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Samsung has announced the pricing and U.S. retail availability of the world’s first Wi-Fi enabled compact system cameras. Read more and comment Hasselblad has announced plans to cut the prices of a number of models – including nearly 23% off the entry-point H4D-31 (with 35-90mm lens) and more than 20% off the 60 megapixel H4D-60 camera. Read more and comment Canon has announced the upcoming release of a firmware upgrade for the Canon EOS C300 and the Canon EOS C300 PL interchangeable-lens digital video camera . Read more and comment Shaun Pendergast was working away at his Portland apartment when he heard a strange noise. He walked to the window and saw two raccoons expressing their love for each other on his roof. Armed with an iPhone, he shot a little video and let them get back to their business, which he says took at least an hour. “I didn’t want to cock block,” he says. Later, he posted the video to YouTube and sent it around on Facebook. At the urging of one of his friends he also posted it on Reddit, and soon enough it started to go wild. Today the video has received more than 2.3 million hits and has been featured on TV shows, including Good Morning America . “I see all these people putting a ton of production value into YouTube videos, but sometimes it just takes finding something completely random and funny to get people’s attention,” he says. And that’s kind of what makes us sad. Sure, it’s all a bit of internet fun – viral videos are a tradition almost as old as the internet itself – but maybe it’s time to raise the bar a bit? How many times do we have to hit that crack button in our reptilian brains? Are we doomed/blessed to be saturated with these videos forever? The internet is like a big lottery, where everyone shares their videos hoping they’ll be the one the web gods choose. This time it was Pendergast, 29, a app designer and illustrator . Unlike many of his winning peers, he’s just let the video run its course instead of trying to jump on his 15 minutes of fame. “I don’t feel famous in any right and I don’t put too much stock into it,” he says. “Remember the video isn’t about me, it’s about two raccoons doing it.” The video has driven some traffic to his personal website and he did monetize the video through YouTube, but says he suspects the return is going to be pretty small. Ultimately, he says he’s most pleased by the way the video has helped him break the ice with a couple of his apartment neighbors who found out he shot it. He’s says he’s relatively new to the building and it’s been nice to get to know the people around him. “That’s been beneficial and fun,” he says.
The rest is here: Here are 27 sample JPEG photos and 27 raw images taken with a pre-production version of the new Leica X2 compact camera, including the full ISO range. Priced at £1,575, earlier this week we had a brief opportunity to shoot with the Leica X2 at an exclusive Leica UK press event in central London. Read the preview Here are 18 sample JPEG photos and 18 raw images taken with a pre-production version of the new Leica M Monochrom rangefinder camera, including the full ISO range. Priced at £6,120, the Leica M Monochrom is a black-and-white only, full-frame digital rangefinder camera. Yesterday we had a brief opportunity to shoot with the Leica M Monochrom at an exclusive Leica UK press event in central London. Read the preview Hands-on gallery of photos of the new Leica M9-P Edition Hermès limited edition rangefinder camera. Read more and comment Hands-on gallery of photos of the new Leica V-Lux 40 digital compact camera. Read more and comment Hands-on gallery of photos of the new Leica X2 digital camera. Read more and comment Hands-on gallery of photos of the new Leica M Monochrom rangefinder camera. Read more and comment > Photo: Arnhel de Serra > View all Arnhel de Serra’s photos are like the British equivalent of a good New Yorker cartoon: quirky and insightful. His series on the U.K.’s agricultural shows — which are similar to county fairs here in the U.S. — gives viewers a curious peak into the eccentric events that have been part of the country’s heritage since the 1800s. “My humor is not a harsh humor,” says de Serra of the work. “If you are willing to spend the time you can get photos that have quite a bit of depth to them.” The events themselves exist primarily to promote different aspects of agricultural work, from animal breeding to the art of floral arranging. De Serra says he chose to focus on them because they’re an especially rich showcase for British character. De Serra says he is a heavily influenced by the French filmmaker Jacques Tati who de Serra says was known for a kind of humor that was “very gentle but quite observational,” but he could also be compared to Martin Parr, another British photographer who has made a career out of documenting the quirks of English culture. De Serra says it’s taken him a while to develop his style – he’s been shooting the project for seven years. “It’s one thing to take documentary pictures, but to try and get a moment that is humorous and has an element of social commentary, that’s more tricky,” he says. The photos have resonated with a British audience and a series of them will be included in the upcoming London Festival of Photography. De Serra is also trying to publish a book about the project. Ultimately, de Serra says, he’d like the project to be exhibited at the agricultural shows themselves. He doesn’t intend for the photos to be exploitative and he hopes the community he’s photographed will receive them well. “It would be great to encourage them to take a second look and maybe begin to see the shows through my eyes,” he says.
