Phase One just announced the P65+. It is a full frame, 60 megapixel 645 medium format back. Luminous Landscape has a preview of the new back.

It shoots the 60mp image at a speedy 1 frame per second, not a sports camera. It also has varible resolution. So you can take a 30mp frame at 2fps.
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Frederick Van from Adobe has a interview with the interface designer for Lightroom, Phil Clevenger.
See the full post here.
Phil Clevenger – Lightroom Interface Designer from Frederick Johnson on Vimeo.

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Take a look at this post about 10 Light Graffiti Artists. These guys paint with light using long exposures in images or video. I have seen some before in the Sprint commercial a while back, but these guys are really talented.

It seems like something that would be fun to try, but take a lot of [...]

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Photograview has a interview with one of the biggest photographers on Flickr, Thomas Hawk. He has over 14,000 images on Flickr and is trying to publish over a million. It is a interesting interview. He talks about some of his equipment.
Currently I own two digital camera bodies, a Canon EOS 5D and a Canon [...]

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Max Simbron from pshizzy.com has a post about how to setup a camera to be triggered remotely. He is using a couple Pocket Wizards and a pre-trigger cable to fire the remote camera when he fires the main. He also uses liveview to setup the shot and focus location before he gets started. It seems [...]

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Here are some images I shot at the fireworks display tonight in Swainsboro Ga.
I shot these with the 40D on a tripod. I put the camera in manual and set the it from f8 to f16. I had the shutter speed set in bulb mode. I was using a shutter release and mirror up mode. [...]

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The manager of infrastructure engineering at Facebook, Jason Sobel gave a lecture at Stanford about how Facebook stores all there images. They have around 6.5 billion images, in 4 or 5 sizes each, totaling ~30 billion files, and a total of 540 TB and serving 475,000 images per second at peak.
The presentation is here.

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Matt Kloskowski is the guest blogger over at Scott Kelby’s Photoshop Insider today. He has a post about what he would change with some of the photoshop dialogs and pallettes.Most of his ideas are great and really need to be adopted.
Check out the post here.
I really like the idea for a Camera Raw Palette.
This one [...]

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