| Mic comparison worth a listen by digital SLR video shooters |
| Digital video equipment reseller DVEStore has recently posted one of the most useful comparisons of microphones we've seen to date, especially if you're like us and need to capture voice alongside a video-capable digital SLR in noisy surroundings. Called Recording Audio in Less Than Ideal Conditions, the seven minute video features DVEStore proprietor Guy Cochran demonstrating the differences between a sampling of shotgun, hypercardioid, lavalier, headworn and dynamic mics. |
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| Reuters features best of tennis |
| Reuters features a slideshow of fine tennis images in the Best of French Open. |
| May 31, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| The Geographic's Jim Richardson shares tips and tricks |
| National Geographic features Notes and Tips From the Field by long-time Geographic photographer Jim Richardson. |
| May 29, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| LA Times features Pictures in the News |
| The Los Angeles Times features an interesting collection of images called Pictures in the News. |
| May 28, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| Stern features always-interesting sports gallery |
| Stern's editors always select interesting images and Falsestart, a gallery of images from the sporting world, is no exception. |
| May 27, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| James Nachtwey focuses on Mandela's Children |
| National Geographic features Mandela's Children, a fine selection of images from James Nachtwey's work in South Africa. |
| May 27, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| MSNBC features Animal Tracks |
| MSNBC features Animal Tracks: Images of animals great and small and on this page the May 13-20 gallery is well worth viewing. |
| May 26, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| Reuters revisits the rule of thirds |
| Reuters features Photo Focus: Rule of thirds, a gallery of images showing how this basic tenet of photography is best used. |
| May 26, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| More on the PocketWizard remote power control system |
| Last week, LPA Design announced PocketWizard remote power control modules for Paul C. Buff monolights and packs as well as certain Elinchrom flash units. We have more details on how the AC9 AlienBees Adapter and PowerST4 Receiver will work and how connected flash units can be adjusted from the camera position using an AC3 ZoneController. Also, if you're the owner of a MultiMAX, you'll want to read about the remote power control features being readied for the venerable PocketWizard transceiver. |
| May 25, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| Lexar now shipping Pro 133X SDHC in 16GB, 32GB capacities |
| Lexar has begun shipping 16GB and 32GB versions of its Professional Series 133X SDHC cards. |
| May 25, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| The inevitable disaster well under way |
| The Big Picture from The Boston Globe features Oil reaches Louisiana shores, a gallery showing the massive ongoing oil spill's effect on the Louisiana marshlands. |
| May 25, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| Phase One acquires Expression Media from Microsoft |
| Phase One has acquired Expression Media from Microsoft. The image cataloging application for Mac and Windows was previously known as iView MediaPro before Microsoft purchased it in 2006. Until June 30, 2010, Phase One is offering Expression Media 2 free of charge to licensed users of its Capture One software. |
| May 25, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| Canon releases firmware v2.0.7 for EOS 5D Mark II |
| Canon has released firmware v2.0.7 for the 5D Mark II. The bug fix update corrects three problems: abnormal aperture behaviour when shooting video, a metering error in manual exposure mode and an instance of an attached WFT-E4/E4A or WFT-E4 II/IIA not powering down automatically after completing an FTP transfer. |
| May 25, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| Adobe Configurator 2.0 for Photoshop CS4/5 and InDesign CS5 released |
| Adobe has released Configurator 2.0, an update of the slick custom panel creation utility for Photoshop CS4, Photoshop CS5 and InDesign CS5 on both Mac and Windows. |
| May 24, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| PluralEyes 1.2.1 Beta 2 for Final Cut Pro now available |
| A beta release of PluralEyes, Singular Software's automatic audio-to-video synchronization software for Apple Final Cut Pro, is now available for download. Version 1.2.1 Beta 2 includes the ability to replace audio within a digital SLR's video file with audio recorded separately and place the result in a new output sequence. |
| May 24, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| New meaning given to a tough day at work |
| Foreign Policy's online magazine features The Coal Miner's Burden, a gallery of images on this most dangerous occupation from around the world. |
| May 21, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| The Denver Post features best of week |
| The Denver Post's photo blog features Pictures of the Week: May 21, 2010, a collection of the best images gathered from around the world. |
| May 21, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| A fine collection from the back yard |
| PIXCETERA from AOL News features 2010 Nature's Best Photography: Backyards, a nice collection of flora and fauna images taken by photographers in their own back yards. |
| May 20, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| Galleries show effects of oil on land and water |
| Several galleries are featuring the effects of the latest environmental disaster including Gulf oil spill from Reuters and Disaster unfolds slowly in the Gulf of Mexico from The Boston Globe. |
| May 20, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| LPA Design announces power control modules for Elinchrom, AlienBees |
| LPA Design has unveiled two remote power control modules for studio flash. The PowerST4 Receiver for Elinchrom RX, as well as the AC9 AlienBees Adapter for most Paul C. Buff monolights and packs, enable the setting of flash output level from a camera-mounted PocketWizard MiniTT1 or FlexTT5. |
| May 19, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| Hasselblad Phocus 2.5 for Mac now available for download |
