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Photokina 2008 - Drew Gardner shows us the 60MP P 65+

Nic — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:30:00 GMT

Renowned British photographer Drew Gardner was at Photokina 2008 this year helping demonstrate the 60.5 mega pixel, Phase One P 65+ digital back.
Phase One is a Danish company that specializes in high-end, medium format cameras, digital backs and RAW processing software.
For those of you (like me) unfamiliar with the term digital back, Wikipedia tells us that it is "a device which attaches to the back of a camera in place of a film holder and contains an electronic image sensor. This lets cameras which were designed to use film take digital photographs".
The sensor on the P 65+ is absolutely mammoth, and comes with a price tag to match, but as Drew explains (and shows us) the results are both spectacular and well worth it.

Photokina 2008 - Seitz 6x17 Digital, 160 Million Pixel Camera

Nic — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:11:00 GMT

One second,... That's the time it takes for the Seitz 6x17 Digital camera to capture 160 Million Pixels!

We checked out the Seitz booth at Photokina 2008 and got the man himself to give us a demo of this monster slit-scan panoramic camera, the largest and fastest in its class.

If you like the idea of medium format panoramic photography but don't have a spare 25,000 Euros you might want to check out Microsoft Image Composite Editor.

Photokina 2008 - Minox Spy Cameras

Nic — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:33:00 GMT

The Channel 10 cameras were in Cologne, Germany last month for Photokina 2008 and on display was the latest and greatest in digital photography and imaging products and technologies.
One of the companies that caught my eye was Minox - manufacturer of the original miniature spy camera - who had a new line of covert picture taking devices that look like they've come straight out of Q's laboratory.
Check out Minox.com for more info

PPS08: David Riecks on Metadata

Nic — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:54:00 GMT

David Riecks presented findings from the Stock Artists Alliance Photo Metadata Project at the 2008 Pro Photo Summit. The project looked at how stock agencies ensure that their digital assets have the right kind of metadata so that they can accurately search through (and find stuff) in their massive libraries of images.

Apologies for my crazy British pronunciations... you'll get used to it ;-)

PPS08: Skip Cohen on Marketing for Photographers

Nic — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:48:00 GMT

Skip Cohen, president of Rangefinder Publishing and WPPI was at the 2008 Pro Photo Summit and spoke about the ever-changing marketing challenges facing professional photographers (which Skip defines as anyone paid for any level of photographic services - including enthusiasts).
Skip talks about how photographers can generate future business opportunities by maintaining long term relationships with clients and how smart photographers are building their own brand awareness by partnering with community groups and charities.

PPS08: Natalie Dybisz (aka Miss Aniela)

Nic — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:57:00 GMT

Natalie Dybisz - also known as Miss Aniela - is part of a new breed of photographers circumventing the traditional path to success in the world of fine art photography by utilizing photo sharing/social networking sites like flickr to build a fan base, launch a portfolio and get noticed.

Natalie's images - many of them self portraits - are unique in that they aren't shot with high-end equipment or studio lighting and often include multiple instances of herself in the same image (via some photoshop-magic).

Natalie presented at the 2008 Pro Photo Summit on her style of photography and how her flickr site turned into millions of views, thousands of fans and (real world) gallery shows in the UK and Spain.

PPS08: Frans Lanting - Life: A Journey Through Time

Nic — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:49:00 GMT

Seven years ago, world renowned nature photographer Frans Lanting took a photograph of horseshoe crabs coming out of the ocean on the east coast of the USA and remarked to himself that the scene he had just captured probably looked the same as it did millions and millions of years ago. He then wondered whether there were other examples of life on earth that could be captured today as they were when they first appeared on the planet...

Thus began the Life: A Journey Through Time project incorporating books, multimedia orchestral performances (composed by Philip Glass), a traveling photographic exhibition and interactive web site: LifeThroughTime.com

Frans spoke about his experiences working on the Life: A Journey Through Time project as part of his keynote address at the 2008 Pro Photo Summit.

PPS08: Kostas Mallios - Why the Pro Photo Summit?

Nic — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:08:00 GMT

Kostas Mallios, General Manager of the Microsoft Rich Media Group, chats with me about the 2008 Pro Photo Summit. We discuss the importance of photography in the technology space, why Microsoft hosts the summit each year, who attends the summit, what do they talk about and "where does all this talking take place?".

ShutterSpeed EP04 - The Photosynth Team

Nic — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:00:00 GMT

By now most of you have probably heard of Photosynth. The cool new technology from Microsoft that allows you to explore collections of full resolution photos by relationship in an amazing, interactive 3D space.

From today (9PM PST) Photosynth is being released to the public which means anyone with access to a digital camera, PC and internet connection can create their own Photosynth collections. Just visit photosynth.net, download the app (approx 8MB) and start synthing.

To coincide with the release of Photosynth to the masses we thought it might be fun to sit down with 1/5th of the development team behind the technology to learn some more about how Photosynth works and how best to go about creating collections of photos specifically for synthing.

Joining me for this episode of ShutterSpeed is Live Labs and Photosynth Architect Blaise Aguera y Arcas (who you might recognize from this infamous TED presentation), Scientist Drew Steedley and Program Manager Scott Fynn.

