| SimpleTech and Hitachi agree |
| SimpleTech and Hitachi have announced a comprehensive agreement that will see SimpleTech provide exclusive assembly and sale of Hitachi flash memory products, including CompactFlash cards, in the US. Former vendors of Hitachi CompactFlash products, including Delkin, Microtech, Dane-Elec and others, have recently switched away from Hitachi CompactFlash components to ones... |
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| AT&T rolls out high speed |
| AT&T Wireless has begun to roll out GPRS data across its digital mobile phone network. The service kicked off last week in Seattle, and requires a Motorola Timeport 7382i handset. GPRS, a protocol for transmitting data across a GSM wireless connection, should enable the transmission of digital photographs several times... |
| July 24, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Lexar announces card reader |
| Lexar Media has announced a US$30 USB CompactFlash Reader, similar in size and appearance to their current USB Jumpshot cable, that doesn't require the installation of a driver on Mac (including OS X) or PC to operate, and is compatible with most brands of CF cards. Microtech recently unveiled a... |
| July 24, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| UK Photographics offers service to pros |
| UK Photographics offers a number of services to the professional photographer, including image resale, an online shop and a web-based, subscription-only photography magazine called In Focus. The May 2001 issue of the magazine may be viewed for free.... |
| July 24, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| RitData unveils 1.6GB microdrive |
| Digital Photography Review notes that RitDATA, a subsidiary of Taiwanese manufacturer Ritek, has announced a 1.6GB CompactFlash Type II miniature hard drive, similar in design to the IBM Microdrive.... |
| July 24, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Digimarc identifies water marks |
| Digimarc Imagebridge Reader v2.5 for Windows identifies watermarked images from within Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer.... |
| July 24, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| gMovie added to PDAs |
| gMovie Maker and gMovie Player enable Mac and Windows users to convert and play back still photos and movie files on a Palm OS PDA.... |
| July 24, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Apple unveils new Macs |
| At last week's MacWorld Expo in New York, Apple unveiled a new line of desktop Macs, iMacs, iDVD 2.0 and OS X 10.1. The hardware is coming available now; the new DVD authoring application, and update of OS X, are expected in September. During the Expo keynote, Apple CEO Steve... |
| July 24, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Sandisk 512MB card expected |
| Sandisk's 512MB CompactFlash Type I card is expected to hit store shelves in the US, Japan and Europe by later this week. Sandisk estimates the selling price to be about US$600.... |
| July 24, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Wimberley Sidekick reviewed |
| Uwe Steinmueller looks at the Wimberly Sidekick tripod attachment at Digital Outback Photo.... |
| July 24, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Short Course scheduled for fall |
| The Flying Short Course 2001 traveling seminar for newspaper, magazine and television photographers will be touching down in five cities this October: Charlotte, NC, Syracuse, NY, Milwaukee, WI, Los Angeles, CA and Seattle, WA. The NPPA web site provides additional scheduling information. Current and past Best of Photojournalism annual photo... |
| July 24, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Camera reset fix for D1X now available |
| Nikon USA, Nikon Canada (and perhaps other regions as well) have issued a letter to D1X customers this week, informing them that Nikon will, at no charge, update the camera to remove an instance of the camera's settings reverting to a default state. |
| July 21, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Photo Mechanic 2.0r15 for Mac posted |
| Photo Mechanic Lite and Pro 2.0r15 for Mac, posted today, add support for the Protect feature of Nikon D-series cameras, enabling shooters to tag images in the camera and have that tag automatically recognized when files are browsed. |
| July 17, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| DCS 760 and D1X compared |
| Digital Photography Review compares the Kodak DCS 760 and Nikon D1X.... |
| July 16, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| ColorVision bundles Elements |
| ColorVision is now bundling Adobe Photoshop Elements with several of its products, including the excellent Monitor Spyder hardware calibrator. In addition, Real World Photoshop 6 is bundled with the same set of products, but only until July 31.... |
| July 16, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Panic eases transmitting |
| Transmit 1.7b1 from Panic Software is the company's first crack at porting the popular US$25 Mac FTP application to OS X.... |
| July 16, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| dynamism.com imports small PC laptops |
| The web site dynamism.com imports to the US the latest Japan-market PC laptops, including several super-light models that may never reach North American shores.... |
| July 16, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| High-speed wireless looked at |
| ZDNet looks at the "hard reality" of implementing 3G high-speed wireless data services.... |
