The Digital Journalist June 2007 Issue Contents

Dispatches: Notes from the Field
In June we have three dispatches: Rafael Ben-Ari explores a groundbreaking medical procedure; Philip Poupin reports on the new challenge of the Afghanistan war, and Danfung Dennis writes of the so-called American surge into the "self-sustaining" conflict in Iraq.

by Marianne Fulton

E-Bits: What's It All About?
In "What's It All About?" E-Bits Editor Beverly Spicer takes us on a video tour to a struggle for survival on the African savannah, then a fusion of 500 years of portraits of women in art, and finally, to what could only be called a pipe dream.

by Beverly Spicer

COMMENTARY

A Letter From New Orleans:
Gandhi and Cocktails

"You know, Jim-Jim, this nonviolence shit really pays."

by Jim Gabour

PHOTO JOURNALISM

Tech Tips

Can you provide any info on write speeds for the EOS-1D Mark III with Compact Flash cards?

by Chuck Westfall

Common Cents: Good Guys ... Bad Contract

The good guys are always stalwart and true. The bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and we always defeat them and save the day.

by Mark Loundy

Nuts & Bolts

A recent column comparing raw files to jpegs generated a fair amount of correspondence, not about the advantages of one form over the other, but how to deal with the limited exposure latitude of jpegs and the limitations of a camera's reflected light, automatic TTL metering.

by Bill Pierce

I Have Seen the Future and It's Very, Very Crowded

As sometimes happens the Europeans are showing the way forward in photojournalism.

by James Colburn

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Letter from the Publisher

Welcome to the June 2007 issue of The Digital Journalist, the monthly online magazine for visual journalism.

by Ron Steinman

CAMERA CORNER

"Moments in Time" Book Tour 2007

Presentations by Dirck Halstead.

VIDEO JOURNALISM

Compression Session: Lighting Nirvana, Custom XLR Cables, A Nifty Wireless Receiver Solution, An Update on Flicker Control And Edit Well

I have found lighting Nirvana and it's name is LitePanels.

by PF Bentley

BOOK REVIEW

"Testify" by Colin Finlay

Colin Finlay's biography identifies him as "one of the foremost documentary photographers in the world." If you have any doubts about that, open his new book, "Testify". Here are more than 100 black-and-white images of dignity and devastation selected from 17 years of photographs and essays.

by Marianne Fulton

NEW MEDIA

TV News in a Postmodern World: World Links: The Currency of the Machine

Long ago on some distant shore, our ancestors looked up at the night sky and felt two contrasting emotions.

by Terry Heaton

Do Not Connect Me, Please.

Exhibitionism will exist as long as there is voyeurism.

by Ron Steinman

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ASSIGNMENT SHEET

Through a Lens Dimly: Gentleman Jim

Assignment Sheet brings you another in the "From the Pages of Damon Runyon" collection which are reminiscences of some of the strange and wonderful characters who were part of retired Newsday Staff Photographer Dick Kraus' long career. In "Gentlemen Jim" he talks about the colorful Irishman who was a staff shooter from the old school.

by Dick Kraus

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Learn From the Platypus: 2007 Platypus Summer Workshop 2007 Platypus Summer Workshop July 22-August 4 Maine Photo Workshop Rockport, Maine

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