Monthly Archives: November 2008

By selling your photos, Ozmo.com acts like a stock photo distributor, but it’s more than that; this site (now on beta) also helps photographers, bloggers and other artists license their works for commercial works. Here’s how it works: the photographer or artist selects his license terms and pricing and registers his works with Ozmo. Then …

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The LaCie LaCinema Rugged multimedia hard drive is purposely built for viewing movies and videos. It is ruggedized with a scratch-resistant aluminum shell, internal anti-shock absorbers, and a shock-resistant rubber bumper to better protect media files against everyday blunders. The company said the Rugged edition provides the convenience of a centralized media library with graphic …

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John O’Bryan of Moscow, Idaho has emerged as Grand Prize winner of the Tamron 2008 User Photo Contest: “Wet & Wild,” besting 1,500 other entries in the competition. The contest was open to U.S. residents submitting any original photograph that prominently included water and that was taken with a Tamron lens. For his photo, above, …

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Think Tank Photo is touting its new backpacks with enhanced security features – the Airport Addicted V2.0, Airport Acceleration V2.0 (pictured above), Airport Antidote V2.0 and the Airport Ultralight V2.0. The company said that with their new designs, photographers can now carry their bodies, lenses, and accessories onto aircraft with different carry on requirements, legally …

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Nikon has posted Firmware v5.02 for the Speedlight SB-900 flashgun to correct a bug that sometimes results in overexposure. By resolving this issue, metering precision has been further increased and the number of times the flash fires has also been increased. The new firmware also improves the SB-900’s TTL auto flash characteristics. When the SB-900, …

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Eastman Kodak Company is suing Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics over what it calls infringement of Kodak patents relating to digital camera phones. The patents in question cover technology related to image capture, compression and data storage and a method for previewing motion images. Kodak has licensed its imaging patents to several leading technology companies …

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Olympus is again calling for entries to their 2009 Bioscapes Digital Imaging Competition. The first prize winner gets to choose $5,000 worth of Olympus microscope or camera equipment while 9 other winners will also receive valuable prizes from Olympus, and many more will receive recognition as honorable mentions. For the 2008 Bioscapes contest, the top …

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Pentax is taking a new tack in its advertising campaign with its “Be Interesting” slogan to communicate the company’s invigorated brand positioning. Pentax says their target audiences are “independent spirits who see the world through a different lens.” Today’s challenging economic times definitely call for more creative approaches at marketing, and the Pentax brand, which …

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Fujifilm USA has a new president, Mr. Ryutaro Hosoda, who has been named to the post effective November 1, 2008. Hosoda-san, whose previous post was Senior Vice President, FUJIFILM Europe GmbH in Düsseldorf, Germany, has been officially named President, FUJIFILM Holdings America Corporation and President and CEO, FUJIFILM U.S.A. He succeeds Hiro Sakai, who has …

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Infima Technologies is offering a new compression solution that could significantly reduce JPEG storage and bandwidth costs. Infima describes its JPACK technology as “an innovative Re-compression software solution for JPEG files which provides fast compression/decompression and storage & bandwidth cost reduction of up to 80 percent without requiring any additional infrastructure.” The software is targeted …

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