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Wacom will be presenting tools, tips and photographic art at Photokina 2008, from September 23-29 in Cologne, Germany. The company said they will be showing a wide selection of products for the professional and consumer markets at the leading international trade fair for the imaging sector. Two renowned imaging professionals – Robin Preston and Robert …
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Photrade, which is still in beta, made an appearance today at the DEMOfall 08 conference in San Diego, promising a one-stop consumer website where photographers can store, organize, share, protect and make money from their photos. So, is it a stock photo distributor like Getty Images or iStockPhoto, or a photo sharing site like Flickr …
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With Photokina 2008 barely two weeks away, Minox announces the Minox DSC, a miniature spy camera with 5 megapixels in a body that measures only 86x29x20mm (3.5â€x1.25â€x0.75â€). That’s for the main camera body only; the Minox DSC comes with another module that contains the miniature flash and a matching mini LCD, just 1.5 inches across, …
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The folks from down under, PhotoReview.com.au, have posted their observations about the Fujifilm FinePix S2000HD and noted that this long-zoom bridge camera – not a DSLR – packs a lot into an affordable ($400) camera body: 10 megapixels, 15x optical zoom, full HDTV compatibility for both photos and movies, 2.7-inch display and plenty of shooting …
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David Tejada returns to catch up with Bill and Ed and to talk about his upcoming workshops.
BetterJPEG photo editor is an application designed to avoid recompression loss when editing and re-saving JPEG photos. Now in Version 2, the application has extended its set of lossless operations with brightness and color correction, conversion to grayscale and JPEG artifact removal. BetterJPEG 2 promises better results in photo editing, including the following lossless operations: …
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With global sales of DSLR cameras booming, Canon is planning to make more lenses in Taiwan. The company will construct new production facilities on the premises of Canon Inc., Taiwan with the aim of expanding production of interchangeable EF lenses for single-lens reflex cameras. Canon currently manufactures EF lenses at its Utsunomiya and Oita plants …
UK’s Telegraph is hosting a travel photography competition which offers a Nikon D700 FX digital SLR kit as top prize. The contest is open to UK residents only. Contestants are enjoined to submit photos that reflect “the traveler’s eye in capturing an essential moment, a breathtaking view or a unique aspect of the travel experience.†…
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Nik Software today announced its Sharpener Pro 3.0 photographic plug-in for Adobe Photoshop and Apple Aperture. Designed for professionals and photo enthusiasts, Nik Software says Sharpener Pro 3.0 is the most advanced and powerful sharpening solution for photographers, eliminating the guesswork typically required for achieving superior and consistent results. Photographers can now selectively sharpen objects …
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After enticing us with its Chrome browser this week, Google is again trying to seduce us with its new Picasa 3.0 online photo editing software. It used to be easy to use Picasa on the Web, says Google, now it’s even effortless. Google is launching a one-two combo of Picasa 3.0 (beta), the next generation …
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