| Kodak ceases manufacturing of DCS Pro SLR/n, SLR/c |
| Kodak has begun to inform dealers that the DCS Pro SLR/n and DCS Pro SLR/c are no longer being manufactured, though the cameras will remain available for purchase until Kodak's current inventory is gone. |
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| Canon updates firmware for EOS Digital Rebel XT/350D |
| Canon has released new firmware for the EOS Digital Rebel XT/350D.
The firmware addresses several bugs in the operation of the camera; full details are on the firmware v1.0.2 download page.... |
| May 31, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| Canon releases new firmware for Mark II cameras |
| Canon today has released firmware for the EOS-1D Mark II and EOS-1Ds Mark II that is meant to eliminate a camera lock-up problem the company acknowledged earlier this month. Lexar is also developing a firmware update for certain 80X CompactFlash cards to cure an image corruption problem affecting five Canon digital SLR models. |
| May 30, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| Leica DIGITAL-MODUL-R to ship June 15 |
| After a series of delays, Leica is poised to ship its DIGITAL-MODUL-R back for R8 and R9 SLR cameras.
A notice on the Leica web site pegs June 15, 2005 as the day distribution of the 9.97 million image pixel CCD-based interchangeable back will begin.... |
| May 30, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| I/O Magic announces 80GB portable external HD |
| I/O Magic has announced the GigaBank Premier 80, an 80GB portable USB 2.0 hard drive. It's available direct from I/O Magic for US$199.99 in the U.S.... |
| May 27, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| dealmac: Dell 2005FPW flat panel for US$397 |
| The dealmac web site notes it's possible to purchase the Dell 2005FPW flat panel display (our favourite low-cost desktop LCD) for about US$397 in the U.S. if you follow the instructions set out here.
The offer ends on May 26, 2005 at 7 AM eastern time.... |
| May 25, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| Imaging Resource: Nikon D50 preview |
| Imaging Resource has published a preview of the Nikon D50 digital SLR based on experiences with a pre-production sample. ... |
| May 23, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| PhotoshopNews: on digital image preservation |
| We initially missed this useful PhotoshopNews.com essay by Jeff Schewe on the preservation of digital images, which was published earlier this month.The article outlines efforts by the U.S. Library of Congress to establish strategies and practices for preserving digital content over time and gives a concise snapshot of how the... |
| May 23, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| Visible Dust adds Sensor Brush Wash to product line |
| Visible Dust, maker of products for cleaning digital SLR image sensors, has added a new item to its lineup.
Called Sensor Brush Wash, the bottle of 10 dissolving detergent tablets are meant to be used in the cleaning of the company's Sensor Brush.
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| May 23, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| Firmware updates to fix lock-ups, image corruption with Canon cameras and Lexar CF |
| Canon today has announced that they will soon be releasing firmware updates to fix a problem in which the EOS-1D Mark II and EOS-1Ds Mark II can become non-functional after shooting a burst of pictures. When this occurs, any pictures still in the camera's memory buffer are lost. In a separate announcement, Canon and Lexar indicate that a problem impacting 80X CompactFlash cards when used in several Canon digital SLR cameras can lead to photo corruption, and that Lexar is developing a firmware update for the affected cards. Both Canon's and Lexar's firmware updates are to be available by the end of May. UPDATE: We've added information on which capacities and series of 80X Lexar cards are affected. |
| May 19, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| Canon Canada survey says digital camera and printer helps in wedding planning |
| Canon Canada has released the results of an Ipsos-Reid survey "which demonstrates that the majority of recently married Canadian couples, as well as those who have helped plan weddings for family and friends, feel that a digital camera and photo printer could have assisted in their wedding planning efforts."... |
| May 19, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| Computerworld: Seagate to ship 120GB laptop hard drives in June |
| A ComputerWorld story notes that Seagate plans to ship a 120GB, 5400 rpm hard drive for laptops starting in June 2005.... |
| May 18, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| Wilhelm posts preliminary longevity ratings for UltraChrome K3 |
| Wilhelm Imaging Research has published preliminary print permanence ratings for prints made with Epson UltraChrome K3 inks on a Stylus Pro 9800 printer using a wide variety of papers. For displayed prints that are framed under glass with a UV filter, the longevity figures range from 98 to more than... |
| May 18, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| PixelGenius updates three PhotoKit plugins |
| Over the last month, PixelGenius has posted updates to its Photoshop plugins PhotoKit, PhotoKit Color, and PhotoKit Sharpener. The PhotoKit Color update provides more targeted color adjustments and includes modifications for use with Photoshop CS2. We were unable to find any information on what changes were made to the other... |
| May 18, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| Kingston ships Ultimate line of high-performance SD |
| Kingston this week has unveiled a new performance line of Secure Digital (SD) cards aimed at serious and professional photographers. |
| May 18, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| Photo Mechanic updated to v4.3.6 |
| Camera Bits has updated Photo Mechanic for Windows and Mac to v4.3.6.
