Hunting "Anti-DSLR" Hunting at Kalimas
Perak Harbor
Surabaya FNers brought about a unique hunting on April 18 at
Kalimas Perak Harbor, Surabaya. In this hunting, participants
were allowed to use any kinds of cameras, except DSLRs. More
interestingly, if any of them violated this rule, he/she would be
picking up the tab for everyone or thrown away to Kalimas river.
There were about 20 people gathered at the House of
Sampoerna (HOS) at 2 p.m. After being given free 35mm
and 120mm films, they moved to Kalimas.
Rangefinder, lomo, SLR, and medium format cameras, and also
digital pocket and phone cameras were found in the event. After
hunting for about two hours, they went back to HOS and shared the result. Ragil Setio Pranowo
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Rp 99,000,000 for Leica All-White
Version M8
Martin Meister, Leica’s retailer, in
his newsletter on photoscala.de
has announced the first edition
of Leica M8 white version's
pricing; it is € 7,000 (around Rp
99,000,000). This camera will
be available by the mid of June,
in a bundle with a silver-colored
Elmarit-M 28mm f/2.8 wide-angle
lens. The next editions are
about to come; all are produced
limitedly. Like the other Leica's rangefinder, every camera will
be manufactured from the fines material available. luxist.com
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Belitung Island: A Trip and
Photography at a Time
How to spend leisure time is the thing big cities' citizens are
always trying to figure out. They would prefer to the most
effective and interesting choices, to gain the most qualified
time and moments. One of the choices is establishing in May 8
to 10, participated by 18 FNers (Fotografer.net members) from
Jakarta, Bandung and Surabaya.
"Photopoint Guided Phototrip: Belitung Island" will be their
never ending pictorial. A trip which will be perpetuated into
photos, guided by a hotel organized by Dharmawangsa group,
is chosen to visit couple of locations on that island having the
imaginative pictorial - the Belitung Island. Herawati & Goenadi Haryanto
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MP3 Player inside Photo Frames
Agfa launches the AF5135MS, a high resolution (1280 x 800)
13-inch multimedia photo frame and the AF5105MS, a 10-
inch "crystal imaging" photo frame. Each frame has an ultraslim
design, (2.2cm thick) interchangeable colored frames and
remote control. With a built-in 256MB memory, these frames
can also become music systems for playing your favorite sounds
via mp3, and they have calendar and alarm clock functionality.
The frames offer USB connectivity and content can be uploaded
via your camera's memory card (SD, XD, CF, MMC, MS or SDHC
cards.). With the 10" and 13" frames from Agfaphoto you
can simply download a movie to a memory card, slot it in the
back of the photoframe, sit back and enjoy the film in crystal
clear imagery. The price and its release date have not been
announced yet. dcviews.com
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A Workshop by Agah Permadi and
Fitra Pranadjaja
A uniquely-presented workshop was held on April 11 by FAB
Production at Kavling Kebagusan, South Jakarta. This workshop
was entitled "Season 1: Workshop Basic Creative Photography &
Digital Imaging by Agah Permadi and Fitra Pranadjaja."
Those two spokesmen - both are Fotografer.net members - handed over secrets of not only how to make good photos, but
also how to make them truly magnificent. On the first session,
Agah Permadi gave away basic photography material discussing
photography concepts and creativity. Then, he shared his
knowledge on digital imaging; about how to beautify photos
optimally with Photoshop. Next, Fitra Pranadjaja presented his
infrared mastery; about the basic concepts and IR coloring,
ended with IR digital imaging.
Since their success in Season 1, FAB is planning on the next
one on May 9 as the continuation, which will be taken place at
their headquarter too. In this season, Agah Permadi is going to
define an advanced digital imaging materials (beautifying and
optimizing tips): optimizing photos with Photoshop’s tools, the
montage and selection techniques as well. R. Bagaskara Arya
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A Photo Competition with Bhutan
Expedition as a Prize
Passionate about photography? Keen to share your unique vision
of the world? Transitions lenses has teamed up with the National
Geographic Society to run a prestigious photo competition
offering you the chance to "live your vision" with the trip of a
lifetime, a National Geographic Expedition to Bhutan. Running
from 6th April until 31st May, the contest invites photographers
to share their vision of the world and submit their most
intriguing, inspiring or striking images in three categories: life
in colours, nature, and people and culture. Detailed information
about this competition can be seen at www.transitions.com.
