Collector Claims Discovery of Chopin Photograph
A Polish collector claims he’s found an extremely rare daguerrotype of composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin, taken in his final repose in 1849. If the image is authentic, it would be one of only three photographs of the composer, including the image of him alive in 1846, above. And it would be the only known...
Bad Press Ban Results in Bad Press and Two Hour Standoff
What was supposed to be a routine press preview of the Turner Prize exhibition in London turned a two-hour standoff between photographers and Tate Britain gallery contract-wavers. Press photographers refused to sign a problematic form at the door that required them to guarantee their images would not “result in any adverse publicity” for the host...
Future Cameras May Be Equipped with Invisible Flashes
Future generations of photographers may one day look back and wonder why we often blinded each other with painfully bright flashes of light for the sake of proper exposure. NYU researchers Dilip Krishnan and Rob Fergus are working on a dark flash that eliminates the “dazzle” effect of regular flashes in a low-light room. They’ve created this...
Iconic Civil Rights Photographer Exposed as FBI Informant
Some of the most raw, intimate and iconic photographs of the Civil Rights Movement were taken by photojournalist Ernest C. Withers. He was present during the entire Emmett Till trial, when Martin Luther King, Jr. rode the first desegregated bus, and in the hotel room where Dr. King was assassinated. Many civil rights activists would...
Nikon Rumors Site Attacked Days After Cinema5D’s Hacker Woes
If you tried to visit the Nikon Rumors site this morning, you’ve probably gotten an error message. According to the Google information, 47 pages from the site were tested over the last three months, and one page resulted in malicious software downloaded and installed without user consent. It appears that the site was flagged for...
Wedding Photographers Get Grooms Excited by Bundling iPad with Albums
Some wedding photographers offer a package that includes an iPad pre-loaded with images from that special day. It’s a simple, yet brilliant way to get both bride and (especially) groom more excited about the album — while assuring their photos won’t lie forgotten in a dusty album years later. The digital trend is catching on,...
Cute Pico Projector Concept Smiles Back
This adorable Pico projector concept which comes hot on the heels of Nikon’s more standard-looking S1100pj projector camera. The Pico, envisioned by René Wooram Lee, combines form and function in its anthropomorphic design: its blue “eye” is a projector lens and its greenish “eye” is the camera lens. The center smile is actually a microphone....
Venezuelan Court Bans Papers From Running Violent Photos
A Venezuelan court ordered newspaper El Nacional not to print violent images after the paper published a controversial image of dead bodies piled up in a Caracas morgue. The photo, taken by an El Nacional photographer in December, ran with a story last Friday about security problems in the country. On Monday, the image was picked up by...
Scientists Use Salty Lakebed as a Giant White Balance Card
Typical sized white balance cards may be of (literally) little assistance in color calibrating global imaging satellites, but scientists have figured a clever workaround. Lake Tuz, Turkey’s third largest lake, dries out annually and turns into a giant salt bed. Because of its vast size and unique salty white color, scientists worldwide can use the...
Camera+ Shuttered from App Store for Hidden Banned Feature
It looks like tap tap tap’s Camera+ added one too many features for Apple’s liking. When the app developers tweeted a secret workaround that enabled the volume button to double up to control the shutter, Apple pulled Camera+ from the App Store. Just this week, developer John Casasanta wrote in a blog post that an...
