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Canon USA today issued a service notice acknowledging and offering to fix the autofocus mirror adjustment problem with the professional grade EOS-1D Mark III digital SLR camera. Canon said, “After a thorough investigation, we have found that some EOS-1D Mark III cameras may have an issue with the mirror mechanism, which is part of the …
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The HDRI Handbook: High Dynamic Range Imaging for Photographers and CG Artists by Christian Bloch is now off the press and available for $50. The new book is packed with practical hints and tips, software evaluations, workshops, and hands-on tutorials that reveal the secrets of HDRI. High Dynamic Range Imaging is a method to digitally …
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Kodak’s most memorable moves this year were blasting down a few of its obsolete plants in spectacular fashion. Awesome sights, like its Bldg. 9 blasting last June and Bldg. 23 implosion last July. Oh yes, they also ventured into making and selling inkjet printers that promised to bring lower cost by discarding the razor-and-blades strategy …
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Without much fanfare, Apple today updated its MacBook line of notebook PCs, equipping them with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors, Santa Rosa flavor, with speeds of 2GHz and above. The new MacBooks also get speed bumps in the graphics department, with the GMA X3100 integrated video replacing the old GMA 950. The 13.3â€-screened …
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Fujifilm Japan today announced the FinePix F480 wide-angle (28mm) compact camera featuring an 8.2-megapixel CCD image sensor, 4x zoom and a 2.7-inch LCD screen. The new camera has light sensitivity settings of up to ISO 800 and sports a Blur Reduction mode. It can also record video in Motion JPEG at 30 frames per second. …
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Walmart is now Christmasing with quite a few goodies at very low prices, among them the Toshiba HD-A2 DVD player which is now selling for under $100. That’s an HD DVD player, mind, outputting 720p and 1080i. Toshiba still tags this at $300 MSRP at their site. The HD-A2 player gives a high definition playback …
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