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In praise of … Man Ray
Ray’s talent was more than timing; he helped establish photography as an art
The secret of great comedy, runs the old saw, lies in the timing. The same goes for photography, where split seconds make all the difference. Which must make Man Ray, one of the greatest photographers ever, supremely lucky. His career began when the popular view was, in one of his own exhibition titles, “Photography is not art”. Philadelphia-born Michael Emmanuel Radnitzky only gave up painting and turned into Man Ray in 1920s Paris. And the people who sat for him! The retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery (closing this Monday) lines up a who’s who of European modernism: Joyce, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Satie (twinkling away like a kindly bank manager). By the end of the 20s, he was raking light over subjects such as Salvador Dali. After the war, Ray’s portraits of Hollywood stars such as Ava Gardner defined the period. But his talent was now more than timing; he had helped establish photography as an art.
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Guest post: Nikon D4 and D800 audio levels
Nikon says nothing about audio parameters of the D800, so I measured some of them. I have my own D800, and I was permitted to record some test signals with a D4 at a local dealer. I did not care about the built in microphone, and used only the external audio input. I also did not concern myself with auto sensitivity. Signals were generated by an Audio Precision System One audio analyzer, recorded on a memory card, extracted from the video stream on a PC, and the digital audio data was either fed back into the System One, or viewed in time and frequency domain in Adobe Audition. While I took reasonable care to provide correct results, I am known to have erred at times – so I beg pardon, should I have got something wrong….
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Duke Gigapixel Cam Heads to Kickstarter
Help fund this incredible camera hitting the road
About a year ago, we covered a project from Duke University to create 50-gigapixel camera. Dubbed AWARE-2, it shot with an array of 98 14-megapixel sensors through a single, 16mm aperture lens, which were stitched into one big gigapixel photograph. Now, that incredible camera is ready to hit the road, with some funding help from Kickstarter.
In a trip called “Carolina Zoomin’”, the team behind the camera plan to take the Aware camera on the road, and take some photos and show the thing off — but need to raise some funds to do it. The camera seems to have advanced substantially since the version we saw last year, and can now shoot color images and up to 10fps at full gigapixel size.
Unfortunately, unlike most Kickstarters, you’re not going to be able to put in enough backing to get an Aware camera — even though they will eventually go for sale. This trip will get the camera out into the public, taking photos, and then provide for an exhibition at the end to show off the huge images at full size (and if you back enough, you can even get an enormous print to cover a wall). The backers will also help decide where the camera will go and what it will shoot, building a community around this huge and absurd device.
If you’re interested in the technical side of Aware camera, the folks behind it have released a bit more information on its website.
[via Imaging Resource]
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Adobe Purchases Thumb Labs to Make More Cloud Apps
Adobe has picked up the mobile app company to make apps for Behance
Late last year, Adobe purchased Behance, an online portfolio site for artists which has now been tapped to power the social side of Adobe Cloud. Now, Adobe has purchased another company specifically for making apps with Behanc: the company has picked up mobile app developers Thumb Labs, who created the official mobile app for Behance, and will now be solely working on Adobe projects.
According to TechCrunch, the financial deals of the acquisition are still under wraps, and since Behance is used to power the social side of Adobe’s Creative Cloud, the purchase seems to be part of the company’s continuing push on all things cloud related. Apparently Thumb Labs will be used primarily to maintain Behance’s existing apps and new ones, and eventually push more into “Creative Cloud initiatives.”
Given Thumb Labs’ previous efforts seem primarily tied to mobile apps, it probably would not be unexpected to see them be tapped by Adobe for more work with smartphones and tablets.
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Leica Mini M on June 11th
The Leica Mini M camera is set to be unveiled on June 11th 2013.
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