| BreezeBrowser v2.9 released |
| Breeze Systems has released v2.9 of BreezeBrowser, the company's image browser and RAW file conversion program. Among many new features, v2.9 now supports EOS-1D Mk II RAW files (viewing only; conversion functionality is planned), as well as Nikon D70, and Pentax *ist D RAW file formats. The new release is... |
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| Overseas Press Club awards announced |
| The U.S. Overseas Press Club has announced winners of its awards for reporting and photography in 2003. Winners in various photo categories include Carolyn Cole of The Los Angeles Times, Alex Majoli of Magnum/Newsweek, and Yuri Kozyrev of Time.
A complete list is here.... |
| April 30, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| CNET News: Apple expands iBook repair program |
| CNET News.com is reporting that Apple has expanded the service program that it announced in January offering free repairs for iBooks that show various display problems, including lines on the screen and scrambled, distorted, or frozen video.... |
| April 29, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| MacCentral: Apple updates AirPort Software to v3.4.1 |
| MacCentral reports that Apple has updated AirPort Software to v3.4.1 in response to complaints about signal strength and dropped connections following the v3.4 update. The update is available through the Software Update control panel.... |
| April 28, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| PDN's "Top Knots" wedding photo contest accepting entries |
| Sponsored by Photo District News, "Top Knots: The New School of Wedding Photography Contest" is accepting entries until May 15, 2004. The contest is limited to U.S. citizens only, and the Grand Prize is a Fujifilm S3 Pro digital SLR.... |
| April 28, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| NAPP's "Photoshop Summit" free workshop |
| The U.S. National Association of Photoshop Professionals is offering a free 3-hour workshop on Photoshop CS, called "Photoshop Summit", in Arlington, TX on May 17 and in Boston, MA on June 9.... |
| April 28, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Imacon announces Flextight 949, new top-end scanner |
| Imacon recently announced the Flextight 949, which takes its place as the company's new top-end scanner. An improvement on the Flextight 848, the new model doubles data capture rate to 200MB per minute, increases dynamic range, and reduces the visibility of dust, grain, and scratches. It can scan prints (up to... |
| April 28, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Wi-Fi Networking News: Chrysalis WiFi seeker |
| Wi-Fi Networking News has this brief report on the Chrysalis WiFi Seeker, a keychain-sized device that scans for active WiFi (802.11b) networks. It's also handy for measuring signal strength within a given coverage area. It will go on sale in June for US$29.95 in the U.S.... |
| April 27, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Planet Photoshop: Centering images with Epson 2200 and Mac OS X |
| If you've had problems getting images to print properly centered using an Epson 2200 with Mac OS X, take a look at Jim Patterson's column on Planet Photoshop. Epson provided Patterson with a fairly simple workaround for this problem.
We can't link directly to the article, but you can find it... |
| April 27, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Beta 6 of Noise Ninja v2.0 for Mac posted; Windows beta nearing release |
| Beta 6 of Noise Ninja v2.0 for Mac OS X has been posted for download on the PictureCode web site. PictureCode's Jim Christian notes that the Windows beta of v2.0 is also nearing release.... |
| April 26, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Breeze Systems releases v1.3 of Downloader Pro |
| Breeze Systems has posted v1.3 of Downloader Pro, a Windows-only utility for transferring images from cameras or storage media to your computer. The program can automatically perform such tasks as directing images to specified folders, renaming, and IPTC captioning during the download process. It costs US$29.95 and a feature-limited free trial version is available... |
| April 26, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| PDN: Coffin Photos Put Spotlight on Pentagon Policy |
| PDNOnline reports on the circumstances surrounding publication by the Seattle Times of a picture of the coffins of U.S. soldiers killed in action in Iraq. The article also discusses the U.S. military's ban on such photos and the issues raised by that ban.
Editor and Publisher reports on newspaper editorials about... |
| April 26, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Canon EOS-1D Mark II added to CF Database |
| CompactFlash and Secure Digital (SD) write speed results for the Canon EOS-1D Mark II have been added to the CompactFlash Performance Database. |
| April 26, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| GretagMacbeth launches Eye-One Beamer promotion |
| Digital projector users, take note: Purchasers of an Eye-One Photo (monitors, RGB printers) or Eye-One Publish (monitors, scanners, RGB and CMYK printers) colour profiling package between April 26-30, 2004 will be able to upgrade their system to include Eye-One Beamer for the profiling of digital projectors at no extra charge.
