Wildlife Photography & Conservancy on Rambut Isle
Both wildlife photography and conservancy can be outdone together at exactly the same moment. This is what The Wildlife Photographers Community (WPC) was doing, together with some other wildlife photography hobbyists. They visited the Flora and Fauna Conservancy of the Rambut Isle (SMPR) - a conservancy area closest to Jakarta.
15 FNers (Fotografer.net's members) were spirited and going around the isle. Some of them met the Boiga Dendrophila (a species of snake), were sneaking out iguanas, fishing and donated some mangrove seeds. For your information, WPC and Wildlife Conservancy Foundation have together observed, examined and mapped SMPR's wildlife since 2005.  Bernard T. Wahyu Wiryanta
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Canon's 70-200mm New Lens
The second generation lens, the EF 70-200mm f/2.8 IS II USM, is one of Canon's products that were released at CES 2010. Alike the predecessor, this lens is featured with a maximum aperture of f/2.8, also an anti-dust and weather resistant body.
The difference is; this lens has four stops of camera-shake correction and a fluorite and a fifth UD element in its construction, which is supposed to minimize secondary chromatic aberrations and produce improved overall image quality across the zoom range. Unfortunately, the minimum focal length is shortened to 1.4 meter. The new lens is scheduled to ship in April. Pricing is still to be determined. divephotoguide.com, pdngearguide.com
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Two French Photographers Exhibit in Surabaya
Centre Culturel et de Coopération Linguistique (CCCL) of Surabaya and House of Sampoerna will be holding two photography exhibitions performing two French photographers' works, Paul Piollet and Patrick Box, entitled "Come Across the Sea: The Marseille's Sailing Ship and Indonesia's (East Java and Madura) Sailboat."
The grand opening and discussion session of both exhibitions will be on January 20 and 21 at CCCL and House of Sampoerna, respectively. On the day after, the Maritime Challenge Team of ITS will make up a topic, discussing their very own "Yole de Bantry" boat that will also be exhibited at CCCL and participate the Maritime Challenge 2010 in Canada. For more information, please visit ccclsurabaya.com.
Krishna Saputra
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Lady Gaga, Polaroid's New Creative Director 
At this year's CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas, Polaroid's move of taking Lady Gaga as its Creative Director was the biggest press news that grabbed most of America's night news channel. Even Saturday Night Live covered it in the Weekend Update segment this past week.
Gaga, a musician born in New York 23 years ago, has been very popular recently. Beside of her very brilliant music, she has been a very fashionable public figure and become the icon of this era's fashion trend. By putting her at the forefront, Polaroid expects that she can interest more fans, and furthermore, they can increase their selling.
photoinduced.com
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Introducing the Works of Saudi Arabian Artists in Jakarta
The first-in-a-lifetime event is held up by the collaboration of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Jakarta and the Indonesia's Ministry of Culture and Tourism (on behalf of the Indonesia's government) through the "Photographic Art of Saudi Arabia" painting exhibition. This event aims to introduce the creative works of Saudi Arabia's artists in photography.
On January 21, it will be officially opened by the DKI Jaya's Governor and attended by the international ambassadors, while the exhibition will be establishing until January 29. Every day, you can visit the event from 10:00-19:00 (local time), including Saturday and Sunday, at Galeri Nasional (the National Gallery) on Jl. Medan Merdeka Timur No.14, Jakarta. Visit fotografer.net to get more details.
fotografer.net
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Sony Alpha-450 is Cheaper than the Alpha-550
This month, Sony has announced its latest Alpha DSLR, the Alpha-450. This camera is retaining almost all of the Alpha-550's features, but priced at less than US$ 1,000 - slightly cheaper than 550. To make it cheaper, 450 does not have a fast AF live view system and a 2.6-inches tilt and flip LCD screen; the 550 does have them. Alike the other Alpha series, 450 is equipped with an HDR setting that does not need any editing software, four steps of the anti-shake correction and a speed priority mode.
divephotoguide.com
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Fastest External HDD with USB 3.0
Western digital has released its fastest My Book external hard drive ever. This new My Book 3.0 desktop external drives featuring elegant design are among the first devices certified with the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface.
With an interface that's up to 10 times faster than the previous-generation USB 2.0 interface, the high-performance My Book 3.0 drive significantly reduces the time it takes to open and save large files. It provides transfer rates of up to 5 gigabits-per-second.
My Book 3.0 drives are available now at selected retailers and online at shopwd.com. The price for 1 TB capacity is US$ 179.99. The 2 TB model is expected later this week.
digitalpixels.net
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Olympus Stylus Tough-3000 for Adventuring
 
Olympus unveils the Stylus Tough-3000, a shockproof, waterproof and freezeproof compact camera designed to capture all of life's adventures from the extreme to the everyday. As the first Stylus Tough camera with High-Definition (HD) video, features like Magic Filter that expand your creativity and AF tracking to keep subjects in focus, the Stylus Tough-3000 is as smart as it is durable. It's also the first of several Stylus Tough cameras to be launched in 2010.
