Digital camera sales in China are expected to reach 8.3701 mln sets in 2008, according to CCID Consulting. Sales volume in Q1-Q3 2007 reached 5.9208 million sets. The figure for Q4 2007 is expected to hit 2.4493 mln sets. For the whole year, total sales volume will reach 8.3701 mln sets, up by 29.9% over 2006.
credits to via IT Facts and nadezhda at http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=13613
Photo of the day: ct-graphics - Aquatic Animals: Alligator and Tortoise on Waterhole - Nightshot
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Saturday, January 12, 2008
Friday, January 11, 2008
Photography Permit Rules Monitored; Special Use Permits for National Park Access Possible
ATLANTA—How many photographers out there have ever photographed at a national park or anywhere that requires a government Special Use or Filming Permit?
With high price tags, unclear definitions, or narrow application windows, seeking a permit can be quite stressful for photographers, prompting several photographic associations to speak out.
The Department of the Interior proposed streamlining Special Use Permits as they apply to motion and still photography on National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management and Fish and Wildlife service lands. On one hand, the proposal to make the permit guidelines and fee schedules consistent with those of the Bureau of Land. Still, many photographic associations also expressed reservations with the high costs of fees and definitions provided in the proposed rule change.
For instance, photographers pay a location fee between $50 and $250 for use of the land and a varying cost recovery fee for application processing and operating costs associated with the photo session. With such fees, applying for a permit could greatly impact a photographer’s bottom line. Further, having to pay the cost recovery component—whether or not a permit is granted—is likely to cause photographers to generate losses.
Representing approximately 40,000 photographers across the United States, Professional Photographers of America’s (PPA) service center frequently receives telephone calls and e-mails regarding photography permit requirements. Because of this, PPA, Commercial Photographers International (CPI), the Society of Sport & Event Photographers (SEP), the Student Photographic Society (SPS) and Evidence Photographers International Council (EPIC) responded to two different entities: the Department of Interior and the New York City Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting (MOTFB).
Read full article at imaginginfo.com
Professional Photographers of America (PPA), an international nonprofit association for professional photographers, exists to assist its more than 19,000 members in achieving their professional, artistic, and fraternal goals; promote public awareness of the profession; and to advance the making of images in all of its disciplines as an art, a science and a visual recorder of history. For more information, visit http://www.ppa.com/.
The Society of Sport & Event Photographers (SEP) is a private, nonprofit association dedicated exclusively to serving the needs of sport and event photographers. SEP marshals the resources of the event photography industry and delivers them to its members via their exclusive online content, Action News publication and live events. For more information, visit http://www.sepsociety.com/.
Commercial Photographers International (CPI) is an energetic, nonprofit membership organization focused on the changing needs of commercial photographers. Led by successful commercial photographer volunteers and a skilled professional staff, CPI has put together information, resources and materials for photographers in this rapidly changing industry. For more information, visit http://www.mycpi.com/.
The Student Photographic Society (SPS) was founded in 1999 to provide career-building resources, networking opportunities, and information resources to photography students.
The Evidence Photographer International Council (EPIC) was founded in 1968 as a nonprofit educational and scientific organization with the primary purpose of advancing forensic photography and videography in civil evidence and law enforcement. EPIC also hosts an annual conference, providing awareness and education of evidence photography. Their seminars and workshops are now held internationally and throughout the U.S. In 2007, EPIC merged with the Alliance of Visual Artists, a combination of PPA, SEP, CPI, and SPS. For more information, please visit http://www.evidencephotographers.com/, or call 866-868-EPIC (3742).
Photo of the day: ct-graphics - scenery-sights: The Arches National Park - Delicate Arch 2757
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With high price tags, unclear definitions, or narrow application windows, seeking a permit can be quite stressful for photographers, prompting several photographic associations to speak out.
The Department of the Interior proposed streamlining Special Use Permits as they apply to motion and still photography on National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management and Fish and Wildlife service lands. On one hand, the proposal to make the permit guidelines and fee schedules consistent with those of the Bureau of Land. Still, many photographic associations also expressed reservations with the high costs of fees and definitions provided in the proposed rule change.
For instance, photographers pay a location fee between $50 and $250 for use of the land and a varying cost recovery fee for application processing and operating costs associated with the photo session. With such fees, applying for a permit could greatly impact a photographer’s bottom line. Further, having to pay the cost recovery component—whether or not a permit is granted—is likely to cause photographers to generate losses.
