| Fuji S1 Pro samples online |
| Japanese photographer Kazuhisa Nishikawa has posted 15 fashion photos taken with the Fuji FinePix S1 Pro. While not a test of the camera's mettle in difficult lighting environments, the photos do show decent colour and contrast in daylight conditions. |
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| Sports Shooter 22 posted |
| The latest edition of the email/web newsletter Sports Shooter is now online. This month's installment includes an advanced look at the Lightware digital packpack, the first competitor to LowePro's Stealth AW. |
| July 29, 2000 | FULL STORY |
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| Canon EOS D30 shows promise |
| Let's dispense with what Canon's EOS D30 is not: |
| July 27, 2000 | FULL STORY |
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| Kodak posts updated acquire software, firmware |
| Wolfram Scheible notes that Kodak has posted v5.9.3 of the acquire software for their pro line of digital cameras, as well as firmware v3.2.3. The update tandem improves support for FireWire on both Macs and PCs, including the G3/400 and G3/500 Powerbooks with built-in FireWire ports. Also included in the update is the ability to transmit photos directly from certain cameras, though an extra-cost unlock key, as well as a cable kit, are required to enable that feature. |
| July 23, 2000 | FULL STORY |
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| FireSCSI Xpress adapter; will it work with the LS-2000? |
| Two years ago, when Apple began dropping the SCSI ports from Mac computers, photographers with SCSI devices had to scramble to find alternate methods of connecting their scanners, CD writers, ZIP drives and other peripherals. Over time, solutions were developed, including Mac-friendly SCSI host adapter cards for G3 and G4 desktops and USB-to-SCSI adapters for iMacs, In addition, USB and FireWire versions of the peripherals themselves began to appear. |
| July 21, 2000 | FULL STORY |
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| The DCS 620x around the web |
| If you're looking for information about and sample photos from Kodak's DCS 620x, look no further than your web browser. The following sites have recently posted overviews of Kodak's high-ISO specialist camera, along with sample photos: |
| July 21, 2000 | FULL STORY |
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| Adobe updates Altivec plug-ins |
| Adobe this week released new Altivec plug-ins to improve Photoshop 5.5 performance on Macs with single or multiple G4 processors. Changes include: |
| July 21, 2000 | FULL STORY |
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| Bibble 1.09 improves colour |
| Bibble 1.09, the latest version of Eric Hyman's .NEF browsing and processing application for Windows, cleans up the slight red tinge that Hyman felt was present in some .NEF and JPEG photos processed through earlier versions. Says the author: |
| July 21, 2000 | FULL STORY |
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| FireWire card reader beats SCSI, USB |
| Notes on card reader testing for the article FireWire card beats SCSI, USB. |
| July 20, 2000 | FULL STORY |
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| Digital Wallet poised to ship |
| The Digital Wallet, a "Portable Smart Storage" device for storing images in the field without a computer, is set to ship. Starting tomorrow, the online retailer MindsGear will begin shipment of the long-awaited US$499 product that should prove popular among amateur digital photographers with limited card capacity. |
| July 20, 2000 | FULL STORY |
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| FireWire card reader beats SCSI, USB |
| I admit it, I'm an impatient digital photographer. |
| July 20, 2000 | FULL STORY |
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| Apple unveils new Macs |
| Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled several new Macs during his morning keynote address at MacWorld New York: |
| July 19, 2000 | FULL STORY |
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| Kodak acquire software, firmware delayed until next week |
| Kodak's Mike Deluca indicates that the v5.9.3 acquire software/v3.2.2 firmware update, originally slated for release this week, will not be posted on Kodak's website until sometime during the week of July 24th. The updates will improve FireWire functionality on both Mac and Windows, fix bugs and will also pave the way for image transmission directly from the DCS 520, DCS 620, DCS 620x and EOS D2000 cameras,which will be officially announced sometime shortly after the acquire software/firmware posting. |
| July 18, 2000 | FULL STORY |
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| MacBibble nearing completion |
| Mac users desperate to make best use of the D1's RAW .NEF format are close to having a workable solution, for several hundred dollars less than Nikon Capture. Even prior to its official v1.0 release, MacBibble offers excellent image quality as well as serious butt-saving features when the exposure or colour of a D1 .NEF file is less than optimum. |
| July 18, 2000 | FULL STORY |
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| NBA, New York Times square off over photo rights |
| Monday's edition of Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper contains an interesting article on last week's lawsuit launched against the New York Times by the National Basketball Association. The dispute centres around the newspaper's decision to sell five photos shot during 1999's NBA playoffs, which, claims the NBA, was a violation of the terms stated on the NBA press photographer pass. |
