Dispatches: Notes from the field - Supported by Canon

• Dispatches: Notes from the Field
  In March we present four timely dispatches that span the brutal to the beautiful. Both Danfung Dennis and Alex MacNaughton look at the bloody confrontations in Kenya. Derek Flood was in Pakistan for the recent elections and Lisa O'Connor hurried and waited, hurried and waited to photograph the Oscars. more>>

E-Bits

• E-Bits: Yesterday and Yesterday and Yesterday
  Crept in a Petty Pace from Day to Day
  In 2004 Editor/Publisher Dirck Halstead asked me if I wanted to write a column for The Digital Journalist he would name E-Bits, consisting mostly of what he called the "flotsam and jetsam" of the World Wide Web. more>>

Photo Journalism

• Robert Capa's Lost Negatives: An Update
  The year is 1939. Robert Capa is in Paris. All of France is under siege by the Nazi hoard. Paris is about to fall. more >>

• Tech Tips
  I was curious about the advantage, if any, of UDMA compact flash cards (such as the SanDisk Extreme IV series) versus slower non-UDMA cards on Canon cameras other than the 1Ds Mark III, the only Canon camera to support UDMA. more>>

• Common Cents: Getty: SOLD
  When I was just a pup, J. Paul Getty was a reclusive American billionaire who had made most of his money in oil. more >>

• Ethics: The High Price of Ethics
  Glen Mabie is still looking for work. more >>

• Nuts and Bolts
  Suddenly the Leica was a conspicuous consumption item. People talked about the softness of the leather covering. more >>

Commentary

• A Letter From New Orleans:
  Show Me Some ID So I Can Kill You
  Another murderer taken off the street. Another case resolved. more >>

Letter from the Publisher

• Welcome to the March 2008 issue of The Digital Journalist, the monthly online magazine for visual journalism.

Camera Corner

• Camera Corner: Nikon D3
  At long last: Nikon's first full-frame camera with a 36 X 23.9mm CMOS sensor that produces amazing quality images from ISO 200 to IS0 6400. more >>

Education

• Access: Eye Contact and Getting Close
  Getting close to a person in order to make a photo, to tell their story, is less a matter of photography and more a matter of being a human being. more >>

Announcements

• Announcing the 2008 Platypus^TM Workshops
  These workshops are acknowledged as the gold standard of Digital Video training. In 9 days, we teach high definition digital shooting and editing, with an emphasis on story telling. It is unique in the industry. more >>

• The Vietnam Photography Workshop
  This two-week tour of South Vietnam is an opportunity to explore, photograph and videotape the hidden magic of Vietnam and its people. more >>

Books

• The Photograph That Shocked America, and the Victim Who Stepped Outside the Frame
  Ted Landsmark's office is crowded with images. President of the Boston Architectural College, Landsmark, who holds a law degree as well as a doctorate in American Studies, is a student of African-American culture. more >>

Assignment Sheet

• Through a Lens Dimly:
  An Unsolicited Opinion
  It snowed, last night. This morning I left footprints in the inch or so that blanketed the driveway and my head was wreathed in steamy wisps as my breath condensed in the frigid air. more>>

• A Reporter’s Life:
  Friend or Foe
  There is a theory I have. A “human-side-of-the-news-business” theory. About the exchanges we have with the people we cover. And what, more deeply, that implies about who they are, and, ultimately, how they do their jobs. more>>