Three years ago, the artist Clifford Ross unveiled the R1, a still camera of his own design and construction—a Rube Goldber assemblage of cadged and commissioned parts. Although it used film, it captured far more detail than any other camera, digital or not the resolution was five hundred times as high as that of your run-of-the-mill digital point-and-click. In Ross’s giant landscapes, you ca make out the woodgrains on barn shingles thousands of feet away, and see mountain trails seven miles off. The pictures seem to b made not of pixels but of vision itself
The subsequent curiosity and admiration of scientists turned Ross, who had previously made abstract paintings and photographs of ocean waves, into a congregator of technical minds—a high-res den leader—and before long he began conceiving a successor to the R1, which would draw on the expertise of his new genius friends, and, of course, enable him to make art.
Behold the R2…
Bad-Ass Camera, The New Yorker
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The Make blog has a post about a new 3D live motion video camera in development. Not exactly photography, but the demo video (clip seen here) is pretty stunning!
Link & full image.
(Via MAKE)
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Wanting to catch up on some back issues of JPG magazine (brainchild of Heather Powazek Champ and Derek Powazek )? Now’s your chance - the JPG summer sale is going on now and every issue is just $15.99.
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I wrote about these say-it magnets, but still haven’t found a place to buy them. Here’s a link to a simple tutuorial I did to go the DIY route and make ‘em yourself.
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Magnetic Photo Rope Hits the Streets!
We just got a really nice email from Wendi Simmons, one of the first to get her Magnetic Photo Rope!
Hey, my super cool magnetic photo rope arrived today. It is as great as I had hoped it would be. Thanks also for the lollipop and the extra two magnets. You guys are the best. Have a great day.
Love
Wendi
www.flickr.com/photos/dwsnim
Thanks for making our day, Wendi! 
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