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		<title>Adobe Releases RED EPIC importer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you using Adobe Premier, After Effects, and Media Encoder (Version CS5.5), Adobe has a new importer that supports the higher resolution and HDR capabilities of the new EPIC system.  Download the update here. via 2-pop]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2011/05/19/adobe-releases-red-epic-importer.html</link>
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		<title>Review of Nikon&#8217;s New 35mm f/1.4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The British Journal of Photography has a great review of the new Nikon AF-S Nikkor 35mm f/1.4G Lens.  It&#8217;s the first Nikon 35mm f/1.4 lens to offer autofocus, and is quite respectable, though it has a few shortcomings, like slight axial distortion and some vignetting.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2011/05/19/review-of-nikons-new-35mm-f1-4.html</link>
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		<title>New USB 3.0 Dual-Card Reader from Lexar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lexar has released an update to its Dual-card USB 2.0 reader, using USB 3.0 for higher throughput.  In my experience, people that shoot video on their DSLRs are the ones who most benefit from higher throughput on card readers, so if you fall into that camp (and don&#8217;t already have the firewire CF reader, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2011/05/19/new-usb-3-0-dual-card-reader-from-lexar.html</link>
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		<title>Adobe Lightroom 3.4 and Camera Raw 6.4 has a Data-Corrupting Bug in JPEG</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rob Galbraith is pointing out an issue announced on the Lightroom Journal; a bug in the way Lightroom 3.4 and Camera Raw 6.4 handle JPEGs with unusually large blocks of private camera data, that will corrupt the JPEG.  The only camera currently identified as building a JPEG that can trigger the bug is the HP [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2011/05/19/adobe-lightroom-3-4-and-camera-raw-6-4-has-a-data-corrupting-bug-in-jpeg.html</link>
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		<title>Color Photography Turns 150</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The fine folks over at PetaPixel are reminding us that today marks the 150the anniversary of the first color photograph, taken by Scottish physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell and photographer Thomas Sutton — inventor of the SLR camera. Their first color photograph was of a colored ribbon. Updated May 18, 2011 @ 8:41 AM &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2011/05/17/color-photography-turns-150.html</link>
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		<title>Cinedeck Extreme Makes Direct-to-Edit Easy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hadn&#8217;t yet heard of the Cinedeck EXTREME, but it looks to be a fairly cool and useful tool.  There&#8217;s a press release over at Broadcast Newsroom which talks about a documentary shot by Evolve IMG Films in which the Cinedeck was used.  The Cinedeck is an external recording device that has a 7&#8243; &#8220;high [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2011/05/17/cinedeck-extreme-makes-direct-to-edit-easy.html</link>
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		<title>What Does a Standard Kit Look Like If You Rent From Hurlbut Visuals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t know Hurlbut had a rental division.  However, in a blog post by Kevin Anderson, Hurlbut&#8217;s Rental Manager, talks about some of the Chaos his gear goes through and what their &#8220;Movie Maker&#8221; HDSLR kit loos like, including a 5D, a 7D, a full set of Leica glass, mattebox, tripod, batteries, EVF&#8230; this list [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2011/05/14/what-does-a-standard-kit-look-like-if-you-rent-from-hurlbut-visuals.html</link>
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		<title>Will Photography Make you Wealthy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PetaPixel is pointing us at an interesting article by photographer Lawrence Kim called &#8220;Photography and the American Dream&#8221;, were he takes a look at the economics of being a pro photographer, and sees it as the worst possible career choice if your goal is primarily to build wealth.  It worth a read.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2011/05/14/will-photography-make-you-wealthy.html</link>
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		<title>And, we&#8217;re back!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was taking broadcasting classes, my instructors actually disdained the use of the terms &#8220;We&#8217;ll be right back&#8221;, &#8220;We&#8217;ll be back after this&#8221;, or &#8220;And, were back&#8221;.  They rightly reasoned that since you weren&#8217;t actually going anywhere, it was grammatically incorrect to use such terms when pausing for &#8220;sponsored messages&#8221; (such a nice term [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2011/05/14/and-were-back.html</link>
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		<title>Time Code for your HDSLR</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vincent Laforet has gotten very excited about a little gadget from Freelance Audiovisual Services call the Lockit Buddy.  Essentially, it plugs into your camera&#8217;s mic input jack, and writes Timecode information to the right channel, and your reference audio to the left.  It handles all the impedance and level conversions for you.  The embedded timecode [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2011/01/31/time-code-for-your-hdslr.html</link>
