Monthly Archives: December 2006

Ceiva claims it’s “revolutionary” but there’s really nothing radical about it anymore as it has become standard fare in today’s offerings of digital frames: built-in card-reader to display slideshows from a memory card, internet connectivity, etc., but they sure have a sleek design here. The Ceiva Digital Photo Frame comes with their optional PicturePlan service, …

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The market for digital still cameras appears to be flattening out at $18 billion a year, according to the latest 2007 IC Market Drivers report of IC Insights, which forecasts trends in the semiconductor industry. The report indicates that worldwide camera sales for 2007 will reach 81.9 million units of stand-alone digital cameras, a 7% …

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The Christmas season is also a season of rebates, and Aven Inc. is joining the holiday cash back givers. They are also offering their buyers $300 cash back on the iLoupe Starter Pack and $350 cash back on the iLoupe Pro Pack with three lenses. The iLoupe microscope-camera combination uses a Canon SD600 digital camera …

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Epson will give back your $50 or $100 as a mail-in rebate when you buy their Stylus R1800 or R2400 Photo printers with any digital camera. This Epson rebate will run up to January 27, 2007. You have to buy both printer and camera within 30 days of each other to qualify for the rebate. …

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Legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz will be featured on the 20th anniversary season of AMERICAN MASTERS. The 90-minute film on the life and times of the master photographer premieres January 3 at 9pm (ET) on PBS. As a long-time photographer for the Rolling Stone magazine Leibovitz has photographed various historical events and personalities. “Through the decades, …

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Corel Corp. is offering their UK customers a £50 ($99) cash back when they purchase a copy of the multi-awarded CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3. The offer is valid from December 1, 2006 to February 28, 2007. The Corel promo applies to the full version boxed or download copy of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 purchased from …

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Maybe it’s the marketing hype. Or, maybe it’s the very attractive prices. But there are real concerns that if you hadn’t bought it yet, you won’t be able to have your dream digital SLR camera this Christmas, especially Nikons D40 and D80 and the Canon 400D. In the UK, demand for these cameras is so …

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Ifra, a world association for newspaper and media publishing, has announced that the 6th annual Asia Media Awards 2007 will take place in conjunction with Publish Asia from March 27-28, 2007 in Manila, Philippines. Ifra said the Asia Media Awards aims at promote the highest standards of publishing and creativity in the industry. It will …

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Renowned Korean photojournalist Yang Jong-hoon is mounting a photography exhibition of AIDS sufferers from today until Dec. 8. The photo exhibit is currently on display at the City Hall plaza in Seoul, Korea. Yang, who is also a professor of photojournalism in Seoul, toured the southern African kingdom of Swaziland for two years to document …

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The News Photographers Association of Canada (NPAC) has launched its first “Pictures of the Year” competition, designed to celebrate the best of Canada’s photojournalism. The “Pictures of the Year” competition was born out of the merger of regional contests run by the Eastern Canadian News Photographers Association and the Western Canadian News Photographers Association. Only …

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