Can you sell pictures that do not belong to you? Apparently so according to PBE Corporation (a remnant of the collapsed Petters Group, which owned Polaroid Corporation). Incredible!

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In answering the question of why publish a weekly print magazine when news are now instant online, the British Journal of Photography made the surprising decision to go back to a monthly print format. What will readers need in a visually rich format to be willing to plunk down money for? BJP is banking on images printed on higher quality paper and articles with more depth. Will that be enough?

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Stepan Rudik, whose series on street fighting was disqualified from the World Press Photo last week, has answered, in an exclusive interview with BJP, to critics who called his retouching extreme.

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Police officers in the UK Police Constabularies apparently do not understand English, and continue to use Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and and Section 76A of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 to prevent public photography, despite Home Office instructions to the contrary.

The British Journal of Photography is conducting a ‘Not A Crime’ campaign to raise awareness about the increasing restrictions imposed on professional photographers in the UK and overseas. For more information, visit www.not-a-crime.com.

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Sony Alpha DSLR-A550

“Even at ISO3200 and ISO6400, the Alpha 550 produces images that will look perfect in wedding albums or PR shots.”

BJP has posted their review of the Sony Alpha DSLR-A550 (and A500), with 14.2MP resolution (on a 23.4 x 15.6 mm APS CMOS Sensor), in-camera Sensor-shift Image Stabilization, Anti-Dust Technology, large tiltable 3.0-in. (921K dots) LCD, and a Quick AF Live View that uses lighting fast Phase-Detection auto focus and a Manual Focus Check Live View.

[ Read the Sony A550 Review at: BJP ]

[ Sony Alpha DSLR-A550 [QuickPrice Check] ]

Leica M9

“There is a quality and look to the images that no other camera system can produce.”

BJP has published their review of the Leica M9 [Specs], a full-frame (36 x 24mm) digital rangefinder camera with 18MP resolution, no anti-alias filter, a new thicker UV/IR filter in front of the sensor, ISO 160-2500, continuous shooting 2fps, 2.5-in. (230K dots) LCD, RAW.

[ Read the Leica M9 Review at: BJP ]

Leica M9

“As with all digital rangefinders used to date, one of the main issues is how erratically inaccurate object to camera distance measuring can be.”

BJP has published their review of the Leica M9 [Specs], a full-frame (36 x 24mm) digital rangefinder camera with 18MP resolution, no anti-alias filter, a new thicker UV/IR filter in front of the sensor, ISO 160-2500, continuous shooting 2fps, 2.5-in. (230K dots) LCD, RAW.

[ Read the Leica M9 Review at: BJP ]

Chalk it up to another episode of “No Photography here, (Please)” as two police Community Support Officers use anti-terrorism legislation to stop a Brighton-based photographer from taking images of Christmas lights.

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Leica S2

“For the pure pleasure factor, it has to be a clear 10 out of 10.”

The British Journal of Photography has published a brief hands-on preview of the Leica S2 [QuickPrice Check] by Adam Woolfitt.

[ Read the Leica S2 brief hands-on preview at: BJP ]

If you are having trouble printing accurate colors using Photoshop CS4 on the Mac, it’s because there is some kind of issue with printing accurate targets for profiling printers.

[ via BJP ]

Canon EOS 1D Mark IV

In Chinese, the number 4 rhymes with “death” and therefore considered unlucky and generally avoided. That is why you might have a hard time selling your house with one or more “4″s in the street number to a traditional Chinese family. But this superstition has, as far as I am aware of, not extended to electronic products. Canon has no problem with naming its product with the digit “4″ in it, as in “Digic 4″ and now the “EOS 1D Mark IV [Specs].” In fact, Tsunemasa Ohara, senior general manager, Photo Products Group at Canon Inc. states categorically in a BJP interview, “We don’t think 4 is unlucky.”

No, but perhaps “7″ (considered a “good” number by some cultures) is, as in the “Ghosting phenomenon” in the EOS 7D [Specs]?

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