If you use a Mac, you’re likely familiar with the Image Capture application, which lets your computer know what to do when a camera is plugged in to your computer; open it with iPhoto or open it with Lightroom. That’s great, but what if you have a few different cameras? What if you have an iPhone (which has a camera that you may not regularly use) and every time you plug it in, Lightroom opens up? Cameras is a free application from Flexibits that installs a preference pane and lets your Mac distinguish between cameras to perform different actions for each of them.

It’s a brilliant little solution, especially if you shoot with a few bodies or hook up a variety of mass storage devices to your computer. And it’s free!

I don’t imagine Kodak had the foresight in 1935 to understand the massive appeal and impact their new film stock was going to have, but when it hit the market that year, it changed the world of photography forever. This week, Kodak announced it was halting the production of Kodachrome.

The stock was revered for it’s color accuracy and archival properties, but it was a difficult stock to develop, so it wasn’t used widely be amateur photographers. Still, if you ever got to shoot with film and had a chance to use Kodachrome stock (in one of it’s many forms) you will undoubtedly appreciate it.

Kodachrome had a good long life. It (and Nikon) were even popularized by Paul Simon in his song “Kodachrome” from his 1973 album There Goes Rhymin’ Simon. However, with the meteoric rise of digital imaging technology, it’s not surprising to see it finally retired. It’s a sad day.

I know, you (like most of us) think we’re beyond being told how to hold an SLR camera when taking a picture. You grab it by the grip, you cradle the lens, you hold still – and you snap the shot. Nothing could be easier. In my time around photographers (and around non-photographers who happened to be holding a camera) I’ve seen a wide array of variations on the theme. Some are just minor manipulations of a popular and sound method for taking photographs, and some are just downright strange (though not always wrong).

Joe McNally is one of my favorite photographers of all time, and he has a slightly different twist to gripping the camera, which is especially useful when taking pictures using a slow shutter speed – allowing you to regain one or possible two stops when shooting.

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Well, maybe we all jumped the gun a little with that last post, as it seems like the community surrounding JPG isn’t quite prepared to let it go that easily. As we mentioned in yesterday’s post, JPG has been having financial difficulty and was/is unable to sustain their business model as it’s currently laid out, which isn’t surprising for any dead-tree publishing operation in these harsh economic times — when everyone is staying home and reading the internet. I suspect that even a dead-tree publishing operation as clever as JPG, who takes great advantage of the internet, needs equally as clever a plan to help keep them afloat.

We do really appreciate the suggestions and offers we’ve received via email, JPG messages, Facebook messages, Twitters, blog posts, and savejpg.com– you guys are awesome. If we had known the support would be so strong, we would have reached out earlier. The good news is that this interest has bought us a little more time, so we are now looking to keep the site open at least through next week. We’ll keep you updated when we know more. – Devin Poolman

So they have a little more time to scrape something together, and possibly some prospects as the last two blog posts seem relatively hopeful.

The new Nikon D60 we mentioned earlier this week has been getting a lukewarm reception by the online community who feel it’s not a big enough step from the D40x – but I think they’ve missed the point of the camera a little bit. Regardless of that, there’s another “feature” that will exist in the camera which hasn’t been publicized much. The D60 will apparently be “enhanced for Eye-Fi”. » MORE

Every week we pick the sweetest, most breathtaking, most interesting, and most grooviest photo we’ve stumbled across on Flickr during the week and exhibit it here for the Fotohacker community to admire. Are you on Flickr? Your photo could be next.

Flickr: Martin Ujlaki

Every week we pick the sweetest, most breathtaking, most interesting, and most grooviest photo we’ve stumbled across on Flickr during the week and exhibit it here for the Fotohacker community to admire. Are you on Flickr? Your photo could be next.

Flickr: vattenpuss

Every week we pick the sweetest, most breathtaking, most interesting, and most grooviest photo we’ve stumbled across on Flickr during the week and exhibit it here for the Fotohacker community to admire. Are you on Flickr? Your photo could be next.

Flickr: brenbat