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Ian Burley of DPNow.com has posted a pictorial report of the just-finished Focus on Imaging trade show, Feb 24-27, at the Birmingham NEC in the UK. With over 40 photos, Ian takes us to the show floor, to the various booths of participating companies like major players Nikon, Canon, Pentax, Kodak, Epson, Sigma, Leaf, Bowens, …
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Now that the high definition format war is over, Primera Technology, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of automated CD, DVD and Blu-ray Disc duplication and printing equipment based in Plymouth, Minnesota, has declared its full and complete support of Blu-ray Disc technology across its entire product line. Mark D. Strobel, Primera’s vice president of sales …
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Here’s how to uglify your stylish compact digital camera: wrap it up in a Snug-it silicon cover from HSGI of Japan. The company says no, it does not hide the beauty of the camera; it protects your camera from harm. You just never know when you’re going to need this kind of rubber for your …
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Apple has released beefed up models of the MacBook Pro notebook line featuring up to 2.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with up to 4GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM memory. The updated MacBook Pro also offers up to 300GB hard drives and NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics with up to 512MB of video …
The digital camera marketplace looks set for a continuing boom. According to the research firm Global Industry Analysts, Inc., the world digital camera market is projected to reach 122 million units by the year 2010, extending the upward trend for the industry since digital cameras started about a decade ago. The growth is driven by …
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Amherst Media today released a new book, Jeff Smith‘s Posing Techniques for Location Portrait Photography, offering to teach a new skill set about posing outside of the studio. In this book, Smith teaches the basics of great head-to toe posing. He shows classical approaches used to create a pleasing rendition of the human form, as …
The open platform Phase One medium format camera is set to launch on March 19, 2008, according to Bo Abildgren, the company’s product manager. Abildgren said Phase One will formally introduce the camera at the WPPI trade show in Las Vegas on March 17-19. The new medium format camera has been co-developed with Mamiya Digital …
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In Episode 122 of Photoshop User TV, Matt Kloskowski uses the Auto-Align Layers tool of Photoshop CS3 to combine happy faces from two photos to complete a picture where everybody is smiling. Dave Cross shows us how to make a convincing enlargement of a portion of a photo to allow a subsequent desired cropping. Matt …
Calumet Photographic has released another instructional DVD in its ImageMaker series, The Essence of Photography with John Upton. It’s a guide for beginners and advanced amateurs who want to learn photography. Upton is co-author of the book Photography, the major college textbook that has dominated introductory college courses in photography since its publication in 1976, …
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Panasonic UK is offering a free 16GB Pro high speed SD card if you buy the Panasonic LUMIX DMC-L10 DSLR camera before the end of April 2008. This promotion is offered via participating retail outlets in the United Kingdom. It offers the Panasonic 16GB Pro High Speed SD card with part number RP-SDV16GE1K. Aside from …
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