Sunday, July 22, 2007

New NFL Vest Rule (With Sponsor Logos) Has Some Seeing Red

New NFL Vest Rule (With Sponsor Logos) Has Some Seeing Red: "(July 18, 2007) - The National Football League has passed a new rule for the upcoming season that requires photographers at NFL games to wear red vests with Canon and Reebok logos on them, and the news is not being very well received by some editors and photography directors as word spreads through the journalism community.

David Shribman, executive editor of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in the NFL Steelers' hometown, responded to the news today by saying: 'We're not going to become walking billboards. I hope that NPPA will challenge this and they have our support.'"

Saturday, July 21, 2007

asahi.com : Nikon tops Canon in digital SLR sales - ENGLISH

asahi.com : Nikon tops Canon in digital SLR sales - ENGLISH: "Nikon Corp., buoyed by the popularity of its D40 model, sold more digital single-lens reflex cameras than rival Canon Inc. in the first half of 2007.

Nikon clinched a 47.5-percent share of the domestic market from January to June, surpassing Canon's 36.5 percent, according to Tokyo-based market research firm BCN Inc.

It was the first time that Nikon has held the top spot over a half-year term, although it had done so on a monthly basis before."

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Fritz & Gisela Pölking, Nature Photography

Fritz & Gisela Pölking, Nature Photography
I'm sad to report that the well known nature photographer Ftitz Pölking passed away on July 16th 2007.

Monday, July 16, 2007

Canon to build $451 mln factory for key camera part | Reuters

Canon to build $451 mln factory for key camera part | Reuters: "TOKYO (Reuters) - Canon Inc. will invest about 55 billion yen ($451 million) to build a new factory in Japan to double its production capacity of image sensors used in digital cameras...

The factory will make complementary metal oxide semiconductors (CMOS), a component used in digital cameras and video cameras to convert light into an electric signal...

The CMOS chips will be used in both single lens reflex (SLR) models as well as in some compact models. Canon's compact cameras have to date used a different type of image sensor called a charge-coupled device (CCD)."

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

John Szarkowski, Curator of Photography, Dies at 81 - New York Times

John Szarkowski, Curator of Photography, Dies at 81 - New York Times: "John Szarkowski, a curator who almost single-handedly elevated photography’s status in the last half-century to that of a fine art, making his case in seminal writings and landmark exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, died in on Saturday in Pittsfield, Mass. He was 81."

Thursday, July 5, 2007

Rough road ahead for 'Arizona Highways'

Rough road ahead for 'Arizona Highways': "Founded in 1925 by the state Department of Transportation, Arizona Highways has always been a hybrid. The magazine is blocked from selling ad space, the lifeblood of most publications, by state law. Without commercial entanglements, publishers were able to create a unique editorial identity, covering offbeat places and people rather than standard tourist attractions pushed by advertisers.

They also made Arizona Highways a pioneer in photography, especially color reproduction, using pictures from some of America's greatest landscape photographers. The first all-color edition, in 1946, featured a cover photo of Navajo children taken by Barry Goldwater. "

City May Seek Permit and Insurance for Many Kinds of Public Photography - New York Times

City May Seek Permit and Insurance for Many Kinds of Public Photography - New York Times: "New rules being considered by the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting would require any group of two or more people who want to use a camera in a single public location for more than a half hour to get a city permit and insurance."