So You Wanna Be a Food Blogger?
What better way to create a popular food blog than to have amazing shots of your creations. If that's your thing, check out Strobist's new tutorial on building a cheap soft box for food photography.
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Ritz Camera to Close 300 Stores
It looks like Ritz will be closing 300 stores across the country in the coming months, with liquidations sales starting as early as April 4th. Ritz filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February.
But, if you think you're going to find some liquidation deals, be wary. The company hired to oversee the liquidation sales is notorious for being evil.
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... And the Good Deed of the Day Goes To
... And the good deed of the day goes to I Found Your Camera, a blog that tries to reunite lost cameras and photos with the folks that lost them. The great thing about this, it's actually working. There are probably 10 success stories posted on the site.
via PhotoJojo
24.5 Reasons to Spend $8000
Are digital medium format cameras dead? Nikon's 24.5 megapixel D3X is here.
John Chiara
An interview on YouTube, with John Chiara, a man whose camera is hand built and is much too big to fit even on his back.
Game Changing?
Seem like everyone is going around using words like "game changing," but Vincent Laforet might be on to something, Canon's 5D MKII. He says the quality is so good, there's no reason to ever shoot stills again. Shoot video and grab the 1080p frames. If that's not enough though, it apparently shoots 21 megapixels, with stunning quality at 3200 ISO. I sure hope Nikon has something other than the laggy D90 to compete with it, or it might just be "Game, Set, Match" won by Canon.
Update: Yup, GAME CHANGING!
5 Mega-pixel Slide Scanner
Boing Boing fills us in on a small slide scanner that does 5 mega-pixel scans in one second.
First Micro Four-Thirds Camera Revealed!
It looks like the first micro four-thirds sensor camera is going to be the Panasonic Lumix G1
"Combining a downsized body and advanced camera features that realize the operational comfort even as easy as that of compact cameras, the super-mobile G1 shatters the old notion that all digital SLRs are bulky, heavy and hard to use. This, plus the superior picture quality made possible by a 4/3-type image sensor, draws a clear line between the new-generation Lumix G1 and all conventional digital SLR cameras."
We're entering a new age.
