| When a photograph makes a difference |
| A Photo District News story tells how a photograph by TIME photojournalist Yuri Kozyrev had an impact on a young girl's life. |
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| New Epson 17 x 22 inch papers headed to dealers |
| Three new 17 x 22 inch papers from Epson are beginning to ship. A notice to Canadian retailers from Epson Canada indicates that 25-sheet packs of Premium Glossy Photo Paper, Velvet Fine Art Paper and Ultra Premium Photo Paper Luster are available for dealer orders. These papers are designed for use in Epson printers that accept cut sheets of this size, including the Stylus Pro 3800 and Stylus Pro 4800. |
| January 30, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon releases D80, D40 firmware updates |
| Nikon today has released firmware updates for the Nikon D80 and D40. |
| January 30, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Fujifilm S5 Pro previews appearing |
| Previews of the Fujifilm S5 Pro, all based on hands-on use of pre-production models, have recently appeared on a handful of Internet sites, including LETSGODIGITAL.COM and THINKCAMERA.COM. |
| January 29, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 to ship February 19 |
| Adobe has announced that Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 for Mac and Windows will ship on February 19, 2007 at an introductory price of US$199. The company's pro photo management and RAW conversion software, which has evolved through a public beta process that resulted in over 500,000 photographers downloading the work-in-progress application, can be pre-ordered now by photographers in the USA, Canada and perhaps elsewhere too. |
| January 28, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Camera Raw 3.7 slated for release at same time as Lightroom |
| Camera Raw 3.7, an update to the RAW processing plug-in for Photoshop CS2 Mac and Windows, is slated for release on February 19. The new version is to coincide with the shipping of Lightroom 1.0 on that day, and will add support for RAW files from the Nikon D40 and Pentax K10D. Plus, it will introduce cross-application compatibility between Lightroom and Photoshop CS2 RAW processing settings stored in a RAW photo's companion sidecar XMP file. |
| January 28, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| CNET looks at HD Photo format |
| CNET has published an interesting feature on HD Photo, a compressed image file format developed by Microsoft that offers a number of potential advantages over the ubiquitious JPEG today. HD Photo (known until recently as Windows Media Photo) promises better quality at similar rates of compression than JPEG, supports 16-bits per colour and 32-bits per colour photos and uses internally the ultrawide scRGB to represent image colours. |
| January 26, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| DxO adds D40, new lens modules to Optics Pro |
| DxO Labs has added the Nikon D40 and three Nikkor lenses to the list of camera-lens combos supported by v4.1 of its Optics Pro image correction software. In addition to D40 support, the company has added eight DxO Lens Modules for certain other Canon, Nikon and Sony digital SLRs, including the Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L for the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi/400D and the Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S VR for the Nikon D80. |
| January 25, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Panic updates Transmit ftp client to v3.5.6 |
| Transmit, Panic's FTP/SFTP client software for Mac, has been updated to v3.5.6. The minor update fixes a potential security vulnerability and is free for licensed Transmit 3 users. |
| January 25, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Adobe's Mark Hamburg discusses Photoshop Lightroom |
| Mark Hamburg, one of the key drivers of the development of Photoshop Lightroom at Adobe, talks about the new application in an interesting interview with the since1968 website. |
| January 25, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| onOne announces Genuine Fractals beta program |
| onOne Software has today kicked off a public beta program for the next version of Genuine Fractals, the venerable image resampling plug-in for Photoshop. Genuine Fractals 5.0 for Windows and Mac features promised improvements in both resampling quality and resampling speed and includes new controls for sharpening and adding simulated film grain. The Mac version is a Universal Binary for native performance on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs. |
| January 25, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Understanding the Advanced B&W Photo mode of the Epson Stylus Pro 3800 |
| Digital Outback Photo has published an interesting examination of how the Epson Stylus Pro 3800's printer driver works when set to Advanced B&W Photo. |
| January 25, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Adobe releases new beta of Bridge CS3 |
| Adobe recently released a new beta version of Bridge CS3. Called Bridge Beta 2, it fixes numerous bugs, enables Bridge to take advantage of two-display setups, adds an option to view all pictures in subfolders and more. |
| January 25, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| YouSendIt releases plug-in for Aperture |
| YouSendIt, a service for distributing large files across the Internet, has this week released a plug-in for Aperture that enables versions or masters of photos to be uploaded directly from v1.5 or later of Apple's pro photo management and RAW conversion application. |
| January 24, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Light Crafts releases LightZone 2.1.1 |
