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Hasselblad has introduced its Customer Care Program, a comprehensive new service and replacement package for the H-System. The company said the program offers a range of attractive service, upgrade, and warranty options to all Hasselblad H-System camera owners, and is designed to provide their customers with an easy and attractive way to ensure the long-term …
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The Cyber-shot DSC-W300 is at the top of Sony’s compact point-and-shoot product line, boasting 13.6 megapixels and a 3x zoom Carl Zeiss lens. Its metal body is titanium-coated to make it highly resistant to scratches. One good thing about it is that they retained an eye-level viewfinder in the W300; that bright 2.7-inch LCD screen …
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Use the flash, of course. And hope you get it right. Or we can follow the technique described in Adorama’s 100 in 100. It’s actually a tip on how to photograph speeding race cars at night, applicable also for shooting a Jaguar zipping by. Joe Farace writes, “One of the problems of using flash is …
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Shootsac, a company which specializes in fashion accessories for photographers, has introduced 12 new True Color cover fabrics for its wearable lens bag. The new fabrics feature contemporary colors, patterns and textures and are styled as Brazen, Blackout, Bamboo, Blush, Cowboy, Clever, Conservative, High Gloss, Paddock Shawl, Square, Spinner and Wild. Shootsac bags are designed …
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As a beginning photographer who has just acquired his first digital SLR camera, you might have shot in RAW and maybe even memorized its definition: it’s a digital negative, it’s an unprocessed image file, it has a lot of metadata, etc. But because you have been shooting JPEG all your life and also because RAW, …
Tip: You can use anti-shake even in broad daylight to sharpen your shot. Anti-shake – known as Image Stabilization in Canon cameras and Vibration Reduction in Nikon – is a very useful feature not only in low light conditions, so that you can shoot with a longer shutter time to allow more light in; it …
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There’s a splendid piece of glass to be won if you’re a photographer with a digital SLR in the Four Thirds system made by Olympus, Panasonic Lumix and Leica. FourThirds-User.com has launched a photo contest exclusive to those photographers and the grand prize is an Olympus Digital Zuiko 7-14mm f/4 super wide zoom lens. It’s …
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Polaroid has disclosed additional details on its instant mobile photo printer that uses the ZINK or zero-ink technology. It has posted the technical specs and other details on its website. The Polaroid Digital Instant Photo Printer offers an inkless printing process that allows you to make instant prints from your camera phone or digital camera. …
Nikon has released Capture NX 1.3.2, updating its wonderful image editing software that still does not come free when you buy their pro-am D40, D80 or D60 DSLRs (but is bundled with the more expensive D300 and D3). Version 1.3.2 now adds support for RAW images from the new D60. It also resolves a previous …
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Kodak is launching its new ColorFlow Software at drupa 2008, the print media fair on May 29 to June 11 in Dusseldorf, Germany. Kodak says the ColorFlow technology will offer design professionals integrated color control across all devices – monitors, scanners, halftone and inkjet proofers, and digital and conventional presses – in the entire production …
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