DP Review Friday September 16, 2022
The latest addition to Sony’s Cinema line, the FR7, is the world's first pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) camera to combine a full-frame image sensor, an interchangeable lens design, and remote shooting functionality, notes DP Review. The FR7 promises precise control over its movement: Pan and tilt speed is continuously variable from 0.02 to 60 degrees per second and supports a wide range of stable, smooth motion. The pan angle range is from +/- 170 degrees and the tilt angle range is from -30 to 195 degrees. The robotic cine cam can also memorize up to 100 camera position presets. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday September 16, 2022
William Klein, an American expatriate photographer whose often frenetic and sometimes blurred images of urban street life and modern fashion were wildly innovative while conveying the pointed social
criticism of a self-declared outsider, died Sept. 10 in Paris. He was 96.. "I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn't interest me," he once said. Vogue art director Alexander Liberman,
who said he … Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Thursday September 15, 2022
Photographer Melvin Sokolsky, who pushed boundaries by creating fantastical tableaux for fashion magazines like Harper’s Bazaar, died on Aug. 29 at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif., reports The New York Times. He was 88. Sokolsky, an untrained photographer who grew up in a tenement on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, created fashion images that often seemed to defy both gravity and logic—perhaps most famously in his “bubble” series, in which he placed a model in what appeared to be a giant soap bubble floating around Paris. (It was actually a giant Plexiglas orb suspended by a thin cable that was later edited out.) Read the full Story >>
AnOther Thursday September 15, 2022
Raise a glass of red rum for the newly released fall/winter 2022 ad campaign from Gucci, in which fame photo duo Mert and Marcus reimagine scenes from the films of Stanley Kubrick—including, of course, The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Barry Lyndon and A Clockwork Orange. “Since [Stanley Kubrick] was a diviner of vision, his works are as recognizable as the Sistine Chapel, The Virgin of the Rocks or The Simpsons,” says Gucci’s creative director Alessandro Michele. See also: It’s Nice That. Read the full Story >>
