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The Proof Sheet – Photography News In Review For The Week of August 18

Welcome to The Proof Sheet, where each week I’ll post some of the more notable photography news in sweet, chewy, bite-sized, easily-digestible morsels. Click the Read More for this week’s stories.

Nikon just can’t get it right. After the infamous D600 dust spot melee, you’d figure they’d be a bit more careful about what they put into the marketplace, especially when that camera is their new D810. Apparently, they’ve issued an advisory for this new flagship, warning that long exposures may result in ‘bright spots.’ At least, this time, they’re fixing them for free.

In celebration of National Photo Day last week, Lytro has published a fun info graphic detailing the 175-year history of photography. It starts with the first recorded photograph on paper in 1839, and leads us all the way up to the emerging light field photography technology. Click here to see and download the entire infographic.

RAW editing in your browser has arrived!! Pics.io announced about a year ago, right around the time that Adobe went and pissed off a large chunk of their user base by announcing the Creative Cloud model, that they were working on a browser based RAW editor, and, well, to the chagrin of Adobe, they’ve kept their word. The beta version is now out for public consumption. Click here to download the photography psychotica from their site.

Blackmagic has updated the firmware for their Cinema Camera and Pocket Cinema Camera, FStoppers reports. The upgrade adds histograms, audiometers, and time remaining indicators along with some other extremely useful features, helping make their already amazing cameras a bit more user friendly. Click here to download the update.

A New York photographer has been awarded a $125,000 settlement stemming from a claim that he was harassed and arrested when cops noticed him recording them as they performed an intrusive ‘stop and frisk.’ They arrested him for disorderly conduct after he advised those being frisked to get the cops’ badge numbers. The court decided in his favor, the NY Daily News reports.

August 22, 2014
The Proof Sheet – Photography News In Review For The Week of August 11

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Welcome to The Proof Sheet, where each week I’ll post some of the more notable photography news in sweet, chewy, bite-sized, easily-digestible morsels. Click the Read More for this week’s stories.

Cinematographer John Brawley posted the first frames shot using Blackmagic’s new 4K URSA camera this week. This is the one Blackmagic announced at NAB in April that has a 10-inch, 1080p pop-out display, shoots 4k at 60fps, and comes in a camcorder form factor for a fraction of the price of the RED. Uh…yeah! Needless to say, the footage is drool-worthy. Click here to see it.

Petapixel reports that the New York Police Department has sent out a memo to it’s officers reminding them that so long as they don’t interfere with police operations, “members of the public are allowed to record police interactions” and any attempts to stop it “constitutes censorship and also violates the First Amendment.”

A team of researchers from Japan’s University of Tokyo and Keio University have created the world’s fastest camera. It’s so fast in fact, it can record a chemical reaction in a single shot. That is 1000 times faster than the previous best, and is essentially 1/6 the speed of light. “Its optical shutter shoots images consecutively in less than one-trillionth of a second,” Gizmodo reports.

Don’t know how I missed this one earlier this year, but just in case you did too, Digital Photography School posted “15 of the Best Cheat Sheets, Printables, and Infographics for Photographers.”

And because, just because, I haven’t said anything yet here about Robin Williams, but it’s taken a bit to sort of soak it in. It wasn’t until listening to Marc Maron‘s interviews over the past 4 years with just about every comic under the sun that I’ve truly realized that all good comedy come from a dark place. It’s the most transparent and vulnerable way of dealing with life’s insecurities and, well, constant bullshit. I think Robin Williams was one of the ones that seemed to resonate with me most. I’m not sure why, but something about him…it was always apparent he was deeper than what he chose to show on the surface, and it seemed subconsciously obvious that a vein of pain fed that deeper part of his soul. I did not see this coming. And it hurts. I don’t think I can really say anything that will trump how Marc Maron opens his tribute to Robin Williams earlier this week:

“Depression is real.’

And the dialogue surrounding this awful disease needs to be louder and more profound and in everyone’s face. If the day soon comes that depression and mental illness becomes an integral part of the public dialogue, and the shame surrounding them crumbles away, Robin would not have died in vain. Let’s do our part to give back to Robin a fraction of what he gave to us. Rest in peace Mr. Williams. You’ve definitely earned it.

Anyhow, it’s a tribute worth listening to, as is the interview with Robin that Maron reposted following his tribute. Click here or on the picture above for transcript and the interview link

August 15, 2014
The Proof Sheet – Photography News In Review For The Week of August 4

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Welcome to The Proof Sheet, where each week I’ll post some of the more notable photography news in sweet, chewy, bite-sized, easily-digestible morsels. Click the Read More for this week’s stories.

Nikon finally settles (some of) the D600 madness. In a recent settlement in favor of participants in the Zimmerman & Reed class action lawsuit against Nikon for faulty D600 sensors, Nikon will replace their D600 with a D610 free of charge. Read the full letter of the settlement at PetaPixel.

