| The Bee picks the best of 2008 |
| The Sacramento Bee's big-picture gallery called The Frame hosts three galleries of the best pictures from 2008 in feature, news, sports and U.S. election. The Frame also offers a strong gallery on the conflict in the Gaza. |
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| Nikon D3X added to CF/SD Performance Database |
| The latest addition to this site's CF/SD Performance Database is the D3X. Over 110 memory cards from 22 different makers have been put through Nikon's highest-resolution digital SLR, to give you an idea of which CompactFlash (and SD/SDHC, in an adapter) can write this camera's large JPEG and even larger NEF files quickly enough to suit your needs. |
| December 29, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Bush photographer describes eight-year journey |
| Eric Draper describes his job as White House photographer covering the George Bush presidency for the past eight years in this Fox News video. |
| December 29, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Times presents the year in pictures |
| The New York Times presents 2008 - The Year in Pictures in a 160-image slideshow containing eight categories: The Election; The Nation; Iraq and Afghanistan; Sports; The Economy; The World; The Region; and Arts and Entertainment. |
| December 29, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Reuters posts images from the Crisis in Gaza |
| Reuters has posted an image gallery from its photographers covering the Crisis in Gaza. |
| December 29, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Tribune photo essay touches on joy and sorrow of 2008 |
| The Chicago Tribune takes a slightly different look than most "best of" image galleries of 2008 with a multimedia presentation called Joy and sorrow in 2008. |
| December 24, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Weather's on everyone's mind |
| The weather often headlines the news these days and a pair of image galleries from Reuters called Cold front and Frigid Weather Continues from The New York Times reflect this trend. |
| December 23, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| National Public Radio features photojournalist Reza |
| With a story, radio interview and slideshow National Public Radio (npr) features the work of photojournalist Reza who has traveled the world for 30 years covering global events. |
| December 22, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Final addition to year's best posted |
| The Big Picture from The Boston Globe has selected the last part (part 3 of 3) of 2008, the year in pictures and it may be the best of the three. |
| December 22, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| The Frame captures the west's winter storm |
| The Frame from the Sacramento Bee has an excellent selection of inclement weather images in Winter storm slams the west. |
| December 19, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Sports Illustrated features 2008's best shots |
| Sports Illustrated features an online gallery of outstanding sports images in SI's Greatest Shots of '08. |
| December 19, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| The Big Picture posts part 2 of the best |
| The Boston Globe's feature gallery of large images called The Big Picture has posted part 2 of 3 in 2008 in photographs. |
| December 19, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon D3X available for purchase today |
| Today is the official first day of sales of the Nikon D3X worldwide, and we've now heard from several dozen shooters in the U.S., Canada, parts of Europe, Japan and elsewhere in Asia that the camera has landed at retailers where they are.*UPDATED* |
| December 19, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Lockerbie held world's attention 20 years ago |
| The BBC features Remembering Lockerbie, a multimedia slideshow with interviews and images about an event which occurred 20 years ago when Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed by a bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland. |
| December 19, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Canon developing firmware update to address EOS 5D Mark II "black dots" problem |
| Canon in Australia, Europe, Japan, Korea and the U.S. are among the sales companies that have now posted official information on the "black dots" problem impacting the Canon EOS 5D Mark II. All but one of the service notices we've seen indicate that Canon is developing a firmware update to address the problem, as well as an instance of vertical banding that can occur when the camera is set to sRAW1.*UPDATED* |
| December 18, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Apple releases Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 2.4 |
| With today's release of Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 2.4, the Canon EOS 5D Mark II and seven other new digital cameras and backs join the list of RAW files supported in Aperture 2 and iPhoto '08. |
| December 18, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Wall Street Journal's large-image galleries a daily treat |
| The Wall Street Journal's large image gallery called Photo Journal is well worth looking at on a daily basis. |
| December 18, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| The Age posts the year's best |
| Melbourne's The Age has posted a fine selection of photos called the Best photographs of 2008. |
| December 18, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Boston Globe's Big Picture selects year's best |
| The Big Picture from The Boston Globe has posted the first of a three galleries called The year 2008 in photographs (part 1 of 3). |
| December 17, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Canon publishes white paper on EOS 50D, 5D Mark II |