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		<title>Nikon D7000 Teardown Reveals Sony Sensor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chipworks is a company that famously tears apart higher-end consumer goods to have a peek a what makes them tick.  Their Teardown of the Nikon D7000 revealed a Sony Image sensor, a Toshiba processor (well, microcontroller), 1 GB of onboard RAM, and of course the Nikon EXPEED image processor.  For those of you wondering why [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2011/01/26/nikon-d7000-teardown-reveals-sony-sensor.html</link>
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		<title>Inflatable Studio for Easy-to-Setup Controllable Environments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw brief mention of this thing quite some time ago, but apparently now it&#8217;s been rolled into a real product line.  It&#8217;s an inflatable studio-on-the-go.  As little as 40&#8243;x15&#8243; when folded up, it blows up in to a room that&#8217;s 20 feet long by 15 feet wide and 13 feet tall.  Air is supplied [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2011/01/24/inflatable-studio-for-easy-to-setup-controllable-environments.html</link>
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		<title>Phase One Announces New 80 Megapixel Medium Format Back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Phase One has made some waves lately, making bold steps to become a major force in the world of medium format photography.  Today that trend continues as they announce a new 80 Megapixel back, due out in April.  The new back has a dynamic range of 12.5 f-stops, and has a 16 bit color depth. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2011/01/24/phase-one-announces-new-80-megapixel-medium-format-back.html</link>
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		<title>And the Award for Most Awesome Steadicam Operator Goes To&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Guy.  Seriously. In a shot that looks like it was done with helicopters and/or ziplines or quite possibly done entirely with CG, we get to see the behind the scenes where the Steadicam operator goes full speed on a Segway (with his First AC running beside him, pulling focus the whole way) to ditching [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2011/01/21/and-the-award-for-most-awesome-steadicam-operator-goes-to.html</link>
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		<title>Documenting the Dying Art of the Photographic Darkroom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The UK&#8217;s &#8220;Guardian&#8221; newspaper has a cool little video about one guy&#8217;s quest to document photographic darkrooms.  He sees them as giving way to newer technology, and wants to see them given some attention before they&#8217;re gone.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2011/01/20/documenting-the-dying-art-of-the-photographic-darkroom.html</link>
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		<title>A Look at the Rapatronic Shutter Used to Photograph The Atom Bomb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After World War II, The United States Atomic Energy Commission contracted with defense contractor Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier to photograph atomic bombs as they exploded. EG&#38;G built a camera with a shutter that had no moving parts called a Rapatronic Camera.  The shutter was actuated using a magnetic field and was based on the Kerr [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2011/01/20/a-look-at-the-rapatronic-shutter-used-to-photograph-the-atom-bomb.html</link>
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		<title>Break Out the Silver Nitrate and the 8&#215;10 View Camera, It&#8217;s Time to Shoot Ambrotypes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PetaPixel has an awesome link to a YouTube video showing photographer Harry Taylor going the process of shooting an Ambrotype. An Ambrotype is like a tintype, but uses glass as the substrate.  Watch Harry take a clean sheet of glass, make it light-sensitive, put it into a century-old view camera, take an 8 second exposure, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2011/01/19/break-out-the-silver-nitrate-and-the-8x10-view-camera-its-time-to-shoot-ambrotypes.html</link>
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		<title>Film School Rejects Say That a Movie Shot On iPhone Looks Like It Was Shot On an iPhone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a lot of hype about a popular South Korean director Park Chan-wook shooting a movie entirely on an iPhone 4.  Film School Rejects took a look at the teaser and were, frankly, unimpressed.  I have to say that I agree, it&#8217;s sort of anticlimactic.  Repeat after me, kids:  Just because you can do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2011/01/18/film-school-rejects-say-that-a-movie-shot-on-iphone-looks-like-it-was-shot-on-an-iphone.html</link>
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		<title>Free DaVinci Resolve Workshops at the Final Cut Pro User Group&#8217;s SuperMeet in San Francisco</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blackmagic Design will be hosting a series of free workshops to attendees of the Final Cut Pro User Group&#8217;s annual SuperMeet in San Francisco on January  28th, 2011.  Here&#8217;s your chance to learn DaVinci Resolve for Mac, and bolster your knowledge of color grading for motion pictures.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2011/01/18/free-davinci-resolve-workshops-at-the-final-cut-pro-user-groups-supermeet-in-san-francisco.html</link>
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		<title>Pocket Wizard MiniTT1 and FlexTT5 for Nikon On the Way to US Dealers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rob Galbraith is reporting that shipments of the much-waited-upon radio triggers for Nikon from Pocket Wizard are on the way to US Dealers, beginning today.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2011/01/18/pocket-wizard-minitt1-and-flextt5-for-nikon-on-the-way-to-us-dealers.html</link>
