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SanDisk Corp. opens today (Sep 27, Shanghai Time) its new $170 million factory in Shanghai’s Zizhu Science Park. The new SanDisk facility in China will assemble and test flash-memory products for mobile phones, adding to an influx of semiconductor companies investing in high-tech plants in the world’s biggest developing economy. The SanDisk Semiconductor (Shanghai) Co. …
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A video tutorial is available from RawWorkFlow.com that teaches what you need to know about shooting and processing RAW images. “RAW without Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD)†by Michael Tapes explains why RAW should be the preferred shooting mode of photographers. It also shows how one can maximize information captured in RAW by the digital …
Canon today added two more models to its Selphy line of compact photo printers with the launch of the ES2 and ES20. Canon describes the new compact photo printers as affordable at €249 including VAT for the ES2 and €199 for the ES20 in Europe. The SELPHY ES2 and ES20 use Canon’s Easy Photo Packs …
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Photographer Noam Kortler, who owns Nemo Divers in Eilat, Israel, is mounting an original underwater photography exhibition dubbed “Treasures of the Sea†on October 4-6, 2007. The images he took of underwater scenes will be displayed underwater, 40 photos in all, printed on foam boards and weighted down to keep them in place. The mayor …
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Kingston Technology has announced a 4GB microSDHC high capacity memory card in a Class 4 (4MBps) speed rating to meet the needs of the next generation of mobile phones and other digital devices. The new card is priced at $91; an adapter pack consisting of a 4GB microSDHC card and two adapters is priced at …
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Prince of Cheap here again! Lets take a break from cheapness for a split second. Times up! (The lesson is free!) This post will give you some tips on analyzing images in order to recreate them. For example the image below was shown for my free workshop, Monster Lighting Tactics. (Look for the next one!) …
After centuries of lying low, Eye-Fi is threatening us once again with its wireless idea of an SD memory card that incorporates Wi-Fi. We wrote about this last year, then they were lost in the mist of time, only to resurface this time to announce that the “highly anticipated†Wi-Fi SD card will debut this …
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How do you enhance a poorly exposed photograph? Or correct the colors that have gone wild? Levels, my boy, Levels. In Photoshop you can improve just about any image using the Levels command. If you haven’t used it yet, that means you’re a complete n00b but that’s no problem. There’s a good tutorial for you, …
PhotographyBLOG.com writes, “The high points are the tough, durable body, the control layout and that amazing 6.5fps shooting mode. Yes, it does sound like a badly-muffled machine-gun, but it lets you grab action sequences that lesser cameras would miss.†Does the new 40D take better pictures? “The fact is that the picture quality you get …
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Nikon Incorporated’s new president and CEO Yasuyuki Okamoto (in photo above) looks at all of the Americas – North, Central and South America – as his oyster now; he will be responsible for driving the company’s performance in these regions in the areas of sales, marketing and customer service. Okamoto said, “Nikon’s operations in the …
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