A spacecraft that was launched 10 years ago to capture a comet (yes, I’m actually saying that seriously) has, well, captured the comet! The European Space Agency’s Rosetta has successfully caught up with Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko halfway between Jupiter and Mars, and has already sent back images. To see them, head over to the European Space Agency’s site by clicking here.

Finally! Image usage rights for dummies all thanks to The Visual Communication Guy, Curtis Newbold. In an infographic flowchart, he explains everything from copyright to creative commons to fair use and public domain, efficiently demonstrating what’s right and what’s wrong usage of any particular image. All you have to do is answer a couple yes’s and a couple no’s to keep the lawyers from knocking on your inbox. Click HERE for the chart.

In addition to launching a new website dedicated to Apple Aperture users who are deciding whether to migrate to Lightroom or not in wake of Apple’s announcement that they will be discontinuing their photo editing software, Adobe has also officially released a guide explaining how to perform the migration to Lightroom. Additionally, as reported by PetaPixel, they’ve hinted at new software that will help with the migration as well.

Speaking of Adobe, they’ve announced a partnership deal with photo sharing site 500px, bundling together Adobe’s photographer’s package, which includes Lightroom and Photoshop, along with a 500px Awesome account for an annual fee of $165. Click here to learn more about it directly from 500px.

August 8, 2014
The Proof Sheet – Photography News In Review For The Week of July 28

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Welcome to The Proof Sheet, where each week I’ll post some of the more notable photography news in sweet, chewy, bite-sized, easily-digestible morsels. Click the Read More for this week’s stories.

A group that includes Hollywood Studios and big name directors including Quentin Tarantino, Judd Apatow, and JJ Abrams, have banded together to save Kodak film from extinction. They’ve pledged to buy enough to keep production of the analog film alive. Find the full story at PopPhoto.

Adobe has released Camera Raw and DNG Converter version 8.6, which now supports the Nikon D810, Panasonic LUMIX AG-GH4, and Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FZ1000 along with a slew of new lens profiles and color profiles. Click here for more info and the download links.

David Attenborough, the prolific and hypnotizing host of award winning nature documentaries and shows such BBC’s Planet Earth and Life, has announced that his next project, Conquest of the Skies 3D, is using new 3D techniques, 3D octocopters, as well as Augmented Reality experiences. Yes! Click here for more on this one.

Flickr will be hot damned if it’s left behind in the new trend of curated photo licensing options that have cropped up such as 500px Prime and Stocksy, and decided to launch Marketplace, a new licensing initiative. There isn’t too much information on it just yet, but CLICK HERE for their blog post describing what we know so far.

Canon has patented an insanely ridiculous 45x zoom lens for an underwater camera, PetaPixel reports. Apparnetly this will help bring focal lengths equivalent to 26-1170mm to a dedicated underwater camera. Not a bad step for the growing underwater camera market. CLICK HERE for more.

August 1, 2014
The Proof Sheet – Photography News In Review For The Week of July 21

Welcome to The Proof Sheet, where each week I’ll post some of the more notable photography news in sweet, chewy, bite-sized, easily-digestible morsels. Click the Read More for this week’s stories.Blackmagic Design Updates its firmware for their 4K Production Camera. Firmware update 1.9 offers a ‘heads up display’ showing a histogram, peak audio meters, and recording time remaining. They also announced they will soon be including these features in firmware upgrades for the other BlackMagic cameras as well. Click here for the update.

Ooops…did David Hobby, aka The Strobist, just post the first picture taken with the upcoming Fuji X100T? It’s been since taken down, but FStoppers managed to pick up on it and post a screenshot of the EXIF data. Click here to check it out.

As of this week, Lytro is officially on 500px, and they’ve already posted a variety of images taken on their latest piece of hardware madness, the Illum. One of the benefits we get as part of their partnership together is $250 off the Lytro Illum. Click here to visit their 500px page for more information.

ONA, the fashionable camera accessory and bag maker, announced that they have partnered with “charity: water,” a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations, with a special handcrafted black leather strap dubbed Sahel, PetaPixel reports. Click here to find out more about the strap and the charity.

That curved sensor by Sony we talked about last time? Well, according to PetaPixel, it just might end up showing up not only in their new full frame camera, the RX, but it might also debut in the upcoming Xperia Z3X. Yes, a curved sensor in a smartphone. What have we gotten ourselves into…

And for a little bit o’ cheek funny, here are 10 Things That Annoy Photo Enthusiasts, but the one and only DigitalRev:

July 25, 2014
The Proof Sheet – Photography News In Review For The Week of July 14

Welcome to The Proof Sheet, where each week I’ll post some of the more notable photography news in sweet, chewy, bite-sized, easily-digestible morsels. Click the Read More for this week’s stories.