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| April 26, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Photojournalist Peter Turnley launches web site |
| Photojournalist Peter Turnley has launched a web site showcasing his superb photography. Much of Turnley's recent work, including photos from Harley-Davidson’s 100th anniversary tour across the US, were shot with a Nikon D1X.... |
| April 24, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Camera Raw plug-in updated to v2.2 |
| Adobe has posted Camera Raw 2.2, an update to the RAW processing plug-in for Photoshop CS. Support for RAW files from the Canon EOS-1D Mark II, Nikon D70 and 8 other cameras, as well as overexposure recovery improvements, headline the changes in the new version.
The updated plug-in is a free download... |
| April 23, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Vincent Laforet's digital aerials |
| What does it feel like to get admiring e-mails about one of your photographs from fans at New York's Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum, from a former Life magazine picture editor, and from several hundred random strangers, all in the space of about two days? "I was pretty stunned," says New York Times staff photographer Vincent Laforet. "That picture has gotten more reaction than any photograph I've ever taken." |
| April 23, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Kingston announces Elite Pro CompactFlash line |
| With the announcement of its Elite Pro series of CompactFlash cards, Kingston Technology is putting a name to its line of performance flash media that has been available by special order for some time.
The blue-labeled cards, whose product designation ends in "-S" to distinguish it from the company's standard, orange-labeled CF... |
| April 22, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| MobileMag: IO Data 1.8-inch 20GB external hard drive |
| MobileMag has this short item on a 20GB 1.8-inch external hard drive from IO Data that will begin shipping late this month. It uses a USB2.0 interface and is compatible with Windows 98 and higher, as well as Mac OS 9.0+ and OS 10+.... |
| April 22, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| The Independent: CD-R longevity questioned |
| The Independent reports on an experiment by Dutch computer magazine PC Active that showed that some CD-R discs become unreadable in as little as two years due to dye fading.... |
| April 22, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Sports Illustrated: 50 Years of SI Photography |
| The April 26, 2004 issue of Sports Illustrated, which begins hitting newstands today, features a decade-by-decade look at some of best sports photography published in the magazine in the last 50 years. SI celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2004.
The Sports Illustrated web site has a small collection of photos from... |
| April 22, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Beta 4 of Noise Ninja v2.0 for Mac posted |
| Beta 4 of Noise Ninja v2.0 for Mac OS X has been posted for download on the PictureCode web site.
A Change Log on the site notes the following changes:
Fixed bug where ICC profile wasn't saved if the image didn't also have an IPTC record
Fixed a silly bug introduced in the... |
| April 22, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Lastolite debuts collapsible location softbox |
| Lastolite recently introduced the EZYBOX, a collapsible 2-foot by 2-foot portable softbox for location portraiture. It weighs three pounds, folds into a circular bag that measures about ten inches across, and can be set up in less than a minute, according to Lastolite.... |
| April 22, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Beta 3 of Noise Ninja v2.0 for Mac posted |
| Beta 3 of Noise Ninja v2.0 for Mac OS X has been posted for download on the PictureCode web site.
A Change Log on the site notes the following changes:
Scratch file location is now managed in the Preferences dialog. The NN_TEMP_DIR environment variable is no longer used.
Drag-drop from other applications is now... |
| April 22, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| News Photographer: What's in Your Fire Kit? |
| News Photographer magazine, a publication of the U.S. National Press Photographers Association, has posted this short article outlining sound practices and essential safety gear for shooting wildfires. The piece concludes with this hard-to-argue-with advice: "Do not get dead."... |
| April 21, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Canto updates Cumulus to v6.02 |
| Canto has released version 6.02 of Cumulus, the company's digital asset management application. The update is free to previous version 6 owners and is available for both Windows and Mac.... |
| April 20, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Applelinks: New Airport Extreme Base Station uses Power Over Ethernet |
| In this very brief blurb Applelinks points out that a newly introduced version of Apple's Airport Extreme Base Station supports Power Over Ethernet, meaning it can be set up in locations without a convenient AC power outlet.... |
| April 20, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Mac OS X driver for Delkin CardBus 32 Adapter to be released in May |
| The final version of a Mac OS X driver for the Delkin CardBus 32 Adapter CF is slated for release the week of May 24, 2004. A beta version of the driver, which doesn't permit hot swapping of cards, is available now.... |