| Hasselblad Phocus 2.5, a new version of the RAW conversion software that adds support for over 150 RAW formats from Canon, Nikon and others, is now available for download. Other changes include an improved Keyword tool, expanded printing and colour information display options, folder renaming from within the application and more. The software is free, though user registration is required. |
| May 19, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| Reuters award winners worth a look |
| Reuters has updated Award winners, its gallery of award winning images from its photographers around the world. |
| May 18, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| Journal adds a fine selection |
| Photo Journal from The Wall Street Journal features an interesting selection of images in Pictures of the Week: May 9 - May 14. |
| May 18, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| Episode of TV series House, airing tonight, shot entirely with Canon EOS 5D Mark II |
| The season finale of the U.S. TV series House, airing tonight, was captured with Canon's EOS 5D Mark II. This makes it "the first network television prime time drama episode to be shot entirely on a Digital SLR camera," says a Canon USA press release. |
| May 17, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| Profoto BatPac portable power pack winging its way to stores in June |
| Profoto will ship in June a portable power source for studio flash, including the company's D1, ComPact and Acute2 series monolights and packs. Called the BatPac, it's comprised of a field-swappable 12V/17Ah sealed lead acid battery and pure sine wave inverter in a 24.7lb/1.2kg black nylon bag. It's capable of powering a single Profoto D1 500ws light for 600 full power pops with a recycle time of 1.6s. |
| May 17, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| XRite to consolidate pro colour management into i1Profiler this fall |
| XRite has announced i1Profiler, a new colour management package designed to generate profiles for monitors, RGB and CMYK printers, projectors and digital cameras. The software, which is expected to ship in the fourth quarter of 2010, is a new-from-the-ground-up effort that replaces Eye-One Match, ProfileMaker and MonacoPROFILER and is meant to combine the best features of each. |
| May 14, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| Think Tank Photo now shipping Retrospective series |
| Camera bag maker Think Tank Photo is now shipping Retrospective, a series of three soft-sided canvas shoulder bags and two lens changers whose appearance is meant to evoke the classic look of vintage pro camera bags. All models are available now in both pinestone and black colours. |
| May 14, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| Release candidate of Photo Mechanic 4.6.4 now available |
| A release candidate of Photo Mechanic 4.6.4, the excellent pro photo browser from Camera Bits, is now available for download. The changes since v4.6.3 are extensive and are comprised of minor bug fixes and feature tweaks as well as support for RAW files captured with the Olympus E-P2 and E-PL1 as well as Phase One models. |
| May 13, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| Adobe posts release candidate of Camera Raw 6.1 for Photoshop CS5 |
| Adobe has made available for download a release candidate of Camera Raw 6.1, the next iteration of its RAW conversion plug-in for Photoshop CS5. Camera Raw 6.1 includes support for RAW files captured with Canon's EOS Rebel T2i/550D plus nine other models from Leaf, Olympus, Panasonic and more. It also adds the lens correction feature of Photoshop CS5 itself to the plug-in, fixes a bug and improves control and scrolling responsiveness. |
| May 13, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| Canon celebrates the production of 40 million EOS SLR cameras |
| Canon has announced that production of the EOS series of film and digital SLR cameras, introduced in 1987, has now surpassed 40 million units. The word EOS is an acronym for Electro Optical System as well as the name given to the goddess of dawn in Greek mythology. |
| May 13, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| Hasselblad Phocus for Mac to convert RAW files from Canon, Nikon and more |
| Phocus 2.5, an upcoming release of Hasselblad's RAW conversion software, will incorporate the ability to convert RAW files from Canon, Nikon and more. The new conversion support will be in the Mac version exclusively, and utilizes the imaging engine built into the Mac OS to perform the conversions. Phocus 2.5 for Mac will be a free download when it comes available on May 19, 2010. |
| May 11, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| Reuters features best of April |
| Reuters features Pictures of the Month: April, the best images from the news agency's photographers from throughout the world. |
| May 10, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| Reuters focuses on the photo technique of scale |
| Reuters features Photo focus: Scale, a gallery of interesting images showing the effects of scale. |
| May 6, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| Mother Nature causes chaos in Tennessee |
| The Big Picture from The Boston Globe features Flooding in Tennessee, a gallery of spectacular flooding images and Captured, the Denver Post blog, adds another large gallery of flooding images. |
| May 5, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| Preparations still underway for threatended coastline |
| The Christian Science Monitor features a gallery on preparations underway to deal with the Louisiana oil spill and Reuters adds a gallery on the Gulf oil spill. |
| May 5, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| Reuters features best of April with multimedia tour |
| Reuters' Top photos from April now features a narrative describing the photographers' images of highlighted events from last month. |
| May 4, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| ShutterSnitch for iPhone, iPad combines FTP server and automatic photo display |
| ShutterSnitch for iPhone, iPod touch and now iPad combines an FTP server, automatic display of incoming JPEGs, pinch zooming and more into a neat app for photographers using a wireless transmitter or Eye-Fi card.*UPDATED* |
| May 3, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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| Afghanistan but with a difference |
| While there have been many galleries featuring Afghanistan on the Internet, this one by The Big Picture from The Boston Globe captures a wide variety interesting images, many of which were very poignant. |
| May 3, 2010 | FULL STORY |
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