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Manfrotto has launched a “new, improved†Manfrotto School of Excellence. It now features free tutorials from world-class photographers. The School offers free tutorials from beginner to advanced level from photographers Bill Frakes, Roberto Bigano, Joe McNally, Ami Elsius, Drew Gardner, Joe McNally, Marc de Tollenaere, Kristoff Ramon, David Duchemin, Jim Oltersdorf and Cliff Guy. Tutorial …
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Canon EXPO 2010 is happening September 2 and 3 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City. It’s not just about the camera, of course, but everything Canon: office equipment, print production and graphic arts, broadcasting technologies, health care, security and, yes, photography. Canon EXPO happens once every five years, so expect …
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The Wedding & Portrait Photographers International (WPPI) is taking its professional photography seminars on the road this August and September. The 2nd WPPI Road Trip features a full day of educational classes covering topics such as Business and Marketing, Lighting, Posing, Wedding and Portrait photography, Photoshop and Post-Production workflows. The Road Trip will take place …
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Japan’s Toshiba and Singapore’s Trek 2000 have jointly launched an industry forum to promote a new SD card with Wi-Fi capabilities. (Eye-Fi? Yes, Eye-Fi’s been there, done that – long ago.) The “Standard Promotion Forum for Memory Cards Embedding Wireless LAN†appears to be duplicating what has been perfected by Eye-Fi, which started work on …
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Video-sharing site Vimeo is calling for entries to its first-ever Vimeo Awards. People from around the world can submit videos in 9 categories: Narrative, Documentary, Animation, Experimental, Music Video, Motion Graphics, Remix, Captured and Original Series. To top it all is the Vimeo Award which is the best of all categories to receive a $25,000 …
Fujifilm’s new medium format film camera, the GF670 Professional, is now available in the United Kingdom. The GF670 is also sold as the Voigtländer Bessa III for the rest of Europe. The new folding camera, with bellows, offers 6†x 6†and 6†x 7†format shooting, selectable via a simple switch, with 120 and …
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The rugged Pentax Optio W90 will soon be available in orange, in addition to green and black. Designed with the look of mountaineering equipment, the orange Optio W90 kit also includes a woven web fabric strap complete with a carabiner to attach the camera to a backpack and other outdoor gear. The Pentax Optio W90 …
Sigma Corporation is reporting autofocus defects with some of their recently produced lenses: the APO 50-500mm F4.5-6.3 DG OS HSM, APO 120-400mm F4.5-5.6 DG OS HSM and APO 150-500mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM lenses. The lens maker said the AF issue could possibly occur in some lenses within the following range of serial numbers: SN …
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RED One CEO Jim Jannard admits there is a problem with the launch of their EPIC and Scarlet cameras. Apparently, the contractor company that was to make Scarlet cannot continue and Jannard has to find a new manufacturing partner to make those products. “We have a bug. Seems like a major one. We need your …
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Nikon Corporation has disclosed that Russian cosmonauts will use Nikon gear in the International Space Station. The Nikon gear will fly to the ISS tomorrow, June 16. Orders have been received by the Japanese company for one Nikon D3S and two Nikon D3X digital-SLR cameras, four interchangeable lenses including AF-S NIKKOR 400mm f/2.8G ED VR, …
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