Steve Benen of Washington Monthly reports that SOPA has been shelved.
House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said early Saturday morning that Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) promised him the House will not vote on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) unless there is consensus on the bill.
This is great news.
The first trailer for Wes Anderson’s new movie. I really don’t think I need to say more than that.
Brilliant beauty secrets by Jesse Rosten. Don’t miss this one, especially if your a fashion shooter.
Miniature cameras have given filmmakers and photographers new options that not too long ago would have been a great way to lose or destroy expensive cameras. They have greatly reduced the number of “impossible” shots. These little cameras have blasted off into space, ascended gracefully on weather balloons, and I’ve personally dropped them hundreds of feet underwater on nothing more than fishing line.
My friend Greg Watermann, a rock and roll photographer who took it upon himself to do one camera music videos, just emailed me the details of the behind the scenes the new Pitbull video that he shot that we teased you with a few weeks ago. … Continue Reading
Information was leaked today about a new Canon fixed lens compact camera the G1X. Canon has been on the sidelines for the mirror-less camera revolution and it looks like they are finally going to release something that photographers might be interested in using when they don’t want to lug around a full DSLR rig. The name is a little too close to the Panasonic GX1 to be a coincidence. The marketing guys at Canon may be trying to ride the wave of consumer interest in large chip carry cameras generated by Panasonic and the Micro Four Thirds consortium that has culminated in the Panasonic GX1 which is an amazing little carry camera with interchangeable lenses. To be fair this is an often played game only it’s usually done with a little more subtlety like the Sony A77 to compete with the Canon 7D.
Canon has to be a little careful treading on their compact camera market and super strong DSLR sales but they realize that the market is changing and they don’t want to lose market share to their competitors. It’s probably not a bad time for them to step up. After all, being first to market with a new technology isn’t always the best place to be in a long game like consumer camera sales.
Here’s some of the leaked info from Wells Fargo Advisor: … Continue Reading
