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Nikon Corporation has announced that aside from EISA’s (European Imaging & Sound Association) Camera of the Year Award, it has also won the Camera Grand Prix 2006 award from Japan’s Camera Press Club, as well as the Best D-SLR Expert Award 2006 from Europe’s Technical Image Press Association (TIPA). The Nikon D200 is a semi-professional …
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The World Press Photo Exhibition, which opens August 22nd in Scotland as part of the Festival of Politics, celebrates the best of journalistic photography. “The awe-inspiring images of the World Press Photo exhibition are not always comfortable viewing,” admits Presiding Officer George Reid, “but each year these images make a lasting impression on audiences worldwide.” …
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HP today announced its compact and stylish Photosmart A618 photo printer for instant lab-quality prints. At just 1.5-kg, with a carrying handle and an optional battery, HP says the A618 offers convenient portability for those on the go. With Bluetooth connectivity and a 2.4-inch LCD screen, the HP Photosmart A618 is ideal for easy printing …
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Joe Rosenthal, photographer of the famed image of six men raising the American flag at Iwo Jima, died Sunday in California. He was 94. Rosenthal, who had been rejected from the armed services because of poor eyesight, worked as an AP photographer. His Pulitzer-Prize winning photograph might never have happened if he hadn’t followed his …
Bedouin Ventures, LLC has introduced their BabelPix software which would enable photographers and stock photography agencies to sell photos to buyers who do not speak their language. This is done by translating the keywords embedded in a digital photo’s metadata. Stock photography sellers usually embed their digital photos with keywords to describe a particular photograph, …
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Memory maker Kingston Technology is featuring Brazilian Photographer Claudio Edinger on its Icons of Photography Web site for this month. Edinger, who shoots for Time magazine and other publications, is considered in the industry as “Master of the Photo Essays” for his natural ability to tell a complete and detailed story through photographs. In the …
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Tamron’s SP AF17-50mm F/2.8 XR Di II LD Aspherical (IF) (Model A16) lens has won the Consumer Lens of the Year from the European Imaging and Sound Association. This is the 8th time that Tamron garnered the award. In its citation, EISA praised the Tamron 17-50mm lens as an easy-to-use, high performance and fast standard …
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French imaging software developer Realviz has announced that its panorama software Stitcher Unlimited v5.5 is now bundled with ImmerVision’s IVP standard file format. This format allows panoramas to be played on multiple platforms using the PURE (Panorama Universal Rendering Engine) Player, making it easy to load panoramic images onto any computer or website without needing …
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HP announced has its 10-megapixel HP Photosmart R967 ($449), with all the bells and whistles of a new compact digicam: 3-inch LCD screen, 30X total zoom, anti-shake plus more. The company also announced its 7.2-megapixel HP Photosmart R827 ($299) compact which features a 2.5-inch LCD, 24X total zoom and HP Real Life technologies. Also debuting …
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It’s also called documentary photojournalism, and the pictures depict narratives of life like the story of plantation workers in Haiti, a story on sex workers in Mexico City and a project on Islam in India. New York photographer Jason Pagan, a veteran of Black Star and the Bettmann Archive, said he started his own Anarcy …
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