The new release improves compatibility with Mac OS X 10.4 and fixes other bugs across both platforms.
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| May 18, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| D70 firmware update v2.0 released |
| Nikon has now released the v2.0 update to the D70 firmware that was first announced last month. This significant update brings some of the improvements in the new D70s to the original D70 camera. |
| May 17, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| Two recently announced laptop desks |
| Two similar heat-dissipating laptop desks were announced recently. Both sit between your lap and your laptop and are designed to provide a stable platform while helping the computer run cooler. They are:An improved version of the Newer Technology LapBottom. It's US$24.95 at U.S. retailer Other World Computing.The Lapinator, which is... |
| May 17, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| New edition of The Art of RAW Conversion e-book released |
| Uwe Steinmueller and Jürgen Gulbins have released the latest edition of The Art of RAW Conversion, a 290-page e-book that examines in detail the handling of RAW files in a quality-focused digital workflow. |
| May 13, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| Epson beta tester Joseph Holmes on UltraChrome K3 |
| Fine-art photographer Joseph Holmes has published fairly extensive comments on his experience using Epson's new UltraChrome K3 inkset with, apparently, a prototype Stylus Pro 9800 44-inch printer. Holmes says the printer produced the most beautiful set of color prints he's ever made in 30 years of printmaking.... |
| May 13, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| Call for Entries: Magnum's Inge Morath Prize |
| PDNOnline reports that Magnum is calling for entries for its third US$5,000 Inge Morath Prize, which will be awarded to a woman photographer under 30 years of age. The prize is meant to assist in the completion of a documentary photography project. PDN's story includes instructions for entering.
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| May 13, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| Capture One v3.7 released |
| Phase One has posted v3.7 of its Capture One suite of RAW conversion applications for Windows and Mac.
The Phase One web site lists the changes in the new version (which has been available in public beta form for some time before reaching official release status today).
A list of camera RAW files... |
| May 12, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| Firmware update 2.0.1 for WFT-E1/E1A resolves Err99 problem |
| Last month, Canon updated the firmware in its WFT-E1/E1A transmitter to v2.0.1.
The firmware release enables the unit to work with the EOS 20D. It also fixes a bug involving the WFT-E1/E1A's file overwrite settings:
"If you try to make a new file when [No] is selected with [Overwrite Same File] in the... |
| May 12, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| GretagMacbeth posts Eye-One Match 3.2a, ships revised Eye-One Pro |
| GretagMacbeth today has posted v3.2a of the Eye-One Match software for Mac and Windows that ships with its various Eye-One colour management packages. The new release comes quick on the heels of v3.2, which was posted earlier this week. The only difference between v3.2 and 3.2a is the addition of an Advanced mode in the new Digital Camera profiling module in the software. The company also recently began to ship a REV B version of its Eye-One Pro spectrophotometer, which offers double the measurement speed of its REV A predecessor. |
| May 12, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| Delkin working on CardBus 32 Adapter fix for Mac OS X 10.4 |
| Delkin has issued a statement indicating that the CompactFlash and 5-in-1 versions of their CardBus 32 Adapters are not compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). The statement notes that a fix is being developed. |
| May 11, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| Quantum announces Turbo AC power pack |
| Quantum has announced The Turbo AC, a power pack that can drive both a digital camera and flash unit simultaneously.
The Turbo AC is powered by a standard 100-240 VAC wall socket, but it outputs DC current to drive any compatible electronic flash, digital camera or other device for continuous... |
| May 11, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| Epson announces 4 new pigment ink printers, new inkset |
| Epson has officially announced a new 8-color pigment-based inkset called UltraChrome K3 and four new printers that use it. If real-world results look similar to the sample prints we saw at PMA in February, these printers represent a big step forward in fine-art archival inkjet printing. |
| May 10, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| Engadget: Nikon USA's Steve Heiner interviewed |
| Engadget has published an interview with Steve Heiner, General Manager for Digital SLR Systems at Nikon USA.... |
| May 10, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| GretagMacbeth posts v3.2 of Eye-One Match |
| GretagMacbeth today has posted v3.2 of the Eye-One Match software for Mac and Windows that ships with its various Eye-One colour management packages.... |
| May 9, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| Photoflex opens online lighting school |
| Photoflex has launched a website called the Photoflex Lighting School to provide free online instruction in photographic lighting. The site already contains a variety of basic lessons in the use of softboxes and umbrellas, illustrated with numerous photos of both the lighting setups and the resulting images.... |
| May 9, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| May issue of The Digital Journalist posted |
| The May issue of the Digital Journalist has been posted. Articles include:
A short profile of VII photographer Antonin Kratochvil accompanied by a gallery of images from his new book, Vanishing, which is about the disappearance of things -- forests, wildlife, cultures, and legal protections among them
A profile of Sarah... |
| May 9, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| NYT: Nikon, Adobe "on the phone" over NEF decoding |
| The New York Times is reporting that Nikon and Adobe are "on the phone with each other to discuss a way out of" the as-shot white balance incompatibility between Adobe Camera Raw and NEF image files from the D2X, D2Hs, and D50. This is reported in an article by David... |
| May 6, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| Camera Raw 3.1, DNG Converter 3.1 officially released |
| Adobe has now updated the Photoshop download pages on its web site to include links to Camera Raw 3.1 and DNG Converter 3.1. |
| May 6, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| Kodak ProPass issue 2005 v2 posted |
| The 2005 v2 issue of Kodak's ProPass online magazine has been posted. Articles include profiles of photographers Eric Meola and Mark Cleghorn, as well as interviews with Gary Knight and Michael Tcherevkoff.
