“Last month, Culture Secretary James Purnell was unable to make it on time to a photo-shoot with other MPs to promote a new development at a hospital in Tameside. See the PSN story James Purnell in fake photo row.
His spokesman has said that instead of ‘letting anyone down’ the MP gave his consent for the [...]

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“On my recent Geek Cruise to the Panama Canal, I took along the Nikon D300 camera, which I’m reviewing. It’s a monster camera (at $1,900, it had better be). But a quirk of one high-end feature almost got me in a heap of trouble.” – David Pogue
Source and Read More: New York Times
 

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“Just posted! Our review of FujiFilm’s FinePix S8000fd. The S8000fd strives to offer point-and-shoot convenience with the option of manual controls in a body with an unfeasibly long 18x zoom lens. In what has already become a crowded market segment, can the S8000fd be all things to all people? Find out after the link.” – [...]

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The following Epson drivers are for use with Apple Macintosh OS 10.5 – 10.5.x. These drivers are offered for public beta testing only, so Epson provides them “as is,” without any warranty, support or liability of any kind. Final release of these drivers is expected to be Q1 of 2008.
These Epson Leopard drivers are all [...]

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“As Alamy Images passed 10 million royalty free and rights managed images for sale online it revamped the search engine once again. Now called Alamy Rank, the search engine takes more than keywords into account in an effort to produce better search results to the clients. And – it seems to be working.” – Stock [...]

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“I have really been enjoying my New Nikon D300 camera and there really isn’t anything that I don’t like about it. It’s FAST, takes incredible shots and has all the bells and whistles that I’ve always wanted. Although the Nikon D300 doesn’t have a GPS unit built-in, it does now feature direct support for one [...]

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“I picked up my new Nikon D300 last Wednesday from the good folks over at Adray Camera (who assured me that I would be one of the first kids on the block to get one, Thanks Kevin!). It was great having the holiday weekend to put it through some initial tests. I’m coming into this [...]

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“Most serious digital photographers know that using a graphics tablet is the best way by far when it comes to editing and making selections in Photoshop and other imaging applications. Although there is a learning curve when switching from a mouse to a pen, after using one, I don’t know of any photographers that would [...]

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“The Olympus SP-560 UltraZoom digital camera features a 1/2.35 inch CCD imager with a resolution of eight megapixels, coupled with an Olympus-branded 18x optical zoom lens with an extremely wide-ranging choice of 35mm equivalent focal lengths from 27 to 486mm and f/2.8 to 4.5 maximum aperture.” – Mike Pasini
Source and Read More: imaging-resource
 

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“Although some cameras promise to be water-resistant, if you’re taking pictures near or even under water, a water-resistant camera won’t do.” – David Phelan
Source and Read More: Computer Act!ve
 

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“Two days ago, I wrote in the post titled “My Two Answers” about the ongoing lack of large-sensor compacts. Today, as if in answer, no less than than the COO of Sigma Corporation, Kazuto Yamaki, has posted an announcement about the DP1 to update what we know.” – Mike Johnston
Source and Read More: The Online [...]

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“Photography has advanced considerably from its conception into the digital age. Along with such advancements come additional complications – different sensor types, a variety of sensor sizes, formats and files! So what does it all mean, and why does it even matter?” – Mike Lowe
Source and Read More: ThinkCamera
 

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“The Nikon Pro roadshow hit London this week. Two days at Olympia, with Nikon and its buddies showing their wares to an audience of semi-pro and pro photographers (with a fair sprinkling of normal people, too). The show was strictly speaking geared toward the requirements of portrait, wedding and events photographer.” – Alan Sircom
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“The Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3 is perhaps the ideal Christmas camera. It’s been heavily advertised (making it popular for photographers and muggles alike), has a really, really huge zoom and an equally huge three inch LCD. It has all the latest bells and whistles (20 scene modes, high ISO and image stabilisation) and a few not [...]

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“Although the trend is definitely from ink-jet printers to all-in-one machines, there are still advantages to the single-function machine, which is smaller and slightly cheaper for the same specification level. Canon’s new PIXMA iP4500 includes duplex printing, a PictBridge camera socket, dual paper trays and CD/DVD print facilities in a machine costing under £70.” – [...]

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“Konica Minolta has finally entered the arena for high end DSLR’s with the new Dynax 7D digital camera – producing some outstanding results. In many reviews on the web, you will find that each review has been conducted using a zoom lens which is good, but by no means as good a fixed focal length [...]

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Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni [...]

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Making Stunning Wedding Albums is Easier and More Affordable than Ever
MENLO PARK, CALIF. November 27, 2007 Picaboo (http://www.picaboo.com), makers of the innovative free software that helps people turn photos into stunning photo books and greeting cards, today announced a Professional Wedding Photographer Program. Professional wedding photographers are invited to join the program and extend [...]

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“The Panasonic DMC LS75 is a 7 megapixel digital camera with a 3x optical zoom lens. This is one of the cheaper digital cameras. It is also easy to use. As with other cameras in this price bracket the DMC LS75 is on the large side for slipping into a pocket. ” – Cameras.co.uk
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“The Olympus MJU 790 SW is a digital camera with a difference. Not only is it waterproof to a depth of 3m, it is also shockproof if dropped from a height of 1.5m. There are very few other digital cameras that offer either a waterproof or a shockproof body, so to find a camera offering [...]

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Digital Camera Makes “Spontaneous Shots Look Picture-Perfect”
Valhalla, N.Y., November 28, 2007 – FUJIFILM U.S.A., Inc. is pleased to announce that Popular Science has selected the Fujifilm FinePix F50fd digital camera as the recipient of a 2007 Best of What’s New award in the Gadget category. The editors of Popular Science singled out the FinePix F50fd [...]

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“Kodak’s newest 5 mega-pixel P850 digital camera is feature packed. Straight out of the box, it resembles an SLR only smaller and lighter while still maintaining balance and stability in the photographer’s hands.” – Buy-n-Shoot
Source and Read More: Buy-n-Shoot
 

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“29 November 2007 – The Nikon Coolpix S510 updates the S500 and has the same basic feature set and handling characteristics (check the S500 test as well for specifics on some of those similar features) as that camera. However, the Face Priority AF and lens shift VR (Vibration Reduction) buttons have been removed from the [...]

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The online photo printing service, founded in 2003 offers its customers a £5 discount on its A4 and new XL photo books.
Cambridge, GB. 26 Nov 2007. – During the first four years thousands of digital camera users have had photo calendars printed with FotoInsight. With the popularity of its photo book service, launched in 2005, [...]

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The new version of the Printing-1 photo book software provides new layouts and calendar templates. The demanding photographer or designer on Windows or Apple PCs can now create professionally printed photo book calendars.
London, 29 Nov 2007 – Photo books are the creative gift option this Season. More and more often, when the camera or mobile [...]

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