Posts from ‘November, 2009’

11/30/2009 The photographer, Günther Raupp, uses the Hasselblad H3DII-50 to shoot the strictly limited Ferrari Calendar From the beginning, the legendary founder of the company, Enzo Ferrari, was burning with pure passion and motivation. That is why there could only be one engine for the first car that bore his name: a V12. It had [...]

The Cambo Wide RS is the choice for architectural, interior and landscape photographers, looking for a compact and lightweight camera body with all the necessary tools on board for perspective correction, offering a broad range of lenses which are quickly interchangeable within seconds, suitable for hand-held as well as precise tripod positioning, equipped with geared [...]

24/11/2009 – Hasselblad Chairman Dr. Larry Hansen appointed new Chief Executive Officer. New position combines Chairman and CEO responsibilities. Previous Hasselblad CEO Christian Poulsen has decided to leave Hasselblad to pursue other activities, but will remain as Strategic Technology Adviser to the Board. The Hasselblad management team (left to right): Philip Boissevain, Niels-Jørgen Øhrgaard, Peter [...]

November 18, 2009 – Leica Camera Inc. / USA is proud to announce the grand opening of their first dedicated “Shop-in-Shop” in The Pro Shop for Photographers of the newly minted Palm Beach Photographic Centre (PBPC) Friday, December 4th, 2009. This will be the first Leica Shop-in-Shop to introduce the new Leica Store design to [...]

Once again, New York City and the Javits Center played host to the PDN PhotoPlus Expo. This year’s show had a very good turnout in spite of the fact that major players like Adobe, Panasonic, & Pentax were not in attendance. I attended (and I spotted some of my fellow bloggers there as well) and [...]

Leica Camera AG, Solms presents a new, limited special edition – the LEICA M7 Edition ‘Hermès’. As the successor to the ‘LEICA MP Edition Hermès’ launched in 2003, this is now the second series of cameras created in cooperation with Hermès, the Parisian company renowned throughout the world for its exclusive products. This strictly limited [...]

OBERKOCHEN/Germany, 16.11.2009. Optics specialist Carl Zeiss today announced its introduction of a new series of lenses for the semi-professional market: the ZF.2 with F bayonet for digital SLRs. Thanks to its electronic interface (CPU), these new ZEISS lenses support all- important operations such as the automatic mechanisms for time, aperture setting and program. The CPU [...]

Leica dealer, Leica Fanatic, and good buddy David Farkas has posted his extended Leica S2 System Review based on his trip to Leica High Command (at their invitation). Read on and enjoy a well thought out and comprehensive review. Link

The British Journal of Photography reports: Olympus has updated its Micro Four Thirds E-P1 camera, introducing new features such as AF tracking and an electronic viewfinder to the E-P2, which now comes in a black finish

OpenACircle is an online collaboration and social networking site aimed at providing home-based and small-to-medium businesses with an affordable means to collaborate over the web. I was asked by them to review their service offerings. I am being compensated (slightly) for my efforts. Using the concept of circles, OpenACircle seeks to combine social networking, desktop [...]