| April 20, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Beta 2 of Noise Ninja v2.0 for Mac posted |
| Beta 2 of Noise Ninja v2.0 for Mac OS X has been posted for download on the PictureCode web site. A Change Log on the site notes the following changes:
Fixed problem reading files with non-ASCII characters. Enabled help buttons on Profiler, Filter, and Undo Brush panels (the "question mark" buttons). Restructured... |
| April 20, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| MacCentral: Apple updates Powerbooks, iBooks |
| MacCentral has published a detailed look at the upgraded Powerbook and iBook laptops introduced by Apple today. Major improvements include faster processors – up to 1.2GHz for the iBooks and up to 1.5GHz for the Powerbooks – and included Airport Extreme (802.11G) wireless networking for the Powerbooks.... |
| April 19, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Poynter: Readers respond to Fallujah photos |
| Ponyter Online has this report on a poll conducted by 29 U.S. news organizations asking readers about their reactions to graphic photos of the attack on four American security advisers in Fallujah, Iraq. The report also discusses the decision-making process of photo editors at the news organizations. Several of the... |
| April 19, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Noise Ninja 2.0 for Mac public beta now posted |
| A public beta of Noise Ninja v2.0 for Mac OS X has been posted on the PictureCode web site. A Windows beta of v2.0 of the noise reduction software, which we wrote about last week, is expected to follow in a few days.... |
| April 19, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| PPA's Digital Studio Roadmap workshop |
| The Professional Photographer's of America is presenting a workshop called "The Digital Studio Roadmap" in four U.S. locations in late April and early May. The workshop is designed to help commercial photographers devise an efficient digital workflow. Registration is only US$79 for a nine-hour program, and the schedule includes stops... |
| April 16, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| NikonNet highlights stock photographer Joanna McCarthy |
| NikonNet's Legend Behind the Lens for April 2004 is stock photographer Joanna McCarthy.... |
| April 16, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Nature Photographers: "Confessions of a Gear Junkie" |
| Confessed gearhead and outdoor photographer Darwin Wiggett writes that less is more in Nature Photographers Online Magazine.... |
| April 16, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Blueeyes publishes 3 photo essays on Haiti |
| Blueeyes Magazine, a web site devoted to the publishing of documentary photography, has posted three photo essays on Haiti in its April/May 2004 issue.... |
| April 16, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Rangefinder: Raw Capture: Shooting Digital Originals |
| Stan Sholik discusses the advantages of choosing a digital camera's RAW format in the April 2004 issue of Rangefinder magazine.... |
| April 16, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| April's Digital Journalist discusses photo manipulation |
| The April 2004 issue of The Digital Journalist features an article on digital photo manipulation, a gallery of photos by Peter Turnley, a report on the Leica Digilux 2 and an enthusiastic look at the HP Photosmart 7960 inkjet printer.... |
| April 16, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Noise Ninja v2.0 for Mac and Windows nearing release |
| We really liked the results from v1.x of PictureCode's Noise Ninja noise reduction application for scanned and digital camera images, but despaired the lack of a Mac version while we also hoped it could be made somewhat simpler to use. Version 2.0 of the software, which is nearing release, addresses these two concerns while improving the program in several other areas as well. After working with a not-quite-finished copy of v2.0 of Noise Ninja over the last week, our verdict is in: Wow! |
| April 15, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Creativepro: Photoshop tutorial for smoothing skin |
| Creativepro.com has a short article outlining a Photoshop technique for smoothing skin in portrait images.... |
| April 14, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Kodak Professional's Icons Online features James Balog |
| Kodak Professional's "Icons Online" feature is currently running a profile of nature photographer James Balog that includes a short bio and a gallery of his images.... |
| April 14, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| PCWorld: Fingerprint-secured, ruggedized external HD |
| PCWorld has a short item within this article about an upcoming USB2.0 portable external hard drive called "The Outbacker", which has a built-in fingerprint scanner. Made by Memory Experts International and scheduled to ship "later this year" in 20GB and 40GB versions, the Outbacker restricts access to users whose fingerprints... |
| April 13, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Globe and Mail: Time PJ's fears in Iraq |
| The Globe and Mail reports on dangers to journalists in Iraq in general and on the specific experiences of freelance photojournalist Stephanie Sinclair who is currently in Baghdad shooting for Time.... |
| April 13, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| GretagMacbeth color management tutorials |
| Photoworkshop.com has six Flash tutorials from GretagMacbeth covering various color management tasks and topics, including a good explanation of how Photoshop CS uses ICC profiles.
