DP Review Tuesday October 15, 2024
After acquiring the RED Cinema camera company earlier this year, Nikon is pushing forward on a move into filmmaking: In a new collaboration with the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, Nikon will be supplying the film school with various cameras and lenses, including Red Komodo and Komodo X digital cinema cameras, Nikon Z6 III mirrorless cameras, and Nikkor lenses,. “While the announcement is largely a marketing exercise, it's also an interesting strategic step for Nikon,” notes DP Review.
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David Schonauer Tuesday October 15, 2024
After a rocky start, Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses have succeeded where other AI wearables and smart glasses haven't, largely because Meta finally nailed both style and execution. Now Meta has unveiled
its first pair of augmented reality (AR) glasses, called "Orion", as well as updates to its Ray Ban smart glasses. While there is no release date for the glasses, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg … Read the full Story >>
The Washington Post Monday October 14, 2024
Matthew Lewis, a Washington Post photographer who won the Pulitzer Prize for his portfolio of Washington-area personalities and ways of life and who became the newspaper’s first Black assistant managing editor, died Oct. 2 at his home in Thomasville, North Carolina, reports the newspaper. He was 94. The Post hired Lewis in 1965, four years after Ellsworth J. Davis became the paper’s first Black photographer. “When I first started, I was very fortunate to get a job as an African American,” Lewis said. “Work ethic was very important and vital where I come from.”
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The Washington Post Monday October 14, 2024
“We can argue that photojournalists create a forensic record of what has happened to hold perpetrators to account, but I see our role as far more modest: We play a small part in contributing to a larger flow of information that may collectively bring about gradual change.” So writes photojournalist Finbarr O’Reilly at The Washington Post, in a report featuring his images from eastern Chad, where more than 800,000 Sudanese live after fleeing fresh waves of ethnic cleansing and sexual violence in Sudan’s western Darfur region.
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