - on December 2, 2011 at 7:58:00 PM CET
The Best Photo Books of 2011
In this always-on age of tweets and tumblogs and tablets, of Flickr and Facebook, of “reality” programming and insta-celebrities, we’d like to pause a moment and look at some books. Remember books? Remember breathing?
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Topic: PHOTO - on December 2, 2010 at 10:18:00 AM CET
The Ant Thriller
I love macro, there was an idea to remove a macro-series in which there is a plot Understood that it is very difficult - has touched in a head a heap of variants and has stopped on an ant hill, wanted to remove something about life it small hardworking insects, but alas it was impossible.
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Topic: PHOTO - on August 10, 2010 at 11:22:00 AM CEST
Alcohol Photographs
These amazing pictures, produced by Bevshots, show different types of alcohol and mixed drinks after the drinks have dried onto slides. The entire process can take up to three months, and it can take many attempts before a clear picture is acquired. The photos show the carbohydrates of the drinks after they have crystallized, forming sugars and glucose. No two drinks look the same, and each photo has been magnified up to 1,000 times in the Florida State University’s chemistry department.
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Topic: PHOTO - on August 6, 2010 at 11:54:00 AM CEST
Macro Augen
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Topic: PHOTO - on July 28, 2010 at 12:05:00 PM CEST
Ansel Adams Glass Negatives Sold At Garage Sale For $45 Worth $200 Million!
Talk about an awesome garage sale find! Artist Rick Norsigian purchased a series of glass negatives of Ansel Adams pictures that he purchased for 45 dollars ten years ago that have been valued at 200 million dollars!
Can Man Who Found Long Lost Ansel Adams Glass Negatives Sell Prints?
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Topic: PHOTO - on March 25, 2010 at 11:51:00 AM CET
Rock photographer Jim Marshall dies at 74
Music photographer Jim Marshall, who spent more than a half-century capturing rock-and-roll legends including the Beatles, Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin at work and in repose, has died. He was 74.
Marshall's death in New York City was confirmed Wednesday by Aaron Zych, a manager at the Morrison Hotel Galleries, which hosted one of the photographer's last exhibits.
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Topic: PHOTO - on March 11, 2010 at 10:06:00 AM CET
The goat woman: Chinese grandmother, 101, grows mystery horn on forehead
An elderly Chinese woman has stunned her family and fellow villagers by growing from her forehead a horn than resembles a goat’s.
Grandmother Zhang Ruifang, 101, of Linlou village, Henan province, began developing the mysterious protrusion last year.
Since then it has grown 2.4in in length and another now appears to emerging on the other side of the mother of seven’s forehead.
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Topic: PHOTO - on January 29, 2010 at 2:21:00 PM CET
Historical Development: Could a Frozen Camera Dethrone Hillary and Norgay as the First to Summit Everest?
Photo detective work could solve an enigma nearly nine decades old. But will it vindicate Hillary's historic climb or rewrite the record books?
On June 8, 1924, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine left their camp less than a kilometer from the summit of Mount Everest on a mission to be the first mountaineers to ascend the world's highest peak (8,850 meters). They were never to be heard from again. Whether either man reached the summit—almost three decades before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's historic 1953 climb—has been an open question for nearly 86 years.
Although more than half a dozen expeditions have gone to Everest in subsequent years to determine the outcome of Mallory and Irvine's expedition (a 1999 search turned up Mallory's body), none have returned with definitive answers. The key to solving the mystery, many climbers say, is finding Irvine's remains and with it the missing Vest Pocket Kodak (VPK) camera he was supposedly carrying with him on that fateful journey.
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