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		<title>Sony Introduces New Camera-Top 5-Inch LCD Screen for HDSLR Shooting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sony has introduced the CLM-V55 5&#8243; LCD screen which has a hot-shoe mount for use with HDSLRs. It has an HDMI input so that it will connect to most HDSLRs, and controls to accept various aspect ratios, as you&#8217;d expect.  No price yet.  I expect these are intended to be the perfect match for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2011/01/14/sony-introduces-new-camera-top-5-inch-lcd-screen-for-hdslr-shooting.html</link>
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		<title>Zacuto Introduces the &#8220;Z-Cage&#8221; DSLR Support Cage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zacuto has introduced the &#8220;Z-Cage&#8221;, which sort of appears to be the Swiss Army knife of DSLR mounts, that will allow you to attach and position virtually everything you might need for a run-and-gun shoot. It&#8217;s certainly a bit of a departure from the traditional rails mounts, which may be both a good and bad [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2011/01/14/zacuto-introduces-the-z-cage-dslr-support-cage.html</link>
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		<title>Polaroid and Chase Jarvis Announce Collaboration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At CES, Polaroid and Chase Jarvis announced a collaboration in which Jarvis will create and curate artistic content, presumably using Polaroid&#8217;s just-announced &#8220;grey label&#8221; product line, which includes an instant mobile printer, digital camera and camera glasses.  Jarvis will also be advising Polaroid on &#8220;product endeavors&#8221;. Personally, I would have been much more excited if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2011/01/13/polaroid-and-chase-jarvis-announce-collaboration.html</link>
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		<title>A Chat With One of Digital Photography&#8217;s Pioneers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all been hearing a lot about the demise of Kodachrome lately.   One New York reporter began thinking about how it&#8217;s likely that digital photography helped bring about the end of the line for Kodachrome (and other film stocks, really), and decided to try and find someone that helped usher in the era we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2011/01/12/a-chat-with-one-of-digital-photographys-pioneers.html</link>
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		<title>Behind the Scenes With the MGM Logo Lion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our friends over at PetaPixel have an awesome still of the setup used while capturing Leo the Lion for the famous MGM logo.  Personally, I would have loved to have been that close to the Lion, though still a bit nervous.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2011/01/11/behind-the-scenes-with-the-mgm-logo-lion.html</link>
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		<title>New Service Offers Professional Critiques to Amateur Photographers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new online service called  GuruShots allows you to inexpensively hire a professional to critique your photos.  Simply sign up, upload the photos you&#8217;d like critiqued, choose which professional photographer you&#8217;d like to hire to critique your work, and fill in a few details about the photos you&#8217;re submitting. Your first critique is free, each additional [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2011/01/11/new-service-offers-professional-critiques-to-amateur-photographers.html</link>
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		<title>Scott Bourne Talks About His Backup Strategy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today professional photographer Scott Bourne posted an article about the nitty gritty of his backup solution, and also mentions why he&#8217;s stepped away from using the often-vaunted products from Drobo.  One of the best things about this particular write up is that it presents an easy solution for a photographer that doesnt have enterprise-class server [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2011/01/10/scott-bourne-talks-about-his-backup-strategy.html</link>
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		<title>Oh, My, Look at the Time!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Life, at times, tends to run away from you in much the same way a playful puppy does&#8230;  just when you think you&#8217;ve got your hands around it, off it darts with surprising speed in another direction.  And so PhotoTimes has languished a bit these last several months as I&#8217;ve been trying to get ahold [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2011/01/10/oh-my-look-at-the-time.html</link>
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		<title>Is Microstock Unsustainable?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Russian Photos Blog has an excellent writeup covering a full-out firestorm between iStockPhoto and it&#8217;s contributors. Apparently the agency is claiming that it&#8217;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&#8217;s are being thrown in as well. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2010/09/14/is-microstock-unsustainable.html</link>
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		<title>Sony Working on a &#8216;Red Killer&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to &#8216;Brodcast&#8217; in the UK: &#8220;Sony is to introduce an &#8216;affordable 35mm camera&#8217; as it looks to move in on the market currently dominated by Red Digital Cinema’s Red One. &#8230; Details were thin on the ground but Sony did reveal that once completed the new shooter will offer a shallow depth of field, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.phototimes.net/2010/09/14/sony-working-on-a-red-killer.html</link>
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