Representing approximately 40,000 photographers across the United States, Professional Photographers of America’s (PPA) service center frequently receives telephone calls and e-mails regarding photography permit requirements. Because of this, PPA, Commercial Photographers International (CPI), the Society of Sport & Event Photographers (SEP), the Student Photographic Society (SPS) and Evidence Photographers International Council (EPIC) responded to two different entities: the Department of Interior and the New York City Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting (MOTFB).
Read full article at imaginginfo.com
Professional Photographers of America (PPA), an international nonprofit association for professional photographers, exists to assist its more than 19,000 members in achieving their professional, artistic, and fraternal goals; promote public awareness of the profession; and to advance the making of images in all of its disciplines as an art, a science and a visual recorder of history. For more information, visit http://www.ppa.com/.
The Society of Sport & Event Photographers (SEP) is a private, nonprofit association dedicated exclusively to serving the needs of sport and event photographers. SEP marshals the resources of the event photography industry and delivers them to its members via their exclusive online content, Action News publication and live events. For more information, visit http://www.sepsociety.com/.
Commercial Photographers International (CPI) is an energetic, nonprofit membership organization focused on the changing needs of commercial photographers. Led by successful commercial photographer volunteers and a skilled professional staff, CPI has put together information, resources and materials for photographers in this rapidly changing industry. For more information, visit http://www.mycpi.com/.
The Student Photographic Society (SPS) was founded in 1999 to provide career-building resources, networking opportunities, and information resources to photography students.
The Evidence Photographer International Council (EPIC) was founded in 1968 as a nonprofit educational and scientific organization with the primary purpose of advancing forensic photography and videography in civil evidence and law enforcement. EPIC also hosts an annual conference, providing awareness and education of evidence photography. Their seminars and workshops are now held internationally and throughout the U.S. In 2007, EPIC merged with the Alliance of Visual Artists, a combination of PPA, SEP, CPI, and SPS. For more information, please visit http://www.evidencephotographers.com/, or call 866-868-EPIC (3742).
Photo of the day: ct-graphics - scenery-sights: The Arches National Park - Delicate Arch 2757
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Thursday, January 10, 2008
Polaroid unveils ZINK (Zero-Ink) technology instant printer
Polaroid introduces new ZINK (Zero-Ink) technology instant printers. This new line of printers and cameras creates full-color digital photos without the use of ink cartridges or ribbons. The Digital Instant ZINK Photo Paper is a composite material that houses cyan, yellow and magenta dye crystals in a protective polymer overcoat. Before printing, the dye crystals are colorless, so the photo paper appears white. Heat activates and colorizes the dye crystals, so photos can be shared in less time than a traditional Polaroid photo...
Read the PRESS SUMMARY at dcviews.com
and Read more about the new Polaroid products at CES 2008
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008
4 Cameras Middling Only in Price
Little silver pocket cameras are small and cheap, they take movies, and they don’t turn you into a tourist cliché by dangling from your neck.
But those big black digital single-lens reflex cameras take much better photos, thanks to a much larger light sensor and vastly superior light sensitivity. They also offer gorgeous soft-focus backgrounds, zero start-up time, no shutter lag, impressive burst modes of several shots a second, twice the battery life and interchangeable lenses.
Last year was a big year for S.L.R.’s. New players like Sony and Panasonic entered the market. Prices dropped to new lows — you can get an excellent starter model for under $475. And as the year ended, four new semipro models had their debuts, defining a new midrange category ($1,300 to $1,800) almost overnight: the Nikon D300, Canon 40D, Sony A700 and Olympus E3. Thanks to the technology trickle-down effect, they offer many features of $5,000 professional S.L.R. models at a fraction of the price.
These cameras make you understand why people get hooked on photography. It starts with the feel of the huge, rugged body in your hands, a shape that’s been refined over the decades. It continues with the satisfying, instantaneous click of the shutter —not the chirpy audio recording from a pocket camera’s speaker, but the actual clack of the S.L.R.’s mirror snapping out of the way. (The Nikon D300’s snap is especially satisfying.)
At these prices, you also get burst-mode speeds of five or six shots a second. It’s not just for sports and wildlife; that speed is also great for portraits, because you can choose from multiple gradations of smile and expression.
The new Nikon, Olympus and Canon cameras offer something that’s been missing on S.L.R.’s until recently: live view. That’s where you compose the shot on the screen, just as you can on a pocket camera, rather than holding the camera to your eye.
