| Digital seminars abound in the months ahead |
| If the idea of spending a week with some of the finest photographers in the world, seeing and using the Nikon D1X, and even meeting me face to face appeals to you, consider attending the Digital Summit Workshop in Jackson Hole, Wyoming this April. The Digital Summit event is one of three opportunities to expand your digital horizons this spring (two of which I'm involved in, so note that this article is in part a shameless plug!): |
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| Sports Shooter 28 posted |
| Sports Shooter 28, the latest edition of Bert Hanashiro's monthly email/web newsletter for professional sports photographers, is now posted. It includes the results from the annual Sports Shooter photo contest; the winning entries are also online.... |
| February 27, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| FotoStation Build 108 available |
| Gerlo Beernink notes that FotoStation Pro 4.5 Build 108 for Mac and Windows is available for download.... |
| February 27, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Super Bowl photos digitally edited |
| The Poynter Institute's Kenny Irby has posted an interesting piece on the electronic manipulation of Sports Illustrated magazine's February 5th Super Bowl XXXV cover photo. In a separate article, Irby describes the process of editing digital photos at Super Bowl XXXV.... |
| February 27, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| QImage revamped |
| Mike Chaney has released QImage Pro 12.0, a major revamp of the Windows-only batch printing program that also includes powerful digital camera image editing features. On March 15, the program's price will rise from US$30 to US$35. A 30 day trial of the program is available.... |
| February 27, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| iPhoto.ca launched |
| Toronto-based photojournalists Zoran Bozicevic and Alex Urosevic have launched iPhoto.ca, an online digital photo agency.... |
| February 27, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Important update to CompactFlash report posted |
| The February 17th posting of Selecting a CompactFlash card for a photojournalist's digital camera, a report describing the cards best suited for use in the Nikon D1, Canon EOS D30, Canon EOS D2000, Kodak DCS 520, DCS 620 and DCS 620X cameras, prompted a number of readers to write in with their own card experiences. |
| February 26, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| digitalFOTO magazine shuts its doors |
| The plug has been pulled on digitalFOTO, a US monthly digital photography magazine. A note from Editor-in-Chief Nikki Echler explains that the magazine is a victim of financial troubles being experienced by parent company Imagine Media. |
| February 16, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| PMA: Product roundup |
| The 2001 edition of the PMA trade show wrapped up yesterday, and you have to know that Nikon is feeling pretty good. The highlight of the show for many was certainly the introduction of their D1H and D1X cameras, and with good reason: there's lots to like about Nikon's new digital SLR models. |
| February 15, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Photo Mechanic Pro 2.0 for Windows released |
| Tony Kurdzuk notes that Photo Mechanic Pro 2.0 for Windows is now available for download and purchase. |
| February 14, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Up close with the D1X at PMA |
| While a single, non-working mockup of the D1H sits under glass, its higher-resolution counterpart, the D1X, is in fairly ample supply above the counter of Nikon's Pro Digital SLR stand at the PMA 2001 trade show in Orlando, Florida this week. |
| February 12, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon to D1 users: no firmware upgrade |
| D1 users anticipating a firmware update for their camera, take note: Nikon's VP of SLR Camera Systems has definitively ruled out the active development by Nikon of new firmware for the company's 15-month-old digital SLR. |
| February 11, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Real World's Photoshop 6 delayed |
| Amazon.com indicates that the ship date for Real World Photoshop 6 has been pushed back to March 5.... |
| February 10, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Paramount offers Coolpix cords |
| Paramount Cords is now offering an off-camera flash cord for Nikon Coolpix cameras that enables non-dedicated, non-Nikon flashes to be used. Paramount's Coolpix cords page also contains additional interesting information on Nikon flash accessory cords.... |
| February 10, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Lexar announces 512MB card |
| Lexar Media today announced a 512MB CompactFlash CF I card, for release this summer. The company also announced Printroom Professional Studios, an online sales gallery for professional photographers slated to go live "soon."... |
| February 10, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| iView updated |
| iView MediaPro is to be updated this weekend to include improve rendering of Olympus E-10 RAW format photos. The updated version is not yet posted; version 1.01, posted February 2, is currently available for download.... |
| February 10, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Unsharp Mask reviewed |
| Bruce Fraser discusses the Unsharp Mask filter in Photoshop in his latest article at creativepro.com.... |
| February 10, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Zap free trial available |
| The £40 Zap Image is a Windows digital picture database manager for archiving graphics files. Says Patrick Finance of Zap Image: "Unlike catalog browsers that just link to images scattered across a hard drive, this tool stores your pictures in a password-protected database. Images are backed-up to a single, compressed... |
| February 10, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Canon rolls out D30 Auto Power Off fix |
| Canon has developed a fix for the EOS D30 that will eliminate the tendency of certain units to spontaneously power up within one second of automatically powering down. The fix will require owners of affected units to to turn them over to Canon service for warranty repair. Canon's Chuck Westfall sent the following information for D30 owners in need of the Auto Power-Off update in the USA: |
| February 6, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| St. Petersburg Times staffer handles D1X |
| Photojournalist Michael Weimar spent Monday evening with the Nikon D1X as the camera was enroute to the PMA trade show. His brief, interesting report has been posted in the robgalbraith.com forums.... |
| February 6, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon D1 price drops approximately US$500 |
| Simultaneous with the announcement of Nikon's upcoming D1H and D1X digital models is a price drop for the D1. |
| February 5, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon officially unveils D1H, D1X digital SLR cameras |
| Leaks across the Web last week have now been validated: Nikon this morning officially announced two new digital SLR cameras aimed at the professional market, both of which retain the strengths of the D1 while tackling some of that camera's more glaring weaknesses. |
| February 5, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon's Australian distributor posts information on Nikon D1H, D1X |
| Maxwell, Nikon's Australian distributor, earlier this week posted several pages of information on possible new digital SLR cameras from Nikon. On Friday the pages may have be pulled from the web site, or the server was taken offline. Steve's DigiCams, a web site that does not appear to be working under a Nikon non-disclosure agreement, has now posted much of the info from the still-offline Maxwell site. |
| February 1, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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