Digital Camera World Wednesday June 28, 2023
So far 2023 has been a year of vlogging cameras for Sony, with the launch of the Sony XV-E1 and the Sony ZV-1 II in recent months. But, notes Digital Camera World, ahead of the Summer Olympics in Paris in 2024 Sony will launch the a9 III—a camera that will steal the speed crown from the Nikon Z9. (The current Sony a9 II already features a continuous burst rate of 20fps when shooting with the electronic shutter or 10fps with the mechanical shutter.) The camera will reportedly be released by January 2024 to give sports photographers enough time to test it out prior to the Olympics.
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David Schonauer Wednesday June 28, 2023
"I grew up near the Atlantic Ocean, in a town appropriately called Oceanside, and I can still smell the pungent, sweet, salty aroma of the sea breeze blowing through the curtains of my childhood
bedroom." So writes Disney CEO Robert Iger in the introduction to the book "On the Water: A Century of Iconic Maritime Photography from the Rosenfeld Collection." The new volume features … Read the full Story >>
Digital Camera World Tuesday June 27, 2023
Working with Canon, Dr Richard Stephens, a senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Keele in the UK, analyzed interviews with 20 freelance photographers who talked about what motivates them. Stephens, notes Digital Camera World, was was able to break down the photographic process into four psychological states that contribute to a feeling of satisfaction and complete immersion in the task: the flow state, creativity, the eureka moment, storytelling, and emotion.
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CNN Tuesday June 27, 2023
Two people hunched over a chess board may not sound like your idea of an exciting photograph, but for Maria Emelianova it’s a scene of pure drama. A leading chess photographer, Emelianova has spent a decade traveling the world to document the highs and lows of the sport, notes CNN. The art of chess photography, she says, lies in allowing people who know very little about chess and its personalities to get very close to matches “and feel like they are right next to this chess game.”
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