| Light Crafts has released LightZone 2.1.1, the latest in a flurry of recent updates to the company's zone system-based image editing and RAW conversion software for Mac and Windows. |
| January 24, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Think Tank Photo now shipping Airport International roller |
| First shown at Photokina 2006, Think Tank Photo has commenced shipping the Airport International, a rolling bag that features the company's typical sleek, minimalist exterior design, a size that conforms to worldwide airline carry-on regulations, a TSA-approved lock on the main compartment and a security cable for tethering the bag to an immovable object. |
| January 23, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Microsoft Photo Info beefs up metadata viewing, editing in Windows |
| Microsoft has released an add-on for Windows that enables the viewing and editing of a photo's IPTC and other metadata right from within Windows Explorer. Called Microsoft Photo Info, it's a free download from the Microsoft website. |
| January 23, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| A short profile of Magnum's Paolo Pellegrin |
| Magnum photographer Paolo Pellegrin, recipient of the 2006 US$30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, was recently the subject of a brief but interesting profile in VisionAge, the online magazine sponsored by Olympus. |
| January 19, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Epson announces Stylus Photo 1400, 13 x 19" printer for US$400 |
| Epson recently announced the Stylus Photo 1400, a 13 x 19-inch format printer that uses the company's Claria dye-based inkset and will carry an estimated street price of US$399.99 in the U.S. |
| January 19, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Light Crafts releases LightZone 2.1 |
| Light Crafts has released LightZone 2.1, zone system-based image editing and RAW conversion software, for Mac and Windows. |
| January 19, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Reuters changes procedures, dismisses supervisor after publishing altered Lebanon photographs |
| A statement from Reuters Editor-in-Chief David Schlesinger, published today on Reuters Blogs, describes the steps the wire service has taken in the aftermath of its distribution of two digitally-altered photographs from the fighting in Lebanon in August 2006. These steps include "tightened procedures" and the dismissal of the supervisor of Reuters' Middle East photo operations. |
| January 18, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Accessorize with Michael Bass Designs |
| If you use Canon or Nikon shoe mount strobes off-camera, or need to trigger remote cameras with a PocketWizard, you owe it to yourself to check out the cool, useful accessories at Michael Bass Designs. |
| January 18, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Nature Photographers pick best of 2006 |
| The editors of Nature Photographers Online Magazine have posted the 2006 Editor's Pick Awards, which include several truly stunning wildlife and landscape images from the natural world. |
| January 17, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| New blog deals with the business side of photography |
| John Harrington, Washington, DC-based freelance photographer and author of Best Business Practices for Photographers, has launched Photo Business News and Forum, a blog devoted to the business side of being a photographer. |
| January 17, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon patent describes fisheye lens for different formats |
| Photographer and software developer Jarle Aasland recently discovered that Nikon has developed - and patented - interesting lens technology meant to enable the use of a single fisheye lens on cameras with different-size film or digital sensors, all the while retaining an angle of view of 170 degrees or more. |
| January 16, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Fujifilm introduces high-speed dye-sub photo printers |
| Fujifilm has unveiled the ASK-2000 and ASK-4000, two new compact dye-sublimation printers aimed at working photographers who need to print in volume on location. The ASK-2000 can make prints up to 6 x 9 inches in size, and is capable of producing a borderless 5 x 7 inch print in 16 seconds, says a Fujifilm press release. The maximum print size from the ASK-4000 is 8 x 12 inches; Fujifilm claims a print time of 40 seconds for a borderless 8 x 10. UPDATE: WE'VE ADDED DETAILS REGARDING PRICE, SHIP DATES AND MORE TO THIS ARTICLE. |
| January 16, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Donald Miralle videos demonstrate remote camera effectiveness |
| Three QuickTime videos of Getty Images photographer Donald Miralle's session at Sports Shooter Academy 3 demonstrate how he uses remote cameras at various sporting events to make incredible pictures. |
| January 16, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| PhotoShelter rolls out fotoQuote integration |
| PhotoShelter has launched the integration of fotoQuote-based pricing into the rights-managed module of the online photo archiving and sales website. First announced back in November 2006, the feature is now live and is available for use at no extra charge by PhotoShelter subscribers. |
| January 15, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Soundslides the driving force behind audio slideshows |
| An article at Poynteronline examines how Soundslides is largely responsible for the increase in audio slideshows appearing on news organization websites. |
| January 15, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Update for Capture NX guide released |
| Jason P. Odell has released an update to The Photographer's Guide to Capture NX, an eBook on Nikon's latest image editing and NEF conversion application. |
