ExpoImaging Announces Honl Photo Speed System

ExpoImaging has announced that they are now the exclusive U.S. distributor for Honl Photo Professional products, among them the Honl Photo Speed System, a collection of lightweight, durable and affordable light modifiers for shoe-mount flashes including an assortment of grids, snoots, reflectors, gobos and gels. These products retail from $10 to $30 and are designed …

Issue #12 of PhotographyBB Now Available; It’s Free!

The 12th edition of the PhotographyBB Online Magazine is now available for download. The free online magazine, which began life in October 2006, is edited by Dave Seeram as an online resource to aid photographers in getting the most from their DSLR cameras. In a completely ad-free format, each issue contains informative and educational tutorials …

Apple’s iLife ’09 Available Starting Today

Apple’s iLife ’09 will be available starting today, offering major upgrades to iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand, and new ways to organize and manage photos, create movies and learn to play music. Apple said iPhoto ’09 builds on the ability to automatically organise photos into Events by adding Faces and Places as innovative new ways to …

Unibind Introduces PhotoBook Album Kit

Unibind introduces their PhotoBook Album Kit that allows crafters to create unique personalized gifts, photo albums and memory books. Featuring special themes for events and holidays, including “Wedding,” “Baby,” “Vacation,” “School,” and “Christmas,” etc., the Unibind PhotoBook Album Kit requires no software or computer to make durable hard cover albums in minutes. To create an …

Call for Entries: $50,000 Name Your Dream Assignment

Computer maker Lenovo, Microsoft and the Digital Photography School have teamed up to launch the Name Your Dream Assignment photo competition. It is “a contest to find the most creative, inspiring photo shoot idea” and it offers $50,000 cash award as top prize plus lots of goodies including a Lenovo ThinkPad W700. Darren Rowse of …

Call for Entries: The 2009 Leica Oskar Barnack Award

Entries are now being accepted for the 2009 Leica Oskar Barnack Award. The contest is open to all photographers. The visual theme focuses on the relationship between man and the environment. Now on its 30th year, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award now incorporates a Newcomers Award for photographers aged 25 years and below. The winner …

Layers 1.0 Lets You Capture a Lot of Screenshots in Mac OS X

A Madrid-based company, wuonm, has introduced Layers 1.0, a screen capture utility for Mac OS X. It’s targeted at graphic and web designers as well as technical writers and developers who need to capture a lot of screenshots. Screenshots captured in Layers 1.0 are compatible with Adobe Photoshop; they can be saved as fully layered …

Updated Lightroom 2.3, Camera Raw 5.3 Now Available from Adobe

Adobe says release candidates of Photoshop Lightroom 2.3 and Photoshop Camera Raw 5.3 are now available for download from Adobe Labs at http://labs.adobe.com. The ‘release candidate’ label indicates that this update is well tested but would benefit from additional community testing before it is distributed automatically to all customers. The Lightroom and Camera Raw teams …

Kenko Launches International Filter Photo Contest

Kenko has launched its International Filter Photo Contest 2008/2009, open to anyone who has taken a photograph using any type of filter. Entries are not restricted to using Kenko or Hoya filters. If you use filters from other manufacturers, that will be fine too. Images can be of any subject and taken on digital or …

DxO Optics Pro Upgrade Supports Canon 5d Mark II, G10 Cameras

The updated DxO Optics Pro 5.3.2 Elite Edition now supports the Canon 5D Mark II DSLR while the Standard and Elite editions support the Canon G10 camera. The new version also adds 32 new DxO Optics Correction Modules for cameras that include the the Canon G10, 350D/Digital Rebel XT/Kiss Digital N, 400D/ Digital Rebel XTi/Kiss …