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“Seam carving” gracefully resizes images without apparent distortion and still includes the important elements of a picture. You can reduce or expand a photo horizontally or vertically and the photo would still look natural; no scaling, no cropping and no stretching. I can try to explain it to you in so many words but the …
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The Moscow Times’ Anna Malpas writes, “In a picture from 1907, an eager crowd gathers on a cobbled street of Petersburg to see Russia’s first car show, a small boy in knickerbockers racing across in a blur of excitement. In others, bonneted women admire the first electric lighting in a shopping arcade and pilots wheel …
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Eastman Kodak Company will showcase its family of single use cameras at PMA 08 in Las Vegas on Jan. 31 to Feb, 2. Kodak said the new single use cameras will include the next generation of KODAK ULTRA MAX 800 color film, touted to be the best 800-speed film for low light and fast action …
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FotoNation is unveiling its ChromaFix chromatic aberration correction technology at the PMA 08 International Convention in Las Vegas on January 31 to February 2. The company said ChromaFix brings advanced image processing technology normally found in much higher-priced cameras to low-cost low-power devices, including consumer digital cameras and camera phones. It will be offered in …
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In this edition of LightSource, Bill and Ed talk with commercial photographer Dan Couto.
Now it’s a bit easier to use Canon’s Digital Photo Professional, with a little help from Canon USA. They have launched a new website for the purpose, teaching people how to use DPP to edit and process Raw files. The website features video tutorials showing users how to enhance their photos using DPP in the …
The new Gitzo GH2750 off-center ball head, above, is one of the four new releases from the French manufacturer. The other models are GH3750, GH3750QR and GH2750QR. The new Gitzo heads may look like their predecessors, with the same look and design of the high quality magnesium shell, but the internal components and mechanisms have …
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Corel has launched PhotoImpact X3, a digital photo editing software aimed at the family memory keeper and the graphic arts hobbyist. In short, they have re-purposed it to compete head-on with Adobe’s Photoshop Elements 6. We remember that PhotoImpact was the first major bitmap editor to focus on the needs of digital camera owners, back …
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Transcend has released its 32GB CompactFlash Card rated at 133x speed. That means it can read at 45MBps and write at 16MBps, and that is fast! Suitable for high-speed shooting with today’s high performance DSLRs, Transcend’s 133x CF cards feature built-in ECC (Error Correction Code) to automatically detect and correct errors during data transfer, which …
Here again is the Prince of Cheap! This time around I’m bringing you a lesson in hard light. Recently I was out on an outdoor fashion shoot with the wildly talented (and braided) Mr. Shannon and Stephanos. Mr. Shannon and Stephanos can be found at Model Mayhem – ID #358293 for Mr. Shannon and ID …
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