Monthly Archives: July 2007

Nik Software says its Dfine 2.0 noise reduction plug-in for Adobe Photoshop is now available for download or purchase from their online store. The company says Dfine 2.0 has been completely redesigned to provide even higher quality noise reduction with an efficient workflow developed for photographers. The plug-in features selective noise reduction, enhanced with the …

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Another camera introduced by Fujifilm today is the FinePix S8000fd, an 8-megapixel, SLR-styled model with a fixed lens featuring an 18x zoom. That’s a 27mm-486mm zoom equivalent in 35mm terms. The S8000fd features Fujifilm’s Face Detection technology, identifying up to 10 faces in a framed scene and prioritizing them in focus and exposure to get …

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Fujifilm announced seven new cameras today but what immediately caught our attention was the FinePix F50fd, the latest iteration of the highly acclaimed F31fd which inaugurated the face detection feature in Fujifilm cameras. The F50fd looks impressive on paper: 12 megapixels, 7th generation Super CCD with a 3.0x optical zoom and a 2.7″ high-resolution 230,000 …

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The Canon Professional Network (CPN) is currently featuring video resources for the Canon EOS 5D and EOS-1D Mark III in its Masterclass series. In the first feature, David Newton, CPN’s Technical Editor, describes some of the features of the full frame sensor EOS 5D digital SLR and explains why this might be the ideal camera …

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The 15th Digital Photography Bootcamp workshop by Kevin Kubota is now open for reservations. It is scheduled for April 20-25, 2007 in the same venue at Rock Springs Guest Ranch in Bend, Oregon. The weeklong photography workshop will set you back $2495 but previous participants say it’s all worth it. “It saved me ten years …

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The Artist’s Guide to GIMP Effects by Michael J. Hammel is now off the press and will be released to the market next month. Published by No Starch Press, the book will retail at $44.95. The beautiful 4-color book shows GIMP users how to harness all of the image editor’s powerful features. The GIMP is …

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Road & Track is where you’ll find high quality photos of your favorite cars. The pictures are taken by professional automotive photographers from Road & Track Magazine so you can be pretty sure they’re top-notch. The Road & Track Photo Store Site includes photo galleries of English, American, French, Italian, German, and Japanese cars, as …

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Sigma has two new lenses that should appeal to owners of the Nikon D40 and D40x. The Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8 – 4.5 DC Macro HSM and the Sigma 18-50mm F/2.8 EX DC Macro HSM lenses are equipped with Hyper Sonic Motors (that’s the HSM there) to enable autofocus with the D40 and D40x. The new …

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PopPhoto Magazine has named the Panasonic Leica D Vario-Elmar 14-150mm f/3.5-4.5 ASPH Lens of the Year in its July/August 2007 issue. The new Leica lens’ zoom is equivalent to 28-300mm in 35mm parlance. PopPhoto cited its built-in optical image stabilization (Panasonic’s Mega O.I.S.) as a valuable asset for sharp handheld shooting at its longer focal …

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The Kodak EasyShare C513 digital camera is a 5-megapixel entry level shooter that the company says will produce high-quality images no matter how experienced the photographer may be, because of its CMOS image sensor. Kodak is breaking new grounds here. This is the first to use a CMOS image sensor, their own KAC-05011; until now, …

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