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Phase One is offering customers security – a guaranteed trade-in plan – when they buy a Phase One medium format digital camera body or digital back. Eligible customers who have purchased their products from an authorized Phase One partner, and wish to upgrade to a new product within 6 months of its official launch, are …
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Kingston UK is calling for entries to their Autumn photography competition, open to residents of the European Union 12 years or older. Theme of the contest is simply “Autumn” and is open to individual interpretation, but photos entered should be unique, artistic and capture your definition of autumn. Three winners will be chosen and each will …
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The new Kingston Ultimate 600x CompactFlash memory card reaches maximum speed of 90MB/sec, read and write, and is targeted at photographers shooting in burst mode – wedding and sports photographers, photojournalists, and DSLR videographers. Kingston said the CF Ultimate 600x is available in 16GB and 32GB capacities to support the large file sizes created when …
For photographers who have taken to HD video capture with their DSLRs, and for video enthusiasts in general, Nero is offering two new products: Nero Multimedia Suite 10 Platinum HD and Nero Video Premium HD. With these tools, Nero promises complete HD experience with the introduction of Blu-ray playback, new HD effects, and the ability …
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Pixelmator 1.6.1 is now available, updating the GPU-powered image editing tool to create, edit, and enhance still images. The Pixelmator Team says the update features powerful selection, painting, retouching, navigation, color correction tools, layers-based image editing and much more. Built from the ground up on a combination of open source and Mac OS X technologies, …
Photodex has released the latest version of their slideshow software for Windows, ProShow 4.5, which adds automatic show creation with an all-new wizard and hundreds of new transitions and effects. In addition, ProShow Producer users can build their own transitions with the new Create Transition tool. Photodex said ProShow’s new wizard intelligently mixes a user’s …
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Panasonic Japan has new firmware updates for the Lumix DMC-TZ10, DMC-FP1, DMC-FP2 and DMC-FP3 digital compact cameras. Firmware Version 1.2 improves the TZ10’s GPS calculation speed, while Version 1.1 for the FP1, FP2 and FP3 cameras enhances the performance of the red-eye removal function. The firmware updates are available for download from Panasonic Japan. [Site: …
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The new Epson Stylus Pro 4900 17-inch printer is targeted at professional photographers looking for color precision and a super-wide color gamut for fine art printing. The Epson Stylus Pro 4900 boasts outstanding color consistency and accurate color matching with the advanced halftoning technology of its printer driver, coupled with Epson’s 11-colour UltraChrome HDR inks …
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The new Sigma APO 120-300mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM telephoto zoom lens promises improved optical performance over the previous version of this lens, which lacked the OS function. Sigma says the new lens provides excellent correction of sagittal coma flare and ensures ultra-high resolution, comparable to a fixed focal length lens. This large aperture …
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The blurb says “Sigma SD1 – digital SLR camera with full color image sensor,” making it sound like your Nikon D3S or Canon EOS 1D Mark IV does not really capture all those colors. And that is the gist of Sigma’s newest SD1 DSLR, on display now at Photokina 2010. The SD1 boasts a 46-megapixel 24-16mm …
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