Nikon has announced the D80, a 10.2 megapixel camera

JPG Magazine has a deal you should check out

A good read for photographers who once rolled their sleeves up and got into the thick of things in the darkroom: What's that smell?

Photograph Superman [via Melissa Lyttle]

“The most controversial tool in Photoshop that we use is the cloning tool.” – Reuters' Gary Hershorn, News Pictures Editor for North America, does some explaining about the recent debacle involving a Lebanese freelance photojournalist and Photoshop

PhotographyBLOG tips us off to an Annie Leibovitz retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum from October 20, 2006 through January 21, 2007. Gotta go! Gotta go!

Photographer Jill Greenberg is in a heap of trouble for swiping candy from kids and making them cry [all in the name of Art and a dose of reality, she says]

Jan Kabili of the unofficial photoshop weblog has an interesting post about High Dynamic Range photography and links to a recent New York Times article

Kerala, a state in Southern India [for my brothers and sisters outside of the desi scene] has decided to ban the production and sale of Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola. The decision is going to hurt the companies for sure.

The reason: Labs have found pesticide residue in the caffeinated elixirs.

“This is not the first time Coca-Cola and PepsiCo in India have faced charges of pesticide content in their soft drinks. The allegations surfaced three years ago, when the Center for Science and Environment said its tests revealed PepsiCo and Coca-Cola drinks sold in India contained pesticides that were respectively 36 and 30 times higher than European Union safety standards.”

And I thought it was the sugar content that was going to kill us!

Apple's ode to Magnum in Motion

Alien Skin has just launched Blow Up, if you are into enlarging digital images

Find Your Photos Fast

Rediff.com chats with Steven J. Sasson, the inventor of the digital camera at Kodak

Entering the photojournalism job market

Craig Newmark, of Craigslist fame, has aspirations in journalism [that should read “perspirations in journalism”]

Is Chandamama, an old-time favorite magazine of mine, going to Disney?

“Disney's move, if it succeeds, could see it controlling a publication that is deeply entrenched in the minds of the traditional Indian middle-class household.”

I wonder what the late Mr. Nagi Reddy would have thought about this potential transaction.

“As custodians of our cultural heritage, Tablaonline™ seeks to use the web to create connections between listeners, musicians, and organisations to ensure that Indian classical music continues to flourish. Tablaonline™ hopes to encourage networking, partnering and education, as well as sharing our love for our musical tradition with all corners of the world.

For now, Tablaonline™ concentrates on Indian classical rhythm – the backbone of our music. It brings an insight into the personalities through exclusive interviews, profiles, video and audio clips of the great tabla players. In the future, we aim to widen our canvas to other Indian classical instruments as well as dance and vocal.”

One word – Rockin!