Megapixel Madness! Is 12 Enough?
by Fred Bonilla
While the PMA show in Vegas yielded some nice gear goodies, as Photoinduced highlighted last month, It seems that the biggest news made there was a seemingly innocuous statement made by Olympus’ Akira Watanabe, their head of SLR planning.

Mr. Watanabe
In gearing up for the future of their [...]

Those guys in black are doing it one more time, with gear for those of us that may shoot on location. Or out of the studio. Or anywhere you can set up your computer.
This is the Pixel SunScreen V2. Folding light and flat as a round reflector, this pop up workspace has been designed just [...]

While cruising around the trade show floor at SXSW last week, we came upon one of the coolest tools we’ve seen in awhile.
We all have to carry around a flash drive, whether we need to transfer files from one computer to another, or perhaps carry around a presentation in your pocket. (Don’t go there, please.)
There [...]

We are very happy that the Annenberg Foundation loves photography. A lot.
They have created this unique new space in Los Angeles, the Annnenberg Space for Photography, that has gone way beyond a simple exhibition building.
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Of course what they have done with 10,000 sq is amazing. What could have become a simple box, [...]

[photopress:kq455aa_300.jpg.jpeg,full,alignright]Springtime is here and it’s time to clean-up, clear out, and make room for the new.
Isn’t it?
All of those photographs you have locked away somewhere on your computer, maybe hidden in unknown folders with cryptic DSC-100 type codes.
Yeah, we all have them.
OK, take a deep breath, and get ready to fix that.
This week [...]

At every major event you can see them laden down with the bags of gear, strobe frames, wrists and necks full of badges, laminates, and passes. Even the cameras had their own tags
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When you are watching music, they get the 1st row access (at least for 3 songs), at the conferences, they are sitting down [...]

Austin is now seeing the changing of the guard:
The Interactive portion of SXSW has ended,
[photopress:_SXS1987.jpg,full,centered] Hooking up in the Blogger Lounge
[photopress:_SXS1971.jpg,full,centered] Chris Anderson, writer of the Long Tail
the film continues,
[photopress:_SXS1754.jpg,full,centered] Robert Rodriguez filled the room with indie filmmakers
[photopress:_SXS1820.jpg,full,centered] Rose McGowan with happy fan
As in all film festivals, though, the premieres, sneaks, panels, parties and celebs,
have [...]

The visual media has been fully ramped during SXSW this week.
We have seen more image capturing devices in one place in ever before.
But where do all the images go?
Shared with friends on a social networking platform, emailed, print pubs, or maybe just on a site like this.
This is becoming the norm.
Every photographer carries the [...]

Seriously, we have seen more folks twittering, shooting stills, rocking Flip Mino’s, emailing, texting, and yep, good old fashioned pen to paper, getting the word out about the events at SXSW.
And we’ll admit that, although we have been tweeting, the posts have been slower.
The days have been starting at 10 AM and downloading pix at [...]

Last week in Las Vegas, FS Distribution was showing plastic cameras amidst all of the latest technological photographic products.
Stuck out in the crowd like crazy. Good crazy.
We were drawn to it like a moth to a flame.
C’mon who out here hasn’t used a Holga?
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Really? You, over there? Dang! Well, there will [...]

Nope, its not that new super-fast 1.2 lens you’ve been hankering for.
Nor the newest 31.0 megapixel DSLR, making it’s way down the pipe.
Heck, it’s not even that sweet lighting set-up that folds into a backpack, and creates a full-up fashion studio on location.
This is for your protection. And sharing. And family harmony.
It’s what we’ve been [...]

Not just any travel pack!
The official photoinduced.com travel pack including a Lowepro 20 AW camera pouch, official photoinduced.com lens cloth, one classic Moleskine ruled reporter notebook, a Cross Ion Metal pen (about 3.5 inches long) with 6 colored inks, and a Giottos mini tripod.
Just about all can fit in the pouch. The tripod may [...]

Our friends at Delkin were winning awards and showing off some pretty cool goods at PMA this time around.
The ImageRouter lets you upload 4 cards per unit at one time (they can be daisy-chained we heard), and has special software for the PC folks, allowing you to back-up, burn and file your images as [...]

While we trooped the floors of a slightly smaller PMA last week, there were a ton of products to still check out and we’ll be giving you a look at some of what we felt was the best of the bunch.
Coincidentally, David Honl, photographer & inventor, was on our flight to Vegas and we had [...]

Our time in Vegas came to a close today. We left with some tired feet, but with a TON of video of new products you should know about. Plus some real-world reviews are on their way, in the coming weeks.
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There was an added event, which is where this photo was taken. More later in this [...]

OK, it’s the first official day of the PMA photography event, complete with 2 floors of booths, displays, teaching seminars, and schmoozing. Yesterday was all of the sneak previews.
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There we some meetings we had showing coming products that we can’t say a word about yet, some with products that are just about to hit [...]

Hanging in Las Vegas for a few days, checking out what new equipment may be coming down the line for us.
PMA or Photographic Marketing Association’s yearly convention is taking place at the LV Convention center, bringing out most of the major manufacturers to debut new products and show some prototypes for the pro/retail and consume [...]

If you read here now and again, you’ll know that we have a strong love for photographic projects that gives us an insight into the human condition.
Sometimes it’s on a comparative basis between cultures, sometimes it’s a common footprint, and sometimes it’s just a matter of seeing what is there.
From Family of Man, to [...]