The grand-prize winner will have the chance to "live his or
her vision" and discover the stunning Himalayan kingdom of
Bhutan during a 13-day expedition this October with National
Geographic photographer Chris Rainier. Winners will be notified
in July 2009. digitalslrphoto.com
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High-technology Mouse for 3D
Professionals
Logitech's subsidiary,
3Dconnexion headquartered
in Fremont, California, USA,
has released a mouse for
3D professionals. It is the
SpacePilot PRO. Though
having the Darth Vader form
factor, the central antagonist
of George Lucas' first three
Star Wars films, it is not
addressed to gamers at all. With $499 on pricing, SpacePilot is
created to support the use of 3D-based applications (Autodesk
Inventor, Microsoft Virtual Earth and SolidWorks), by reducing
interruptions in the workflows and giving superior comforts.
With three years warranty, it features the LCD Workflow
Assistant, second-generation QuickView Navigation technology,
Intelligent Function Keys and Superior Comfort. Most
interestingly, you can read e-mails or messages through the
LCD screen. Moreover, the central big knob twirls six ways. In
Logitech-speak, the device has "six degrees of freedom sensor
technology - lifting, pressing and turning the controller cap, to
ease you to pan, zoom and rotate". 3dconnexion.com, photographyblog.com
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The Travel Photographer of the Year
2009 Competition Opens for Entries
The Travel Photographer of the Year 2009 competition is now
open for entries. Any photographer, amateur and professional,
aged 17 years and over from any country can enter the three
Portfolio categories - Homeland, Natural Wonders and People of
the World, and the One Shot category - on the theme Festival,
Fiesta and Celebration. The New Talent, First Shot and Young
Travel Photographer of the Year categories all have restrictions
on entry as follows: New Talent is for photographic students,
amateur or semi-professional photographers only. First Shot
category is for amateur photographers only. Young Travel
Photographer of the Year is for photographers aged 16 and
under.
Entry is via print submission or online image upload through
http://www.tpoty.com, and entries close on September 22nd,
2009. Entry fees start at £ 10, and entry to Young TPOTY is
free. The winners will travel to China, Costa Rica and Morocco
with Intrepid Travel and to Slovakia's Tatra Mountains with
Mountain Paradise. photographyblog.com
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Pinhole Day: April 26, 35 Countries,
188 Images
Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day (WPPD) is held each year
on the last Sunday in April. WPPD is celebrated to shout out
high creativity enthusiasm, by using a lensless photo medium.
This year, 35 photographers from all over the world joining the
pinhole photographers community, are displaying 188 photos in
pinholeday.org. All of those photos have two similarities: taken
without lenses and taken on April 26, 2009.
WPPD's every year motto is to "make your camera", "make your
photo" and "join the exhibition of others from around the world".
For that, some of the participants made their own cameras from
seashells, oatmeal boxes, coke cans or cookie containers, also
discarded refrigerator. Everything is to expose high passions and
sensitivities through minimum technology and cost. pinhole.org
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WeSay.com for Amateur
Photojournalists
If you are an amateur photography likely doing photography
and news report at a time, WeSay.com will probably interest
you too. In this site, you are challenged to be a full-time or
part-time photographer, or even a citizen journalist, because
its mission is to help photographers interested to become
photojournalists by displaying their photos in a site, which
obviously is accessed internationally.
You do not need a sophisticated environment to photograph; big
events or famous people. Everything around you can be objects
to upload. You can explore five categories in your surroundings:
News, Environment, Sports, Celebrities and Far-out. Interested?
Start hunting, then open the WeSay.com. dphotojournal.com
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Body Cameras to Help
Fight Crime
Police officers and council safety wardens
in Renfrewshire will have CCTV cameras
mounted on their uniforms in a bid to
tackle anti-social behaviour. The body
cameras will allow them to record footage
of incidents they attend which can then be
used as evidence. The lightweight device
will be worn on the uniforms of officers and
wardens on patrol on foot and mountain
bikes in known crime trouble spots across
Renfrewshire. The cameras will also provide
protection for officers from false allegations
against them. Councillor Brian Lawson,
Renfrewshire Council's community safety
said the use of the cameras would assist the
wardens in carrying out their duties and lead
to further reduction in crime the community.
The Renfrewshire scheme is thought to be
the first in Scotland where both the police
and community wardens will wear the stateof-
the-art digital cameras. The council has
46 wardens who work in teams of two. One
body-mounted camera will be used per pair.
Officers from Tayside police trialled similar
technology last year. In 2007, officers from
Strathclyde Police were issued with headmounted
cameras as part of a six month
trial. Officers in Lanarkshire were also
given hand-held cameras to film crime and
disorder incidents. news.bbc.co.uk
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Antara Photojournalistic
Exhibition by
Generation XVI
The
Photojournalistic
Gallery of of
Antara (GPJA)
is carrying out
a photography
exhibition entitled
"Mind/Passion"
in Jakarta,
presenting
the works of
33 Antara's
photographers
from Generation
XVI. The series of events were launched on
April 18 at GPJA (Jl. Antara No. 59, Pasar
Baru), by the Governor of DKI Jakarta,
Fauzi Bowo, and the Director-General of
Antara News Agency, Achmad Muchlis Yusuf.