The 12-megapixel image sensor Stylus Tough-3000 will be available in February 2010. The estimated price is US$ 229.99.
dcresource.com
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Feel the Fashion of Naomi Campbell
 
Naomi Campbell is not an unfamiliar name, isn't it? From now on until February 12, you are given a chance to send maximum of four best photos of yours that constitute "glamour" within the theme. This competition is hosted by Talenthouse.com, entitled the Creative Invite that will choose one among you to feel the fashion of Naomi Campbell in a fashion photography project for Glamour Magazine.
What is Campbell's role? She will choose the model and all the accessories that the model needs. Of more than two decades working in front of the camera, her sharp and creative eyes will guide you to the highest sense of fashion photography of one of the most popular fashion magazines in America.
photographyblog.com, talenthouse.com
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Gimbal Tripod Head for Sport, Wildlife & Nature Photography
Photographers have a seemingly endless choice of support heads to perch atop their tripods: panheads, ballheads, and a wide array of other head accessories. There are times, however, when these may not be the optimum choice for special shooting situations.
Recently Induro introduced a tripod head for sports, wildlife and nature photographers who work with very long, heavy telephoto lenses. It's called a gimbal head, and the key to its success is the ability to easily balance heavy camera/lens systems.
For an investment of less than US$ 500 you can get the maximum performance and creative control from professional telephoto lenses. To see more details, go to www.InduroGear.com.
pdngearguide.com
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The Black-and-White Valentine
If Valentine day is always identical with the pink color, perhaps Engelbert Fellinger is going to break the rule. This could perhaps inspire you too when you feel that you necessarily need to make up something different in your Valentine day celebration. What is exactly Fellinger doing?
In his daily, Fellinger is a Dutch photographer specializing in black-and-white photos. On the next February 14, he will be exhibiting his photos in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from 12:00-20:00 (local time). The main theme is abstract subject and people in their daily that was all taken traditionally with his analogue camera. Inspiring, eh?
engelbert.org, events.linkedin.com
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Panasonic's Top End FH20
Panasonic's FH20 point-and-shoot camera has been released at CES 2010 and claimed as the FH series' top end camera. Why is it so? Though not the smallest, this camera is pretty compact and pocketable, features an 8x zoom lens, aluminum-coated body, compatible with the latest SDXC card format, quick zoom (quicker than the FP3 and FP1) and gains a 14.1-MP sensor. The other features are the Optical Image Stabilization, 720p video recording and 2.7-inches LCD screen
photographybay.com
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Get a Free Photography Book via Twitter
LightStalking hands out a free copy of Digital Photography School's latest book entitled Photo Nuts and Bolts: Know Your Camera to Take Better Photos, that is being released this month.
If you are interested in getting a chance on having the free book, what you need to do is log in to Twitter and follow @LightStalking (twitter.com/LightStalking). Next, you just need to ReTweet (RT) the following text: "Win a Copy of Digital Photography School's 'Photo Nuts & Bolts' Book from @LightStalking - Please RT. Details:http://bit.ly/759CbY."
lightstalking.com
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Capturing "Kebo-keboan" in Banyuwangi  Photo by Andrey Gromico
The Suro Month is the month reckoned to be sacral by the Javanese people. In this month, precisely on Sunday, the people of the Using tribe in Banyuwangi (East Java) are carrying out a particular ritual called "Kebo-keboan" (imitating buffalo) as for their gratitude to Dewi Sri (Javanese's pre-Hindu and pre-Islam era goddess of rice and fertility) that the crop has gone copiously, also to pass up bad luck and prevail over the same abundant crop in the future.
Andrey Gromico, one of Fotografer.net's members, was successfully capturing the pictures of the people attaining the ritual in Aliyan village, Rogojampi sub-district, on January 10. He followed every of the ritual’s stage, they are selamatan (feast), ider bumi or assembling for parade through the village and the "Kebo-keboan" itself that was taken place on the paddy. Andrey Gromico
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Kodak Claims It's Patents over iPhone and Blackberry
Lately, Kodak has filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission (ITC) because of the infringement patents relating to the use of technology for previewing pictures by Apple on iPhone and Research in Motion (RIM) on Blackberry. According to Eastman Kodak Co., they have the patents over this technology. Both of the company should have given them a fair compensation or royalty. Moreover, Kodak has also filed two separate suits against Apple that claim infringements of patents relating to digital cameras and certain computer processes.
Because of this, Kodak asked ITC to stop the import of the two products and claimed an undisclosed monetary damages.
news.bbc.co.uk, tekno.kompas.com
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"Grey Area" Photo Competition
Highlighting a development topic of a city, sometimes there are so many things that have been used to support the development are left behind, even forgotten. In fact, this is no longer uncommon. The forgotten part becomes less —and not— important for nobody realizes that it exists, until finally, this part of a city becomes the "Grey Area".
