“The 8.1-megapixel Casio Exilim EX-Z9 surprised me. In my experience, Casio’s point-and-shoot cameras have suffered from poor image quality. My opinion was reinforced most recently by the EX-S880, a slim and sleek camera that took dull and dark pictures. I was expecting more of the same from the $150 (street) EX-Z9, but much to my [...]

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“Are you fired up, ready to go, can’t wait to get on site and take the first shot. I hope so. Because if you are not, think about changing jobs – your giving the rest of us a bad name.” – David Ziser
Source and Read More: digitalprotalk.blogspot.com

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“People on Curacao often say that there are no big fishes around this island. That is partially true but definately does not include Sea Lions!” – Serge Abourjeily
Source and Read More: digideep.com

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“Grading student work is one of the most important, and most challenging, duties of being an educator. As one of my colleagues, Keith Kenney, recently reminded me, setting goals and evaluating our students’ progress are what we as educators do — they are the twin pillars supporting the entire education edifice.” – David Weintraub
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“This week we sat down with our friend David from Esquire Photography to discuss different aspects of wedding photography. What we thought was going to be a quick discussion turned into almost 90 minutes of everything from technique, to contracts, to workflow, and much more.” – KerrG
Source and Read More: cameradojo.com

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” KUALA LUMPUR, May 31 (Bernama) — Canon Marketing Malaysia is aiming to boost its share of the digital camera market to 35 percent by year end from the current 30 percent aided by its latest digital camera range, the Canon IXUS.” – Bernama
Source and Read More: bernama.com

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“Lucidiom EQ 6.0 Features New Creative Products and Customer Connections, System Integration, Increased Order Speed and More
Vienna, Va., May 30, 2008 – Lucidiom Inc., today announced it has shipped a new version of its award-winning software. Lucidiom EQ 6.0 features new creative products and flexible imaging solutions that continue to take Lucidiom photofinishers beyond [...]

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“Ramsey, N.J. (May 30, 2008)– Bogen Imaging, a leading distributor of top quality photographic support products and accessories in North America, is proud to announce a free, introductory lighting webinar titled “How to Overcome 5 Common Problems When Shooting Outdoors.”” —  imaging-resource
Source and Read More: imaging-resource.com

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“The “hot pixels” we noticed in our test shots appear to be due to a minor firmware bug, with relatively limited scope.” —  Dave Etchells
Source and Read More: imaging-resource.com

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“The latest super-zoom from Nikon, the Coolpix P80 is a high-performance compact camera built to satisfy the needs of camera enthusiasts and family photographers alike. The P80 integrates a 10.1 megapixel CCD image sensor with Nikon’s innovative EXPEED™ digital image processing concept and an 18x optical Zoom-NIKKOR lens designed with the compact and comfortable styling [...]

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“The Olympus E-420 is a compact digital SLR that offers a host of nice features, despite being priced at just $599. This camera is the follow-up to the venerable EVOLT E-410, offering these new features: …” —  Jeff Keller
Source and Read More: dcresource.com

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“The Canon EOS 450D (also known as the Digital Rebel XSi) is the successor to the popular EOS 400D DSLR camera, and it offers a number of significant improvements that Canon hope will fight off the ever-increasing competition.” —  Mark Goldstein
Source and Read More: photographyblog.com

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“The Samsung NV24HD is a new 10 megapixel compact digital camera that has quite a few tricks up its metaphorical sleeve. There’s an impressive 24mm ultra-wide angle, image stabilised 3.6x zoom lens, which is currently the widest offered by any digicam, with a maximum telephoto setting of 86.5mm.” —  Gavin Stoker
Source and Read More: photographyblog.com

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“The Canon IXUS 90 IS a stylish digital camera that should fit quite easily into a pocket. It has 10 megapixels, a 3x optical zoom lens and a large 3 inch LCD screen.” —  Cameras.co.uk
Source and Read More: cameras.co.uk

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“Time for the Friday tip again. Scroll down to the next paragraph to read it. Keep reading here if you live anywhere near the Philadelphia area and can get some time off next Tuesday morning (June 3).” —  Matt Kloskowski
Source and Read More: lightroomkillertips.com

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“Accidentally reformatting or deleting photos from a memory card full of digital snaps is one way to end a holiday on a low note, but it doesn’t mean your memories are gone forever. Zero Assumption Recovery can recover a variety of digital camera file formats from a memory card and it may just be enough [...]

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“I’ve made images of probably over a thousand artists and musicians over the nearly two decades I’ve been making images. In fact, I am shooting a performance of a well-known 80’s band on Monday for a client.” —  Photo Business News & Forum
Source and Read More: photobusinessforum.blogspot.com

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“Being green is no longer a phrase associated with Kermit the Frog. We all know we really should do our part to keep the Earth from turning into one giant landfill. The good news is “it’s not easy being green” really isn’t the true, a little effort in all aspects of your life can make [...]

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“A Preferred Working Space for Digital Photographers
Most photographers work under the assumption that Adobe RGB 98 is the most suitable working space within Photoshop. Everyone also knows that the sRGB working space is smaller, and therefore less suitable for professional and fine-art printing applications. Sure, sRGB is fine for amateurs and the web, but real [...]

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“Let’s embrace the obvious. Many photographers feel that investing time and effort into learning color management is the digital equivalent of going to the dentist. Unless you are an uber-geek, I bet that you would rather study DIY acupuncture, medieval French literature or the genome of the common fruit fly than cuddle up with a [...]

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“At FotoFest 2008 in Houston, Texas, I had the opportunity to meet many photographers from China who are a part of the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, based in Beijing.” —  Andrew Darlow
Source and Read More: imagingbuffet.com

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“Hamrick Software, the developer of VueScan, the world’s most widely used scanning software, has released VueScan 8.4.73 which now includes support for multi-core processors.” —  imaging-resource
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“When Olympus sent me the E-3 to review, they also sent their two new Zuiko Digital SWD lenses, the ED 12–60mm ƒ/2.8–4.0 (24–120mm 35mm-e) and the ED 50–200mm ƒ/2.8–3.5. (100–400mm 35mm-e).” —  Eamon Hickey
Source and Read More: theonlinephotographer.typepad.com

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“Join Brian Kraft, VP of Sales for onOne Software on June 10, 11 and 12 at 11 AM PST, to see how onOne Plug-Ins maximize the power of Photoshop. “ —  Photoshopsupport
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“When it comes to colour management, photographers fall into three categories; here are those who couldn’t care less, those who know profiling is beneficial but really can’t be bothered and those who religiously tend to their equipment. In fairness, most of us fall into the first and second camps… it’s often just the hardcore pros [...]

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