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| May 6, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| Extensis posts product compatibility information for Mac OS X 10.4, Adobe's CS2 suite |
| Extensis has posted a compatibility matrix for its products in Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and Adobe's CS2 applications (including Photoshop CS2).
The matrix notes that all iterations of Portfolio 7.x are currently incompatible with both, while certain Photoshop plug-ins have already been confirmed to be incompatible with Photoshop CS2.... |
| May 6, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| NEA: CMOS eclipses CCD |
| Nikkei Electronics Asia Online has published an article that offers a general overview of recent innovations that have given CMOS image sensors the edge over their interline-transfer CCD counterparts. According to the article, the needs of the cell-phone camera market are driving the improvement in CMOS sensor image quality, but... |
| May 5, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| Digital Image Submission Criteria (DISC) Working Group website |
| Though it isn't new, we had not previously noted the Digital Image Submission Criteria Working Group. The group was formed to develop standards for the submission of photographs to magazines. The DISC website contains PDF documents that describe submission specifications and guidelines for images and for metadata, and it also... |
| May 5, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| Thomas Mangelsen is NikonNet's May Legend Behind the Lens |
| Wildlife photographer Thomas Mangelsen is profiled for NikonNet's May Legend Behind the Lens feature. ... |
| May 5, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| Photo Mechanic for Windows and Mac now at v4.3.5 |
| Camera Bits recently updated Photo Mechanic for Windows and Mac to v4.3.5.
The release fixes a fairly long list of minor bugs, adds support for the browsing of RAW files from the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT, displays D2X files in the appropriate colour space (by properly interpreting the colour space... |
| May 5, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| iView MediaPro 2.6.4 released |
| iView Multimedia this week has updated MediaPro to v2.6.4 for Windows and Mac.
A complete list of changes is here. iView Media and iView Catalog Reader have also been revved to v2.6.4.... |
| May 5, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| Camera Raw 3.1 posted on Adobe FTP server |
| Though the Photoshop download pages on Adobe's web site haven't yet been updated, it appears that the company has already posted the final version of Camera Raw 3.1 for Photoshop CS2 on one of its FTP servers. The main changes since v3.0 of the Camera Raw plug-in, which ships with CS2, aren't specified in the download, though it was expected that RAW file support for the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT/350D and Nikon D2X would be present in 3.1 (and we can confirm that RAW files from each camera can be processed through this new version). Adobe DNG Converter 3.1 is also available for download from the same FTP location. |
| May 4, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon USA releases Joe McNally lighting DVD |
| Nikon USA is now shipping The Speed of Light: Joe McNally and the Nikon Creative Lighting System, an instructional DVD on the use of SB-800 and SB-600 Speedlights. The US$30 DVD includes about an hour of video of photographer Joe McNally on location at Las Vegas High School and in the desert outside the city, walking the viewer in detail through multiple wireless Speedlight setups and showing the resulting photographs, all of which are taken with the D70, D2H or D2X. |
| May 4, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| Olympus VisionAge May/June edition posted |
| Olympus has posted what we believe is the May/June issue of its VisionAge online magazine. It includes short profiles of photojournalist-turned-baby photographer Nick Kelsh and still-life shooter Paul Eekhoff who has started a project to shoot various beetles, bugs, and other insects. Other features from recent issues of VisionAge have... |
| May 3, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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| DxO Optics Pro 3.0 Beta released |
| DxO Labs has released a public beta of DxO Optics Pro 3.0, the company's digital image correction and enhancement application. New features include a new DxO Lighting Engine and a new DxO Noise Engine. DxO Optics Pro 3.0 Beta is compatible with Windows 2000 and XP only. Information about the... |
| May 3, 2005 | FULL STORY |
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