| Canon USA has published a white paper covering the technology found in its two newest digital SLRs, the EOS 50D and EOS 5D Mark II. The 77-page PDF is available for download along with other white papers covering Canon models dating back to 2004. |
| December 17, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Year in Pictures 2008 featured on msnbc |
| While many news sites feature the best of the year in pictures, we always look forward to msnbc's offering and this Year in Pictures 2008 does not disappoint. |
| December 17, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| TIME posts Pictures of the Year 2008 |
| TIME has posted a gallery of Pictures of the Year 2008 which is led off by an image of TIME's Person of the Year, Barack Obama. |
| December 17, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Travel Photographer of the Year 2008 gallery posted |
| Travel Photographer of the Year 2008 features a Winners' Gallery of images from various categories in the competition. Canada's Darwin Wiggett was top prize winner in the contest. |
| December 16, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Adobe releases Photoshop Lightroom 2.2 |
| Adobe has released Photoshop Lightroom 2.2, adding RAW conversion support for the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Powershot G10 and several other newer cameras, addressing various bugs and implementing changes similar to those that emerged in Camera Raw 5.2 for Photoshop CS4. |
| December 15, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Mac OS X 10.5.6 includes Aperture, Creative Suite 3 improvements |
| Mac OS X 10.5.6, released today, includes graphics improvements aimed at Aperture as well as changes meant to enhance printing from Adobe's Creative Suite 3 applications and to Brother and Canon printers that connect via USB. |
| December 15, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Ice storm frozen in The Frame |
| The Frame from The Sacramento Be has a great selection of images showing the aftermath of the massive ice storm in northeastern United States. |
| December 15, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Canon preparing announcement regarding EOS 5D Mark II "black dots" problem |
| In a brief interview today, Chuck Westfall, Technical Advisor at Canon USA, stated that Canon is preparing an announcement that addresses the EOS 5D Mark II "black dots" problem being widely discussed on Web forums since shortly after the camera's release late last month. While Westfall is not yet able to divulge precisely what the announcement will say, he characterized it as good news for owners of Canon's newest digital SLR, and that the announcement is expected soon. |
| December 12, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Zacuto posts comparison video shot with 5D Mark II, D90 and more |
| Zacuto, a video accessory maker and reseller, has posted a comparison video showing the same scene recorded with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Nikon D90, various other HD-capable video cameras plus 35mm motion picture film. |
| December 12, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| ShutterVoice voice control application for Canon EOS Utility now available |
| ShutterVoice, a Windows-only application that enables many of the functions of Canon's EOS Utility to be controlled with spoken commands, has been released. Compatible with both Windows XP and Vista, it's available now as a 30-day trial version. To license the software is US$30. |
| December 12, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Atlanta photojournalism seminar posts 2008 winners |
| Powerful images from numerous categories are online in the 2008 Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar Contest Winners. |
| December 12, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Outstanding Christmas images viewed in The Frame |
| The Frame, a large-image gallery from The Sacramento Bee, has a collection of fine Christmas images in Christmas in Sacramento and around the world. |
| December 11, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| National Geographic unveils viewers' choice winners |
| National Geographic has posted the Viewers' Choice Winners from the 2008 International Photography Contest.*UPDATED* |
| December 11, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Photographer describes his jet crash image |
| Sandy Huffaker writes in his blog about grabbing his camera and dashing out the door after a military jet crashed a short distance from his house in San Diego. The photo ran in the New York Times newspaper and online. |
| December 10, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Griffin Simplifi added to CF/SD Performance Database |
| The Canon EOS 5D Mark II has been added to the CF/SD Performance Database, along with Griffin's Simplifi card reader/iPod dock combo. Plus, several new memory cards are making their way into the database results, including Lexar Professional 233X and Hoodman RAW 300X CompactFlash. |
| December 9, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon rolls out updates for Capture NX2, Camera Control Pro |
| Nikon has posted updaters today for Capture NX2 and Camera Control Pro on Mac and Windows, fixing bugs, improving OS compatibility and introducing support for the upcoming D3X. |
| December 9, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon acknowledges Sony connection in D3X image sensor |
| In response to questions we and others had posed to Nikon USA about the imager in the D3X - both its origin and what technical features might set it apart from the imager in the Sony DSLR-A900 - the company has crafted a response. In it, they acknowledge that Sony is the manufacturer of the D3X's 24.39 million image pixel CMOS sensor, but go on to say it's a "unique sensor design" that was "developed expressly for the D3X." |
