Tekom (who?) were demonstrating their digital cameras at Photokina – the GX652 being the most interesting as it features a built in GPS tracker to enable recording of location when taking photos. The camera appears very similar to all the other 4.8x optical zoom lens cameras (such as the Ricoh R1v, Samsung L55W, Praktica Luxmedia [...]

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DUBLIN, IRELAND – September 30, 2006 – Handwritten letters are a thing of the past and today thousands of businesses across the country are using high-quality printers to produce professional documents. Of course with so much correspondence coming in and out of US offices every day there is a huge demand for printer cartridges, and [...]

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Corel Corp. is seeking to buy companies and expand operations in Asia, eastern Europe and Latin America, to take advantage of the growing popularity of digital imaging, the software developer’s chief executive says.
Source: CBC
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Sigma has announced the interesting 18-50 mm F2.8 EX DC Macro lens. Like all other DC lenses this is designed specifically for digital SLR’s with APS sized sensors. It offers a maximum aperture of F2.8 throughout the zoom range and a minimum focus distance of 20 cm (7.9 in). In addition the lens features aspherical [...]

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Sigma has announced another digital-only lens, the new 18-200 mm F3.5-6.3 DC OS lens. This compact lens offers a big 11x zoom range in combination with Sigma’s own Optical Stabilizer. Just like the 18-50 mm DC lens this one features aspherical and low dispersion elements as well as multi-layer coating to reduce flare and ghosting. [...]

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Olympus were demonstrating Olympus Master 3D – software that allows you to create 3D versions of your photos. On display were several 3D images, and all that was needed to view them were 3D glasses where one eye is blue and the other red.
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Olympus were showing their new Olympus SP-510 Ultra Zoom digital camera (announced last month, it features a 7.1 megapixel sensor, a 10x optical zoom lens, a 2.5″ screen and full manual controls) with additional lenses available: 1.7x telephoto converter (attached right, making the camera’s 10x optical zoom into a 17x optical zoom lens), a macro [...]

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Nikon were showing a special edition of the new Nikon D80 Digital SLR – this version is transparent, revealing the insides of the camera. They had a historical camera display, and shown below are the Nikon FA and FM special editions covered in Gold.
Source: DigiCamReview
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September 2006 – Memorex, the leading brand of optical media at U.S. retail and a portfolio brand of Imation Corp (NYSE:IMN), delivers a superior choice for the design and labeling of keepsake-quality CDs and DVDs. Memorex Inkjet Printable media with AquaGuardâ„¢ technology offers a brilliant white smear- and water-resistant disc surface, ideal for creating personalized [...]

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Ever want to freeze a rose in liquid nitrogen and then smash it and catch the photograph of the rose just as it begins to shatter? Watch this video podcast to learn how!
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Windows Photo Gallery provides an easy launching point for users to open pictures and videos with their favorite applications. If you’re a developer of an image or video application, here’s how you can integrate your app with Windows Photo Gallery.
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Mobifest, the world’s largest independent mobile film festival, will screen more than fifty made-for-mobile movies – each under one-minute in length – Sunday, October 1, 2006, from 4:00 to 6 PM, at the Princess II Theatre, 10337-82 Avenue, part of the Edmonton International Film Festival.
Toronto, ON (PRWEB) September 30, 2006 – Mobifest, the world’s [...]

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ClampArt is pleased to announce Nancy Burson: “The Hand of God”- the inaugural show in the gallery’s new, larger, ground floor space at 521-531 West 25th Street.
This is the artist’s first formal exhibition since her nomination in 2002 for “Best Solo Museum Show” by the American Art Critics Association for her retrospective, “Seeing and Believing,” [...]

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September 30, 2006 – L’Aura Hladik, Founder-Director of the NJ Ghost Hunters Society, will be presenting “Paranormal Investigating: Capturing Ghosts’ Pictures and Voices.”
October 5 = Jackson Library, Jackson, NJ – 7:00 PMOctober 13 = Leisure Village, Lakewood, NJ – 7:00 PMOctober 14 = Borders Books in the Paramus Plaza, Paramus, NJ – 8:00 PMOctober 19 [...]

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With the sharing options turned on in iPhoto, you can view the iPhoto libraries of other users, even those on the same machine (as long as they also have iPhoto open). My wife and I share a PowerBook (we each have an account on it) and an EOS 300D. We generally shoot exclusively in RAW [...]

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After a summer break, we’re back with a new podcast! I wanted to make sure this was posted to coincide with the 2nd Annual Podcast & Portable Media Expo since my guest on the show, Scott Bourne, will be speaking at the Expo today, Friday, 9/29 and Saturday 9/30. He will be joined on Saturday [...]

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Learn a couple of quick and dirty ways to convert a color photograph to black and white. The desaturate and hue saturation adjustments offer quick solutions. The results of these methods are similar, but the hue saturation adjustment is the better of the two, because it can be applied in an adjustment layer that doesn’t [...]

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Shares of Shutterfly Inc. climbed Friday, as the digital photo Web site had its trading debut on the Nasdaq Stock Market. Stock of the Redwood City, Calif.-based company rose 55 cents, more than 3 percent, to $15.55, up from the initial public offering price of $15.
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Sony urged a dozen laptop computer makers Friday to recall more of its batteries that could overheat, the latest headache for the electronics company struggling to regain its luster as the world’s premier electronics brand.
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Canon is ready to make some more improvements by upgrading its line of design-consious Ixus digital cameras. The Ixus i7 upgrades the tiny Ixus i adding a 7.1-megapixel CCD and a 2.4x optical zoom lens. Canon has also decided to make the camera fashion friendly by releasing it in four different colors.
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The second generation of the Horseman SW-D super wide angle camera unveiled at Photokina. The SW-D II Pro will feature additional mount compatibility for its interchangeable digital back system plus some new design improvements.
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Imagine taking your new digital camera on a vacation and then realizing that you can barely click 20-30 snaps at a go. So, what do you do to avoid such a situation? The answer to this question lies in the purchase of a memory card.
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Photoshop Camera Raw 3.5 [Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2.8, Adobe Photoshop CS2] (Freeware)
The camera raw functionality in Adobe Photoshop software provides fast and easy access within Photoshop to the "raw" image formats produced by many leading professional and midrange digital cameras. By working with these "digital negatives," you can achieve the results you want with [...]

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Brooks Institute will host a free program open to the public, featuring this world-renowned photographer. (PRWEB) September 29, 2006 – On Saturday, October 7, 2006, from 1-3 p.m., in Ventura, California, Brooks Institute of Photography will host a free presentation by leading celebrity and lifestyle photographer John Russo. www.johnrussophoto.com
Russo will talk about succeeding in [...]

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“Better to Best Color in Digital Photography,” “Night and Low-Light Photography,” “DSLR Features,” “Portrait Lighting,” and “Photoshop101” Redmond, Washington (PRWEB) September 29, 2006 – BetterPhoto.com, the worldwide leader in online photography education, today announced the addition of several new Fall Courses beginning October 4th. The new courses add to BetterPhoto’s ever-growing schedule of outstanding online [...]

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