Follow this link: The Sony A37 isa new entry-level SLT camera. Read more and comment The Future of Toiletries, 2025 Click image for a close-up view. Photo: Jason Madara For this month’s Wired magazine Found feature, we have a pair of prognostications: a peek into a pubescent boy’s medicine cabinet in 2025, and another look at how much his toiletries have changed by 2050. Found Found Contest: Imagine the Future of School Science Fairs More Artifacts From the Future What do you think our world will look like in 10, 20, or 100 years? We need your help creating a new artifact from the future for every issue of Wired magazine. Each month, we’ll propose a scenario and ask for your prognostications. Check out the latest challenge , then sketch out your vision and upload your ideas. See other submissions and vote for your favorites. The Future of Toiletries, 2050 Click image for a close-up view. Photo: Jason Madara Aaron Rowe helped flesh out the concept.
Read more: Photo illustration: Brita d’Agostino Wired magazine’s Found page represents our best guess at what lies over the horizon, from touchscreen windshields to organ farming. Now, we’re inviting readers to help create Found pages: What do you think our world will look like in 10, 20, or 100 years? Found Found: The Future of Toiletries More Artifacts From the Future Each month, we’ll propose a scenario and present some ideas and concepts. Then it’s up you: Sketch out your vision and upload your ideas (below). We’ll use the best suggestions as inspiration for a future Found page, giving kudos to contributors, and we’ll add our favorite submission to this story. Imagine the future of school science fairs. Will they be presented via hologram? Will entrants build particle accelerators out of K’NEX? Sequence their own genomes? Will their miniature volcanoes actually spew molten rock? One thing’s certain— there’ll still be a lot of grunling about how the winner clearly cheated and got help from their parents. You can send us your ideas in text form, but we’re keen on getting visual entries. Check out these links to some CC-licensed photos on Flickr of awesome (and not so awesome) process servers to fire up your imagination: Volcano Science fair posters Potato battery K’NEX Use the widget below to submit your best idea and vote for your favorite. The image must be your own— submitting it gives us permission to use it on Wired.com and in Wired magazine. Please submit relatively large images (ideal size is 800 to 1,200 pixels, or larger on the longest side). Include a description of your idea and how you made it. We don’t host the images, so upload it somewhere else and submit a link to it. If you’re using Flickr, Picasa or another photo-sharing site to host your image, provide a link to the image, not to the photo page where it’s displayed. If your photo doesn’t show up, it’s because the URL you have entered is incorrect. Make sure it ends with the image file name (xxxxxxx.jpg). Check back over the next few weeks to vote on new submissions, and look for an update announcing our favorite. Voting App For information regarding use of information about you that you may supply or communicate to the Website, please see our Privacy Policy . Except as expressly provided otherwise in the Privacy Policy or in this Agreement, you agree that by posting messages, uploading text, graphics, photographs, images, video or audio files, inputting data, or engaging in any other form of communication with or through the Website, you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, enhance, transmit, distribute, publicly perform, display, or sublicense any such communication (including your identity and information about you) in any medium (now in existence or hereinafter developed) and for any purpose, including commercial purposes, and to authorize others to do so. In addition, please be aware that information you disclose in publicly accessible portions of the Website will be available to all users of the Website, so you should be mindful of personal information and other content you may wish to post.
Read the rest here: Lomography will be releasing a new 110 format (“pocket”) black-and-white negative film called Orca BW 100. Read more and comment Casio has launched the Exilim EX-TR150 digital compact camera, which features a rotating monitor, a special “Make-up mode”, 12.1-megapixel back-illuminated CMOS sensor and a 21mm equivalent lens. Read more and comment Harald Johnson has announced the relaunch of his photo education and entertainment site PhoozL. Read more and comment Nik Software announced today that all of its plug-in products and trial versions have been tested and found to be compatible with the newly released Photoshop CS6, Read more and comment Leica has released a firmware update for the Leica S2 medium-format digital SLR camera. Read more and comment |
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