PetaPixel Thursday October 3, 2024
If you want to embrace an earlier form of photography while shooting with a digital camera, Leica’s M11-D may be for you, notes PetaPixel. The newly revealed camera—a screen-less version of the 60-megapixel M11 digital rangefinder camera—follows other display-less Leicas, including 2014’s M Edition 60, 2016’s M-D, and 2018’s M10-D. The new M11-D features a 60-megapixel CMOS image sensor with “Triple Resolution technology,” 256 GB of internal memory, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a large 1,800 mAh battery, and a USB-C port.
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David Schonauer Thursday October 3, 2024
In 2020, the French newspaper Le Monde learned of an album containing 377 photos of Paris taken during the Occupation by Nazi Germany. For four years, the newspaper has been trying to learn the name
of the photographer who braved the Nazi occupiers' ban on outdoor photography to take the unapproved pictures. The probe led to the Museum of the National Resistance in Champigny-sur-Marne, … Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Wednesday October 2, 2024
And more bird news: For 55 years, the New Britain Goshawk, or Accipiter princeps, had not been seen, which left many ornithologists to presume the rare bird of prey was lost: The bird, which had never been photographed and was known to science only from four specimens, was categorized as “vulnerable” on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.But in March, notes PetaPixel, Fiji-based wildlife photographer Tom Vierus managed to capture the first-ever image of the New Britain Goshawk while on an expedition with The World Wide Fund for Nature on the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea.
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LensCulture Wednesday October 2, 2024
“I was drawn to horses from a very young age growing up in Switzerland, just outside of the city yet far from rural and farm life,” says photographer Constance Jaeggi, who has created a series exploring Escaramuza—an equestrian performance led solely by women that, notes LensCulture, “bridges contemporary Mexican-American identity and the women freedom fighters of the Mexican Revolution.” Escaramuza is wide-spread in Mexico and is becoming increasingly established in the United States, notes Jaeggi.
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