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If you can apply fish scales to a car’s surface with it, then you can certainly use the Akvis Decorator plug-in for more serious design purposes. The $54 software, a plug-in for Photoshop, Corel, etc., has been updated to Version 1.6. It lets you apply a new texture/color to an object while preserving its volume …
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O’Reilly Webcast is featuring Harold Davis on March 18 to show participants how to capture fond family memories in pictures. Photographing Kids, Family, and (other) Weird Things is a not-to-be-missed presentation. Davis will show his audience how to do that with more ease and fun in the shooting, and emphasize that “Cameras don’t take photos, …
The latest Underwater Photography magazine is now available for free download at www.uwpmag.com. UWP Issue No. 47 is their biggest issue yet at 79 pages. It includes news and travel articles, among them: The World’s First Underwater Photography and Freediving Course, 2009 Workshop with Mauricio Handler, Sea Lady UW Photo Competition and Solomon Islands / …
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Sony has announced the availability of their underwater marine packs to enable their Cyber-shot digital cameras to dive down to depths of up to 132 feet or 40 meters for underwater photography. Marine pack model MPK-WE, shown above, is compatible with Sony’s Cyber-shot W series (DSC-W290, W230, W220 and W210) and is priced at about …
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HP Photo Center 4.0 is the newest version of HP’s in-store Photo Center solution designed to expand retailers’ businesses with photo products for consumers and customized marketing collateral for small businesses. The Photo Center was one of several products and services launched by HP at the recently held PMA 2009 in Las Vegas. It integrates …
Nikon this year marks the 50th anniversary of its legendary F-mount lens-mounting system, featured on the company’s SLR cameras and NIKKOR lenses. No other camera manufacturer has been able to sustain its original lens mount for such a long period of time – making Nikon’s SLR system the most consistent range for half a century. …
Leica says they are discontinuing production of the R9, a manual focus SLR that utilizes the company’s DMR digital backs. In a letter to their dealers, Leica said they have ran out of R9 and R-series lenses and that these would no longer be manufactured. Despite the announcement, the R9 was still on show at …
The Vivitar brand, now owned by Sakar International, has a new line of products that include digital, underwater and video cameras, digital SLR camera lenses and flashes, and a battery charger that accommodates over 300 different camera and other lithium ion batteries. The 8.1-megapixel Vivitar V8400P underwater digital camera (pictured above), which retails for about …
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Kodak and Photobucket have teamed up to make photo sharing even better. The alliance is intended to extend the Kodak brand to new audiences through Photobucket and the Fox Interactive Media network and to help Photobucket further monetize the photo sharing behavior of their users and the billions of images stored on their site. The …
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Casio has introduced the latest addition to its EXILIM digital series of cameras today, the EXILIM Zoom EX-Z29. The company avers that this newest member of the EXILIM line features a stylish, slim and compact design to increase portability, and provides an improved 10.1 megapixels of image resolution with 3X optical zoom. The EX-Z29 was …
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