In a press release from Nikon Japan (click here), they tell how they’re contributing much needed financial assistance to Indonesian earthquake victims.
Nikon Japan will send 5-million yen, and Nikon Singapore Pte Ltd will make a cash donation of $10,000 USD. Nikon Corporate will also match employee contributions to the fund.
like my Australian friends say … [...]

Mark Goldstein over at Photography Blog (great blog by the way) brings our attention to STROBIST. It’s a very well written blog on supplemental lighting equipment and techniques.
Written by a professional-photographer , the articles are thougtful, informative, and mindful that we don’t all have a million-dollar photo budget.
If you’re doing ANY kind of photography, you [...]

From Mark at Photography-blog comes a link to Photolaureates and a good article on how to judge photographs (click here). This is always a subject of much debate (beyone the basic technical standpoints) and this article is a good one for learning how to evaluate what makes a good photograph.
Obviously, photography can go from sheer [...]

This is interesting…The online Photographer has posted info (click here) on some new film (B&W) announced by Kodak that has a speed of ISO 24,000. it’s supposed to be pretty clean for a film of this speed. makes me wish my F100 had a shutter-speed of 1/16,000ths like my D1x had, I could finally find [...]

New Scientist Tech reports on a developing implant that could help give sight back to people with various retinal blindness.
As Photographers, one of the worst things that could happen to us would be to lose the gift of sight. We use cameras to increase our vision of the world, and the loss of [...]

A good article on shooting-style and camera-formats can be found as part of the Lexar Photo-Masters series.
It’s written by photographer Irakly Shanidze. It explains some of the differences in the different formats and also shooting styles most closely associated with the different camera formats.
An interesting read for both new and seasoned photographers, the reason some [...]