In Pekan Arsitektur (The Architecture Week) 2010, Atma Jaya Yogyakarta University invites you to document every negative implication in people's weariness toward their environment; one of them is the improper use of a building or area for negative purposes - the object that turns into a visual city "garbage."
You can send of up to three photos until February 7, 2010, and Kristupa Saragih, Mie Cornoedus (Belgium) and Angky Pu (artist) will be judging your works. How much can you win? Visit himatricaka.com. cindy
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CF Card with 63 MB/s Transfer Speed
Delkin Devices, Inc. today expanded their lineup of CompactFlash card storage by announcing four new blazing fast 420X PRO cards capable of transfer speeds up to 63MB/s. It is available in capacities of 8GB, 16GB, 32GB and 64GB.
Delkin's 420X CF cards are fully compliant with current CompactFlash specifications with support for Ultra DMA (UDMA) mode 6. These high-speed cards are able to instantaneously store high-resolution images and HD video, making recording faster and easier than ever.
digitalpixels.net
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German Photography Book Fair 
Tradition is what makes Deutscher Fotobuchpreis, German's best photography book fair, is being established by the Goethe-Institute Jakarta for the 2010 competition year. If you are keen of photography and curious of how German's best photography books look like, you probably need to be at the Goethehaus of the Goethe-Institute Jakarta to look over the exhibition - from February 1 to 14. Please visit pannafoto.org to read more information. Gregorius Bhisma Adinaya
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Sony Introduces 12 New Cyber-shot Cameras
Sony introduces a total of twelve new Cyber-shot digital cameras. The HX5 features the Exmor R CMOS Sensor; a 25mm wide angle and 10x optical zoom lens, Intelligent Sweep Panorama, 1080i Full HD movie, GPS and Compass. The Sony W-series is expanded with the full range from the W310 up to the W390 models.The new super-slim TX7 comes with an Exmor R CMOS Sensor, 25mm wide angle lens, and 8.9cm (3.5") TruBlack wide touchscreen. The Cyber-shot DSC-S2000 and S2000 models complete this winter's avalanche.
dcviews.com
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New Wireless File Transmitter Unit for Canon DSLRs
Canon USA Inc. recently announced a step forward in the digital integration of professional photography workflows with the introduction of three new Wireless File Transmitter units to accompany each of the Company's three professional Digital SLR Camera models. The new WFT-E2 II A Wireless File Transmitter, WFT-E4 II A Wireless File Transmitter and WFT-E5A Wireless File Transmitter for the EOS-1D Mark IV, EOS 5D Mark II and EOS 7D, respectively, provide professional photographers with a range of innovative wireless connectivity options for all photographic disciplines.
The Canon WFT-E4 II A Wireless File Transmitter and WFT-E5A Wireless File Transmitter are currently available and sell at an estimated retail price of US$ 699.99 each. The WFT-E2 II A Wireless File Transmitter is scheduled to be available in the first quarter of 2010, price to be determined. pdngearguide.com
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Panasonic Unveils Ultra-slim Lumix
Panasonic introduces the new ultra-slim design digital camera 14.1-megapixel DMC-FP3/FP2 and 12.1-megapixel DMC-FP1 of a newly developed ultra-thin 4x optical zoom lens with folded optics. The newly adopted lens cover is not only for the lens protection but also to serve as a power switch of the camera. Actions of taking the camera out and turning the power of it on can be seamless and astonishingly quick. dcviews.com
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Lexar Upgrades It's CF & SDHC Capacity
Now, you can record tons of video with your DSRL camera without being concernedly thinking that your memory card has not enough space, because Lexas has upgraded the capacity of its CF and SDHC. The Professional 300x CF and Professional 233x CF are now available in 32 GB format. Moreover, the 233x is also available in 16 GB format, while the 133x is gaining the Class 10 speed rating feature. divephotoguide.com
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High-Speed Exilim from Casio
Casio US releases the new High-Speed Exilim EX-FH25 and EX-FH150 digital cameras that have been introduced in Japan last November. The EX-FH25 features 10 Megapixels, a 20x optical zoom lens, a 3.0-inch LCD, and delivers high-speed Burst up to 40 fps and Video up to 1000 fps. The FC150 features 10 Megapixels too, a 5x optical zoom lens, a 2.7-inch LCD and delivers high-speed Burst up to 30 fps and Video up to 1000 fps. The new models are available immediately for US$ 399.99 and US$ 299.99 respectively. dcviews.com
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Samsung Introduces 2 More DualView Cameras
Samsung extends its DualView series with the TL210 and TL205. The new cameras feature a 1.5" color LCD screen located on the front of the camera. This 1.5" display gives you the ability to perfect your self-portraits or join friends and family in the shot. New for the TL210 and TL205 is that you can now use the 1.5-inch front LCD to frame video in addition to digital stills.
dcviews.com
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