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How did you go from dance to photography? I’d been a competitive ballroom dancer for 12 years. After Hurricane Hugo uprooted my town in ’89, I ended up working in retail. But I really wanted to get back to dance, so I borrowed a friend’s point-and-shoot, went to a local studio, and asked to shoot one of their showcases. I sold the prints and decided to go back to dancing as a photographer, because there are a lot of opportunities in dance-sport. I just called up my friends, and everyone needed shots, so right off the bat I was busy.

If you're familiar with Zeiss movie lenses, the idea of buying a whole case full of them at a time as part of a system probably doesn't seem out of the ordinary. But, for us photography types, it's a little odd. This week, however, they announced a package deal for their SLR lenses, including five essential, fast primes packed into a custom waterproof case. The padding is customized for each lens and there's an empty spot in the foam in case you want to expand further.

Just because the newly-announced Z900 EXR is part of Fujifilm’s “fashion-forward” line of cameras, doesn’t mean its shooting capabilities were an after-thought, in fact, it seems like Fujifilm packed as many high-end function as they could muster into this sleek new compact.

The problem with April Fool's jokes on the web is that, as we move away from that silly holiday, the results remain online to be found and drooled over by unsuspecting folks. Over the course of the day today, we received more than a couple emails alerting us to a new product that fits inside of a 35mm film cannister and effectively turns your analog body into a digital camera. Sadly, it's all a cruel prank.