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HP has launched its Color Your Dreams digital art-photo contest in the Asia-Pacific region. The contest is open to creative professionals and amateurs who reside in Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. The photo/art contest is in cooperation with Adobe Systems, Inc. The prizes include …
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A new website has been launched to address the interests of users of the Four Thirds digital camera system. The Four Thirds User (FTU) website features news, reviews, photo galleries, tutorials and other articles specific to the system. It is published by the UK-based Write Technology Ltd. who also publishes DPNow.com. FTU is targeted at …
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Panasonic USA today announced the latest Lumix DMC-FZ18 digital camera equipped with such a very long zoom you can shoot all the way to the moon. Okay, I’m exaggerating a little, but you get the idea. The DMC-FZ18 features 18x optical zoom, equivalent to a jaw-dropping 28-504mm on a 35mm film camera. To get a …
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Digital Film Tools (DFT) today released Power Mask 1.0, touted as a real-time interactive masking tool that can extract even the most difficult objects in an image – fine hair detail, smoke or reflections. The user simply paints along the edge of the object to be extracted and the mask or the final composite can …
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Leica Camera AG has issued a firmware update for the Leica Digital Modul R digital back camera. Firmware 1.3 accomplishes the following optimizations: Improved colour rendering on the Digital-Modul-R display Adjustment of exposure Improved compatibility of SD cards with FAT 32 system /4 GB cards (not SDHC) Numerous internal procedures were implemented that optimise the …
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Kingston has introduced the 4GB miniSDHC, the newest member of their expanding Secure Digital High Capacity line of memory cards. The tiny (21 x 20 x 1.4mm) card is poised to support the next generation of mobile phones, PDAs, MP3 players and other digital devices requiring larger capacities and faster speeds in a small form …
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Kingston CompactFlash Ultimate now comes with 266x speed, that’s 45MB/sec. read and 40MB/sec. write specifically, to provide professional photographers the speed they need for high-res continuous shooting. The new speed is twice the minimum sustained write speed previously available in the Ultimate line of Kingston’s CF memory cards. The new Ultimate cards will also have …
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This face detection technology can tell whether a subject is a man or a woman, angry or sad, happy or puzzled. And the algorithm works so fast that even a standard PC can track mood changes live. This new system for rapid facial analysis is being developed by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated …
iStockphoto is giving away a total of $40,000 to mark what it calls “Punctum Day†on August 19. It was on that day 168 years ago, that Louis Daguerre formally introduced the camera to the world. The cash prizes – $5,000 for each of 8 category winners – will be given to the best creative …
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It’s Breast Cancer Awareness month in October, and Casio will be offering a limited edition camera bundle to mark the occasion. It’s a pink bundle consisting of a pink 7.2 megapixel Casio Exilim EX-Z75 and a carrying case and lanyard with a pink ribbon. “We hope that by purchasing the EX-Z75 in honor of breast …