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Casio Japan today indicated that their two new Exilim zoom cameras, the EX-Z200 and EX-Z100, will begin shipping in March 2008. First announced at CES 2008 in January, the new 10-megapixel zooms are a major bread and butter source for Casio and they plan to produce about 200,000 per month of both models. Both are …
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Simon Joinson at DPReview.com writes, “Let’s start with the good stuff; for the price the E-3 offers a compelling and highly competitive feature set, some of which (such as the tilting screen, in-body IS, SSWF dust removal, splash proof body) is unique at this level. On paper the E-3 ticks all the right boxes, and …
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Computational photography is still a few years ahead of us in the future, but this early some forward thinking individuals are already tinkering with technologies that demonstrate its possibilities. Researchers at Standford University have developed a chip – an imaging sensor – that can record not only images but also their physical distance from the …
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“My first real break in Germany was a book project to photograph Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser. I learned later that for this job, I had beaten out world-renowned Magnum photographer Ernst Haas and Thomas Hoepker, at the time the preeminent photojournalist in Germany and now president of Magnum,†recalls Gerd Ludwig on his beginnings as …
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In low light, you need to use wide aperture because it allows you to use a faster speed, thereby lessening the risk of blur due to camera shake. A wide aperture also lets you choose a lower ISO setting that usually results in higher image quality. Plus, the narrow depth of field of a wide …
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Canon has launched The Assignment in Europe, a photography competition that challenges amateur photographers to submit their best work in one of four categories: Portrait, Landscape, Sport and Macro. The Assignment invites participants from 19 European countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, …
Transcend USA has introduced 3 new storage products: the StoreJet 25 mobile hard drive with up to 250GB capacity and two USB Flash drives, the 16GB JetFlash V85 and 32GB JetFlash V60. The StoreJet 25 mobile, pictured above, is a lightweight (206g) external hard drive with compact dimensions (134×80.8×18.8mm). It has been drop-tested to survive …
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The latest version of VueScan, Version 8.4.60, automatically straightens any document or photo that has been placed in the scanner slightly askew. This makes for faster scanning because you don’t have to eyeball each photo or document to see if it is straight. Aside from skew correction, the latest VueScan also a full range of …
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In this edition of LightSource, Bill and Ed talk with Dave Hill, commercial music and advertising photographer.
Late last month, I took an old digital camera in for repair; I have this little old Canon Digital Ixus V3 (a.k.a. Powershot S230) which had served me in good stead since it was bought way back in December of 2003. Last Christmas 2007, it stopped taking pictures, there was just a blob of …