| July 16, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| QImage adds support |
| QImage Pro 2001 v2.5 adds support for embedded ICC profiles, among other changes.... |
| July 16, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Sports Illustrated's Leading Off features another D1X photo |
| The July 16, 2001 issue of Sports Illustrated features yet another Nikon D1X photo in the magazine's Leading Off section. The double-truck swimming picture by photojournalist Lucas Gilman, shot at the US Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs during Rich Clarkson's Sports Photography Workshop last month, is at least the second from the D1X to grace the opening pages of the weekly sports magazine since the camera was released. |
| July 15, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| iView improves stability |
| iView MediaPro 1.1 for Mac OS 9 and OS X improves program stability, fixes minor bugs and adds support for images larger than 4000 pixels, among other changes. It's a free update for registered users of a previous version of MediaPro; otherwise, a single license is US$45.... |
| July 13, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Apple recalls adapters |
| Several readers noted Apple's recent recall of certain older, black-case power adapters for the Powerbook G3.... |
| July 13, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Newsday looks at digital manipulation |
| A New York Newsday piece looks at image manipulation in the digital age.... |
| July 13, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| ACD annouces FotoSlate plug-in |
| ACD Systems has announced FotoSlate, a US$20 printing plug-in for the company's ACDSee 3.1 (SR1) Windows image browser.... |
| July 13, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| DiMAGE 7 reviewed |
| Digital Photography Review examines a production Minolta DiMAGE 7.... |
| July 13, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| New plug-ins offered |
| Photoshop plug-ins for correcting barrel and fisheye lens distortion, applying luminance-only sharpening, conversion to black and white and more are available from theimagingfactory.... |
| July 13, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Canon posts D30 software updates |
| Canon has posted free updates to three of its software components for the Canon EOS D30: |
| July 12, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Kodak posts Camera Manager |
| Kodak has posted Camera Manager 1.0 for Windows. A thread in the robgalbraith.com forums provides additional information.... |
| July 3, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Metricom files Chapter 11 |
| Gary Fong notes that Metricom has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection while it attempts to reorganize itself. The company provides Ricochet high-speed wireless Internet access in a handful of cities across the US. The service is used by several US newspaper photo departments to quickly transmit photos from the... |
| July 3, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| D1X reviewed |
| The Web abounds with Nikon D1X reviews and commentary: |
| July 3, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| New versions of Bibble and QImage |
| Bibble for Windows has reached v2.99f. QImage Pro 2001 is now at v2.22.... |
| July 3, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Toshiba announces 5 GTB card hard drive |
| Toshiba has officially announced their 5GB Type II PC Card hard drive. The card, which is expected to be compatible with Kodak's DCS 700 series cameras, as well as most card readers that accept Type II-size PC Cards, has a suggested list price of US$499. A press release indicates that... |
| July 3, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| July Digital Journalist online |
| The July issue of The Digital Journalist is now online.... |
| July 3, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Sports Shooter 32 posted |
| Sport Shooter 32, Bert Hanashiro's email/web newsletter, is now posted.... |
| July 3, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Color profiler shipping |
| MonacoEZcolor 2.0, a US$299 software suite for, among other things, creating and editing ICC printer profiles, is now shipping for Mac and Windows. An upgrade from previous versions is US$99.... |
| July 3, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| New Ratoc driver squashes bug |
| Ratoc's REX-CBFW Driver 2.1 fixes a bug affecting the company's FireWire PC Card for Mac with OS 9.1.... |
| July 3, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| ACDSee compatible with OS X |
| ACDSee for Mac has reached v1.6. Included in the revision is OS X compatibility.... |
| July 3, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| New Nokia will support GPRS |
| Nokia has announced that their upcoming 8390 mobile phone, available at the end of this year, will support GPRS data over North American GSM-protocol networks.... |
| July 3, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Managing color |
| Bruce Fraser describes how to get a handle on colour management at creativepro.com.... |
| July 3, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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| Firmware update utility for Lexar CompactFlash nearing release |
| Lexar Media has stepped up efforts to complete a Mac/Windows utility that will update the firmware in the company's higher-capacity CompactFlash cards. |
| July 2, 2001 | FULL STORY |
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