DP Review Wednesday March 30, 2022
Venus Optics’s newly announced Laowa Argus 25mm F0.95 MFT APO lens for Micro Four Thirds camera systems offers a 50mm full-frame equivalent field of view on Micro Four Thirds camera systems, notes DP Review. The apochromatic lens features an aperture range of f/0.95 throguh f/11, has a minimum focusing distance of 25cm (9.8 inches) and uses a 62mm front filter thread. Laowa also says that the internal focusing design minimises focus breathing, allowing you to maintain as similar a field of view as possible throughout the range, adds DIY Photography. Price: $399. Read the full Story >>
The Guardian Wednesday March 30, 2022
In over a decade of covering conflict, photographer Alessio Mamo had never heard air raid sirens. “There are no air raid sirens announcing terrorist attacks in Kabul, just as there are none when Turkish drones bomb the population in north-eastern Syria,” he writes at The Guardian. But Mamo recently heard sirens while in Lviv, Ukraine—a city that until recently had been relatively untouched by Russia’s invasion. If there is one thing that makes this war the same as any other in any area of the planet, “it is the way it changes people’s faces,” notes Mamo. Read the full Story >>
National Press Photographers Association Wednesday March 30, 2022
Facing criticism over its plans to require portrait photographers to acquire a permit for the upcoming season, Grand Teton National Park has walked back the requirement, notes Jackson Hole News & Guide. On March 23, 2022, National Park Service officials sent a message to photographers stating that it was withdrawing such photographic permit requirements. “The CUA [commercial use authorization] Program at Grand Teton National Park has been adjusted and no longer includes the ‘Portrait Services’ CUA category… The NPS has begun an internal review of the management of portrait services in other park areas,” the message stated. "The law is clear: a permit is not required for low-impact, handheld photography in national parks," notes the NPPA. Read the full Story >>
By Wonderful Machine Wednesday March 30, 2022
The Afghan National Soccer team has become a fixed symbol of national pride for the thousands of refugees who have left Afghanistan since the Taliban rose to power. The New York Times hired
Istanbul-based photojournalist Bradley Secker to document the team's first match since the fall of the democratic government, which took place in Turkey last November. His images speak to the
resiliency of … Read the full Story >>
