engadget Wednesday February 28, 2024
Fujifilm's X100V was the camera to have over the last couple of years (thanks to TikTok), notes Engadget. Its newly released successor, the X100 VI, features a number of improvements, including a 40.2-megapixel sensor that offers a native base ISO of 125. That improves on the previous generation camera, which, adds PetaPixel, could reach that mark only via an extended sensitivity option. There’s also 5-axis image stabilization. The X100VI can shoot 6.2K video at up to 30p, 4K at up to 60p, and 1080 Full HD at up to 240p at up to 4:2:2 10-bit in both F-Log and F-Log 2.
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npr Wednesday February 28, 2024
Prior to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, among European Union member states, Italy was home to one of the largest communities of people of Ukrainian origin. Photographer Chiara Negrello's grandmother Lidia Maggiolo was one of them. Negrello’s project documenting her grandmother’s Ukrainian caregiver is featured at NPR. With the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, many caregivers have decided to stay in Italy and assist their own families, financially, from afar. However, experiencing conflict at a distance causes great tensions, notes Negrello.
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Mediaite Wednesday February 28, 2024
The New York Times has demanded that Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs cease making claims that one of the newspaper’s freelance photographers had connections to Hamas and knew about the October 7 attack on Israel in advance, notes Mediaite. The photographer, Yousef Masoud, recently won a George Polk award for photojournalism, alongside another freelancer for the Times, Samar Abu Elouf, prompting an angry response from the Israeli Foreign Ministry. See also: The Times of Israel.
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By David Schonauer Wednesday February 28, 2024
Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson are acclaimed for their work as founders of Magnum Photos. Ernst Scheidegger isn't talked about as much, and yet he's one of the first photographers the agency
brought on as an associate. That may be changing. From Feb. 18 to July 21, MASI Lugano in Lugano, Switzerland, features an homage to Scheidegger, including his early work focusing on the … Read the full Story >>
