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Epson (and Canon) Photo Printer Updates Since writing about Epson s new photo inkjet line back in April, I ve gotten a lot of email, mostly from readers curious about the SureColor P900, the 17-inch version (and its 13-inch sibling, the P700). I m happy to say that the first shipments of the P900 appear to be dribbling into the States. Both models were supposed to be available by early summer, but it does seem that the pandemic wreaked havoc on manufacturing and shipping channels.All that said, I m not sure about how full the channel actually is at the moment. I have a P900 arriving today, but it was ordered five months ago. I also know of a few other folks who ve received P700s in the past 60 days, but Adorama and B H have both the printers back-ordered. My advice to anyone looking for these units would be to order one from your preferred source, to get into the queue. I believe that a big part of the reason they re back-ordered is that most arriving units are being sent right back out to folks who preordered theirs. Read more Ben and Hudson on Practicing Photography Earlier this week, Ben, Hudson Henry and I had a lively discussion about the concept of practice. Over the course of an hour, we talked about many things, including:Why people don t generally think about practice as something essential to photographic training (for example, unlike music, which is based around the idea of practicing);Learning to practice the art of seeing Things we can do to get out of a rut;The importance of looking at the work of great photographers as part of your photographic practice; andHow to think about practice as it pertains to your own photography. Read more What to Print Podcast with Rick I recently had a discussion about printing with Jeff Carlson and Kirk McElhearnfor their PhotoActive podcast. The episode, What to Print, covered a wide range of topics: we chatted about how I choose which photos to print, why I feel that printing is important to your growth as a photographer, and what it means to call yourself an artist. It was a fun and lively exchange (and yes, Jeff has finally bought a printer!).As many readers know, I feel quite strongly about the power of the photographic print. It doesn t matter if you print to your own device or upload to an online service. In this day of small screens and Instagram, Flickr and 500px, we have lost some of the tactile magic that we get in seeing our photographs on paper. There are times when I worry about what will happen to the snapshots and artistic photos we all take over the course of our lives; the digital shoebox just doesn t feel as real to me as the actual ones that many of us grew up with. (I wrote a piece on my personal blog a few years ago, A Life, Photographed, about why the print is such an important part of our lives.)Ben and I have spoken with Jeff and Kirk before on PhotoActive, and I love their short, focused approach to podcasts. The episodes are only about 30 minutes in length, and they move quickly.If you re interested at all about printing, please give it a listen. As I noted during the episode — and in my recent post about the West photo project — I have been printing quite a bit more recently. I should have a review of the new Epson inkjets later this summer, and I am also working on a short book for CDP Press about printing, which we re hoping to have out later this year. Polaroid Photographer Elsa Dorfman Dies at 83 Elsa Dorfman, the photographer best-known for her portraits captured with a 20 24-inch Polaroid camera, passed away this week at the age of 83. We wrote a little bit about her in our January newsletter, in reference to Errol Morris delightful documentary from 2017, The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography.Living in Cambridge, Mass. (the hometown of Polaroid), Dorfman was a master of the Polaroid 20 24 large-format camera, a behemoth of which only a handful were made. Over the course of 30+ years, Dorfman photographed family members and celebrities in her studio with the large camera, usually preparing two photographs on the instant-film format: one for her and the other for her subject. Now, as supplies of the film are drying up, and with her own advancing age, Dorfman is winding her studio down. (If you’d like a deeper dive into Dorfman and her work, Harvard Magazine did an extensive feature on her, “The Portraitist,” a few years ago.) Read more The 9th edition of the original, best-selling guide to all things digital, Complete Digital Photography gives you everything you'll need to know in order to create great digital photos, from choosing a camera, to getting the best shot, to post-processing.Buy today in the CDP store and save $25 on the printed version or $10 on the ebook (PDF, ePub and Mobipocket versions). CDP is also available on Amazon in print and Kindle versions, as well as Google Play and Apple Books (link below)

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