{"id":12651,"date":"2008-02-08T08:45:31","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T08:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/02\/friday-photography-old-hollywood-new-cams.html"},"modified":"2008-02-08T08:45:31","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T08:45:31","slug":"friday_photography_old_hollywood_new_cams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/08\/friday_photography_old_hollywood_new_cams\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday photography: Old Hollywood &#038; New Cams"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Norman Jean Roy, Mark Seliger, and other photographers <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/ohnotheydidnt\/20148385.html\">reinterpret famous Hitchcock scenes using current actors<\/a> in this month&#8217;s <em>Vanity Fair<\/em>. (Here, at least, Ren\u00e9e Zellweger is on her way to looking like <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?hl=en&amp;q=henry+gibson&amp;btnG=Search+Images&amp;gbv=2\">Henry Gibson<\/a>.) [<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CoudalFreshSignals\/~3\/231209670\/vanity_fair_re-.php\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Speaking of Hollywood, Alison Jackson creates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbfala.com\/Jackson\/Jackson_Confidential.html\">fake paparazzi shots<\/a> (not 100% work-safe, FYI). [<a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.macromedia.com\/jd\/\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>CNET&#8217;s Stephen Shankland hosts an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/8301-13580_3-9865553-39.html?part=rss&amp;tag=feed&amp;subj=Underexposed\">interview with Canon&#8217;s Chuck Westfall<\/a>, talking about various camera tech developments&#8211;sensor dimensions, OLED displays, geotagging, and more.<\/li>\n<li>YouTube hosts a video demonstrating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X7_wL0ZZi6k\">how camera lenses are made<\/a>.&#160; Not shown: my wallet imploding. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/08\/01\/14917.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>On the big-glass front, Sigma has trotted out <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.engadget.com\/~r\/weblogsinc\/engadget\/~3\/227130379\/\">this $25,000 badboy<\/a>, and yet that&#8217;s got nothing on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/c\/find\/newsLetter\/Mother-of-All-L-Lenses.jsp\">this Canon 1200mm cannon<\/a>&#8211;selling for a cool $99,000, <em>used<\/em>.&#160; Not satisfied yet?&#160; How about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonfd.com\/mirrorlenses\/pages\/page10.html\">5200mm Canon<\/a>, good for photographing stuff 32 miles away? Even more examples are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/08\/02\/14991.html\">here<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>At the other end of the spectrum, 20 bucks gets you a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usbfever.com\/index_eproduct_view.php?products_id=596\">6x iPhone camera zoom<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/131910\/2008\/02\/telescope.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Toronto Star photographer Lucas Oleniuk <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.thestar.com\/cgi-bin\/star_static.cgi?section=plus&amp;page=\/Videos\/080117_air_sick.html\">illustrates the issue of global warming<\/a> in a video created entirely by using still images.&#160; The Thoreau quotation is chilling and well chosen. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robgalbraith.com\/bins\/content_page.asp?cid=7-9206-9239\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/if_mc_escher_had_a_camera_8774.asp\">If M.C. Escher had a camera<\/a>, you might see something like this cool effect. \n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norman Jean Roy, Mark Seliger, and other photographers reinterpret famous Hitchcock scenes using current actors in this month&#8217;s Vanity Fair. (Here, at least, Ren\u00e9e Zellweger is on her way to looking like Henry Gibson.) [Via] Speaking of Hollywood, Alison Jackson creates fake paparazzi shots (not 100% work-safe, FYI). [Via] CNET&#8217;s Stephen Shankland hosts an interesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}