Check out Max's interview with Rick Szeliski and Noah Snavely over on Channel 8 for more on the genesis (and genius!) of Photosynth. And for those of you about to grab your camera and go shoot some photos for a little synth action make sure you first watch Laura's how-to-synth video for tips and tricks.

PPS08: Icon's of Imaging Panel 01

Nic — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:01:00 GMT

The Microsoft Icons of Imaging is an exclusive group of (thirteen) industry leading photographers and digital imaging experts whose workflow is based within the Windows environment.

At the 2008 Pro Photo Summit we brought the Icon's together for a series of mini-panels and asked what was the biggest trend that they witnessed in the photography industry over the past five years and what trends they see continuing, emerging, evolving or declining in the next five.

Their answers may surprise you.

In this first panel is Jerry Ghionis, Bambi Cantrell and Matthew Jordan Smith.

Lenovo Multimedia Laptop

Nic — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:05:00 GMT

Traditionally laptops have been the lower-performance compromise you make for leaving your desktop. Lenovo has changed that paradigm by producing this monster machine. With the first Quad Core Extreme CPU ever on a laptop, an NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700 (with 1GB video memory), RAID 0 or 1, and 8GB (!) of DDR3 RAM, this desktop hiding in a laptop makes no compromises.

Probably most interesting is the way Lenovo has positioned this to multimedia enthusiasts. The laptop has an integrated Wacom tablet, the screen has an option for a 400-nit (about twice as bright as some previous ThinkPads) WUXGA screen with built-in color-calibration sensor, and the front of the laptop has slots for your Flash Memory.

PPS08: Lou Lesko on Photography Piracy

Nic — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:18:00 GMT

Photographer Lou Lesko's presentation at the 2008 Pro Photo Summit was titled 'Let the photo pirates have their way: the advantages of not worrying about image-theft and actually giving some of your images away'.
A somewhat controversial subject, Lou's argument is that allowing your photos to be used without permission, but with attribution, can be beneficial in the long term.

PPS08: Future Pro Photographer Comp Winners

Nic — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:04:00 GMT

For the past three years the Microsoft Future Pro Photographer Competition has been held in conjunction with the annual Microsoft Pro Photo Summit to find talented up and coming student photographers from around the world.

This years winners - Arjan Koetsier, Whitney Dafoe, Colin Miller, and Ed Salter, along with Jeff Greene from Microsoft - talk to me about the competition and their winning entries.

More: http://blogs.msdn.com/prophoto/archive/2008/07/09/microsoft-pro-photo-summit-2.aspx

ShutterSpeed Episode 03 - Art Wolfe

Nic — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:21:00 GMT

Art Wolfe is one of the worlds best known wildlife and nature photographers whose career spans more than 30 years. From Africa to Antarctica, Art has travelled the globe capturing breathtaking images of flaura and fauna, people and places and everything in between.

Art was gracious enough to give me a tour of his Seattle Washington gallery and divulge a few of the secrets behind some of the beautiful, iconic images hanging on his gallery walls.

00:00-12:46 One-on-one with Art Wolfe
12:47-22:15 Art's favourite photos
22:16-32:10 Tour of the gallery and archives

Catch more of Art on Travel's to the Edge with Art Wolfe, the Microsoft Icon's of Imaging web site and www.artwolfe.com

PPS08: David Vaskevitch Microsoft CTO

Nic — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:14:00 GMT

David Vaskevitch, Microsoft Chief Technology Officer, gave the opening key note address at the 2008 Pro Photo Summit last week. Afterwards David was kind enough to sit down with me to talk about the role of photography and imaging in the computing and technology industries as well as some of the biggest trends he's seen in the last few years and what we can expect to see in the near future.

ShutterSpeed Episode 02

Nic — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:31:00 GMT

Welcome to ShutterSpeed Episode 02

My guests in the studio: Michael Palermiti, Bill Crow & Jeff Greene.

Links mentioned and topics covered in this episode:
[01:29] Photosynth on CSI: New York (YT Clip)
[05:22] Top 100 Iconic Photo Locations of the World - Contest
[09:46] Microsoft Pro Photo Tools with Geotagging (free download)
[16:56] What is Metadata and why is it important for photography?
[17:50] Hands-On: Using (the free) Windows Live Photo Gallery to import digital photos directly from the camera, add tags and look at basic automatic adjustment options such as brightness, contrast, saturation, red eye removal, curves and cropping.
[38:15] The first photo Bill Crow ever took; an early example of metadata from the 60's

On the next episode of ShutterSpeed Art Wolfe gives us a tour of his Seattle gallery and talks about the stories and technical challenges behind some of his favourite photos. Stay tuned.

Feedback? Comments? Suggestions? Please let us know via the comments section below or email Tim Grey, Michael Palermiti & Bill Crow join me in the studio to discuss online video storage and photo editing tools. We also get back to basics and talk about the principles of photography and what to look for in a digital camera.

I also visit the home studio of award winning photographer Phil Borges. Phil shows me the equipment he uses in the field - including his home-made lighting rig - and talks about some of the techniques he uses to capture his magnificent portraits.

We hope to make ShutterSpeed a regular series here on Channel 10. For comments on the program or ideas and suggestions for future episodes please email us at