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The Most Extreme Nikon 6mm f/2.8 Lens

A rare Nikon fisheye lens is on sale in London, and the price is surprising: £ 100,000 (approx. IDR 1,5 billion). The lens is said to be able to “see behind itself’” and dwarfing any camera it is attached to.
Reported by amateurphotographer.co.uk, the Fisheye-Nikkor 6mm f/2.8 was credited as the world’s most extreme wideangle lens. [...]

Published by Farid Wahdiono on April 24th, 2012 at 11:04 am
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Adobe Releases Creative Suite 6 & Creative Cloud

Adobe System Inc. today releases Creative Suite 6 – comprising Photoshop, Illustrator and other programs aimed at designers – and Creative Cloud. Unlike previous versions, it seems that Adobe now wants to push us, the customers, towards the later.
Creative Suite 6 will be available on a monthly subscription basis as part of Adobe’s Creative Cloud [...]

Published by Farid Wahdiono on April 23rd, 2012 at 01:04 pm
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Clubsnap’s 10th Anniversary Celebration Attended by a Singaporean Minister

The largest Singaporean photography forum Clubsnap celebrates its 10th anniversary on Friday (4/20) at Singapore Art Museum. Hundreds of members attended the dinner together with key persons of photography industry in Singapore. Also attending the event was Singapore Minister of State of Ministry of Manpower Mr Tan Chuan-Jin.
Chng Peng Eik gave the opening remarks as [...]

Published by Farid Wahdiono on April 21st, 2012 at 07:04 pm

Canon DPP with EOS 5D Mark III RAW Processing Fix Now Available

Canon has released Digital Photo Professional (DPP) version 3.11.26 and it is now available for download. This update should correct the soft conversion problem with Canon EOS 5D Mark III RAW images, and hopefully corrects the same problem with Canon PowerShot G1 X RAW images.
It has been confirmed that the RAW development process used by [...]

Published by Farid Wahdiono on April 18th, 2012 at 04:04 pm

Enchanting Photos of “Discovery” Preparing for Final Flight

For the last several days, Space Shuttle “Discovery” has been preparing for one final flight. Today (April 17), weather permitting, Discovery will make the trip from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia (Va), from atop a repurposed Boeing 747 jet airliner — [...]

Published by Farid Wahdiono on April 17th, 2012 at 12:04 pm

A Tight Race Between D800 & 5D Mark III

In a poll opened for five days in this site, voters prefer Nikon D800 to Canon EOS 5D Mark III. However, voting for both cameras seems to run in a tight race since the poll has started last Wednesday and has just been closed this afternoon.
D800 and 5D Mark III are now competing in high-end [...]

Published by Farid Wahdiono on April 16th, 2012 at 04:04 pm
Nauticam D4 housing (front view)

Housings for Nikon D4 & D800

If you have a craze for underwater photography, and have new Nikon D4 or D800 with you, soon you will be able to do photo hunting with the cameras while you are diving. Housing manufacturers are working around the clock to provide housings for both cameras.
Pictures of Nauticam’s new housing for the D4, with brief [...]

Published by Farid Wahdiono on April 12th, 2012 at 05:04 pm

Facebook Acquires Instagram

Facebook has just announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Instagram, a fun, popular photo-sharing app for mobile devices.
Announced in Facebook’s Newsroom, the total consideration for San Francisco-based Instagram is approximately US$ 1 billion in a combination of cash and shares of Facebook. The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, is [...]

Published by Farid Wahdiono on April 10th, 2012 at 10:04 am
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Eyewitness: Through the Eyes of Photojournalists

Seeing things firsthand then you become an eyewitness; and this book entitled Eyewitness comprises photos depicting several events or occurrences that were witnessed and captured by some photojournalists.
The photojournalists whose photos published in the book are Jurnasyanto Sukarno, Afriadi Hikmal, Safir Makki, and Yudhi Sukma Wijaya. They are all currently working for the Jakarta Globe [...]

Published by Farid Wahdiono on March 21st, 2012 at 12:03 pm

Buy Hasselblad, Get Free Adobe Lightroom 4

From 12 March 2012, Hasselblad customers buying new medium format H4D cameras will receive Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software with their new camera equipment, at no additional cost. An update announcement reveals the software will be Adobe’s latest version, Lightroom 4.
“Integrating the Adobe platform with Hasselblad is a ground-breaking step. Changing platforms is always a challenge [...]

Published by Farid Wahdiono on March 7th, 2012 at 01:03 pm
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