2005 at Imaging Insider

This is a trickier decision. With the switch to digital, we have seen an increasing need for shorter focal length lenses, because of the switch to smaller sensors (apart from in some higher price Canon models.) This has meant an increasing range of short focal length zooms, both from independents and the camera manufacturers.

Some more of those very personal ‘Best of 2005′ Awards, this time for software. Perhaps 2005 hasn’t been a great year for new software, and that’s certainly something to be welcomed. There have been upgrades to existing products, some welcome but often relatively minor and perhaps aimed more at keeping up the revenue stream than […]

2005 was another year marked by the passing of a number of well-known photographers and people associated with photography from around the world, including several I greived personally.

Simpletech decided to enter the microdrives market and give the flash thumb drives some competition with its Simpledrive Mini, which at around $119 greenbacks at time of this writing is still $40 cheaper than a comparable compactflash-format Microdrive (like this one from Hitachi), and $157 greenbacks cheaper than a $276, 4 GB compactflash card from […]

They lurk in bushes, camp out in cars and hover in helicopters. Some are brazen enough to openly brandish their cameras, like old Western gunslingers.
[Editorial Note: Does anyone remember where the word “paparazzi” made its appearance? Or, what the plural of the word is?]

Here’s a collection of some of the best of the year from LA Times’ photographers.

You know the feeling: you’ve just snapped that once-in-a-lifetime moment, and you’re already thinking about how big you want to print it. It looks great on the camera’s LCD, and everyone in the room wants a copy of it. When you get home, you eagerly load it up on your PC, only to discover it’s […]

May everyone have a long and healthy life as we cross from 2005 into the year of 2006. We look forward to the tremendous potential that the new year offers.

The law of invasion of privacy is a little bit like a new computer system introduced into a workplace–some people love it, some people fear it, and few people really understand it. The public, on the whole, loves the idea that legal remedies are available for invasions of personal privacy. Working journalists often fear the […]

Your Rights When You Are Stopped or Confronted for Photography

Here’s a good place to start if you don’t understand photographic boundaries. Sections include: A primer on invasion of privacy; State-by-state guide; and Nine keys to avoiding invasion of privacy suits.

With all these cameras snapping around us, I started to wonder about the laws regarding using them. Where can you shoot? What can you shoot?
A blogger I know shot a picture in an office building. One of the tenants had boxes of medical records sitting around in an unlocked office, visible from the hall. He […]