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In big news today Apple announced an update to their professional RAW image workflow software, Aperture and dropped the price by a stunning amount to $299. This announcement is big news to Apple users as the performance and feature set of Aperture has been getting lots of praise from early adopters. It’s speed on the …
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A new suite of white balance cards is available now from Whibal. They have updated their entire line of white balance cards and provided buyers with three variations: a pocket size, a studio size and a reference size. All Whibal white balance cards kits provide a black card a white card and gray balance reference …
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Canon kicks off this April by offering their Cash-in-with-Canon program. The company is offering mail in rebates on certain products including a $300.00 rebate on the 12.8 Megapixel EOS 5D and a $100.00 rebate on the digital rebel XT. You can even get a great deal on a cannon lens. But you better hurry as …
Save 50 dollars – now is your chance to pick up your Epson P-4000 photo viewer as Epson is offering a series of spring rebates. Aside from the P-4000, below is a list of lots of other items on sale with savings ranging from $20.00 to $150.00 on the Epson stylus photo RX 620 visit …
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Bellamax, the company known for its photography kiosks today announced a free offer for their new software called Upshot. Upshot is an image editor which is aiming to simplify workflow based on the fact that a steep learning curve accompanies most of today’s image editing software. The company aims to provide a simple, easy to …
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A cool new web-based image editing software was released this week. The application called Phixr is a free application which allows photographers to edit images in an interface quite similar to the desktop applications we’re used to. This just might come in handy when you are away from your computer but have access to the …
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Today a bibble labs announced the release of Bibble 4.7. Some of the features that are new include support for the canon 30D and Olympus Evolt E-330. Some new features include automatic image correction technology built right into the RAW workflow process and a new control for selective enhancement of saturation. The most advanced new …
by: Gary Lowell [Flickr], Studio Lighting Contributor Oh yeah, and did I mention it’s free….. I just recently discovered the OptikVerve Labs plug-in called virtualPhotographer. What virtualPhotographer does is allow you to quickly sample and then apply common effect templates to your photos. For example if you have a flat boring photo that you want …
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In honor of the 100th birthday of the company’s founder, Victor Hasselblad, a commemorative 503CWD camera has been built after a classic Hasselblad camera known as the Hasselblad 503. The camera features a 2.2 inch display, Firewire 800, a 16MP sensor and a Carl Zeiss CFE 2.8/80mm lens. Only 500 of these beauties are being …
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The Gorillapod by Joby sure looks like a cool way to secure a camera to unconventional objects. The device sports bendable grippable legs that can be twisted on to just about anything according to its manufacturer. Might this have application in the studio? For $24 you can give it a shot. Keep in mind, this …
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