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Re-create Rejlander and win £500!

Posted on November 3, 2008 By David Kilpatrick

The Royal Photographic Society has launched a competition to recreate a never-forgotten scandal of Victorian photography – and update it for the digital age.

The competition – Modern Virtues, Modern Vices: Restaging Rejlander’s ‘Two ways of life’ (1857) – celebrates The Society’s forthcoming lecture and workshop series: ‘The Real Thing: Staging Manipulation and Photographic Truth’.

Two ways of life’ – Oscar Gustav Rejlander 1857 – Image from the RPS Collection at the National Media Museum

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New Photoworld – Alpha 900 A2 foldout poster

Posted on October 31, 2008 By David Kilpatrick

For any large circulation magazine to create a page section which folds out to view a A2 size is too expensive to consider – but Photoworld, subscribed to by enthusiasts and printed in a short run of only 1,600 copies, goes out on November 5th with a foldout sample image.

Cameras (DSLR), News

Nikon D300 firmware update

Posted on October 28, 2008 By David Kilpatrick

Nikon UK is pleased to announce a firmware update for the D300, taking it to v1.10. Please visit the links below for more detail about how to upgrade existing firmware and information about the improvements it can offer:

D300 Firmware Update v1.10
Windows – http://nikoneurope-en.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nikoneurope_en.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=25962&p
Mac – http://nikoneurope-en.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nikoneurope_en.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=25961&p

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The Alpha 900 as a high ISO body

Posted on October 23, 2008 By David Kilpatrick

Following the review on dPreview – more than anywhere else – Sony’s extremely poor JPEG engine with its associated wide radius chroma blur and strong luminance smoothing noise reduction has proved to be a dog well capable of biting its master. Definitely a dog, anyway. But this performance is not what the camera can really achieve. In fact it’s perfectly capable of delivering good high ISO shots in typical situations.

Cameras (DSLR), DK's ramblings, Lenses - Alpha Mount, Uncategorized

DxO Optics Pro – cRAW, high ISO both fixed?

Posted on October 22, 2008 By David Kilpatrick

DxO Labs today has announced the availability of DxO Optics Pro v5.3, a new release which includes support for the Sony cRAW format missing from previous versions. They also say that new RAW conversion technology “turns the promises of very high ISO (up to 25,600) into reality”.
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Free downloadable model release

Posted on October 21, 2008 By David Kilpatrick

Contract supply service ContractStore.com has announced it is making available a free Model Release Form.

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Do you really need an Alpha 900?

Posted on October 16, 2008 By David Kilpatrick

If you are on the verge of making a decision, I’m here to help your think clearly – even if it means breaking some cherished behaviour patterns. I am going to help you think of the Alpha 900 not as a logical progression from the 700, but as a different camera system entirely.

Cameras (DSLR), DK's ramblings, Lenses - Alpha Mount

Alpha 900 launch: Press Conference Part 4

Posted on October 15, 2008 By David Kilpatrick

Duncan McEwan spoke, in his usual very steady and friendly manner, about his experience of using the Alpha 900. He showed a selection of images taken – remarkably – over a period of just 10 days preceding the event, using a 24-70mm CZ and his own 70-200mm Minolta SSM. Here is his own ‘script’ for the presentation, with a small selection of the images.

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Sony pro event photography classes UK

Posted on October 6, 2008 By David Kilpatrick

AWARD winning event photographer Keith Trainor – winner of the first ever UK Event Photographer of the Year title in the annual British Professional Photography Awards – hits the road with Sony shortly in the UK to bring a profitable, high energy new line of business to established photo studios and new business entrants.

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