Along The River: Idan Hojman

Photography Book Now Winners 2011 were announced by Blurb, and amongst the books that won awards for Travel, I liked Along The River the best. Thoughtful and very well photographed.

It's by Idan Hojman, a photographer who, with a Rolleiflex in hand, flowed along the Ganges over three years, "discovering the story of the holy river from its source, in the Himalayas, to its nearby death, in a small fisherman village."

Short post as I'm on holidays!

Miehina the Kyoto Geisha

This is an extremely well made short documentary of a day in the life of a Geisha in Kyoto. It's by Glen Milner, a London based documentary and commercial director, who produced a number of U.K / U.S broadcast films. His work includes ongoing Video-Journalism for Telegraph.co.uk and camera work on feature films.

(I'm technically on holidays, so I'll upload just quick and short posts for a few days)

New! FujiFilm x10

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The rumors were accurate...Fujifilm announced its new compact digital camera. The X10 features a 2/3″ 12 megapixel EXR-CMOS sensor and a high-definition F2.0 wide-angle and F2.8 telephoto Fujinon 4x manual zoom lens (28-112mm)*1, and it follows the footsteps of the Fujifilm FinePix X100 released a few months ago.

As I sort of predicted (well, more like wishful thinking) a few days ago, I am more convinced now that Leica will come up with a Micro Four Thirds camera, and will announce it during Photokina 2011 in September. This type of compact sized cameras (whether Micro Four Thirds or otherwise) are the future...perhaps not for professionals (unless they're used for back-up or for specific gigs), but certainly for the rest of the photography consumers.

The new FujiFilm x10 is gorgeous...but we don't buy our tools for looks...do we?

For more on FujiFilm x10 and some commentary, drop by Steve Huff's blog.

Lock Circle Camera Caps

I thought this product would appeal to those who simply obsess over well crafted (and expensive) camera appendages. The LockCircle was designed with a minute eye for details, and as the video above demonstrates, it may well be indestructible.

The question is, of course, whether photographers and DSLR videographers will spend $79 on such a luxury item, when body caps come for free or are available for a few bucks. I seldom use body caps unless my cameras are in storage, but others may.

Now, if Lock Circle would manufacture a titanium model specifically for the Leica M9-P, and charge an arm and a leg for it, I bet it would sell like hot cakes. Currently, it's only available for Canon and Nikon.