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Sandisk is planning to introduce into the market a new type of write-once ROM flash memory card which can be sold cheaply to end-users. The card uses what the company calls “3D memory,†and is now being tested in a pilot program. The cards, once full, would not be editable, nor would the data be …
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Focus on Imaging 2007 is now in full swing at the Birmingham National Exhibition Center, with over 200 exhibitors and 20,000 visitors in attendance. Nikon and Fujifilm are there to display their newest cameras. Other notables attending Europe’s biggest imaging trade show are HP, Lexar, Ilford, PhaseOne and Corel. Also spotted were Lowepro, B+W and …
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Pantone today introduced hueyPRO, a display calibration product designed for photographers and creative professionals to improve color clarity and consistency of CRT, laptop and LCD monitors. The new hueyPRO retains the innovative form of the original huey, which is about the size of a marker pen, as well as its ability to continually adjust the …
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Corel Corp. today released an update to its Snapfire photo and video enhancement and sharing software. Corel Snapfire 1.2 now includes a free Muvee trial application to automatically create stylish video productions. The new version has also received Windows Vista certification to ensure its optimized performance with the new operating system. Corel Snapfire 1.2 is …
iView Multimedia, a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft Corp., has released iView MediaPro 3.1.3, a free update to its principal digital asset management program. Version 3.1.3 adds Windows Vista compatibility as well as support for the Nikon D80 and D40 DSLRs. It also fixes a crash caused by importing corrupt DNG files, and a problem …
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“Whereas its 6.1 megapixel resolution may seem to be only ‘average’, in comparison to many current dSLR cameras, the K100D’s image quality leaves nothing to be desired,†says Megapixel.net in its review of the Pentax K100D. So, on a scale of one to ten – with 10 being excellent – they gave the K100D a …
The Canon EOS-1D Mark III is a very exciting camera with its vaunted shooting speed of 10 frames per second of hi-res 10-meg pictures. This alone can pique the interest of sports photographers and photojournalists whose paycheck can depend on that one crucial shot that a fast-shooting camera can take. But that’s just for starters. …
The RAW format used to be the domain of professional photographers and enthusiasts only. Everybody else was doing fine with JPEG and almost exclusively JPEG alone. Maybe a smattering of TIFFs here and there, a few PNGs and quite a number of GIFs, but folks use JPEG overwhelmingly even to this day. But that is …
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FotoNation has announced its embedded red-eye reduction solution for camera phones. With more powerful flashes shipping with the latest camera phones, the red-eye problem has become commonplace especially in shots taken at a short distance from the subject. FotoNation’s red-eye correction technology is directly embedded in the camera phone so users can automatically take perfect …
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X-Rite Inc. is unveiling an industrial-grade family of Swiss-engineered color management products for the imaging industry at the forthcoming PMA 2007 in Las Vegas. These include the colorimeter-driven X-Rite i1Display for calibrating LCD, CRT and TFT monitors; the spectro-powered i1Photo Family for digital imaging application; the i1-iO Automated Scanning Table; the i1-iSis chart reader for …
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