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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