| Lexar reveals details of Image Rescue 3 |
| Lexar today has taken the wraps off Image Rescue 3 for Mac and Windows, a revamp of the company's photo recovery and memory card maintenance application. |
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| Microsoft warns Vista users not to add metadata to Canon RAW .TIF files |
| Microsoft is cautioning Windows Vista users not to tag or otherwise add metadata to Canon EOS-1D and EOS-1Ds RAW .TIF files unless the (as-yet-unreleased) Canon RAW codec for Vista is installed. |
| February 26, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon releases updated NEF codec for Windows Vista |
| Nikon has released Nikon RAW Codec 1.0.1, an update of the software for Windows Vista that enables the new operating system to process NEFs. The new version corrects a problem in which NEFs tagged in Vista, when the codec is installed, to be rendered incompatible with numerous RAW converters. The installation process has also been streamlined. |
| February 26, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Sports Illustrated staffer Peter Read Miller gives you the lowdown |
| An article on Sport Shooter describes the technique Sports Illustrated staff photographer Peter Read Miller has developed to shoot peak action football from a very low angle to give a different look to his photos. |
| February 23, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Pictage plug-in for Aperture now available |
| Pictage has released a plug-in for Aperture that streamlines the uploading of photos from Apple's pro photo management application to the online service. |
| February 22, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Canon announces EOS-1D Mark III |
| Canon has taken the wraps off their next 1-series digital SLR. The EOS-1D Mark III is a 10.08 million image pixel, 10 fps digital SLR that offers so many improvements over the model it replaces that it's best to describe it as a new-from-the-ground-up camera. Canon has also announced the EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM lens, Speedlite 580EX II flash and Wireless File Transmitter WFT-E2/E2A. |
| February 21, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Lexar announces 300X CompactFlash, new high-speed readers |
| Lexar is back in the speed race: its new Professional 300X CompactFlash line, unveiled today in 2GB, 4GB and 8GB capacities, jump to the head of the pack in card-to-computer transfer speed, setting a blistering pace that eclipses even the zippy SanDisk Extreme IV in our early testing. Lexar has also announced two new card readers, the Professional UDMA FireWire 800 Reader and Professional Dual-Slot USB 2.0 Reader, both of which are to be part of Lexar's new high-speed equation. |
| February 20, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Photo District News showcases 50 photographers from 50 states |
| Photo District News has posted The 50 States Gallery, a selection of pictures from photographers chosen by the magazine to represent each U.S. state with a photo. |
| February 19, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Camera Raw 3.7 for Photoshop CS2 now available |
| Adobe has released Camera Raw 3.7, a free update of the RAW file plug-in for Photoshop CS2. The new version adds support for RAW files from the Nikon D40 and Pentax K10D, plus "unofficial" support for various Phase One backs and the Fujifilm FinePix S5 Pro. Also new in v3.7 is cross-application compatibility between Lightroom 1.0 and Photoshop CS2 RAW processing settings. |
| February 18, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Adobe Photoshop Lightroom now shipping |
| Adobe has commenced shipping Photoshop Lightroom 1.0. The English-language version of the RAW conversion and image management software for Windows and Mac is available for purchase and download now for US$199 (online purchases may only be possible from select countries at this time), or as a 30-day trial download (registration required). |
| February 18, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Giga Vu Pro evolution to gain on-screen loupe |
| Jobo has announced today that an upcoming firmware revision for the Giga Vu Pro evolution will add an on-screen loupe to the photo storage device (PSD) for working photographers. |
| February 15, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| New Aperture plug-in streamlines creation of SimpleViewer, PostcardViewer and AutoViewer galleries |
| Flash Album Exporter is an export plug-in for Apple Aperture that streamlines the creation of web galleries built around the trio of freeware Flash solutions from Airtight Interactive: SimpleViewer, PostcardViewer and AutoViewer. |
| February 15, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Canon releases new firmware, software for iPF5000 printer |
| Canon has recently released a slew of updates for the imagePROGRAF iPF5000 printer, ones that reportedly improve print quality, fix some bugs and beef up the list of supported papers. |
| February 15, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon updates Camera Control Pro to v1.3.0 |
| Camera Control Pro, Nikon's digital SLR configuration and remote triggering application for Windows and Mac, has been updated to v1.3.0. |
| February 14, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon releases Capture NX 1.1 |
| Nikon has released updaters for Capture NX that bring the application to v1.1. The Mac version is now a Universal Binary for native performance on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs, the Windows version introduces compatibility with 32-bit flavours of Vista and users of both platforms will see numerous functionality tweaks throughout the application. |
| February 14, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Lexar to ship 133X 4GB SDHC card, Image Rescue 3 in March |
| Lexar has announced its first Professional series Secure Digital card designed to adhere to the SDHC specification. The 133X 4GB SDHC card features a Lexar-specified 20MB/second minimum sustained write speed and includes a license for both the upcoming Image Rescue 3 recovery and card maintenance software as well as Corel Paint Shop Pro X. It's slated to ship in March 2007. |
