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Nikon has released a new DVD to guide users how to effectively deploy those portable Nikon Speedlights (that’s the flash, for you and me). “A Hands-on Guide to Creative Lighting†have the big guns as presenters: NatGeo photographer Bob Krist and renowned photojournalist and lighting expert Joe McNally. The video will lead viewers through the …
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Aperture 2.1.2 has been released, updating Apple’s Raw conversion and photography workflow software. Its main addition is to improve the printing quality of books, cards and calendars ordered via the Aperture printing service. The 48MB download is recommended for users of Aperture 2. [Site: Apple.com]
In case you haven’t noticed, Adobe Photoshop CS4 is now shipping, along with the whole bunch of Adobe CS4 applications, of course. The new Photoshop CS4 features a unified tabbed interface, improved color correction and non-destructive editing tools a la Lightroom. It also adds OpenGL and 64-bit support to make things just a little zippier …
The new lithium-powered flash generators from Hensel – the Porty 6 and Porty 12 – boast light weight and high performance which make them ideally suited for outdoor and mobile photographers. The Porty 12 Lithium with 1200 J weighs only 5.9kg, including the battery. Hensel said it is more than 3kg lighter and considerably quicker …
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Nikon Inc. will be at PhotoPlus Expo in New York, from Thursday October 23, through Saturday October 25, and they will be displaying the whole range of their products headlined by the successful Nikon D90 DSLR (what, no Canon 5D MKII counter strike?). Nikon says they will be celebrating photography’s past, present and future at …
The 4th Annual International Underwater Photography and Video competition series hosted by UnderwaterCompetition.com is offering more than $75,000 in prizes. These prizes include premium dive travel holidays, underwater photo and video equipment, scuba diving gear and more. The deadline for submissions is January 15th 2009. Photographers of all levels are invited to join the contest. …
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Following last week’s announcement of new Macbooks from Apple, Other World Computing is offering hard drive upgrades for the Mac laptop computers. OWC has a full selection of new 7200RPM and 5400RPM 2.5†SATA internal hard drives in capacities up to 500GB for Apple’s MacBook, MacBook Pro 15â€, and MacBook Pro 17″ models. The company …
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The German company LaserSoft Imaging now offers the SilverFast Archive Suite, a bundle of two scanner programs that allows fast and easy archiving of photographic slides, negatives and reflective originals. The bundle also incorporates a professional-grade Color Management System. The SilverFast Archive Suite includes LaserSoft’s SilverFast Ai IT8 Studio and SilverFast HDR Studio, and offers …
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German lens maker Carl Zeiss AG introduces their PhotoScope 85 T* FL, a new spotting scope featuring a 7-megapixel digital camera with a super tele-lens in one unit and offers a magnification range of 15-45x for observation and outdoor photography. It enables the simultaneous observation and image capture of faraway or small objects. The new …
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