Rob Pegoraro of The Washington Post today posted his take on the latest digital photo frames currently being offered in the market. He tested a few from Kodak, Ceiva Logic, Westinghouse Digital and Smartparts. His experience is not 100% pleasant. As the manufacturers tried to outdo each other to add more features and tout these …
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Super Talent of Silicon Valley Launches 12.5mm Thick 256GB SSD
Super Talent Technology today launched its 256GB solid state drive, touted to be the world’s slimmest at 12.5mm. (Many notebook PCs would accommodate only 9.5mm thick drives.) The FSD56GC25H uses the industry standard 2.5-inch hard drive form factor and features a standard SATA-I interface; it’s completely interchangeable with conventional 2.5-inch SATA hard drives. The company …
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HARMAN Tech, Paterson Photographic Keeping Traditional Darkroom Alive
As part of its gallant effort to “Defend the Darkroom,†(the real darkroom, mind, with all its equipment, photographic paper and chemicals) UK-based Harman Technology Ltd is teaming up with Paterson Photographic Ltd to keep the darkroom and all its associated techniques alive. HARMAN will use its established export channels to make it easy for …
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Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete Edition & Fluid Mask 3 Bundled for $430
Nik Software and Vertus have teamed up to offer their respective products in a bundle that would save the buyer about 20%, or $110. Both products – Nik’s Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete Edition and Vertus’ Fluid Mask 3 – would cost $540 if purchased separately. Available on both companies’ websites as electronic download files, …
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Western Digital Adds 320GB My Passport Elite Portable USB Drive
Western Digital has expanded its lineup of portable storage drives with the addition of the new My Passport Elite Portable USB drive. With up to 320GB, this new portable drive is ideal for the digital photographer who needs a storage back-up in the field, or those times when you need to transport large amounts of …
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New from O’Reilly: Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac, The Missing Manual by Barbara Brundage
Best-selling author Barbara Brundage has a new book, Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac: The Missing Manual, written mainly for Mac users who want to take advantage of the editing software’s capabilities for enhancing photographs, making fancy photo collages, scrapbooking and creating Web galleries. In her book, Barbara provides clear instructions for using all the new …
Kyocera Touts High-Speed, Hi-Res KJ4 Printhead
Kyocera has developed what they claim to be the fastest high-resolution inkjet printhead, the KJ4 Series printhead, which can print a full-color output at 200 meters per minute at 600×480 dpi, or 150 meters per minute at 600×600 dpi. The KJ4 Series printhead’s 2,656 ink nozzles are arranged in a 4.25-inch-wide print line. This configuration …
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Kodak Improves Portra 400NC, 400VC Professional Films
Film of course has not completely gone the way of the dodo. As a matter of fact, Kodak has just announced improved versions of its Professional Portra 400NC and 400VC films, offering even finer grains to create finer pictures. “These new 400NC and 400VC films, with their even finer grain, will enable photographers to create …
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ImageTitler Application Offers to Add Crisp Text to Your Photos
ImageTitler by PictoColor is a $20 application whose main purpose in life is to add text to your photos, nothing else. If that’s all you need, why indeed would you buy a $500 image editing program just to add some letters to your photos? PictoColor said ImageTitler is ideal for adding a title or caption …
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Olympus UK to Raise Prices April 1, Blames Falling Currency
Olympus UK will increase the prices of its DSLR lenses and accessories by about 15%. Amateur Photographer reports that Olympus had sent letters to its UK dealers explaining that the price increase is due to the falling value of the British pound against the Euro in recent months. The price escalation, which will take effect …
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