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The European Imaging and Sound Awards (EISA) today announced the winners for various categories of electronic imaging products. Sony won 5 EISA awards including one for their Sony Alpha 100 DSLR as European Consumer Camera of the Year 2006-2007. The Canon EOS 5D won the Professional Camera category while its PIXMA iP660D garnered the Photo …
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Epson America released four digital scrapbooking guides today that provide useful instructions on using technology as another scrapbooking tool. The four scrapbooking reference guides are “Introduction to Technology,” “Digital Scrapbooking Kits,” “Divine Secrets of the Design Sisterhood,” and “Scrapbooker’s Guide to Photo Corrections & Artistic Effects”. They teach techniques ranging from basics like how to …
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Adorama Camera has published a website, SFX: Special Effects Photography, where enthusiasts can learn to create classic special effects in-camera or with image-editing software by following free in-depth articles. The articles are written by a team of special-effects photography experts and cover a wide range of creative tricks to make artful photographs. These special effects …
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SizeFixer XL for Windows promises to do just that, based on FixerLab’s patented Super-Resolution technology. FixerLab says their software can produce sharper upsized images with improved contrast and fine detail. It can enlarge images to 500 megapixels and beyond with unprecedented levels of quality, according to them. SizeFixer XL for Windows works with 8-bit and …
Samsung has developed the first three-inch LCD panel with VGA (640 x 480 pixels) resolution that directly meets industry interface standards for digital still cameras. Until now, digital cameras use an interface known as ITU-R601 intended for CRT TVs that operate at 30Hz, incompatible with LCDs which normally run at 60Hz. Samsung’s new LCD operates …
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While Sony has long been making excellent digital cameras for many years now, they haven’t had a digital SLR in their line-up. But after taking over Konica Minolta’s camera division recently, Sony has finally thrown their hat into the lucrative DSLR ring with the Alpha 100. The Alpha 100 resembles Konica Minolta’s DiMAGE 5D, but …
Announced at the end of June, the P712 has 7.1 megapixels, 12X zoom and image stabilization (its name says it all), and it belongs in Kodak’s Performance Series of entry-level digicams. It’s intended for the passionate novice who wants good performance from an easy-to-use camera because it has a full complement of manual modes to …
Sigma Corporation has announced the launch of its new APO 50-150mm F2.8 EX DC HSM lens, especially designed for digital SLR cameras with APS-C size image sensors and destined for the Canon, Nikon and Sigma lens mounts. This lens on a 1.5x crop digital SLR (such as the Nikon D80) would provide an equivalent FOV …
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The Fujifilm Finepix F30 tries to improve on what was already considered the company’s best effort so far, the Finepix F11. Astoundingly, the F30 offers the highest ISO speed of 3200, where most other digicams struggle to offer ISO 400 only. This means more natural colors and sharper pictures even in fast-paced action such as …
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New York Police Department’s ongoing behavior toward photographers has prompted New York Civil Liberties Union to expand a federal lawsuit. Even with publicity, lawsuits, and media focusing on the fact that photographs in public places are not an illegal act, the NYPD continues the harassment; detaining and even threaten photographers and filmmakers. Not only is …
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