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A new light sensor chip from Taiwan-based Capella Microsystems promises to extend battery life in digital cameras and other portable devices. It’s called the CM3612 chip, and the company claims it is the industry’s first proximity and ambient light sensor chip. It works by detecting when a device screen is not being viewed and turns …
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BBC Four has this series, The Genius of Photography, where the TV program takes us from the dawn of photography – in the time of Louis Daguerre in the mid-1800s – to the digital age. It chronicles the glorious eras in between. “In the course of our 170 year relationship, photography has delighted us, served …
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The B*Gallery freeware from Cerebrosoft is a Java-based image publishing application that makes it easy to create HTML image galleries that can be updated, extended and shared. Cerebrosoft, which offers it free with absolutely no strings attached, says B*Gallery is unlike most Web gallery applications that create simple, static galleries; the application makes it effortless …
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PopPhoto.com put the Sony Alpha 350 through its paces and noted its performance and appealing features in this review by Michael McNamara. In a nutshell, here’s what Mike found: Good points • 14.2MP and Excellent image quality at an affordable price. • Tilting 2.7-inch LCD with live view and quick live AF. • Super SteadyShot …
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Editor Mike Pasisni of Imaging Resource teaches us how to do monitor calibration right, as he reviews the Datacolor Spyder3 colorimeter device. Mike takes us from installation to certification and then to calibration and profiling. He uses here the Spyder3Elite ($279) which uses the same hardware as the Spyder3Pro ($169) but with different software. There’s …
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Here’s an introduction to Camera Raw, the Raw file converter from Adobe that comes with Lightroom, Bridge, Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. 640pixels.com discusses the Raw image file with enough depth to get you acquainted with the unprocessed, uncompressed sensor data. If you open a raw file from Adobe Bridge, Elements, Lightroom or Photoshop, the Adobe …
Understanding Shutter Speed: Creative Action and Low-Light Photography Beyond 1/125 Second by Bryan Peterson is a new book from publisher Watson-Guptill, following the success of a previous book by the same author, Understanding Exposure. In the new book, Bryan discusses almost all of the known techniques for capturing, conveying, and creating movement in a single …
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