| December 9, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Dan Chung publishes "video portrait" shot with Canon EOS 5D Mark II |
| Dan Chung, photographer for UK's The Guardian newspaper and based in Beijing, has published a second video with his newly-purchased Canon EOS 5D Mark II. It is, in his words, a "video portrait" of a teenage Chinese basketball player, recorded with Canon's latest digital SLR. |
| December 9, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Photo essay shows Where Children Find Hope |
| The Detroit Free Press features the photography of Kathleen Galligan in a photo essay called Where Children Find Hope. |
| December 9, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| The Green Sahara shown in big pictures |
| The Big Picture from The Boston Globe has posted a gallery of large images from photographer Mike Hettwer on the Green Sahara. |
| December 9, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Greek riots captured in The Frame |
| The Frame from The Sacramento Bee features a gallery of strong news images from the riots in Athens and other cities in Greece. |
| December 9, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| onOne now shipping Genuine Fractals 6 |
| onOne Software has announced that the latest version of Genuine Fractals, its image resizing plug-in for Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Lightroom on Mac and Windows, as well as Apple Aperture on the Mac, is now shipping. |
| December 8, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Adobe, Canon, Nikon reduce workforces in wake of softening demand |
| The global economic crisis is taking its toll on three of the biggest players in digital photography: in recent weeks, Adobe, Canon and Nikon have all announced or implemented reductions to their workforces in the light of softening demand for the things they make. At Adobe, the reason cited is lower-than-expected sales of its Creative Suite 4 applications, while Canon and Nikon are cutting staff that assemble digital cameras and related products. |
| December 8, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon D3X announcement article updated, again |
| We've now added a summary of the Nikon D3X's impressive burst depth specifications to our November 30 announcement article. |
| December 6, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon D3X announcement article updated |
| We've added a few more details to our recent Nikon D3X announcement article, gleaned from Nikon USA's Lindsay Silverman today. Notable changes to its contents include the camera's high ISO noise reduction thresholds as well as the maximum frame rate of the camera; as it turns out, the latter varies both with the sensor mode (FX Format/5:4, DX Format) and whether the camera is set to capture 12 bit NEFs or 14 bit NEFs. |
| December 5, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Post picks Top 10 sports photos |
| The Washington Post editors have selected some outstanding moments in an image gallery of the Top 10 Sports Photos. |
| December 5, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Think Tank Photo rolling out StreetWalker backpack line |
| Camera bag maker Think Tank Photo has begun to roll out a trio of urban photo backpacks in its new StreetWalker series. Developed by Think Tank designer Lily Fisher to have a "slim vertical profile," the StreetWalker, StreetWalker Pro and StreetWalker HardDrive each have a narrower stance than most other Think Tank backpacks, plus the new line's shoulder harness is intended to fit more comfortably on a wider range of body sizes, including women with smaller frames. |
| December 4, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Reuters posts best of 2008 |
| Reuters has assembled 135 images from its photographers worldwide for a Pictures of the Year 2008 gallery. |
| December 4, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| AOL's PIXCETERA rife with great image galleries |
| AOL's PIXCETERA has several outstanding image galleries from weekly to theme-related but we wanted to highlight the sports gallery called Did You See That? |
| December 3, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| How SI photographed the Sportsman of the Year |
| Sports Illustrated has posted an online video showing how SI photographer Heinz Kluetmeier photographed Michael Phelps who was named SI's 2008 Sportsman of the Year. |
| December 3, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| The Age presents the Best photographs of 2008 |
| Melbourne's The Age jumps in early with a collection of the Best photographs of 2008. |
| December 2, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Venice more under water than usual |
| High tides have caused flooding in Venice and slideshows from The New York Times, The Washington Post and Reuters illustrate some of the problems. |
| December 2, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon to ship GP-1 GPS Unit this month |
| The GP-1 GPS Unit, Nikon's new hot shoe mount GPS module, is to ship this month at a manufacturer's suggested retail price of US$239 in the U.S. Included with the GP-1 are cables to connect it to the dedicated GPS port of the D90 as well as to the 10-pin remote socket of the D3X, D3, D700, D300 and D200. |
| December 1, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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| Strong photos highlight bullfighting slideshow |
| Photographer Chico Sanchez offers many strong images along with a narrative explaining his pro-bullfighting stance in his multimedia slideshow on bullfighting in Mexico called The Fighting Bull. |
| December 1, 2008 | FULL STORY |
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