| Nikon posts 24 page brochure on D700 |
| Nikon in Japan has posted a brochure on the D700. |
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| Mac OS X 10.5.4 corrects Adobe CS3 file saving bug, adds additional RAW format support |
| Mac OS X 10.5.4, a maintenance update for the Leopard version of Apple's Mac operating system, corrects a bug that could cause file corruption when saving files across a network from within Photoshop CS3 as well as other Adobe CS3 applications, plus it adds RAW decode support for the Canon EOS Rebel XSi/450D and several other digital cameras and backs.*UPDATED* |
| June 30, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon unveils D700 full-frame digital SLR |
| Nikon has filled in the gap between its midrange and pro digital SLRs. The D700, announced today and slated to ship in late July 2008, looks like a D300, acts like a D3 and promises to be as big a hit as each of them. Nikon has taken the full-frame 12.05 million image pixel CMOS sensor from the D3, placed it inside a body that is similar to the D300, weaved in capabilities from both and put a price tag of US$2999.95 on the result. |
| June 30, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Speedlight SB-900 tops Nikon flash lineup |
| Alongside the D700 today Nikon has announced the Speedlight SB-900, a new shoe-mount flash unit that incorporates a revised control layout, extended zoom range, faster recycling times plus a long list of other refinements relative to the SB-800 it replaces. |
| June 30, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon unveils new 45mm, 85mm perspective control lenses |
| Completing Nikon's announcements today are two perspective control lenses, the PC-E Micro Nikkor 45mm f2.8D ED and PC-E Micro Nikkor 85mm f2.8D ED. |
| June 30, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| USA Today's Bert Hanashiro profiled in Popular Photography |
| Popular Photography magazine has published a profile of USA Today staff photographer and Sports Shooter website co-founder Bert Hanashiro. The article, called Behind the Lens with Robert Hanashiro, covers a range of topics but focuses mainly on what it's like to cover a summer Olympics. |
| June 26, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Adobe releases Camera Raw 4.5 for testing |
| Adobe has released a testing version of Camera Raw 4.5, an upcoming release of its RAW conversion plug-in for Photoshop CS3 for Mac and Windows. |
| June 26, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Zeiss introduces Distagon T* 3.5/18 for Nikon F-mount, Pentax K-mount |
| Zeiss this week has added a new wide angle to its range of manual focus lenses for Nikon and other SLR cameras. The 18mm Distagon T* 3.5/18 joins a family of eight such lenses in all, and will ship in July 2008 in a ZF version for Nikon F-mount, followed by a ZK K-mount version for Pentax and Samsung SLRs one to two months after that. |
| June 26, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Latest Camera Muzzle available at dealers early next week |
| The redesigned Camera Muzzle, a new version of the soft-sided sound muffling enclosure for digital SLRs from Canon and Nikon, should be on the shelves of U.S. dealers early next week. |
| June 25, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Sites we like: Al Bello Photographer |
| If you like good sports photography like we do in these parts, it's well worth the time to check out Al Bello's site. |
| June 24, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Eight Magnum photographers document AIDS worldwide |
| Eight Magnum photographers traveled to nine countries documenting 30 people before and after they received treatment for AIDS in a series of multimedia presentations called Access to Life. |
| June 23, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Football shooters come up with favourite images |
| In a Canon Professional Network (CPN) feature called Behind the lens, the timing is appropriate with Euro 2008 winding up for Part 2 of Football shooters' favourite photographs. |
| June 23, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Siberia's assets frozen by photographs |
| National Geographic's Gerd Ludwig shows how Russia's vast northern region has been changed by oil wealth in an interesting photo gallery called Siberia's Frozen Assets. |
| June 23, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| VisibleDust Arctic Butterfly 724 (Brite) lights up sensor cleaning |
| VisibleDust is now shipping a revamped version of its Arctic Butterfly 724 self-cleaning sensor brush for digital SLR cameras. Called Arctic Butterfly 724 (Brite), the new model adds a single LED to the handle of the brush to make it easier to see inside the mirror box and therefore more carefully target the sensor during the cleaning process. A three-stage power switch enables the device to be used with the light on or off as needed. |
| June 21, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Photographers kick out great soccer images from Euro 2008 |
| Although there are still a few games to go before a winner is crowned, lots of great soccer images are emerging from Euro 2008. |
| June 21, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| The Boston Globe's The Big Picture fills your browser with good photography |
| Launched officially only three weeks ago, The Big Picture, a blog at The Boston Globe website featuring galleries of photographs culled from the wire services, NASA and elsewhere, is quickly becoming an essential destination for those who like to look at good pictures of current events, presented at an uncommonly large (for the web) size. |
| June 20, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon Capture NX 2 now available for purchase |
| Capture NX 2 for Mac and Windows, the latest release of Nikon's NEF conversion and image editing application, is now available for purchase, Nikon USA has announced. When bought directly from the company in the U.S., the price is US$179.95, or US$109.95 to upgrade from Capture NX 1.x. |
| June 20, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Presentations by Steve McCurry, others streaming live from photojournalism festival |
| At the Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism taking place now through Sunday, June 22 in Hannover, Germany, the presentations by Steve McCurry, Vanessa Winship, Thomas Dworzak and others will be streamed live on the event website. |
| June 19, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Dayton Daily News photographer produces air show photo book, video |
| Ty Greenlees, an avid pilot and staff photographer at the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News, has produced Dayton Air Show, A Photographic Celebration, a soft cover book of over 200 photographs from his twenty years of covering the biggest aviation event in the state each year. |
| June 18, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| The Age presents the Australian pro photo awards |
