Globally respected analogue brand of HARMAN technology announces special ‘Back to School’ offers
In the fall of 2007, ILFORD PHOTO – the black and white brand of HARMAN technology Limited – introduced its campaign to ‘Defend the Darkroom’. This on-going initiative has a number of aims, including promoting the importance of darkrooms [...]

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“THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WE HAVE HEARD OF who claim to know the meaning of E=MC2 Unfortunately we don’t know enough to be able to tell if this is an idle boast. There are also a few persons who skite about their comprehensive understanding of the working of Adobe Photoshop. We do know enough about [...]

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“I normally talk about the importance of using a flash when taking shots into the sun to give sufficient light to add features to your subject but there are also times when making your subject featureless apart from their outline against a bright background can be most effective – or when in other words silhouette [...]

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“July 31, 2008 – Fujifilm today announced the FinePix Z200fd, a fashionably slender 10-megapixel camera with a sociable streak. New to this model is Couple Timer mode, a variation on face detection that automatically shoots when two faces come close together (users can specify the required distance, based on the couple’s relationship).” —  Steve Morganstern
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“‘ve spent most of the last 12 hours checking out the brand new Lightroom 2.0 and I’m stoked. There are about a gazillion new features to talk about in the new version, but I have selected my 10 very best favorites for us Wedding/Portrait shooters.” —  David Ziser
Source and Read More: digitalprotalk.blogspot.com

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“The FujiFilm Finepix Z200fd Glam Cam is yet another digital camera on top of the massive mountain of sleek point and shoots. Yeah, it’s really thin and will capture shots at up to 10MP with a 5x zoom lens. But it stands out for an odd reason—it’s got a fantastic—and creepy—timer system.” —  gizmodo
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“NEW YORK (Reuters) – Photography company Eastman Kodak Co said on Thursday net income fell and sees its 2008 earnings at the lower end of its previous forecast.” —  Reuters
Source and Read More: nytimes.com

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“I have always loved using off-camera camera flashes and want to extend my arsenal of different flash modifiers. In this first round I will concentrate on the type you can mount directly on the flash. I may return to umbrellas, softboxes, diffuser screens other larger modifiers later.” —  Martin Joergensen
Source and Read More: blogs.nikonians.org

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“will start this series about flash modifiers with the cheapest modifier I can imagine. They do come simpler as we will see later, but at two for 0.99 US$ it’s gonna be hard to find a less expensive store-bought modifier.” —  Martin Joergensen
Source and Read More: blog.nikonians.org

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“Alright, I caved and bought the Aperture 2 upgrade. Was I wrong about the things I said in my previous post? No (for the most part). True, proportional spacing in grid view shouldn’t have been dropped in this upgrade and, yes, the jumpy scrolling is annoying as all hell, but there are some pretty awesome [...]

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“Wow! What a week… We just finished our three-day digital imaging workshop in Atlanta. Thanks to Software Cinema for all the help with the administration of making this happen. Class was a great success. Everyone left with lots of new techniques to apply in their digital imaging workflows. Big thanks to [...]

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“I upgraded to Adobe Lightroom 2.0. The immediate good news is that it works fine with my .NEF files from my Nikon D700. Whew. And less than a week after the D700 hit the streets. That’s good timing. I wonder if that was planned.” —  Mike Fullerton
Source and Read More: blog.mikefullerton.com

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“I’m a big fan of SmugMug and was excited by the SmugShot iPhone application for taking pictures and uploading them to my smugmug account.” —  Mike Fullerton
Source and Read More: blog.mikefullerton.com

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“The latest monopod product from Gitzo is ideal for sports photographers, with quick set-up and sturdy support of almost any camera and lens.” —  Christine Persaud
Source and Read More: marketnews.ca

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“The true stars of Lighroom 2 are the localized adjustment tools. For the first time, photographers can now edit their raw files using the adjustment brush and gradient filter tools. These allow you to apply all kinds of adjustments such as: darkening, lightening, coloring or sharpening an image. The following extract is taken from my [...]

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Second Quarter Digital Revenue Up 10% to $1.636 Billion; Company Improves Cash Performance, Ends Quarter with More Than $2.3 Billion in Cash; Second Quarter Earnings from Continuing Operations of $200 Million, up $354 Million; Results Include $270 Million from Previously Announced IRS Refund; Company Affirms 2008 Total and Digital Revenue Forecasts; Sees 2008 Earnings at [...]

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“Jay Tomioka visited with me last winter for a video interview. He’s doing a very interesting project on photography that includes extensive video interviews.” —  John Paul Caponigro
Source and Read More: johnpaulcaponigro.com

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“If you’ve read this blog for any length of time, you’ve heard me talk ad nauseam about the need to better manage Photoshop’s complexity. “ —  John Nack
Source and Read More: blogs.adobe.com

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“Thanks to everyone who has been e-mailing me after seeing a photo of mine appear in the new trailer for the movie “I.O.U.S.A”. There is breif flash after footage from the movie and a still image of a homeless man is shown.” —  Joey L.
Source and Read More: joeyl.com

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“Do you ever find yourself doing something mundane when all of a sudden a photography technique idea pops into your head? I love when that happens. My photographer friend has been talking a lot recently about finding NEW ways to process images that is totally different.” —  Jen Renaldi
Source and Read More: jenrenaldiphotography.wordpress.com

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“What wonderful times we live in. If you’ve got some funky stuff going on down below, a good way to diagnose exactly what’s happening is to swallow a pill-sized camera robot to have a looksie.” —  gizmodo
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“Intended as an artistic statement by William Lamson from his collection Intervention, we can’t help but to take note of the helium balloon as a clever, non-destructive way to defeat security cameras.” —  gizmodo
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“If you are serious about photography, at one time or another you may have considered how the human eye reacts to an image. After all, it is logical to assume that possessing information about what entices the eye can help you take much more powerful photos.” —  gizmodo
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“If you are a regular reader of ‘Whats the Jackanory ?’ you know I mostly shoot film on editorial gigs. But it turns out I have been shooting mainly digital over the last few weeks.” —  Andrew Hetherington
Source and Read More: whatsthejackanory.com

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“Billed as the world’s longest zoom, the Olympus SP-570 UZ is a model bound to catch the eye. The 10.1 million pixel model boasts an impressive 35mm equivalent zoom range of 26-520mm, or 20x, beating the 18x range of recently reviewed models from the likes of Nikon and Sony.” —  Jamie Harrison
Source and Read More: trustedreviews.com

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