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Sears and Kmart will be the first retailers to offer GE-branded digital cameras. The retail chains which are both owned by Sears Holdings, will begin carrying GE cameras in their U.S. stores around Memorial Day. They will offer the A730, GE’s entry-level camera, in standard black. Under an exclusive agreement with General Imaging, Sears will …
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Pentax has announced that there is a Remote Assistant 3 software that K10D owners can use to control the functions of the camera while tethered to a computer via a USB cable. In studio photography, tethered shooting can be quite useful for providing instant feedback from the computer. The PC’s monitor, for one, provides a …
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Samsung Electronics is aiming for a top-3 slot in camera sales worldwide by shipping 13-million units this year. In 2006, they shipped 8.6-million units which made them number 5 or 6. Samsung made the announcement in Taipei Wednesday as it launched two new camera models, the i7 and i70, in the Taiwan market. In Taiwan …
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Vertus has launched the public beta of its Fluid Mask 3 “for rapid, powerful and intuitive masking and high-quality image blending.†Fluid Mask claims worldwide acclaim as the fastest and most accurate masking tool on the market. With improvements to the initial image processing time, Fluid Mask 3 users who are operating multiple processors will …
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This guy here does not like Adobe Lightroom. He says it’s slow and its image editing toolset is very limited. Photographer Paul Butzi said on his website that Lightroom even has silly limitations like the 10K pixel limit that prevent him from using it for all his images. He describes Lightroom as “a bigger, more …
Race car driver Jeremy J. Braun, who’s also got a keen eye for business, has launched his own line of digital video recording products designed to record movies of extreme sports. The EdgeCamera will mount on almost any surface, can record up to two hours of solid excitement, and weighs less than a pound. You …
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Digital specialist MyMemory and Durell Wildlife Conservation Trust are launching a photo competition that will give the first prize winner a trip to Madagascar. Details are still to be announced before the contest officially starts on June 4, 2007 but organizers say the top winner will win a place on a Durell-led exhibition to Madagascar …
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Olympus Europe has released Volume 5 of its Olympus Digital Library answering frequently asked questions on digital photography. The PDF handbook goes into the nitty-gritty of digital photography to make new users understand how digital cameras work and enable them to take digital photos by understanding such terms as metering systems, exposure, focus, white balance, …
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YouSendIt is an online service for sending large files across the Internet. They have expanded their service by offering to the public a free downloadable plug-in that allows files and pictures to be uploaded directly from Photoshop. The plug-in of course requires that you have a YouSendIt account first. You have a choice of signing …
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LightZone 3.0 photo editing software is now out in the market offering new photo management tools and enhanced features, such as instant styles, that should make it faster and easier for everyone to edit photographs. Software developer Light Crafts says photographers can quickly convey what they saw, or what they want to evoke, often with …
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