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Reports of DSLR manufacturer’s plant re-openings in flooded Thailand industrial parks are, well, as mixed and muddy as the are the flood waters.
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Stunning photo of lightning surrounding the ash cloud of an erupting volcano in Chile.
Rare photographs taken by survivors of the sinking of the Titanic are being auctioned.
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Many of the most prominent DSLR manufacturers have had to halt production due to the tremendous flooding in Thailand. Reports of factory closings have been coming in for weeks, but the extent of the effects on DSLR availability is emerging slowly.
Understandably, companies such as Nikon Canon, Sony don’t want their publicity departments putting out press releases with negative info, but things are looking bleak in the short term for DSLR makers, their supply chains, and for us DSLR buyers and enthusiastic users.
Julius von Bismark has created a device, dubbed ‘the Image Fulgurator’, with which he, and you, can project an image onto any scene being photographed by other people, when they are using flash. You can add text and/or images onto the scene which will be recorded by their cameras. This is so potentially punk!
The Atlantic has published a page of very fine photographs of the floods in Thailand.
Thailand is experiencing major flooding, affecting Nikon and Canon factories, as well as thousands of Thai people. (See previous post about the Nikon DSLR + Lens factory closing: Nikon Halts DSLR and Lens Manufacture at Thailand Factory