Monthly Archives: June 2008

Sanyo introduces a new pocket-sized Full HD digital movie camera with impressive still photo functionality. The Sanyo Xacti HD1010 boasts full high-definition (1920×1080) movie recording while also offering photo functionality featuring high-speed sequential shots of up to 7 frames per second. Its improved high-speed image processing engine is able to process large amounts of data …

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“At The Heart of the Image” is this year’s theme of the Nikon Photo Contest International, and it will be accepting entries from around the world beginning September 1 to November 30, 2008. This is the 32nd year of the contest. Last year, it attracted a total of over 47,000 images from more than 16,000 …

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Here’s a case of a stolen camera “phoning home” and eventually reuniting with its rightful owner. Alison DeLauzon’s camera was stolen during a vacation and thought she had lost it forever. But the Eye-Fi-equipped camera got in touch with her by uploading the photos of the guys who swiped her camera. It turns out that …

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DxO Optics Pro v5.1 for Mac and Windows is now out, touting considerable improvements in stability and extra features, including a more flexible Pace Interlok protection that doesn’t require installation of an Interlok driver. DxO says Macintosh users are going to discover the much-awaited features of version 5 like the latest generation RAW converter allowing …

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What? We haven’t even quite learned – much less mastered – Adobe CS3, and now there’s CS4? Yes, Adobe has released beta versions of Dreamweaver CS4, Fireworks CS4, and Soundbooth CS4; Photoshop CS4 can’t be very far behind. Consequently, lynda.com, a provider of software training videos online, announced new courses on all of the just-released …

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Adorama and Nikon are sponsoring a workshop in New York City on how to use the new Capture NX 2 photo editing software. Introducing Capture NX 2: Powerful Tools for Quick & Easy Photo Editing will be held on Thursday, June 26, 2008 at the Adorama Building on 42 West 18th St., NYC. The workshop …

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Fujifilm UK has reduced the price of the FinePix S5 Pro DSLR to just £500, effectively halving its price from the original £1,000 when it was launched last year. In US dollar terms, that should bring down the S5’s price to about the same as Canon’s EOS 40D mid-range DSLR. Fujifilm UK says the price …

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Korean publisher YoungJin has released a new book, Photoshop CS3 Accelerated by Blues Kim, a hands-on training guide to Adobe’s photo editing application. Featuring easy-to-follow exercises, the book gives the reader a visual walk-through of Photoshop CS3’s functions and offers sample design projects to work on. The book begins with a clear-cut introduction to essential …

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The new smc PENTAX-DA 17-70mmF4AL[IF] SDM is a standard zoom lens offering 4.1x zoom, covering the most frequently used focal lengths between wide-angle and telephoto ranges. When mounted on a PENTAX digital SLR camera body, this zoom lens covers the equivalent focal-length range from 26mm wide angle to 107mm telephoto in the 35mm format. This …

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