Monthly Archives: July 2007

Imagine yourself in a safari, in the Kalahari (or maybe in the bushes of Africa, munching tapioca) and you scour the landscape looking out for fauna and maybe for Fiona; what’s the best gear to bring? Why a binocular and a camera will do fine, of course. And Leica has just such a set for …

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The Strobist website points us to three fine sources for small gels that photographers can use with small speedlights. Mpex.com offers $14.95 gel packs good for 4-5 sets, with some free samples thrown in for good measure. Photogels.com sells pre-cut color correction gels for small flashes. Each pack comes with 10 different gels so you’ll …

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The U.S. subsidiary of Japan’s Casio Computer Co., Ltd. now wants to be called Casio America. Effective August 1, 2007 Casio, Inc. will officially switch to the new name to reflect the company’s sales responsibility in both the United States and Canada and will allow for more effective communication with retail executives and the company’s …

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Pentax today released Version 1.30 of its firmware for the K10D digital SLR, adding support to Pentax DA Lenses with built-in SDM (Supersonic Drive Motor). The new firmware also includes enhancements from the previous versions 1.10 and 1.20, updating the remote assistant, adding wireless control of the external flash through built-in flash and allowing ISO …

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British photographer Martin Parr is holding a photo exhibit July 7-Aug. 26 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Yebisu Garden Place in the Japanese capital. “Martin Parr: Fashion Magazine” is the Englishman’s witty critique of the style sense and social taste of wealthy nations, poking fun at things such as bad fashion and mass …

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Here are a few tips on posing that you can pass on to your models. It’s all about being natural, feeling comfortable and being confident. Photographer Bob Pardue, who happens to be both a professional model and fashion photographer, says there is more to becoming a model than just standing there looking beautiful. It needs …

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Canon India is trying to persuade customers against the gray market by initiating a Canon Edge Program, an attractive finance scheme to encourage and educate customers to buy Canon Digital SLR cameras from authorized Canon dealers. Customers can buy a Canon EOS camera on credit with 0% interest in the finance scheme – along with …

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A comparison between two identically configured Dell notebook PCs shows that Ubuntu Linux operating system is only $50 cheaper than Windows Vista Home Basic. The Dell Inspiron 1420 laptops were equipped with the Intel Core 2 Duo T5250 processor, 1GB DDR2 RAM, 80GB SATA HDD and Combo optical drives. The one installed with Ubuntu Linux …

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Taiwan’s BenQ has expanded its digital camera lineup with the addition of the E820 and C740i compact cameras both featuring 2.5-inch screens and Pentax lenses. The BenQ C740i, is an upgrade to the BenQ C740. It features a 7 Megapixels CCD image sensor, 3x optical zoom, continuous movie recording with optical zoom and a face-tracking …

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Nature Photographer and Jacksonville Camera Club president John Reed is holding a photography workshop on July 21, 2007 at the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia. The workshop will cover fundamental concepts for working on images in the digital darkroom and will also offer demonstrations of techniques particularly suited to nature photography. The one-day workshop …

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