Nikon UK, BJP Launch Discovery Awards 2007

Nikon UK and the British Journal of Photography have launched Discovery, a photo competition which aims to celebrate and support the work of emerging photographers from selected colleges and universities in the United Kingdom. Over £50,000 ($100,000) worth of prizes are up for grabs, including 21 shortlist vouchers worth £1800 to be spent with Nikon …

Fantasea Underwater Housing for Nikon Coolpix P5100

The Fantasea FP-5000 underwater housing is now available for the new Nikon Coolpix P5100 digital camera, allowing full access to all camera functions while shooting underwater up to a depth of 60 meters or 200 feet. It is compact, lightweight and made of injection molded polycarbonate. The FP-5000 housing has double O-ring seals on all …

Make Full Use of Bridge and Camera Raw in Photoshop CS3

PopPhoto.com’s Debbie Grossman has a few useful tips on how to take advantage of Photoshop CS3’s cool new features. These features are not in Photoshop CS3 itself but in its helper applications Adobe Bridge and Camera Raw. How to use them? 1. Let Bridge download your pics from your camera, automatically backing them up in …

How to Simulate a Ringlight Using a Softbox

Andrew Smith writes, “Set-up a flash with softbox or shoot-through umbrella and take the picture from immediately in front of it, centered horizontally and vertically. Keep yourself as small as possible so as to allow as much light as possible to pass around you.” He says the technique is still used by even the most …

IVIN-2M USB Camera Debuts With Varioptic Liquid Lens

The Varioptic liquid lens, which can vary its focus by changing its shape, is making its debut with a 2-megapixel USB camera. The IVIN-2M USB 2.0 camera features a CMOS imager with selectable display resolution from 320 X 240 at 30 fps up to 1600 X 1200 at 15 fps. It hopes to find application …

Review: Interfit EXD200 Lighting Kit Offers Small But Powerful Monolights For The Digital Age

ShutterBug.com’s Jack Neubart writes, “If you’re just starting out and want to get the feel for studio strobe lighting or just want to keep the lighting simple and uncomplicated, the EXD200 should be a perfect fit.” The basic kit includes two EXD200 heads with their accompanying flash tubes, modeling lamps, stands, electrical and sync cables; …

Media Groups Urge Japan PM to Sanction Burma’s Military Junta

Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association have urged Japan’s new prime minister, Yasuo Fukuda, to impose sanctions on the Burmese military regime until those responsible for his murder are brought to trial. “We call on you to freeze your aid and impose sanctions on the military regime in order to obtain a proper …

Thought You Knew the Histogram? Here’s a Cool Lesson

We all know that a histogram is a graphical representation of the dark and light pixels in an image; it shows how many pixels of the varying shades – from the blackest to the lightest – you have in a photo. David Friedman of IronicSans.com turned the idea around and created an image in the …

Italy’s Klikk Offers Portable Base for Digicams

Klikk is a camera base for digital cameras to hold it steady like a tripod. It’s only 12mm in height, so why not just rest your camera on the table or anything flat? Because Klikk performs a special function, that of angling your camera to take the shot you want. The slot in this camera …