Zoner Software Releases Photo Studio 12 Image Editor

Zoner Photo Studio 12 is a photo management, editing and sharing application for Windows. It helps you acquire, organize and browse through your photos while enhancing the pictures. You can also convert and edit images and apply a broad range of photo effects using the photo editor. In the latest version, the module for RAW …

Hasselblad Releases Phocus 2.0 Imaging Software

Hasselblad has released Version 2.0 of its post-process workflow software, Hasselblad Phocus. The updated version boasts a range of new features, such as an improved user interface that reduces the learning curve for high-end imaging. Hasselblad Phocus 2.0 now includes: • Advanced Highlights Recovery, Shadow Fill and Clarity tool • Ability to use floating tools …

LaCie Rikiki Offers Tiny Hard Drive With Big Capacity

Rikiki means “tiny” in French and LaCie Rikiki is one of the smallest mobile hard drives on the market today. Measuring only 110cm (4.33 inches) but packing up to 640GB of storage capacity, it’s perfect for anyone who needs to bring along their large collections of music, photos and other digital files. The LaCie Rikiki …

Rocky Nook Releases Practical Digital Photomicrography by Brian Matsumoto

The new book, Practical Digital Photomicrography by Dr. Brian Matsumoto (Rocky Nook, 250 pages, hard cover, $69.95), is an introduction to digital photography through the microscope in which readers will learn about the three camera types used in photomicrography (point and shoot consumer cameras, digital single lens reflex cameras, and professional (scientific) photomicrography instruments) and …

Nik Software Releases Faster, Easier Viveza 2

Nik Software is now shipping Viveza 2. This latest upgrade to the photo editing software includes new global adjustments and precise selective color and light control, according to the company. Viveza 2 touts its patented U Point technology, billed as the most powerful and precise tool available to globally and selectively control light and color …

New from O’Reilly: Mastering the Nikon D5000 by Darrell Young

Owners of the newest budget-friendly Nikon D5000 DSLR will find Darrell Young’s “Mastering the Nikon D5000” a useful and comprehensive guide that will take them from the basics through the intricacies of the feature-laden camera. The small and lightweight Nikon D5000 mixes generous portions of user-controlled manual photography features with the latest technological innovations, allowing …

Call for Entries to The Can-DO Film Festival and Competition

Canon is calling for entries to the first ever Can-DO Film Festival and Competition from January 1 to March 20, 2010. Entries being sought are short videos shot on Canon’s video-capable DSLRs like the EOS 1D Mark IV, 5D Mark II, 7D or Rebel T1i (EOS 500D). The short film cannot be more than four …

Photodex Releases Improved ProShow Producer 4.1

ProShow Producer 4.1 from Photodex offers to make it easy to get your slide shows online with integrated uploading to Facebook, Vimeo and Twitter. Just enter your username and password and your slide show will be uploaded directly to your Facebook or Vimeo account. Version 4.1 also makes managing, filtering and adding styles to your …

DxOMark Looks at New Category for Advance Compacts

DxO Labs has published detailed RAW-based image quality data and DxOMark Sensor rankings on its www.dxomark.com website for Canon PowerShot G11, S90 and EOS 7D, Sony A500 and A550, Pentax K7 and Nikon D300s and D3000. The interesting thing is on the new compact camera category, which DxO refers to as Advanced Compacts. This is …

Nikon Announces AF-S NIKKOR 300mm f/2.8G ED VR II Lens

Despite its monster size, the new AF-S NIKKOR 300mm f/2.8G ED VR II is comparatively compact for its class, according to Nikon, weighing in at 2.98kg (aww!) and measuring 124 x 267.5mm (double aww!). It is priced at $5900 (make that triple aww!). The new lens features the new generation of Vibration Reduction technology (VR …