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The author of Alice in Wonderland, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll, 1832 – 1898), was a photography buff. This was at a time when photography was a rather complicated, intricate and cumbersome business. Film did not exist in the 1850s and Charles – who was a math teacher at Oxford – had to pour …
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If you’re the typical technophile who owns a digital camera, a videocam and mobile phone – multiple versions of these devices, in fact – you probably are the proud owner of several memory cards in various flavors. The problem is how do you keep them? Japan’s Elecom Company offers a solution, its MR-C12 card reader …
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Qimage is billed as a professional photographic printing application developed by ddisoftware to make image printing easy and painless by eliminating the need to resample images to higher resolutions, manually place images on printed pages, make touchups and apply filters in separate photo editors, etc. ddisoftware says that while it is not designed to replace …
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There’s a new website, Iloho, which is calling for entries to what it calls a travel photography competition. It dangles free 1GB USB sticks and speakers for MP3 players as a come-on to would be entrants who could upload ten pictures or more to the website. The images they are after are those of landmarks …
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Xerox Corporation is mounting a serious challenge to HP’s dominance in the printer market with the launch today of five new multifunction products and printers, including two that use solid ink technology. The new Xerox Phaser 8860 color printer and the 8860MFP color multifunction printer are the first printers to use a solid ink technology …
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BenQ has added another model to its slim line of digital cameras. The new T800 sports a 3-inch touch screen LCD and an 8-megapixel CCD image sensor in a slim body that’s barely 15mm thick. The BenQ T800 boasts a 3x smc Pentax zoom lens and a Face Tracking function that can detect and track …
Adobe today announced two new upgrades to its digital photo and video software for consumers, Photoshop Elements 6 and Premiere Elements 4. Photoshop Elements 6, priced at $100, is what you might buy if you can’t afford the $650 price of Photoshop CS3, though you might also want to consider Corel’s Pro Photo X2, priced …
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Beneath the Sea 2008 is calling for entries to its annual underwater photo/video competition. The contest is open to all photographers and videographers around the world. There will be three top prizes: the David Doubilet award for excellence in underwater photography will include a trip to Papua New Guinea, the winner of the Stan Waterman …
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As a stock photographer, why do you have to upload photos regularly? Because search results are often sorted by age, fresh images come out first. So keep those pictures coming at least every week, not only to keep your portfolio fresh but also to keep your enthusiasm alive. This is one of the tips offered …
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The Association of Photographers (AOP) did their own calculations to find out that it’s disadvantageous for Getty Images to sell $49 licenses for images across all licensing models (RM, RR, RF). The AOP have added their voices to the opposition against Getty’s plan. It said, “The launch of such a model means that photographers who …
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