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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Adobe Fixes Annoying Lightroom Launch When Card is Detected
Adobe Systems Inc has released new versions of Lightroom, Camera Raw and DNG Converter software. The updates can now be downloaded from their website, free for licensed users of the applications. The new versions add support for Raw files from five new cameras manufactured by Nikon, Olympus and Panasonic. In full, the list of newly …
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X-Rite Introduces ColorChecker Passport
X-Rite has announced the ColorChecker Passport that the company says offers an all-new solution for digital photographers working in a Raw workflow to quickly and easily capture accurate color, instantly enhance portraits and landscapes, and maintain color control from capture to edit. “We developed Passport for photographers in a digital workflow, those working in Raw …
Adobe Press Offers Photoshop Tutorials in the iPhone
Pearson’s Adobe Press today announced an innovative iPhone and iPod touch application that introduces the most essential topics in Photoshop CS4. It’s your Photoshop tutorial in the iPhone. Pearson said Adobe Photoshop CS4: Learn by Video features two hours of high-quality video tutorials from Adobe Certified Instructor Gabriel Powell. The new application is based on …
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Kyocera Printhead Claims World’s Fastest Inkjet Printing
Kyocera Corporation today announced that it has developed the world’s fastest inkjet printhead — the key component in inkjet printing equipment. Each nozzle in the new KJ4 Series printhead ejects ink at up to 60,000 dots per second (at 60kHz drive frequency); with 2,656 nozzles per head, the device is capable of printing approximately 150 …
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SanDisk Launches Extreme Pro CF Cards
The new SanDisk Extreme Pro CompactFlash line of memory cards boasts an advanced memory controller that enables read and write speeds of up to 90MB/s. The cards are now shipping worldwide with capacities ranging from 16 gigabytes (GB) to 64GB with prices ranging from $300 to $800. The company said their new SanDisk Power Core …
Scanning Software Hamrick VueScan 8.5.26 Now Available
Hamrick Software has released VueScan 8.5.26 which uses Google’s Tesseract OCR code to further improve its optical character recognition capability. In addition, the new version now supports OCR in 33 languages with built-in support for English, French and German languages. Hamrick said their customer base now exceeds 200,000. “Over the past 10 years we have …
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Carl Zeiss Launches New Distagon T* 3.5/18 ZE Wide Angle Lens
The new Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 3.5/18 ZE ultra-wide lens for Canon EOS SLRs will start shipping in autumn 2009 at a retail price of €1,049 or about US$1,530. The new lens boasts an extremely wide 99°-angle view that is suitable especially for full-frame sensor cameras in landscape and architecture photography. Carl Zeiss said despite …
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Western Digital Outs Smaller, Smarter, Safer My Passport Drives
Western Digital’s new My Passport Essential for the PC and My Passport for the Mac are now 20 percent smaller than the previous generation. The company says the new external mobile drives are also smarter and safer. The new drives feature WD’s SmartWare software for automatic back-up and hardware-based encryption for security. The WD SmartWare …
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The Leica X1 Camera is Also Here (Almost!)
The Leica X1, announced today in the shadow of its more famous brother, the M9, will be available in January 2010. Price is still to be announced, but as it is from Leica, this one’s set to be the rich man’s point-and-shoot. The interesting thing about the Leica X1 is that the company took the …
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