Photographer and director Jason Lindsey, along with photographer jon holloway, shot “Pray For The Soul Of Thomas Gage” in Ireland as a way of exploring, says Lindsey, “the storytelling aspects of filmmaking.” It was a selection at the Freaky Creak Film Festival in Fairmont, Illinois, late last year. Lindsey and holloway recently shot a music video on location in New Mexico and Colorado for the Austin-based band “The Trishas” who hired them after viewing this clip.

Why are there still so many boring panel discussions and blog articles asking if photography is dead?

Joerg Colberg, creator of the photography blog Conscientious, confronts this question head on in a new YouTube video. His solution: We admit photography is over. “I think it was good while it lasted,” Colberg deadpans for the camera.

Of course this leaves some issues unresolved. Like, what should Colberg do with all his photography books? And what else can we discuss in seminars and panels? The death of Facebook?

Colberg’s declaration of the death of photography has been met with good cheer. As one commenter on Colberg’s video says, “Now that that question is over, we can go out and take pictures.”

Not exactly earth-shattering news for photographers but Canon unveiled two new photo printers this morning: the PIXMA MG5320 Wireless Photo All-In-One ($150) and the PIXMA iP4920 Photo Inkjet Printer ($100) models.

Each features upgrades to Canon’s Easy-PhotoPrint EX and Full HD Movie Print software.

Though we weren’t aware that Canon was in the desktop “mouse” business until recently, the company announced a new product in this category: the X Mark I Mouse Lite.

As you’ll notice from the image of the X Mark I Keypad mouse below, it actually has a calculator attached to it.

Yep. What will they think of next?

More details including full press releases here.

Aquadettes from California is a place. on Vimeo.

The latest story from Zackary Canepari and Drea Cooper of California is a Place looks at a team of elderly synchronized swimmers called the “Aquadettes.” In addition to some charming footage of the swimmers practicing their sport, the film focuses on one Aquadette’s battle with multiple sclerosis and how medicinal marijuana helped her control her symptoms and regain her independence.

For more on the work of Cooper and Canepari see the article from the April 2011 issue of PDN (subscribers only; PDN subscribers can login to read this story).

O’neill Hawaii Womens Pro Surf Team 2011 from Kyle Alexander Photography on Vimeo.

Photographer and director Kyle Alexander shot this video of the 2011 O’Neill Women’s Pro Surf Team on location on the North Shore of Hawaii, which is probably where we should be right now.

The three Georgian photojournalists who were arrested in their homes on July 7, 2011, and accused of spying for Russia have “confessed,” according to an AFP report.

On Monday Georgian authorities confirmed that Zurab Kurtsikidze, a European Pressphoto Agency photographer and the alleged head of a spy ring funneling images and information to Russian intelligence officials, became the final suspect to admit to spying for the Russian government. Irakli Gedenidze, photographer to President Mikheil Saakashvili and Georgian foreign ministry photographer Georgy Abdaladze have also confessed, the AFP report said.

A lawyer for Abdaladze who was present when he confessed said she believed he did so “under psychological pressure,” and Kurtsikidze’s lawyer said that although his client had confessed, he believed the prosecution did not have enough other evidence to convict his client.

The photographers could face up to 12 years in prison if they are convicted.

The arrest of the photographers has prompted protests in both Tblisi and Moscow, and several Georgian newspapers and Web sites published their front pages without photographs yesterday in a coordinated protest.

Related: Georgian Photographers Arrested on Suspicion of Espionage

What do you get when you have a ton of photo gear, some photographers with a lot of time on their hands, and an unhealthy interest in Rube Goldberg machines? The below video. (To see how they did it, click here.)

Speaking of Leica lenses, here’s a brief video about how these pricey pieces of glass are made.

While the video is clearly Leica marketing propaganda, it’s hard not to be impressed with the precision with which these products are made. We particularly like how the F/stops are hand filed in with an ultrasonic drill. Sweet.

Last year we gave you the scoop on some cool lens adapters Leica was planning to sell so you could mount Pentax, Hasselblad and Mamiya medium-format glass on Leica’s premium 37.2-megapixel S2 camera. Today we can report that those adapters have officially gone on sale.

Leica announced this morning it has begun shipping the Leica S-Adapter for Hasselblad V System lenses; the Leica S-Adapter P67 for the Pentax 67 system lenses; and the Leica S-Adapter M645 for the lenses of the Mamiya 645 system. Leica has still not announced pricing on these adapters but we’re checking. UPDATE: Leica says the adapters will sell for $850 a piece.

Though the S2, a hybrid digital SLR/medium-format camera, has received generally sterling reviews — including from PDN (we named it 2009 camera of the year) — it’s currently limited to just four pieces of glass: the Leica Summarit-S 35mm f/2.5, Summarit-S 70mm f/2.5, APO Macro Summarit-S 120mm f/2.5, and APO Elmar-S 180mm f/3.5 lenses. The new adapters will give S2 users a chance to expand on their lenses just a bit.

Leica also believes it will help emphasize the advantages of their own lenses.

“It has a double benefit for us,” Chrisitan Erhardt, Leica’s Vice President of Marketing told us last year when we first reported on the adapters. “We have four lenses now and there are more in development but there are some unique lenses out there that we don’t currently have. This will increase the options for our customers who want to use a wider variety of lenses. And for the ones we have on the market, photographers will realize they can achieve a much higher resolution if they use a Leica lens.”

Until now, photographers looking to use other lenses with the S2 ($22,995) have had to resort to “homebrew” adapters such as the $750 Hasselblad mount shown in the image at the top of this story, which is being sold on eBay.

More details on the official Leica adapters in the press release after the jump.

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Photographer Catherine Chalmers is best known for her books and exhibitions Food Chain and American Cockroach, but her video series “Safari” was a Grand Jury Prize winner at the South by Southwest Festival in 2008. In 2010 she won a Guggenheim Fellowship for her project on leafcutter ants. These astonishing, industrious creatures are the subject of an amusing new video, “We Rule,” shot in Panama, which Chalmers recently posted on Vimeo (just in time for picnic season).  Charles Lindsay is responsible for the fantastic sound design.

You can see many more of her videos, including the award-winning “Safari,” additional videos-in-progress from her Leafcutters series, and parts of the American Cockroach project  at her Web site, Catherinechalmers.com, and on her Vimeo page.