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National Geographic Photography Notes

One of the things that popped up on my facebook account a few days ago was a link to Jim Richardson: Notes and Tips From the Field on National Geographic’s web site. Just click on a picture, get an article worth reading.

Very cool stop motion video of the Space Shuttle taken with Canon Digital SLRs

Wow, as always, thanks to Victor Khong for passing along another gem.

This is a fantastic video put together from over 100 hours of photographs taken with up to nine simultaneously used Canon 5D Mark II Cameras during the preparation of the Space Shuttle for Launch.

You get to see the Space Shuttle being moved into the assembly building, lifted with a crane, rotated to a vertical position and hoisted onto the rocket for launch. Fantastic.

Here is the story behind the video.

Leica S2, M9, Summilux, Blog… Whew – There’s a lot going on in Leica Land

OK, so the post on the Leica S2 really got me thinking about digital Leica goodness. I was thinking that the S2 is beautiful and big but the Leica M9 is really much more my size.

Anyway, I was looking around and I saw that a new Summilux version is available. In this article, LEICA announced the update of its Leica SUMMILUX-M 35 mm f/1.4 ASPH.

Other new Leica goodness includes their new Leica Blog. I’ll be reading.