Monthly Archives: January 2008

Sony has unveiled its S-Frame brand of digital photo frames, offering vibrant LCD screens and stylish designs suitable for the living room, bedroom or office. The new DPF-V900, DPF-V700 and DPF-D70 digital photo frame models have WVGA resolution (800 x 480 pixels) along with 15:9 aspect-ratio screens to showcase your digital pictures with detail and …

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Bling! It by Vertus is now available for the Mac. You can download it for a 15-day trial or buy it straight out for $49.95 from their website. Bling! It is an application that can transform ordinary product shots into attractive commercial images that will stand out in online auction sites like eBay and Amazon, …

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Nik Software is bringing the U Point image adjustment technology to Photoshop. Viveza by Nik Software will be available in March 2008 as a plug-in for Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop Elements, bringing with it the point and drag simplicity of U Point’s technology. Nik Software says Viveza provides easy-to-use methods for correcting and enhancing images …

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The Sigma DP1 is a highly anticipated camera because it promises to deliver the full specs and high image quality of a DSLR in the body of a compact camera. After a few snafus from development to delivery, Sigma Corporation finally says yes they can deliver the DP1 digital camera. Its delivery date is “sometime …

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PMA 08, the international photo marketing convention and trade show, opens its doors today at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The trade expo will bring together more than 650 companies to show their latest products on the exhibit floors, as well as photo retailers, professional photographers, mass merchandisers, professional labs, custom …

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The 17mm wide-angle Tamron SP AF17-50mm F/2.8 XR Di-II LD Aspherical [IF] zoom lens is now available for Pentax DSLRs. Tamron says the SP AF17-50mm F/2.8 XR Di II LD Aspherical [IF] has been well received as a lightweight and compact, fast standard zoom lens in the Nikon, Canon and Sony AF mounts. It now …

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Sony also announced today two new zooms to go with their new Alpha DSLR cameras, the SAL2470Z which offers a wide angle 24-70mm zoom with a large f/2.8 aperture and the SAL70300G 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G lens. The SAL2470Z lens is constructed of 17 elements in 13 groups with two aspheric elements and two extra-low dispersion …

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Sony’s dead serious about its digital SLR business. The company today confirmed rumors about more DSLR models by officially announcing the 14.2-megapixel Alpha A350 camera and the 10.2-megapixel Alpha A300 DSLR cameras, a day ahead of PMA 08. Both the A350 and A300 are geared as entry-level DSLRs with new technologies that Sony says should …

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PhotoWorld Asia 2008 reels off today (it’s Jan 31 now in Manila) at the Ayala Center in Manila, Philippines. The trade show will feature product expositions from major players in the photography industry as well as lectures by experts in the fields of portrait, wedding and digital editing. Participating companies include Fujifilm, Euro Color, Colent, …

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There’s one little detail that came out today from Eye-Fi regarding the just announced Nikon D60 digital SLR camera. It looked like Eye-Fi went to a quiet corner with Nikon before it announced the D60 and both agreed that the new camera should be optimized for the Eye-Fi wireless memory card, why not? As soon …

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