Posted on 10 April 2008 by mcinnes
Article From Boing, Boing,
Edie sez, “I’m in the market for a digital SLR, and found something rather disturbing. B&H Photo says that to purchase a Fujifilm IS-1 camera, you must fill out an end user license agreement. Even weirder is the EULA itself: It asks what ‘legitimate business purpose’ (their words, not mine) the camera will be put to. Additionally, if the camera is sold, lost or transfered, you have to notify Fujifilm. WTF BBQ?”
Posted on 13 April 2008
Labour MP Austin Mitchell is planning to take a delegation of photographers to the Home Office to protest about the growing number of cases in which police officers and others try to stop professional and amateur photographers taking pictures in public places. Continue Reading
Posted on 10 April 2008
As Polaroid discontinues its line of instant films, some photo pros stay analog in a digital world. Continue Reading
Posted on 10 April 2008
You have all of 25 minutes to shoot Admiral William J. "Fox" Fallon for an Esquire Magazine feature story. They need a portrait that conveys intensity, but you will be shooting in a typical office setting. Continue Reading
Posted on 10 April 2008
B&H Photo says that to purchase a Fujifilm IS-1 camera, you must fill out an end user license agreement. Even weirder is the EULA itself: It asks what 'legitimate business purpose' . Continue Reading
Posted on 10 April 2008
MANY people look to fashion advertisements as eagerly as they do the layouts, and a perusal of the spring issues finds chalk-striped vamps at Dior, discoing Amazons at D&G, hipsters at Burberry and cloud-borne nymphs at Lanvin. Continue Reading
April 10th, 2008 at 11:16 am
That camera is for forensic work, primarily for police use, which I understand is why it’s restrictive. Though what someone with criminal or malicious intent could achieve with it I have no idea.