| February 12, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon to release updated NEF codec for Vista in "very near future," says Microsoft blog post |
| Nikon is developing an update to its NEF codec for Windows Vista that will fix a problem with NEFs being rendered incompatible with various third-party RAW converters after they've been tagged in Windows Photo Gallery or Microsoft Photo Info when the current NEF codec is installed. |
| February 12, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Rangefinder interviews Pete Turner |
| The February 2007 edition of Rangefinder Magazine leads off with an interesting interview with Pete Turner. |
| February 12, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| World Press Photo winners announced; winners gallery now online |
| New York-based photojournalist Spencer Platt of Getty Images has won the World Press Photo of the Year for 2006. |
| February 12, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Leica Digital-Modul-R discontinued; new R digital planned? |
| A notice from Leica Camera in the U.S., distributed to its sales reps and dealer network this week, indicates that the Digital-Modul-R has been phased out. The notice makes it clear that the company will not be shipping any more units of the 10MP digital back for the R9 SLR, and hints at "near future" digital additions to the R system. |
| February 8, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Reuters' Hershorn edits Super Bowl photos from his livingroom |
| An article at Poynteronline describes a new era of photo editing during this year's Super Bowl. Reuters' Gary Hershorn, News Pictures Editor for North America, didn't go to the game but was able to stay at home, watching the Super Bowl from his living room while editing game photos transmitted directly from the photographers' cameras. |
| February 6, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore featured in documentary |
| The U.S. television network PBS this week is broadcasting a documentary on Joel Sartore. A National Geographic photographer since 1991, Sartore is featured in At Close Range with National Geographic, a one-hour look at the exceptional photographer which first aired yesterday and will be rebroadcast several more times this week on PBS stations across the U.S. (and via cable and satellite north to Canada as well). |
| February 6, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Robotic device promises to simplify panorama photography |
| The Gigapan robotic platform, a device developed by Carnegie Mellon University and the NASA Ames Intelligent Robot Group to automate the shooting of multi-image panoramas with a digital camera, is slated for release in March 2007 for under US$200 along with stitching software, says a story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. UPDATE, FEBRUARY 6, 2007: We've added more information on the PanoMachine, an alternative to the Gigapan. |
| February 5, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Digital Journalist looks at Contact Press Images |
| The Digital Journalist for February 2007 features a story and photos from 30 years of Contact Press Images. |
| February 5, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Celebrity photographs draw attention to domestic abuse |
| Photographer Rankin has photographed a number of seemingly severely cut and bruised celebrity faces, made up to look that way as part of a domestic abuse awareness campaign in the United Kingdom. |
| February 5, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Sports Illustrated posts Super Bowl photos |
| Sports Illustrated has posted Super Bowl photos and Super Bowl headlines showing how photos from yesterday's NFL championship football game were played by various news organizations. |
| February 5, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Aperture to Final Cut Pro plugin released |
| Connected Flow has released Aperture to Final Cut Pro, a free Aperture plugin that enables photos to be transferred from the Mac-only application directly to a video sequence in Final Cut Pro. |
| February 2, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Microsoft publishes Photo Info FAQ |
| Microsoft has posted a Photo Info FAQ that contains essential information for anyone wishing to use their recently-released Photo Info add-on for Windows XP and Vista to edit the metadata in image files, including Canon CR2/CRW and Nikon NEF. |
| February 1, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| HP kicks off aggressive "trade-in" program for Z2100, Z3100 printers |
| HP in the United States has launched an aggressive campaign to entice owners of other brands of wide-format inkjet printer to make the switch to one of HP's new 8-ink or 11+1-ink printer models. The HP Extreme Upgrade program offers a rebate of between US$500-US$1000 plus between US$300-US$500 worth of paper when a Designjet Z2100- or Z3100-series printer is purchased. |
| February 1, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Virtual Lens Plant section updated at Canon Camera Museum |
| Canon yesterday updated a section to their Canon Camera Museum website that looks at the technology behind EF-series lenses. Called the Virtual Lens Plant, it includes videos of lens elements being ground and polished, an EF 500mm f/4L IS being assembled, descriptions of Canon lens technologies and interviews with Canon staff involved in lens production. For anyone interested in how lenses are made, this section of the Canon Camera Museum is a must-see, regardless of what brand of camera you own. |
| February 1, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon RAW Codec for Windows Vista available for download |
| Nikon RAW Codec 1.0, software that enables Windows Vista to natively support the NEF format, is now available for download. Note, however, that its use in some cases may render NEFs incompatible with certain third-party RAW converters. |
| February 1, 2007 | FULL STORY |
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