Not even really announced as much as teased at Photokina in September, Samsung's not-yet-official but definitely on the way 300mm f/2.8 made another appearance at the company's PhotoPlus booth.
Samsung is making a statement with the recently announced NX1, and that statement is, "pros, we're ready for you." Up till now, any pros who wanted to use Samsung gear -- and there are some that do -- have had to settle for prosumer bodies designed more for the first time buyer than the seasoned pro.
One of the most interesting products at this year's PhotoPlus wasn't a camera, or a lens, or a quirky accessory hiding in one of the out-of-the-way booths. It was a service called Mylio, and it has somehow managed to get everybody (including us) very excited about, of all things, organizing and accessing your photos.
Portland-based Art Director Danielle Delph says she often wonders if her mother and her would have been friends if they had grown up together. And while that question can't be answered in a literal sense (yet... not giving up hope on a time-machine just yet), Delph put her impressive Photoshop skills to use answering it metaphorically.
Elizabeth Gilbert -- the author best known for her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love -- once wrote that fear and creativity are conjoined twins. In other words, you don't get one without the other. If you kill fear, you kill creativity.