The tutorials are located in the "GretagMacbeth Color Corner" within the Photoworkshop.com site, and free registration is required to access them.... |
| April 12, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| DOP reviews Canon Digital Photo Professional software |
| Digital Outback Photo has published a brief review of Digital Photo Professional v1.0.0.5, Canon's new Windows and Mac-compatible RAW conversion application that will ship with the EOS-1D Mk II (and also supports RAW files from the EOS-1D and EOS-1Ds).... |
| April 12, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| HP U.K. launches online public photo archive |
| HP U.K. has launched an online public photo archive called "The HP National Photo Album". HP is inviting the British public to submit photos from their private collections with cultural or historical significance -- "anything which reveals something of the way we have lived over the past hundred years or... |
| April 11, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| WHNPA: Eyes of History 2004 web gallery |
| The White House News Photographers' Association has posted a gallery of winning images from its "Eyes of History 2004" photojournalism competition, which concluded last month.... |
| April 11, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Luminous Landscape completes Leica Digilux 2 review |
| Luminous Landscape has published the final segment of its three-part review of the Leica Digilux 2, a kind of hybrid consumer digicam with a small sensor and an electronic viewfinder but with many traditional analog controls, including mechanical zoom and focus mechanisms.
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| April 11, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| PDN: Photographers, reporters kidnapped in Iraq |
| PDNOnline has this report on recent incidents where photographers and reporters have been detained at gunpoint and then later released by factions in Iraq.... |
| April 8, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Transcend announces 20GB and 40GB 1.8" hard drives |
| Transcend has announced two 1.8" USB2.0 portable hard drives, a 20GB and a 40GB model. Scheduled to ship later this month, both versions weigh less than 5 ounces, are USB bus-powered, and are roughly the size of a business card, according to a Transcend press release. The press release does... |
| April 6, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| 1-terabyte LaCie hard drive |
| LaCie has announced the Bigger Disk, a 1-terabyte external hard drive for Windows and Mac with USB2.0, FireWire 400, and FireWire 800 interfaces. The Bigger Disk is scheduled to ship at the end of this month and will be available directly from LaCie for US$1199.00.... |
| April 6, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| EOS-1Ds firmware v1.0.3 posted |
| Canon BeBit has posted firmware update v1.0.3 for the EOS-1Ds. The new firmware resolves a bug that caused the camera to recognize less than the full capacity of CF cards larger than 2GB after in-camera formatting.... |
| April 6, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Pulitzer Prizes announced |
| Pulitzer prizes for 2004 have been announced with the Breaking News Photography award going to David Leeson and Cheryl Diaz Meyer of the Dallas Morning News and the Feature Photography prize going to Carolyn Cole of the Los Angeles Times. Cole will need a bigger trophy case, having also recently... |
| April 6, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| DPReview publishes D70 review |
| Digital Photography Review has published its full review of the Nikon D70 digital SLR.
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| April 6, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Photog Stephen Voss reports on two portable backup gadgets |
| Photographer Stephen Voss writes about backing up his photos with the Archos GMini 220, a 20GB hard drive-based device, and the Apacer Steno CP-200, a standalone CD writer, while shooting in Thailand and Cambodia.... |
| April 6, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Imaging Resource: Pentax *ist D review |
| Imaging Resource has published a full review of the Pentax *ist D digital SLR. The review praises the camera for its compact size, good build quality, and high image quality.... |
| April 5, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Neat Image 4.0 released |
| ABSoft has released v4.0 of Neat Image, the company's noise reduction software for Windows 9x or higher. The new version features improved noise filtration and works two to three times faster than previous editions, according to ABSoft. A free demo version of Neat Image v4.0 is available and single-user licenses... |
| April 5, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| CNET reviews Eizo ColorEdge CG18 LCD monitor |
| We just ran across this month-old CNET review of the Eizo ColorEdge CG18, an LCD monitor designed specifically for color-managed imaging workflows. The review does not treat color-management issues in any depth, but it gives the CG18 a high overall score and praises its unusually good performance.... |
| April 1, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| NPPA "Best of Photojournalism" winners announced |
| The U.S. National Press Photographers Association has announced the winners of its annual "Best of Photojournalism" contest. Carolyn Cole of the Los Angeles Times was named Newspaper Photographer of the Year (she won the same title from the Picture of The Year International competition last month), and Alex Majoli of... |
| April 1, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Darryl Dyck named CP's 2003 Photographer of the Year |
| Darryl Dyck, a staff photographer at The Edmonton Sun, has been named the 2003 Photographer of the Year by Canadian Press.... |
| April 1, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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| Camera Bits announces Auto Keeper Tagging technology |
| Super Special April 1st Scoop: Camera Bits has today announced a new technology designed to streamline the process of editing hundreds or even thousands of photos in its Photo Mechanic browsing application. Called Auto Keeper Tagging (AKT!), the best pictures from an assignment are automatically selected based on an analysis... |
| April 1, 2004 | FULL STORY |
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