Live view permits angles and heights that are impossible with the camera pressed to your face. Live view also helps with manual focusing, since you can magnify the preview on the screen.
And live view in most of the cameras lets you see changes in exposure, white balance and depth of field before you actually snap the shot.
Unfortunately, using live view entails compromises like delays in focusing and limited features; for example, the Canon can’t autofocus in live-view mode or use any of its scene modes (like Sports or Portrait).
All four of these cameras are supposed to shake off any dust that might have wandered onto the sensor during a lens change. (For Nikon, that’s a first.) That’s a relief to anyone who’s been getting shadow dots in the same place on every photo.
So here they are, in alphabetical order: the latest midrange S.L.R.’s in the $1,300 to $1,800 bracket — lens not included. A comparison table appears at nytimes.com/tech.(All the cameras accept the cheap and capacious Compact Flash cards; the Olympus also takes XD cards, and the Sony also takes Memory Stick Duo.)
DAVID POGUE's full article is available at nytimes.com
And see this Comparison Chat: Digital Single-Lens Reflex Cameras: A Comparison Chart
Photo of the day: http://www.ct-graphics.com/miscellaneous/fire-plug-2755.html
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But those big black digital single-lens reflex cameras take much better photos, thanks to a much larger light sensor and vastly superior light sensitivity. They also offer gorgeous soft-focus backgrounds, zero start-up time, no shutter lag, impressive burst modes of several shots a second, twice the battery life and interchangeable lenses.
Last year was a big year for S.L.R.’s. New players like Sony and Panasonic entered the market. Prices dropped to new lows — you can get an excellent starter model for under $475. And as the year ended, four new semipro models had their debuts, defining a new midrange category ($1,300 to $1,800) almost overnight: the Nikon D300, Canon 40D, Sony A700 and Olympus E3. Thanks to the technology trickle-down effect, they offer many features of $5,000 professional S.L.R. models at a fraction of the price.
These cameras make you understand why people get hooked on photography. It starts with the feel of the huge, rugged body in your hands, a shape that’s been refined over the decades. It continues with the satisfying, instantaneous click of the shutter —not the chirpy audio recording from a pocket camera’s speaker, but the actual clack of the S.L.R.’s mirror snapping out of the way. (The Nikon D300’s snap is especially satisfying.)
At these prices, you also get burst-mode speeds of five or six shots a second. It’s not just for sports and wildlife; that speed is also great for portraits, because you can choose from multiple gradations of smile and expression.
The new Nikon, Olympus and Canon cameras offer something that’s been missing on S.L.R.’s until recently: live view. That’s where you compose the shot on the screen, just as you can on a pocket camera, rather than holding the camera to your eye.
Live view permits angles and heights that are impossible with the camera pressed to your face. Live view also helps with manual focusing, since you can magnify the preview on the screen.
And live view in most of the cameras lets you see changes in exposure, white balance and depth of field before you actually snap the shot.
Unfortunately, using live view entails compromises like delays in focusing and limited features; for example, the Canon can’t autofocus in live-view mode or use any of its scene modes (like Sports or Portrait).
All four of these cameras are supposed to shake off any dust that might have wandered onto the sensor during a lens change. (For Nikon, that’s a first.) That’s a relief to anyone who’s been getting shadow dots in the same place on every photo.
So here they are, in alphabetical order: the latest midrange S.L.R.’s in the $1,300 to $1,800 bracket — lens not included. A comparison table appears at nytimes.com/tech.(All the cameras accept the cheap and capacious Compact Flash cards; the Olympus also takes XD cards, and the Sony also takes Memory Stick Duo.)
DAVID POGUE's full article is available at nytimes.com
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Fluid Photo Contest - Open For Submissions!
Submit your best photograph for your chance to win a Fluid Galleries 2 software package! This monthly contest is Free to enter. The top five photographs will be displayed in next weeks Evrium Newsletter, and exhibited for one month on Evrium.com!
Contest closes midnight, January 13, 2008. Winners will be announced next week. Get your submissions in today!
Prizes: 1st Prize - Evrium Fluid Galleries 2 Professional package
How To Enter: All contest details, instructions and submission forms can be found by visiting the following link: http://www.evrium.com/contests/fluidphoto/
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Monday, January 07, 2008
Advertise your Photoblog or Flickr page
So you've created a photoblog or Flickr page and uploaded all your best pictures. Now what? You have great pictures, and your own site, but no one is coming to look at them. How do you get exposure, what can you do to get people to visit your photography website?
