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Facebook: The Missing Manual by E.A. Vander Veer is now off the press and available for $20 from O’Reilly. It’s not that it’s difficult to join Facebook – it’s a very popular site with over 50 million active users and one million added every week – it’s just that some folks needed to be held …
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Super Talent Technology, a San Jose, California-based manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, says their 128GB SATA solid state drive (SSD) has been awarded the “Works with Windows Vista†and “Designed for Microsoft Windows XP†logo certifications. The FSD28GC25M, an industrial-grade 128GB 2.5†SATA SSD, passed intensive qualification testing with both operating …
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Attention, Nikon D3 owners using Sigma lenses: Sigma says they have lenses for Nikon that won’t support the Auto DX Crop function when used with the new Nikon D3 DSLR camera. To overcome this, the company is supplying a free upgrade to their customers. These lenses include the following: Sigma 30mm F1.4 EX DC HSM …
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Olympus is releasing the high-speed Type M+ (plus) xD-Picture Card in April 2008. It will be one-and-a-half times faster than its predecessor Type M series, pictured above, and will be compatible with all Olympus digital cameras that use Type M Series xD-Picture Cards, including the new digital compact cameras (Stylus, Stylus SW, FE-Series and Ultra …
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The new Olympus SP-570 UZ currently holds the bragging rights to “the world’s longest zoom†among fixed lens cameras. It offers 20x zoom which is equivalent to 26-520mm in 35mm terms. That’s super telephoto in any language. With a zoom that long you’ll need some kind of technology to keep your images steady, and that’s …
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Kingston “Icons of Photography†has posted a fresh batch of photographs from readers asking for a critique from masters like Harry Benson, Colin Finlay, Gerd Ludwig and Peter Read Miller. Some of the photos are simply mesmerizing, like the one above from Cipto G. “Well composed and interesting and not easy to repeat,†says Mr. …
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It rained cameras on Mount Olympus today, a total of 9 new digital cameras including two new shockproof models and a new 20x ultra zoom model. Headlining the new offerings is the Olympus Stylus 850 SW, a shockproof camera that can survive a drop from 5 feet and water proof to a depth of 10 …
Tamron will launch a digitally integrated 70-300mm lens for the Nikon D40/D40x DSLR in Tokyo on February 1, 2008. This is a new version of their popular telephoto macro zoom. The new lens is a redesign of the popular Tamron AF 70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di LD Macro 1: 2 (Model A17NII). It will have built-in motor …
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The Photoshop guys are back on this week’s Photoshop User TV, there’s two of them back, Scott Kelby and Dave Cross, minus Matt Kloskowski who was somewhere else. In this episode, Scott shows us 5 stupendous White Balance tips in Camera Raw that lets you instantly see how an image would look using different settings. …
Is a digital image shot in 14-bit Raw mode better than one at 12 bits? The answer seems to be yes, if you take pixel-gazing to an extreme. Photographer Bob Johnson took some time off to find this out for us and he has posted his discoveries in his blog. Part One here and Part …
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