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The WD VelociRaptor makes me imagine a T-Rex on overdrive but perhaps the effect is intentional. The new hard drive from Western Digital boasts 10,000RPM after all, compared with the usual 5400RPM rotational speed of most hard drives. The VelociRaptor (big word!) is now shipping, available in 300GB capacity. Its killer speed delivers 3Gigabits per …
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It’s a review of the Nexus E3, an underwater housing for the Olympus E-3 DSLR, as well as a test for how well the camera performs in actual diving conditions. Underwater photographer Karin Brussaard goes for another dive, this time in the Red Sea, diving off the friendly town of Daha in the Sinai Desert. …
ColorMunki color management devices from X-Rite have started arriving in the UK, according to Colour Confidence, the exclusive distributor for the ColorMunki range in the UK. ColorMunki Photo and ColorMunki Design are available now, priced at £319/€429 ex. VAT, from www.colourconfidence.com or the following official resellers: 1st Cameras, Calumet Photographic, Cancom, Computer Warehouse, Conn’s Cameras, …
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Figures from market research firm GfK show that sales of digital SLR cameras in the United Kingdom jumped 32.5 percent in value during the first quarter of 2008 compared to the same January to March period last year. In number of units, UK consumers bought 15 percent more DSLRs during the period. For March 2008 …
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CEIVA is dressing up its digital photo frames in time for Mother’s Day. The company is offering fully customizable graphics to personalize the look of the photo frame. This is part of what the company calls CEIVA Life: full customization of the look of the fully connected digital photo frame. It allows the customer to …
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Professional photographer and author Michael Reichmann will hold his Photography & Technology seminar on April 26, Saturday at the Burlington Art Center in Ontario, Canada. The whole day seminar will look at technology’s role in the craft of photography and how to harness it in pursuit of image excellence. Reichmann’s seminar is under the auspices …
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Sanyo has updated its Xacti line of video cameras with a new model, the DMX-CA8, equipping it with an 8-megapixel CMOS sensor as well as a Face Chaser technology which works with both photos and videos – underwater! Yes, you can take this model with you underwater, perfect for those swimming pool shots in the …
Photo sharing site Phanfare today announced enhancements to the service’s Web client. CEO Andrew Erlichson says the most significant portion of this release is a new Web client for managing photos and videos. In addition to a complete re-write of the user interface to adjust to screen resolutions, he said, Phanfare now shows a lot …
The first ever international Garden Photographer of the Year photography competition, being held in the UK, has now selected its finalists from a field of thousands of entries. The panel of eleven judges, including renowned garden photographer Clive Nichols and TV’s Chris Beardshaw, deliberated at length over the photographs from as far afield as Hawaii, …
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Microsoft’s Expression Media Post-SP1 Rollup is now available for download, updating the photo cataloging application and fixing some bugs, including an instance of the program crashing when working with Nikon D3 and D300 NEF Raw files. It also corrects the problem with custom fields having garbage characters appended to the end of the fields when …