There are four websites that are important for all photographers and photography enthusiasts. Before continuing, it's absolutely important you register at PictPicture.com, photoblogs.org, coolphotoblogs.com, and vfxy.com.
After you're registered the next step is to peruse the list of hot photoblogs on photoblogs.org; you will definitely come across a few that blow you away; the listing includes some truly great photographers. Bookmark the photoblogs you enjoy, both on photoblogs.org and on your personal browser. (You'll be coming back to them often.) The photography community is a very friendly and personal one. As you visit other photoblogs you like, leave comments telling the photographer what you liked about a picture, or even what you didn't like. In turn many of the photoblog owners will do the same for your site.
Unlike the other sites PictPicture.com allows you to submit individual pictures with a link back your website. Once you post your picture, it's listed under Upcoming, where users can vote on it to move up to the front page. It's a great way to get traffic because each individual picture gives you a chance to get on the front page of the site.
Whatever you do, don't spam comments, or haplessly email photographers in the hopes of new visitors. As long as you become engaged in the community, the visitors will become engaged with your website. Good luck in becoming the next great photographer.
Credits: Samir Balwani PictPicture.com
Picture of the day: Capitol Gorge Passage, Utah
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Unlike the other sites PictPicture.com allows you to submit individual pictures with a link back your website. Once you post your picture, it's listed under Upcoming, where users can vote on it to move up to the front page. It's a great way to get traffic because each individual picture gives you a chance to get on the front page of the site.
Whatever you do, don't spam comments, or haplessly email photographers in the hopes of new visitors. As long as you become engaged in the community, the visitors will become engaged with your website. Good luck in becoming the next great photographer.
Credits: Samir Balwani PictPicture.com
Picture of the day: Capitol Gorge Passage, Utah
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Sunday, January 06, 2008
Latest Richard Prince Auction Record: $3.4 Million
Richard Prince reclaimed the record for most expensive photo sold at auction, when a print of his sold at Sotheby's in New York for $3,401,000.
The price narrowly exceeded the previous record of $3.34 million for an Andreas Gursky diptych sold at Sothey's in London in February 2007.
The record-breaking Prince image is from his untitled cowboy series – in which Prince photographed sections of Marlboro cigarette ads and enlarged the photos to an enormous size. The photo sold at Sotheby's measures 100 by 66 inches and was one of an edition of two plus one artist's proof. It is dated 2001-02.
The record-setting bid came during a contemporary art auction on Nov. 14, 2007. The record was overshadowed at the time by other works at the auction that commanded very high prices. A Jeff Koons sculpture, "Hanging Heart," went for $23,561,000, setting a record for a living artist at auction as well as the auction record for sculpture.
Prince's record was reported in the Jan. 3 edition of the E-Photo Newsletter, which chronicles photography collecting.
Prince's works have been a source of controversy, with some saying that his technique uses other photographers' work without giving them due credit. But the debate has done nothing to slow the popularity of Prince's work, judging by the increasing prices and press coverage of a current exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
In November 2005, a different untitled cowboy photo by Prince sold for $1,248,000 at Christie's in New York, which was an auction record for photography at the time. Since then, images by Edward Steichen and Gursky and have set auction records for photographs.
Credits: By Daryl Lang and pdnonline
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The price narrowly exceeded the previous record of $3.34 million for an Andreas Gursky diptych sold at Sothey's in London in February 2007.
The record-breaking Prince image is from his untitled cowboy series – in which Prince photographed sections of Marlboro cigarette ads and enlarged the photos to an enormous size. The photo sold at Sotheby's measures 100 by 66 inches and was one of an edition of two plus one artist's proof. It is dated 2001-02.
The record-setting bid came during a contemporary art auction on Nov. 14, 2007. The record was overshadowed at the time by other works at the auction that commanded very high prices. A Jeff Koons sculpture, "Hanging Heart," went for $23,561,000, setting a record for a living artist at auction as well as the auction record for sculpture.
Prince's record was reported in the Jan. 3 edition of the E-Photo Newsletter, which chronicles photography collecting.
Prince's works have been a source of controversy, with some saying that his technique uses other photographers' work without giving them due credit. But the debate has done nothing to slow the popularity of Prince's work, judging by the increasing prices and press coverage of a current exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
In November 2005, a different untitled cowboy photo by Prince sold for $1,248,000 at Christie's in New York, which was an auction record for photography at the time. Since then, images by Edward Steichen and Gursky and have set auction records for photographs.
Credits: By Daryl Lang and pdnonline
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