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VisibleDust has announced that its digital camera sensor cleaning products will soon be available in France, Germany, Japan and the UK, after Bogen Imaging and KATA UK agree to distribute their product range. VisibleDust, Inc. is a Canadian biotech company which uses its knowledge and research of biochip technology to advance the science of removing …
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Olympus today revealed a lineup of seven new cameras targeted at various consumer levels. Leading the pack is the 7.1-megapixel SP-550 UZ Ultra Zoom with an 18x super telephoto optical zoom lens (28-504mm equivalent); that kind of zoom gives you the ability to shoot telephoto, wide angle and macro, according to an Olympus announcement. The …
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Microsoft has released a free tool for photographers to add, change, and delete ‘metadata’ properties from inside Windows Explorer. Microsoft Photo Info v.1.0 is a 4MB download that adds a “Photo Info†item on the context menu for files selected in Windows Explorer, and with it the user may edit metadata for files individually, or …
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Your Sony/KM or Pentax mount will soon be able to accommodate the new Sigma APO 70-200mm F2.8 EX DG Macro HSM (whew! why don’t we just call this the “wombatâ€) lens. This large aperture zoom lens for digital SLR cameras lets you get up close to the wombat without being bitten. Levity aside, this lens …
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PhotoAcute Studio was already a capable image enhancing software when it first came out, but now it got even better. Version 2.10 now allows the user to extract high-quality still frames from digital video. This could be useful, not only on a personal level when you want to extract a few shots from your family …
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A new technology to automatically improve the quality of every scanned image? Visioneer boasts so. Says their scanners now come with both Visioneer OneTouch and Kofax VRS (Virtual ReScan) technologies that result in scanned images that are of the best quality possible in one simple step. You may recall that in 1998 Visioneer was among …
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Airport International is what ThinkTank Photo calls its new rolling backpack. And it’s especially designed for photographers who do a lot of air travel with their cameras and gear. The carry-on backpack lets photographers legally store their bodies, lenses, and accessories in overhead bins or under the seats of international carriers and smaller regional commuter …
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Pentax has two new offerings in the compact digicam department: the redesigned Optio M30 and the slim Optio T30. The mid-level M30 (above, top photo) has been redesigned from its M20 predecessor, now offering 7.1-megapixel and a slimmer body, and adds a higher ISO 3200 sensitivity. The $200 M30’s aluminum body measures only 0.7-inch thick …
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Corel Corporation is giving away free copies of its Snapfire Plus SE digital photo software through motherboard maker ASUSTek. ASUS is bundling the software with its complete line of motherboards on a global basis, so you get a free copy of Corel Snapfire when you buy an ASUS motherboard anywhere in the world. Corel said …
The Photodex ProShow Gold 3 slideshow software has a number of customization options allowing the user to create simple to elaborate digital photo slide shows for computer and TV playback. There is much to like about ProShow Gold, according to about.com’s Sue Chastain, like the hundreds of transitions with preview capability and the many output …