Leona by Dimitri Photo (profile)

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Canon have today announced the 30d, an update of the 20d.

You can read a detailed preview at dpreview.

It's not as big a jump over the 20d as many people seemed to be expecting, the imaging technology, is unchanged for example. The price looks good, about $1300, and street prices should be lower. It looks like Canon have held off on major improvements over the 20d so the 30d can compete with the Nikon d70s, which make me wonder if there's not a new cropped DSLR coming in below the $2000 mark to compete with the d200. Canon have always been really smart with marketing.

New features of the 30d include:

• Large 2.5" LCD (this seems to be the standard size now)
• More frames in burst mode
• ISO setting in the viewfinder
• 3.5% spot metering

There are also new lenses announced, an 85L mkII (perhaps with improved AF) and a non-L 17-55 EF-S f2.8 USM IS.

TV Rots Your Brain by Delineated (profile)

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Unfenced by 3am From Kyoto (profile)

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A New York court ruled this week that a photographer who took pictures of subjects on the street without their knowledge and then made hundreds of thousands of dollars selling those images did not have to get the permission of his subjects because the intention of the work was art, not commerce. The ruling reaffirms that people in public spaces cannot assume any privacy privilege, even if, as in this case, the subject was an orthodox jew, who regard portraits as graven images and disgraces the man in his community.

I know this is good news for a lot of street photographers out there who include people in their images, such as Travis Ruse (who brought this to our attention), but I can't help feeling that there's something intrinsically wrong about being able to 'abuse' someone's image in a case like this where, because of the subject's beliefs, the use of the image was a particularly strong violation. It was deemed by the court that profit was not the aim of the photographers work, and so there was no unauthorised commercial use, but nothing else was taken into consideration.

I agree with the idea that people are 'fair game' when they're in public, but at the same time I think there is an onus on the photographer to create their own boundaries. There is already enough suspicion and aggression towards street photographers in these times, a high profile case that says we can take your photo and get rich exploiting it isn't going to help.

Story link.

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Two Feet of Winter White by Rion.nu (profile)

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