Canon Professional Solutions Expo in 4 Canadian Cities

Canon Canada is holding Canon Professional Solutions Expo in various cities in September. It’s a mini-trade show featuring all of the new Canon cameras as well as printing equipment. It will also feature seminars to be conducted by well known professional photographers. Canon has scheduled CPS Expo in the following cities: Calgary September 5-6, 2007 …

Gray Market Hurting Canon Philippines

Canon Philippines is feeling the pinch of the gray market which is undercutting its sales of cameras in the country. Parallel importers are able to sell their cameras at a much cheaper price because they do not pay taxes and they do not have the overhead costs of the authorized distributor. Canon’s sales report to-date …

FotoFlexer is Working Out to be Most Powerful Online Photo Editor

Look closely and you’ll notice that the model’s waistline on the photo at right has slimmed considerably (among other changes). This is FotoFlexer in action. FotoFlex wants to bridge the gap between the current crop of online photo editing tools, and the more complex desktop tools users are more familiar with. It also promises some …

Citizen Image launches ciAssignment Board for Photo Buyers

CitizenImage.com is a citizen journalism photography agency that facilitates the sale of top quality images from millions of photographers around the world. It announced today the availability of its ciAssignment Board, a service that allows commercial content buyers from a wide variety of businesses – from news outlets to advertising agencies – the ability to …

EISA Names Tamron 18-250mm as European Consumer Lens of the Year

The Tamron AF18-250mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) lens is this year’s European Consumer Lens awardee as named by the European Imaging & Sound Association (EISA). The lens boasts the greatest zoom ratio of 13.9X covering a 28mm wide-angle to 388mm ultra telephoto focal length range when converted to a full frame/35mm film format. …

10 Pieces of Lighting Equipment for Under 60 Dollars

Once again, the Prince of Cheap is here to save you from the dollar! The following is a list of studio lighting items that will help you save dollars and help you grab some quick and effective lighting that will allow to you create better photographs! #1) The first one is my all time favorite: the Light …

Leopard for the Mac Now Available for Pre-Order

Amazon.com is now taking pre-orders for Apple Max OS Version 10.5, more widely known as Leopard. Available for the pre-order price of $129, Leopard is scheduled to ship in October. Amazon is offering free shipping with this deal. It’s also tax-free for most states. Leopard is the sixth iteration of the Mac OS X operating …

Dell Launches OptiPlex 755 Desktop PC

Dell announced today the new OptiPlex 755 business desktop PC, which it bills as “the most manageable energy efficient commercial desktop ever.” The company says OptiPlex 755 also adds to Dell’s environmental leadership with Energy Star 4.0 compliance and an Electronic Products Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) “Gold” rating. “We designed the OptiPlex 755 to be …

New All-in-Ones from Lexmark Do Everything Plus Bring In the Money Too

Lexmark has launched its X6570 wireless all-in-one printer, offering small-office/home-office professionals the freedom of wireless connectivity plus other features useful to business. The new Lexmark X6570 is priced at $150 to be truly affordable to SOHO users while still offering business-class features such as two-sided printing, fax, a 25-page automatic document feeder for copying and …

Marshall Easy Go USB-to-IDE Adapter Turns that Old Hard Drive Into External Storage

Tokyo-based Marshall Corp. is offering its Easy GO USB-to-IDE adapter to connect an IDE hard disk drive to your desktop or notebook PC. It turns any old hard disk drive you have lying around into a large storage device for archiving or back-up. The kit supplies a cable that plugs into your PC’s USB port …