Travel & Humanitarian Photos
Matt Brandon and I haven’t even officially started our Kumbh Mela Photo Expedition yet – the team are still on their way to Delhi from various parts of the globe – but we’re already loving being back in India and feeling that this is going to be a rich and rewarding experience.
I’m currently in the UK, my first opportunity to catch up with family and friends for almost a year. It’s great to see familiar faces and I’m enjoying the opportunity to reflect on my first year living as an expat in Bangkok. It’s been a productive year, a largely successful year and with many more [...]
If you’re a Canon user, or even if you’re not, you may find the monthly CPN newsletter interesting reading. This month you can find out what’s in Julian Love’s camera bag, an interview with Franck Vogel and news of the first Getty grants of 2009. Next month’s newsletter features Yours Truly talking about why I [...]
I suffer from gear envy less and less as time passes but I have been quietly waiting for Canon to announce the release of these two Tilt-and-Shift lenses since last summer. They won’t be available until May but the 24mm version is going straight to the top of my wish list although that 17mm version [...]
Owners of shiny new Canon 5D MKIIs (Tewfic, David, Matt, Barry, Andrew et al, you know who you are) will want to download the fix for the camera’s black dot glitch. The Firmware update also fixes the vertical banding problem found when shooting sRAW. Canon EOS 5D MKII Firmware Download
My good friend and fellow professional photographer Barry Mann is the proud new owner of a Canon EOS 5D MKII and has kindly given his first impressions of the new camera. Barry runs a commercial and low-level aerial photography business in the UK and is also an accomplished travel photographer in his spare time (check [...]
Vincent Laforet has posted a video shot exclusively with a prototype of the new Canon EOS 5D MKII. He has nothing but praise for the camera’s video capabilities and suggests that the new 5D will be a “game changing” camera. I don’t know, I love the idea of shooting video and Laforet gives us a [...]
In the race to be the first to bring you a picture of the new Canon EOS 5D MKII, I win. Almost. The 5D replacement specs are as follows: 21.1 Megapixel, full-frame CMOS Full HD video at 1920 x 1080 DIGIC 4 3.9 fps Live View 3” LCD EOS Cleaning system Check out the dpreview [...]
After the success of my prediction earlier in the year about the imminent arrival of a successor to Canon’s 5D you’ll be forgiven if I find you taking this announcement with more than a pinch of salt. However, I have it on good authority that Canon’s G9 point-and-shoot is to be discontinued and a successor [...]
The first four “Ambassadors” in Canon’s recently announced Ambassadors programme are “VII Photo agency co-founder Gary Knight, famous National Geographic wildlife shooter Michaal Nichols, prolific Israeli photojournalist Ziv Koren (Polaris Images) and the top portrait and fashion photographer Lorenzo Agius (Getty Images).” We’re told that the Canon Ambassadors will be offering “workshops, seminars and events”. [...]