Photoshop World-A-Thon : So many of us can’t make it out to Photoshop World, so what’s the next best thing to attending the real thing? Attending Photoshop World-A-Thon. A full night of tips and tricks taught and demonstrated by Photoshop World veterans including Scott Kelby, all from the comfort of your own home. The free webinar comes with a free virtual swag bag and it all happens on July 24 at 7pm ET. CLICK HERE to register.

Aperture To Lightroom Migration Tool Now Available – While there hasn’t been an official release from either Apple or Adobe, there is a beta version of a new tool to help you begin your migration from Aperture to Lightroom in the wake of Apple’s announcement to stop developing Aperture. The tool is called Aperture Exporter and if you want it, CLICK HERE to visit the official site and download link.

Last week we talked about BBC opening up it’s journalism training courses to the public. This week it’s the Massachuessetes Institute of Technology. Through their Open Courseware project, MIT just gave us “Documentary Photography and Photojournalism: Still Images of a World in Motion,” a course actually offered at the iconic university. The free offerings include everything from the official syllabus to assignments and other course materials. CLICK HERE to go to class.

Blackmagic Design have cut the price of their popular Pocket Cinema Camera by HALF! As if the $1000 prices tag wasn’t low enough for a professional level cinema camera that can shoot 1080 footage in RAW ProRes format with 13 stops of dynamic range, they’ve gone lost their minds and decided to make it available for $495 from now through the month of August. Git it! CLICK HERE for more info.

Best of the Blogs

Photographer John Rowe, along with Ethiopian Kara tribesman Lale Labuko have teamed up to help stop the practice of Mingi, an age old tradition of labeling certain children, mostly born with physical abnormalities, as ‘cursed.’ These children have traditionally been taken away and killed. Thanks to Labuko and Rowe’s Omo Child Organization, they have helped bring an end to the practice. CLICK HERE to read more about it. (source NBC)

A first-aid trained journalist from Norway stopped in midst broadcast when a bomb exploded in proximity to where he was reporting from in Gaza. He rushed to the scene where he aided an injured child, before taking a moment to gather himself and resume his job by photographing the incident and the child. For the story and the video, CLICK HERE. (source Petapixel)

July 18, 2014
The Proof Sheet – Photography News In Review For The Week of July 7

Welcome to the inaugural edition of The Proof Sheet, where each week I’ll post some of the more notable photography news in sweet, chewy, bite-sized, easily-digestible morsels. Click the Read More for this week’s stories.

EyeFi, the makers of those wonderful wifi enabled SD cards for you DSLR, along with influencer marketing agency Evolve!, apparently did some research together, the results of which were released this week – an infographic that displays what they consider to be “The Top 30 Most Socially Influential Photographers.” Jeremy Cowart, Joe McNally, and Peter Klesken top the list, followed closely by Chase Jarvis, Adam Bouska, and Jimmy Chin. As expected Scott Kelby, Trey Ratcliff, and Thomas Hawk made the list. Click here to check out the entire infographic.

Building on the success of their #DitchDay event in NYC last month in which Samsung gave away thousands of their NX30 mirrorless cameras, they’ve now partnered up with Amazon for their own version of that DitchTheDSLR event, this one called SamsungNXLive. On Monday, July 14 at 10am Pacific, head over to this link, where, accompanied by a live photography training session, you’ll be able to trade in any of your DSLRs for $250 dollars off of a Samsung NX30 or NX300.

Indonesian photographer Herman Damar captures some of the most idyllic, charming, joyfully warm images of everyday children in everyday village life in Indonesia. What you see are moments that seem like they’re plucked straight out of a fantasy or fairytale, making them even that much more difficult to believe that they’re real. But they are. And if you don’t check ‘em out, you’re certainly missing out. Click here to view them all over on PetaPixel.

Japanese website Nikkei leaked an image this week of what is supposedly the first image taken with Sony’s new curved sensor, one that apparently closer mimics the way the human eye works. The technology behind it aims to eliminate vignetting and soft pixels in the corners that is typical of images from the camera sensors we’ve grown to know and use. Click here for the leaker and the image.

Perhaps in an effort to combat the inane Idiocracy-esque state of our mainstream media, the BBC College of Journalism decided to blow the door open on their journalism training resources for the next year, letting the public in on all their courses and sessions and documents that they use to train their own journalists (yes, I know it’s surprising, but in some parts of the world, journalism actually requires more than a miniskirt and a microphone). Some of the topics include smartphone journalism, ethical journalism, secret filming, and documentary making. Click here to get edumacated.

PopPhoto.com reported this week that Vision Research releases “the fastest camera on the market,” The Phantom v2511. Apparently this beast is capable of moving through 25,600 frames per second. Um…yeah! Madness. Click here to read more about it at PopPhoto.

July 11, 2014