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Issue No. 7 of the free online magazine PhotographyBB is now available for download. This month, the Vancouver-based magazine continues with their multi-part columns such as their series on HDR Photography Techniques, Darkroom Photography, Photography 101 class, and a brand new Lightroom tutorial series. In his Darkroom Delights Part II write-up, Kenneth Fagan shows his …
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The new Nikon D700 full frame DSLR is pretty much a D300 in handling and performance, with the very same excellent image quality of the bigger and more expensive D3. Oh, we know that by now from the user reports that crop up from all over the world. Adding to that chorus of approval is …
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Phase One has released an update to its RAW workflow software Capture One 4, bringing the new release to Version 4.1.2. The updated version offers the benefits of Lens+ and Focus+ lens correction support to Phase One digital back owners with Hasselblad H, Hasselblad V and Contax mounts. According to Phase One, Lens+ and Focus+ …
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Robert Frank’s influential book of photographs, The Americans, is now 50 years old and in celebration of this anniversary the new Photo Eye magazine is honoring Frank’s work by featuring a two-part commentary on the masterpiece. Part One of Richard Gordon’s commentary delves on the context, myth and culture surrounding The Americans, while Part Two …
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In his column today, photographer Rick Sammon takes us to a whole new way of seeing the magnificent world of tiny little things, how to capture its vibrant life via macro photography. Rick says for true macro photography, you need a macro lens, as opposed to the macro/close-up setting on a zoom lens. Macro lenses …
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O’Reilly has published slide:ology – The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations. What’s that got to do with photographers? Well, when you present your photos to clients you’re actually making a presentation. And when you do it with slideshows, you’ll need this guide, man. slide:ology – The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations …
Fujifilm USA today unveiled the new FinePix S2000HD, a long zoom digital camera with SLR styling and featuring a 10-megapixel CCD image sensor mounted on a movable platter to enable sensor-shift image stabilization. The back of the camera features a 2.7-inch LCD monitor for image display and composing the shot; it has a 0.2-inch FLCD …
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Eastman Kodak Company is beaming with pride for receiving PC Magazine‘s 2008 Readers’ Choice Award in the Printer Category, gleaned from results of the 21st Annual PC Magazine Service and Reliability Survey. Apparently, PC Magazine readers rate Kodak’s AiO printer ink the highest for photo quality and for its low cost of ink compared to …
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Kingston Technology Company, Inc. is now shipping its 32GB Elite Pro SDHC Flash memory card, just the right thing to use with today’s digital video camcorders and other high-resolution imaging devices. The new 32GB card is the largest capacity in Kingston’s Elite Pro line of SDHC cards, which currently includes 4-, 8- and 16GB capacities. …
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Think only gamers get to own monster rigs? Photographers get their own too with the new Lenovo ThinkPad W700, a widescreen 17-inch Windows laptop that has been developed expressly for the working digital photographer. The specs: 3.0 GHz Core 2 Extreme quad-core Intel processor, 8GB of RAM, 3 internal hard disks and top-of-the-line Nvidia Quadro …
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