| July 18, 2000 | FULL STORY |
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| Photo Mechanic Lite, Pro 2.0r5 posted |
| Photo Mechanic Lite 2.0r5 for Mac and Photo Mechanic Pro 2.0r5 for Mac are available for download. Changes in the latest releases include a bug fix that caused the IPTC Stationery Pad to forget what text was last stored in certain fields, as well as a splitting of the supplementary category field into three fields, for better compatibility with the AP Leaf Desk. |
| July 18, 2000 | FULL STORY |
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| Eight days to Visual Edge 2000 |
| Photojournalism's premier conference on digital photography commences in eight days. Visual Edge 2000, staged in St. Petersburg, Florida by the NPPA in concert with the Poynter Institute, features a broad range of digital technology speakers and an opportunity to see Canon's upcoming EOS D30 digital camera. |
| July 15, 2000 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikkor 14mm f2.8 ED sample photos posted |
| If you've been contemplating the purchase of a 14mm f2.8 lens for your D1 , DCS 620 or DCS 620x, be sure to download the full-resolution D1 sample photos posted Saturday, as well as the additional photos posted today, by Juergen Specht. If you want to see Specht's photos act fast; he plans to remove them from the web on Wednesday |
| July 15, 2000 | FULL STORY |
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| Kodak USA drops prices on 620, 620x |
| Kodak USA this week has dropped the dealer cost on the Kodak DCS 620 and DCS 620x, enabling Kodak Professional resellers to offer one of the DCS 620 packages at a price that's within spitting distance of the D1's price for the first time since Nikon's pro digital camera began shipping last fall. Major Kodak dealers in the U.S., and perhaps other regions as well, are expected to take about US$1000 off the cost of a DCS 620, and about US$2000 off a DCS 620x. |
| July 12, 2000 | FULL STORY |
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| Photo Mechanic Lite, Pro 2.0r4 posted |
| Camera Bits' Photo Mechanic Lite 2.0r4 for Mac and Photo Mechanic Pro 2.0r4 for Mac are now available for download. Changes in the popular newspaper digital camera image browser include: |
| July 12, 2000 | FULL STORY |
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| Bibble 1.08b fixes interpolation bug |
| In Bibble v1.08b, Eric Hyman seems to have stomped out once and for all a problem with brightly-coloured pixels appearing in deep shadow areas, especially along the left edge of photos shot at higher ISO settings. Also fixed is a crash that would occur if Color Correction was switched on, but ICC colour management was switched off, in the Options dialog. |
| July 6, 2000 | FULL STORY |
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| Lowe Pro adds shoulder bags to its Stealth digital line |
| Lowe Pro has announced the July availability of two shoulder bags designed to hold digital camera gear, a Powerbook G3-size laptop and accessories. Called the Stealth Reporter 600 AW and Stealth Reporter 650 AW, they join the Stealth backpack and Madison 1300 AW in Lowe Pro's expanding line of bags designed to meet the needs of digital photojournalists. |
| July 6, 2000 | FULL STORY |
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| Bibble v1.08 posted |
| Bibble v1.08a, the Windows version of Eric Hyman's browser for the D1 .NEF file format, includes an improved noise filter, a fix for errant pixels that sometimes appear in dark areas, separate controls over highlight and shadow clipping and more. |
| July 4, 2000 | FULL STORY |
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| Kodak acquire v5.9.3, firmware v3.2.2 coming this month |
| Version 5.9.3 of Kodak's acquire software for Mac and Windows will fix an incompatibility between current pro cameras and the built-in FireWire ports on G3 Powerbooks, as well as add support for Sony VAIO laptops with built-in FireWire (i.Link, in Sony-speak) ports. |
| July 4, 2000 | FULL STORY |
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| QImage Pro v8.5 continues journey towards perfect D1 colour |
| QImage Pro author Michael Chaney has D1 colour clenched in his teeth, and he won't let go. |
| July 4, 2000 | FULL STORY |
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| Card Shark eases image management |
| Back in the early days of digital, we had Piranha. Built by the AP, it was a Windows computer dedicated to extracting photos off multiple camera cards simultaneously. Someone at the AP decided that the name Piranha needed sanitizing, and Piranha eventually became DiscMinder. Now that DiscMinder is gone, along with AP's Technology Marketing division, archiving consultant David Breslauer is paying homage to the days of Piranha with his new device, called Card Shark. |
| July 3, 2000 | FULL STORY |
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| MacBibble 0.5 posted |
| MacBibble continues its steady march towards completion with the posting today of testing version 0.5. The new release of the Nikon D1 .NEF file decoder fixes a bug with versions of ColorSync prior to 2.6 (though author Eric Hyman recommends upgrading to ColorSync 2.6 or later for best performance) and adds new features. |
| July 1, 2000 | FULL STORY |
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