You need to look at these photos. The 167 entries in this week’s “Monotone” Shooting Challenge are of a completely humbling, professional quality. More

In today’s Remainders: sights! Visit Paris in your browser with a magnificent 24 gigapixel photograph; behold America, circa 1972, in the EPA’s 15,000 photograph Documerica project, and more. More

With a single candle , your photos were stupendous. So for this week’s Shooting Challenge , we’re tying a different hand behind your back: color. More

Panasonic has pulled the sheets off two new Lumix Micro Four Thirds cameras: the touchscreen DMC-G2 and the super light G10. Both shoot 720p video, but the G2’s bendy, touch control screen makes it a Micro Four Thirds stand out. The DMC-G2 is the direct descendant of the Lumix G1 , the first ever Micro Four Thirds camera. It has a 12.1MP Live MOS sensor and shoots 720p video in AVCHD lite, activated by a dedicated video record button. But its real claim to fame: being the first interchangeable lens system camera with a bendy, twisty touchscreen that can be used to control the camera. The 3″ LCD screen has that 460,000 dot resolution goodness you’re looking for and some neat features you might not be expecting

BBC’s LIFE, or as we’ve called it, Planet Earth Part II, is finally coming to Discovery starting March 21st. In this clip, the crew teases some of the amazing technique that allowed the documentary to capture so many new “firsts.” If you haven’t seen our earlier coverage of LIFE, the clips you’ll find here are definitely worth your time, as is this behind the scenes of a few of LIFE’s most epic moments. It may be old news to our friends overseas, but for those of us in America, it’s definitely time to set the DVR.

Anyone can take a picture with plenty of sun around . But capturing extreme lighting conditions takes discipline. So for this week’s Shooting Challenge , you can shoot whatever you want, but you only get a single candle to light it. The Challenge Capture a photo in complete darkness, save for the light of one candle. The Method Candles are a light source unlike any other, with an organic softness that has no equal. But working with them is by no means easy

What happens when Gizmodo readers capture action at 3-5fps? Why, the results of this week’s Shooting Challenge: Action Sequence Photography . Read on for the winners. Second Runner Up “Shot in my New England backyard during the lull in a snowstorm on February 26, 2010.” Camera: Canon EOS 7D Lens: Canon EF 70-200 f/2.8L IS USM ISO: 3200 Focal Point: 73mm Aperture: f/7.1 Shutter: 1/4000 [ Ed note: Loved the juxtaposition of the soft yet miserable environment and a young, undeterred athlete. ] - Ron Miles First Runner Up “I have shot this series in Engelberg Switzerland on Jochpass on an awesome day. I have used a Canon EOS 50D with a 17-85mm lens.” Exposure Time 1/4000 ISO 100 Exposure bias +2 steps Focal Length 17mm [ Ed note: The epic jump, mixed with the sun that blinds us to the full scope of the scene—my eye kept coming back .] - Simon Sharp Winner “I was directly below the snowboarder, standing behind the jump ramp

The Canon T2i dSLR sounded extremely exciting, as it promised to bring 1080P video (with decent frame rates) to Canon’s sub-$1000 dSLR line. Photographer Dan Chung was among the first to test it out, and the results look fantastic. As it turns out this little camera is a really competent performer and the footage I’ve shot so far looks pretty much the same as my 7D to my eye…The footage you see here is shot at 1080p/25 frames a second and not graded with only minor adjustments of gamma, sharpening and a little smoothcam in Final Cut Pro…In terms of video image quality I think it is too early to make definitive judgments…[but] I think this camera is cheap enough that there is now little reason for pros who have not yet bought a HD-DSLR to not put their toes in the water and see if they like shooting video. Note that Chung accentuated the frame rate by shooting almost exclusively with long dolly movements. But if Chung’s hands-on wasn’t enough, here’s another beautiful clip from another photographer named Drew Painter

The Canon T2i dSLR sounded extremely exciting, as it promised to bring 1080P video (with decent frame rates) to Canon’s sub-$1000 dSLR line. Photographer Dan Chung was among the first to test it out, and the results look fantastic. As it turns out this little camera is a really competent performer and the footage I’ve shot so far looks pretty much the same as my 7D to my eye…The footage you see here is shot at 1080p/25 frames a second and not graded with only minor adjustments of gamma, sharpening and a little smoothcam in Final Cut Pro…In terms of video image quality I think it is too early to make definitive judgments…[but] I think this camera is cheap enough that there is now little reason for pros who have not yet bought a HD-DSLR to not put their toes in the water and see if they like shooting video. Note that Chung accentuated the frame rate by shooting almost exclusively with long dolly movements. But if Chung’s hands-on wasn’t enough, here’s another beautiful clip from another photographer named Drew Painter . [ DSLR News Shooter via planet5D ]

It’s in French, but you owe it to yourself to flip through one man’s war story of crafting his own SLR camera, which he machined from scratch. The pictures alone will make you feel properly inadequate. [ Forum via MAKE ]