There will be "Mind/Passion" Goes to Campus
on April 30 at Pelita Harapan University,
with "Equipment is Not Everything!" as the
theme. Santirta Martendano, the photographer
of Koran Tempo, will be the spokesperson.
In May 2, GPJA Talkshow will be
held at Neo Journalism Club headquarter,
on Jl. Antara No. 61; Eddy Hasby, Kompas
photo editor, will be the spokesperson. As
a completion, there will be a closing event
on May 16, commanded by Oscar Motuloh - GPJA's person of duty. Gunawan Widjaja
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Kopdar's Hunting by
Motorcycle
Inspired by its members who went photo
hunting by bicycle, Kopdar (Komunitas
Photographer Sidoarjo) organized what was
called as "hunting by motorcycle" on April
19. All participants were riding on their
motorcycles. Pematang Tambak in Sidoarjo,
East Java, was the area for this photo
hunting. During this activity, there was also
an IR- photography sharing by Danang Bimo
Irianto and Wahyu, both Fotografer.net’s
members. Thirteen participants joined this
hunting. Mualifi
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Underwater Housing for
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Subal CD5MII for
the Canon EOS
5D Mark II offers
aluminium housing
for the underwater
photography. It
is designed with
the ergonomic
placement of all
the important controls, which provides
convenient and comfortable handling of the
camera functions. There is a lever in the
rear housing which allows the activation
of the AF-On or the AE/FE Lock button.
The camera is mounted on a saddle for
precise positioning inside the housing,
making wrong positioning impossible. A 4
mm main-O-ring and the SUBAL QuickLock
system make it virtually impossible to close
the lid if the O-ring is not lying correctly in
its groove. The housing can be assembled
with Viewfinder Optic GS 180 or Viewfinder
Optic WS45. No words about the price yet. subal.com
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"Humanscape" by PFT 
Nineteen photographers are taking part in
"Humanscape" photo exhibition held by PFT
(Perhimpunan Fotografi Tarumanagara).
The exhibition goes on from April 23 to 29
with the theme Pangandaran beach in visual
language as a media sharing. Thirty nine
photos on show at Selasar Tarumanagara
University, Campus I, Jakarta, talk about
what happened in Pangandaran, the activity,
the way of life, the environment, and what
they feel.
Mukri Sulaiman (Chairman of Jakarta Photo
Club), Fernando Gomulya (senior member
of PFT), and Vincent Prima (senior member
of PFT) were the curators. The exhibition
was opened on April 23 by the Rector of
Tarumanagara University. On the final day
of the exhibition (4/29), there will be a free
workshop themed "Composition" with Mukri
Sulaiman and Timur Angin (a professional
photographer) as the speakers. It will begin
at 10 a.m. nana
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80 Gold-edition
Rolleiflexes
To commemorate
TLR's (twin-lens
reflex) 80th
anniversary
launched for the
first time in 1929,
Franke & Heidecke
made 80 Rolleiflex
Gold Edition. With € 29,500, there are
three models given away: Rolleiflex 4.0 FW
with Schneider Super Angulon 4,0/50mm
HFT, Rolleiflex 2.8 FX with Zeiss Planar
2,8/80mm HFT and Rolleiflex 4.0 FT with
Schneider Tele-Xenar 4,0/135mm HFT. All of
them will be in applications with a 14-carat
hard gold edition, camera buff in Bordeaux
nappa leather, delivery in a presentation
box made from walnut tree - free of charge
worldwide. shop.spuer-sinn.net, photographyblog.com
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Creating Panoramic
Images with
GigaPan Epic 100
The GigaPan Epic
100 is a new
robotic camera
mount for capturing
detailed gigapixel
panoramas. GigaPan
Epic can create
images 1,000
megapixels in size.
The Epic 100 model
fits a wider range of
camera models and
is compatible with
almost any point-and-shoot digital camera.
The Epic 100 also works with several smaller
DSLR cameras and has a maximum weight
limit of three pounds. A full list of cameras
the Epic and Epic 100 support can be
found here: http://gigapansystems.com/
compatible-cameras.html.
How to operate? First, a digital camera is
attached to the Epic, a robotic mount that
automates the picture taking process. Next,
the hundreds or thousands of resulting
images are downloaded to a computer and
the GigaPan Stitcher software automatically
combines them into a panorama, but
bewares that this process can take a very
long time, even on a high-end PC.
