OM Digital Solutions has announced that the Olympus name is no more, notes DIY Photography. Other than the upcoming gear, even the existing models will from now on be a part of the “OM System.” OM Digital Solutions is a subsidiary of Japan Industrial Partners (JIP), which acquired Olympus' camera and imaging portfolio two years ago. Read the full Story >>
After completing a year-long training course, members of the Royal Canadian Navy's newest class of clearance divers decided to pose for a graduation photo underwater. Sailor 1st Class Valerie LeClair—who also acts as an official photographer for the Navy—was up to the task, notes My Modern Met. His main challenge: buoyancy. “They’d float up [to the surface],” he says. “It was hard for them to sit in the chairs.” To compensate, the divers had 8-pound weights in their pockets. But only instructors in the first row has access to oxygen tanks. Read the full Story >>
CNN is facing unsettling times, noted Poynter recently. Chris Licht, CNN’s chairman, has informed employees of the news network that budget cuts and layoffs are coming. The move, reports The New York Times, comes as a result of a worsening economy and pressure from CNN’s parent, Warner Bros. Discovery. Licht said he would aim to protect CNN’s news gathering and search for ways to invest in the company’s digital business. Among those groups he hopes to spare are photojournalists and video editors, he said in a memo. Read the full Story >>
Photographer Stacy Kranitz’s new book As It Was Give(n) To Me looks at the Appalachian region with a nuanced eye. “Rather than reinforcing conventional views of Appalachia as a poverty-ridden region, or by selectively dwelling on positive aspects of the place and its people to offset problematic stereotypes, this work insists that each of these options are equally problematic ways of looking at place,” notes the book’s publisher, Twin Palms Press. The Washington Post has more. Read the full Story >>
