Monthly Archives: June 2008

Wacom has lowered the prices for its Cintiq 21UX, PL-720 and PL-521 interactive pen displays, as well as the Wireless Pen Tablet in the United Kingdom. The Cintiq 21UX now has a price tag of £1,800 including VAT (about $3,500, although it actually retails for about $2,000 in the U.S.), the 17” PL-720 at £1,000, …

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The UK’s Royal Photographic Society announced yesterday the Award winners of The 151st International Print Exhibition, held in partnership with international legal practice Allen & Overy LLP. The Gold Award of £10,000 (almost $20,000) went to Richard Crompton for his print titled Generations 2, a montage of family faces. Vicky Hodgson and Paula Smith each …

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Paragon Software is offering their Drive Backup 9.0, an application for system backup that promises to provide home PC and home office users with a new approach to file-level backup along with a powerful system restore functionality. Two versions of the new Drive Backup 9.0 are available: Personal, which includes file backup, entire PC backup …

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News agency Associated Press (AP) is currently exhibiting more than 100 historic photographs at the San Francisco Convent in Old Havana, Cuba. The photo exhibit opened last May 24th and will be on display for the Cuban public for more than 3 months. This is one of the first exhibits of compelling news photographs from …

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OmniVision has launched the OV3647, which the company claims to be the world’s first 1/4-inch, 3-megapixel image sensor that supports the mobile display digital interface (MDDI), a high speed serial interface promoted by QUALCOMM for use with its chipsets. The OV3647 uses OmniVision’s proprietary 1.75 micron OmniPixel3 technology, and has been designed to optimize partitioning …

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The Plustek OpticPro A360 is a large-format document scanner with high speed capabilities. It can scan A3-sized photos and documents at 2.4 seconds (300 dpi, 12” x 17”). The A360 comes bundled with image processing and document management software, including I.R.I.S. Readris 10 Pro Corporation Edition. The bundled software enables fast and secure PDF conversion, …

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The online radio show Photo Gurus goes live tomorrow June 13 at 1:30pm Pacific Time (4:30pm Eastern) with interesting tips and information about digital photography. The show also answers questions from the audience. The Photo Gurus – hosted by the husband-and-wife team of Daniel and Sally Grotta – will tackle the following questions and topics: …

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Olympus Japan released a new firmware today for the E-3 professional DSLR camera. Firmware Version 1.2 basically improves the consistency of the E-3’s auto white balance setting. The 10-megapixel E-3 is the flagship model of Olympus’ digital SLR cameras and is marketed towards professional photographers. It’s got Live View and in-camera sensor-shift image stabilization. The …

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Samsung Korea today unveiled its latest camera phone, the SCH-W480, which also goes by its ‘Inner Zoom’ moniker. This one’s being marketed as a true digital camera while also being faithful to its mobile phone duties. The SCH-W480 features a 5-megapixel image sensor with a 3x zoom, autofocus and face detection functions. The 3x optical …

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