Category: Tech Talk

January 17, 2013

Photo Data Verification

The Knight News Challenge has decided to fund a smartphone app that will allow editors to verify an image and have it transmitted securely. There are some significant limitations in this plan, but there’s some value, too.

Categories Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

January 17, 2013

How Another Portion Rolls

I read a lot of stuff, some of it far afield of the journalism realm. One of my favorites is Life of an Architect, where owner Bob Borson has let architectural photographer Brad Feinknopf talk about what it takes to shoot buildings. Don’t complain about the cost of gear in photojournalism …

Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

January 10, 2013

Streaming Faster

NPR’s Sami Yenigun takes a look at bandwidth and video streaming, something almost all of us need to be paying attention to these days.

Categories Multimedia/Tech Talk/Video

January 10, 2013

Another Eulogy for Kodak

I should probably stop posting these, the end times for my yellow memories is pretty near … but the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has a piece up looking back at how Kodak influenced the growth of their staff over the years. And since we can’t bring Kodak back, maybe we can bring back the company-supplied scooter and side car? I really...

Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Journalism/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

January 9, 2013

A Funny Camera?

I will admit, and I hate to do this, but … I miss brasses-out cameras. The paint on old film bodies used to wear off from years of use, letting you see the brass top and bottom plates. Some people would be horrified at the idea of a worn camera, but so some of us … well … It was...

Categories Craft/Tech Talk

January 9, 2013

New WordPress Themes for Photograhers

WordPress.com has launched a new series of themes aimed at photographers. If you're not self-hosting your photo portfolio, this just became a better option for you.  

Categories Graphic Design/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

January 8, 2013

Humor for the Old Timers

Never seen this comic before today, but if you’ve been around long enough, you’ll laugh.

Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk

December 27, 2012

Ummm … No.

This seems like a really bad thing to do to your negatives. Just saying’.

Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk

December 26, 2012

Photographic Statues

After reading Mike Johnston’s piece on the statue of John Daniels at Kitty Hawk, I’m wondering – how many other statues of photographers are out there? I have a poster print of Daniels’ image, perhaps one of only a handful he made. It wasn’t his camera, it wasn’t his trade, but he had put himself into a position to make...

Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

December 22, 2012

The First DSLR

The George Eastman House has acquired the first digital single lens reflex camera ever made. Built in 1989 on a Canon F1, only two were ever produced. This predates the tethered Nikon F3 camera by a couple of years which I had thought was the first DSLR. Very cool …

Categories Photojournalism/Tech Talk