Henry Hillman, Jr., President, CEO and
Founder of GigaPan Systems said the new
design and features of Epic 100 makes
professional and enthusiast photographers
will be able to use almost any point-andshoot
digital camera to create visually
stunning panoramas with ease and
efficiency. The Epic 100 includes all the same
functionality of the original Epic and offers
an expanded range for tilt and elevation of
camera for setting panorama parameters
and an illuminated display for shooting
nighttime panoramas. GigaPan Epic100 sells
for US$ 449. photographyblog.com
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New Faces for Old
Photographs
Akvis Software Inc. announces the release
of Akvis Retoucher plug-in v.3.5. The plugin
allows restoring damages photos by
removing dust, scratches, stains, and by
reconstructing the missing parts of a photo.
Akvis Retoucher is also a handy tool for
improving the composition of your photos.
You can remove date stamps, logos, small
irrelevant details (wires, refuse bins, etc). If
you need to increase the canvas size (from
one side or proportionally) to bring the main
object into focus, Akvis Retoucher will help
you to fill the blank areas of the canvas with
appropriate image textures.
The application is straightforward and can
be used by amateur photographers who
have never performed retouching/image
restoration before. The main rule is to
mark the entire area, you want to restore.
Version 3.5 improves compatibility with the
newest versions of Photoshop CS3, CS4 on
Macintosh and Windows. Akvis Retoucher
sells for US$ 87, downloadable from akvis.
com. Home users can enjoy the full line of
AKVIS plugins in the AKVIS Alchemy bundle
(Enhancer, Chameleon, Stamp, Retoucher,
Coloriage, Noise Buster, Decorator, Sketch,
LightShop, SmartMask, ArtSuite, Magnifier
and ArtWork) for US$ 325. For business,
licenses consult the official website. akvis.com
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LG Viewty Smart, Smart
and Slim
LG announced the
Viewty Smart (LGGC900),
a more
intelligent version
of the original LG
Viewty. The Viewty
Smart is just 12.4
mm deep, making
it the slimmest 8 megapixel camera phone
available to date. This 2nd model adds
Intelligent Shot Mode, which analyzes the
subject, background, and lighting conditions
and adjusting camera settings accordingly. It
has ISO sensitivity up to ISO 1600, a higher
resolution WVGA (800 x 480) touchscreen,
a more intelligent image processor and LG's
easy-to-use S-Class User Interface (UI). The
Viewty Smart can also store photos on its
1.5 GB of internal memory or on MicroSD
cards up to 32 GB. LG Viewty Smart will
be available through operators in Europe
starting this May. dcviews.com
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Photographer of the Year
Sony World Photography
Awards 2009 Announced
David Zimmerman has been announced
as the winner of L'Iris D'Or Award, the
2009 Sony World Photography Awards
Photographer of the Year. Zimmerman
received the award at this year's Sony
World Photography Awards Gala ceremony
in Cannes, France, April 16. The American
photographer's entry in the Landscape
category beat off stiff competition from
some of the world's finest photographers
to win the title, accompanied by a US$
25,000 cash prize along with Sony camera
equipment. His winning landscape series
"Desert" hauntingly depicts the American
southwest desert environment as a
fragile ecosystem. Zimmerman said his
documentation of the remarkable deserts
throughout Arizona, New Mexico, California
and Nevada continues in an effort to
influence preservation through public
awareness, opinion and action.
Bruce Davidson, one of the Jury said in the
era of environmental awareness and image,
both can coexist to give a picture of the
use and abuse of the environment, both
of image and meaning are seen in David’s
work. He admitted that David work makes
them become more aware as humans.
Fellow Judge, Zelda Cheatle, added David’s
work represents skill in photography, an
awareness of the environment and reach
beyond mere pictures of land and sky.
Zimmerman received his award from
Fujio Nishida, President of Sony Europe at
the awards ceremony. The eleven other
professional category 2009 winners also
collected their awards at the ceremony. photographyblog.com
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Gitzo Ocean Traveler,
Travel Companion for
Photographers
Bogen Imaging has announced the Gitzo
Ocean Traveler extra lightweight tripod.
Gitzo has developed the world’s first
stainless steel tripod casting, and integrated
the technology into its popular Traveler
series to produce the new Ocean Traveler.
The stainless steel casting is made using a
production process involving Metal Injection
Moulding. The casting is treated in a way
that completely closes porosity. Coupled
with Gitzo's unique Carbon 6x material, the
tripod offers sturdiness whilst being extra
light in weight, and being able to be used
in the harshest of environments - even salt
water. The recommended retail price of the
Gitzo Ocean Traveler tripod is
£ 799,95. photographyblog.com
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