The Russian Photos Blog has an excellent writeup covering a full-out firestorm between iStockPhoto and it’s contributors. Apparently the agency is claiming that it’s fundamental business model is unsustainable and needs to decrease payments to contributors. Meanwhile, traditional stock agency photographers are gloating a bit and a few I-told-you-so’s are being thrown in as well.  iStockPhoto competitors are happily taking advantage of the situation as well.

via A Photo Editor

According to ‘Brodcast’ in the UK:

“Sony is to introduce an ‘affordable 35mm camera’ as it looks to move in on the market currently dominated by Red Digital Cinema’s Red One. … Details were thin on the ground but Sony did reveal that once completed the new shooter will offer a shallow depth of field, PL mount and cost less than the Arri Alexa.”

Sony’s always been a little scattershot IMO, but they might stumble into something big, here.

The fine folks over at DSLR News Shooter had a chance to check out Teradek’s new “Cube”, a wireless transmitter/receiver system that works over wifi and sends HD video from an HDMI port on your favorite HD video camera to a computer.  Honestly, I wasn’t terribly impressed with the videos on the DSLR News Shooter site, but was rather impressed by the demo videos on Teradek’s website.

Electronista is reporting on Red shipping their new Mysterium X sensor in the Red One body to the public, and can be had after a deposit is made and a week or so’s wait.

Photography Blog is reporting on a new HD digital video camera by Panasonic that uses a micro four-thirds sensor and has interchangeable lenses.  It also uses up to two high-capacity SDXC memory cards for up to 12 hours of 24mbps video.  Cost is supposed to be around €4,900.  The unit will be demoed at IBC, and available in December.  Apparently, it was also shown off at NAB in April, and I missed it.

*Updated Sep 13 @ 9:16 – Originally credited to Electronista.  Sorry Photography Blog!

Petapixel points us to an interesting camera prototype Canon is showing off at it’s Expo currently.  This seems much more fleshed out than the concept camera we saw at world expo, but my biggest question about it is what sort of compression would it have on the raw video footage?

Photoshelter has an excellent article authored by photo attorney Carolyn E. Wright, Esq.  While we’ve seen advice like this before, Ms. Wright is especially succinct in both her explanation of how to protect your work, but the advantages of doing so through legal channels.

Since Canon is having it’s huge once-every-five-years EXPO, they’ve got a lot to announce, including this awesome 8″x8″ CMOS sensor.  Can you imagine shooting a feature film with this, or replacing the film back of your 8×8 View Camera with this beast? Don’t plan on seeing this actually incorporated into a product any time soon, but this represents some serious R&D on canon’s behalf.

DPReview is reporting on a new cinema-style lens for use on the modern crop of HDDSLR cameras from Canon and Nikon:

Carl Zeiss has introduced the Distagon T* 1,4/35 wide-angle lens in Canon EF (ZE) and Nikon F (ZF.2) mounts. This manual focus lens, with its large f/1.4 aperture, is made up of 11 elements in 9 groups. With an equivalent focal length of 50mm on APS-C cameras, it can be used on both digital and analog SLRs. Priced at €1385.71, the lens will be available in the first quarter of 2011.

TechDigest brings us an interesting theory on why this summers boxoffice sales were lackluster:

This summer saw US cinema attendance figures hit their lowest point in 5 years. Hollywood.com estimates that 552 million people hit theatres across the States, compared to the previous lowest point of 563.2 million back in 2005. What’s thought to be to blame? 3D movies.

Of course, there’s another school of thought that says crappy movies being released are responsible for decreased ticket sales.  Go figure.