“Photos are important, but what about all the work associated with them? If you’ve spent time keywording, sorting, rating, adding captions, and making non-destructive image edits (XML), then you should be backing up that information too. Because at the end of a year, that work can represent hours upon hours of your time.” —  Derrick Story
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TORONTO, Sept. 30 /CNW/ – iseemedia Inc. (TSX-VENTURE:IEE), a leading provider of rich content creation and delivery solutions for web and wireless markets, announced today that it is collaborating with AMD (NYSE: AMD) to bring its award-winning panorama creation and other image enhancement technologies to mobile camera phones.
Source and Read More: imaging-resource.com

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NORTHBOROUGH, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–AccuSoft® Corporation, the leading provider of imaging development toolkits, today announced that version 16 of its widely-used ImageGear® imaging Software Development Toolkits (SDKs) are shipping. The new releases of ImageGear Professional, ImageGear Medical, ImageGear for .NET, and ImageGear for .NET Compact Framework offer software developers many new features to build advanced imaging applications [...]

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“My latest column was posted a few days ago on Photo.net. It’s called “Reserving Judgment.” It centers around the Sony A900, but it’s really about the increasingly typical reactions of the internet hoi polloi (anyone reading this being company not included) to new cameras—reactions which occasionally exhibit features of mass hysteria.” —  Mike Johnston
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“There are two new videos on the web showing off the video capability of the new Canon 5D Mark II. One is by Michael Reichmann of The Luminous Landscape, a longtime Canon fan and an advocate of the coming confusion between still and moving images. Well, “confusion”—that’s editorializing on my part. Michael R. calls it [...]

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“The humble, ‘out-dated’ Nikon D40 is currently one of the best selling cameras that (not much) money can buy. With a resolution of just six megapixels and a small LCD screen by today’s standards, it’s hardly competitive with the current 10 megapixel and beyond cameras of here and now. Although the need for more megapixels [...]

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“The budget end of the DSLR market represents a huge chunk of camera sales. It’s the most contended sector, with cameras from Sony, Olympus, Pentax, Samsung and Sigma all providing competitive products. But, standing head and shoulders above all the others are Canon and Nikon, with the lion’s share of this all-important sector. “ —  Alan [...]

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“We’ve packed a lot into the new beta version of Windows Live Photo Gallery. At the same time we’ve heard users ask, “What’s new in Photo Gallery?”. Here’s a quick clip-and-save list of the top features to check out. In the coming weeks we’ll be going into more detail about everything on this [...]

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“Camera makers are jumping into the 3D photo market more than 20 years after the format was laughed out of town and ended up as Michael Jackson’s sidekick in Captain Eo.” —  Jose Fermoso
Source and Read More: blog.wired.com

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“Here’s another great Photoshop tutorial from my buddy Gary Kapluggin. This guy is so creative and his Photoshop skillz rock! If you haven’t checked out his first tutorial as a guest poster on Yanik’s Photo School, have a look! You’ll be amazed at what this guy can do in post processing.” —  Yanik
Source and Read More: yanikphotoschool.com

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“Here we go with another cool Photoshop video tutorial. In this video, we’ll look at a different way to sharpen photos. You might be used to using the Unsharp Mask or Smart Sharpen filters in Photoshop which do a relatively good job.” —  Yanik
Source and Read More: yanikphotoschool.com

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“For those moaning about the Nikon D90 Video and exposure weaknesses have faith, Nikon will soon be exchanging the Nikon D300. Tentatively named Nikon D500 this is a 1.5x crop factor, pro/enthusiast spec camera with weather sealing, liveview, built-in flash and video mode.” —  Stock Photo Market and Creative Digital Photography Guide
Source and Read More: stock-photo.blogspot.com

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“Christine, in Virginia (USA), asks:
“Is it possible for a specular highlight to be anything other than blown out? If so, how do you meter and control its intensity?”” —  David Hobby
Source and Read More: strobist.blogspot.com

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“Here we are, on the very last of the Lighting 102 assignments. This series has been more than a year in the making, and it is almost time to put this one in the books.” —  David Hobby
Source and Read More: strobist.blogspot.com

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“If we were looking for a sign that the Best Li’l Speedlight ever made has been put out to pasture, this is probably it. “ —  David Hobby
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This has been the busiest quarter so far for the UK School of Framing. Demand for training places through September and into early November has been amazing. Some courses have been fully booked months ahead of their running date. Training sessions give you a thorough understanding of how to create best quality [...]

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Sony continues to develop a blueprint for the digital home with two complementary products – the Sony Home Share and the Intelligent Photo Frame – a super-stylish digital photo frame for use around the house.
Source and Read More: ephotozine.com

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“The newly announced PENTAX AF160FC dedicated auto macro flash has been designed for Pentax DSLR cameras. The flash utilizes the automatic exposure-control system of PENTAX digital SLR cameras and is ideal for advanced close-up shots.” —  Tanya Palta
Source and Read More: digitalcamerainfo.com

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“You and your best friends just got tickets to see your favorite band in concert. Being the photographer you are, naturally you want to bring along your camera. But can you do that? If you can, and you get an awesome shot of the singer, can you sell it? The answer is probably not, but [...]

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“Being a stock photographer, I am always on the lookout for new subjects to shoot. Many times, these subjects are right under my nose – or in this case, right down the street.” —  Rich Legg
Source and Read More: leggnet.com

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“The ’sleeping giant’ is Samsung’s name in the photo industry. And sleeping doesn’t seem too far off we discovered, after visiting the Samsung booth at Photokina 2008. As for floor space, Samsung had sufficient room to show many of its new products, and it is rather striking that Samsung has nothing, or almost nothing, to [...]

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“The famous Nikon yellow and black colors dominated a huge part of the gigantic halls of the Photokina show. The booth accurately represented Nikon’s presentation in the world in 2008. The huge booth was crowded with people and could have done with some more floor space to be able to accommodate all the visitors.” —  Ilse [...]

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“Just before my departure to the Photokina show, various test cameras arrived at my door. That means making product shots, charging batteries and cramming them into my already overfull suitcase with all the things I need for the Photokina show.” —  Mark Peters
Source and Read More: letsgodigital.org

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“In addition to the Bridge resources mentioned yesterday, Julieanne Kost has posted some detailed overviews of Camera Raw 5.0 and the rest of Photoshop CS4:…” —  John Nack
Source and Read More: blogs.adobe.com

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TOKYO, Japan (CEATEC) – September 30, 2008 – OmniVision Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OVTI), a leading independent supplier of CMOS image sensors, today introduced the world’s first ¼ inch, 5 megapixel system-on-chip (SOC) image sensor based on OmniVision’s new OmniBSI technology. The new OV5642 represents OmniVision’s most advanced sensor to date, combining its 1.4-micron OmniBSI pixel [...]

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