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• First off - new Pentax rebates! woohoo. Time to buy some gear!

• Speaking of gear, Epson just relased their sucessor to the popular R2400 printer, the R2880. I personally use the 2200 for medium prints (8″x10″ to 13″x19″) and it’s a fantastic printer. I can only image the 2880 is even better! Scott kelby has a nice article on it HERE.

• The Inimitable Chase Jarvis has a thought provoking article on the creative process and originality of ideas called “Doing Stuff First. Or Not”
  

• Rob Haggart, AKA “A Photo Editor” has a really nice interview with Charis Wilson (Edward Weston’s wife)

• Finally, on the business end of things, dPS (digital photography school) talks about branding your photography business. Worth a read.

Buncha links this week…

First on the “photographer’s rights” front we have some good news.

• Thomas Hawk reports that a Galveston Jury clears photographer who refused to stop photographing an arrest. score one for the good guys.
• and some not-so-good news

on a related note this is an oldie, but a goodie:

• The Photographers Right - a flyer explaining your rights when stopped or confronted for photography

Moving on to the business world, David Ziser of digitalprotalk has a nice article:

• 20 pointers for running your business out of your home - what you need to know.

And PDNonline has an some interesting numbers on the business of wedding photography:

• PDN’s 2008 Wedding Photographer Survey Results

Finally for some technical stuff:

• Nikon files a patent for a in-viewfinder digital display
• Ken Rockwell explains MTF charts
• TinEye service finds your photos on the web (cool!)

A few nice links on the more technical side of things

• David Tejada has done a great post on making a very professional looking beauty dish out of hardware store parts (for a speedlight/strobe). Awesome - I may just have to give it a shot myself
• http://davidtejada.blogspot.com/2008/04/beauty-dish-for-sb-800.html
• a *huge* pack of photoshop actions over at reynespho.com. I’ve only checked out a few, but they seem good!
• http://www.reynsphoto.com/articles/Post_Processing/extra/70_Photoshop_Actions_app.php#
• and finally: 44 random photo tips. definitely some useful stuff here:
• http://www.photoprotips.com/20080421/44-random-photo-tips/

that’s it for now! more to come soon.

So I think that instead of posting various links of photo related tidbits when they catch my eye, I’m going to start doing the ol’ blogging standard of having a weekly “link roundup”

Wednesday seems like as good a day as any to do it, so here are a few cool things I’ve come across recently

Wired has a nice dSLR roundup featuring the k20d, which fared well. I want one

• http://www.wired.com/gadgets/gadgetreviews/news/2008/03/gadgetreviews_prosumerDSLRs

The RadioPopper P1s are finally shipping, and they seem to be a huge hit. Some early testing experiences here:

• http://www.flashflavor.com/2008/03/18/276/radiopopper.html

On the subject of wireless flash triggering, here is a cool write up by Scott Kelby on the Elinchrom Skyports (so cool if you have elinchrom studio lights!)

• http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/2008/archives/1192

Random coolness: the combustion of a BMW engine cylinder filmed at 10,000FPS (actually filmed, *not* CGI). even cooler is how they did it.

• http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/video-cgi-be-damned-inside-the-bmw-m3s-v8/