| January 15, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Epson ColorBase 2.0 available for download from Epson Europe |
| Epson ColorBase 2.0, the printer maker's utility for calibrating the Epson Stylus Photo R2400, Stylus Pro 3800, Stylus Pro 4800, Stylus Pro 7800 and Stylus Pro 9800, is available for download from the Epson Europe website. |
| January 10, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Innovatronix now shipping SnapPower portable power pack |
| Innovatronix this week has begun shipping the Tronix SnapPower, a portable power pack designed to power a wide range of photography equipment in the field. We've been testing one for about a month; here's our report. |
| January 10, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| To Delete or Not, That is the Question |
| In To Delete or Not, That is the Question, photographer Carl Weese writes why he believes it's dangerous to be delete-key happy in the field. |
| January 10, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Universal Binary beta version of Capture NX shown at Macworld |
| At the Macworld Conference and Expo today in San Francisco, Nikon offered a sneak peek at a nearly-completed Universal Binary version of Capture NX running on an Intel-based MacBook Pro. In the brief demonstration we saw, the speed at which the program could render a D2X NEF as it opened was dramatically faster than the current PowerPC version of the program on the same machine. |
| January 9, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Raw Developer 1.6.2 released |
| Iridient Digital has released Raw Developer 1.6.2, the latest upate to the company's RAW conversion program for the Mac OS. |
| January 9, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Lexar introduces 4GB, 8GB SDHC cards |
| Lexar today has announced 4GB and 8GB Secure Digital cards that adhere to the SDHC specification. Both capacities will be available in both Lexar's entry-level standard and midrange Platinum II product lines, with the 4GB models slated to ship in February and the 8GB models sometime later in 2007. |
| January 9, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| PixelGenius releases PhotoKit plug-ins in beta for Photoshop CS3 Mac |
| PixelGenius, creators of PhotoKit, PhotoKit Sharpener and PhotoKit Color 2.0, has released Universal Binary versions of its trio of Photoshop plug-ins for Mac. Mac users with the public beta version of Adobe Photoshop CS3 will be able to use the plug-ins (which are still in beta form themselves). |
| January 9, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Apple updates Airport Extreme base station |
| Apple today has announced a major update to its Airport Extreme Base Station. The new version of Apple's flagship wireless access point now supports the draft 802.11n wireless standard for greater range and claimed 5X faster throughput than 802.11g (the device also supports 802.11a/b/g) and it gains the ability to turn any external USB hard drive into network attached storage (NAS), a feature Apple is calling Airport Disk. |
| January 9, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Olympus wide angle lens effective on Canon EOS 5D |
| In a blog entry entitled Canon 5D wide angle night photography, photographer Joe Reifer describes the image quality advantages of using an Olympus Zuiko 21mm f/3.5 on a Canon EOS 5D full-frame digital SLR. |
| January 9, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Latest issue of Digital Journalist features Reza and Michael Grecco |
| Highlights of The Digital Journalist for January 2007 include One World, One Tribe, the work of Iranian photojournalist Reza, plus photographer Michael Grecco talks about Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait. |
| January 9, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| SeeFile 3.0 for Mac to be shown at Macworld next week |
| SeeFile Software will be showing v3.0 of its namesake SeeFile digital asset management and web-based collaboration tool next week at the Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco. Changes in the Mac-only server application include drag-and-drop upload of multiple files or folders, user interface "skins" and a streamlined installation process. SeeFile v3.0 is also the first release of the program to ship as a Universal Binary for native speed on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs. |
| January 5, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| NAPP to launch magazine about Photoshop Lightroom |
| The National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) has announced a new magazine called Darkroom, which they're billing as "The How-To Magazine for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom." |
| January 4, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Light Crafts releases LightZone 2.0.6 update |
| Light Crafts has released LightZone 2.0.6 for Windows and Mac, an update to its Zone System-based image editing and RAW conversion software that improves the crop tool and fixes several bugs. |
| January 4, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| See the light with Bron's Light Shaper Comparison |
| Bron Elektronik's Light Shaper Comparison provides a quick and effective way to evaluate the effect of various lighting modifiers. |
| January 4, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| A roundup of 2006 pictures of the year |
| The start of a new year always brings with it the opportunity to view some great photography on the Web, as outfits like MSNBC, Time magazine and others publish collections of the best photos from the last 12 months. Here's a roundup. |
| January 4, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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