| Melbourne's The Age online newspaper features the Australian Professional Photography Awards with a multimedia presentation. |
| June 17, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Firefox 3, released today, supports colour managed web browsing |
| The long-awaited Mozilla Firefox 3 for Mac and Windows, which emerged from beta at 10AM Pacific today, is the latest web browser to support the colour managed display of photos with embedded ICC profiles. That's the good news. The bad news is it's turned off by default. Here's how to turn it on.*UPDATED* |
| June 17, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Reuters features portfolio of work on China |
| Reuters' online site runs a feature called Portfolio of Work featuring a body of work from one of its many photographers from around the world. The most recent of these portfolios is a slideshow of very fine images from Reuters photographer Jason Lee from China. |
| June 17, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Underwater photography carries environmental message |
| Photo District News pdnonline features a multimedia presentation on Brian Skerry's underwater photography for a National Geographic story called Still Waters: The Global Fish Crisis. |
| June 16, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| DataRescue updates PhotoRescue photo recovery application |
| DataRescue has released PhotoRescue v3.1.5.11030 for Windows and Mac. The new version adds resizeable thumbnails in the file selection window, improves the recovery of certain movie types and fixes bugs. |
| June 16, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| PhotoShelter announces initiatives to "replenish" stock photography |
| PhotoShelter, a personal archive, photo management and sales site, has launched an effort "to replenish the global stock photo supply in areas of the greatest buyer demand." |
| June 16, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Delkin now shipping Archival Gold Blu-Ray BD-R disc |
| Delkin has announced the addition of Blu-ray to its line of Archival Gold media. The Archival Gold Blu-ray BD-R is a single layer 25GB disc with a 4X speed rating that features the company's ScratchArmor coating and promised service life of over 200 years. |
| June 13, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| CF/SD Performance Database updated |
| The card-to-computer sections of the CF/SD Performance Database have recently been updated. They are now comprised of results from ten USB, FireWire, ExpressCard and SATA memory card readers and more than 130 CompactFlash and SD/SDHC cards, to assist you in selecting a card and reader combination that will deliver the transfer speed you need. |
| June 10, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Reuters features Pictures of the Month for May |
| Reuters photographers from around the world have contributed to a Pictures of the Month: May 2008 slideshow. |
| June 10, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Photos show severe flooding in the U.S. Midwest |
| The Chicago Tribune has posted a Wisconsin flooding slideshow on its main online page and The New York Times features an image gallery showing the flooding conditions in the Midwestern states. |
| June 10, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Canon Speedlite 430EX II to replace Speedlite 430EX |
| Canon today has rolled out a replacement for the Speedlite 430EX. Called the Speedlite 430EX II, the refresh of the company's midrange flash unit adds a metal shoe that incorporates the locking mechanism first introduced with the Speedlite 580EX II, 1/3 step output control when the flash is set to Manual and full configuration via the rear LCD menus of recent Canon digital SLRs as well as the PowerShot G9 and S5 IS. |
| June 9, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Entry-level Canon EOS Rebel XS/1000D introduced |
| Canon has melded the EOS Digital Rebel XTi/400D and EOS Rebel XSi/450D to create the EOS Rebel XS/1000D, its latest entry-level digital SLR. Announced today, the new model combines the body, control layout, battery, SD/SDHC card slot and DIGIC III processing circuitry of the XSi/450D with the 10.08 million image pixel CMOS sensor and 2.5 inch (diagonal) rear LCD of the XTi/400D to come up with a starter camera that is expected to sell for about US$200 less than the XSi/450D. |
| June 9, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Press Photographer's Year 2008 awards announced |
| The Press Photographer's Year 2008 awards featuring press photography taken for the UK news media were announced recently. |
| June 9, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Lessons learned from the photo essay |
| Poynteronline's Kenny Irby interviews Mona Reeder of the Dallas Morning News about the value of the photo essay. Reeder's photo essay called The Bottom Line won the Robert F. Kennedy Award for domestic photography. |
| June 3, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon releases Capture NX 2 |
| Nikon has released Capture NX 2 for Mac and Windows, an upgrade to its flagship image editing and NEF conversion application that beefs up both the program's image editing features and, perhaps more importantly, its overall usability. Here's a first look at what's new, and what's not. |
| June 2, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Multimedia presentation features New York City's Naked Cowboy |
| Lucy Nicholson and Jassim Ahmad from Reuters have produced a MediaStorm feature on New York City's Naked Cowboy called Naked Ambition. |
| June 2, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Winning photos in International Color Awards competition worth a look |
| The International Color Awards winners galleries for both 2006 and 2007 feature numerous powerful photographs across a variety of categories. |
| June 2, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Think Tank Photo offering free trip to Photokina 2008 |
| If you're a gearhead, take note: professional photo bag maker Think Tank Photo is offering one lucky shooter a free trip to this September's Photokina 2008 trade show in Cologne, Germany. |
| June 2, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Canon's Behind the lens features soccer photographers |
| On Canon Professional Network's Behind the lens, the first part of a two-part article by John McDermott features the stories and photos of some of the world's top football (soccer) photographers who will be at work during the upcoming EURO 2008 tournament. |
| June 2, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| World Press stories behind the photos |
| World Press Photo is featuring The Award Interviews in which photographers discuss the circumstances behind their winning photos. Among the 2008 highlights are the Platon interview about his photo of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Tim Hetherington's description of photographing an American soldier inside a bunker in Afghanistan. |
| June 2, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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