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The new Ricoh CX6 compact digital camera boasts high-speed AF, as fast as 0.1 second, and zoom assist monitor for easier telephoto photography. The CX6 also claims to be able to do macro shots as close as 1cm and go from 28mm wide angle to 300mm zoom with its original retracting lens system, making it …
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Google is calling for entries from student photographers all over the world. The Google Photography Prize will award over 100 Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphones as prizes, and the top ten finalists will have their work showcased for two months at the Saatchi Gallery in London. Grand prize is a once-in-a-lifetime photography trip to a destination …
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Leica has released new firmware, Version 1.174, for the M9 rangefinder style digital camera updating its SD card driver to fix a compatibility issue with some new SD memory cards where some users would lose photos in the camera. Despite the update, Leica still warns that the SanDisk Extreme Pro SDHC I UHS-I and SanDisk …
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O’Reily has announced a new book, Plateaus and Canyons: Impressions of the American SouthWest by Bruce Barnbaum (Rocky Nook, 220pp, $44.95 USD), an anthology of photographic essays on the remarkable colors of Antelope Canyon, Horseshoe Bend, Factory Butte, Colorado River Plateau, White Cliffs, Painted Desert, and so many other Southwest American locations. In a series …
The Make It Possible photo contest from PocketWizard is calling for entries from photographers all over the world. No entry fees. You just have to be at least 18 years of age. Entries to the contest must have been taken with a minimum of one off-camera flash triggered using PocketWizard radios. In other wods, submit …
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The SD Association is collaborating with GlobalPlatform to include smart-chip technology in SD standards to enable mobile phones and other portable CE devices to provide authentication services with SD memory cards. The SD Association, which now has about 1,000 members spearheaded by Panasonic, SanDisk Corp and Toshiba Corp, is an alliance of companies to promote …
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Adobe has announced the Lightroom 3.6 Release Candidate, adding support for new cameras and lenses, and fixing a number of issues. The new cameras supported by LR 3.6 RC are the Canon PowerShot S100, Nikon 1 J1, Nikon 1 V1, Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX1 and Samsung NX5. Newer lenses from Canon, Nikon, Phase One, Sigma and …
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