| Reuters features gallery on 2010 Olympic city |
| With the 2010 Winter Olympics just around the corner, Reuters features the host city with a gallery of fine images from Andy Clark called Life in Vancouver. |
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| Captured features AP photographer |
| Captured, The Denver Post large-image blog, features the outstanding work of AP photographer David Guttenfelder in Photographer Collection: David Guttenfelder in Afghanistan. |
| October 30, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Pair of Reuters galleries offer humour and technique |
| A pair of Reuters galleries feature The lighter side of the great recession and the photo technique of photographing landscapes. |
| October 30, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Paul C. Buff sets up shop in Australia, New Zealand |
| Photo lighting gear maker Paul C. Buff has announced the launch of Paul C. Buff Australia. Sales and service of the company's line of studio flash units and accessories for both Australia and New Zealand will be handled by new Paul C. Buff agent 1st Line Digital Pty, which is located in the greater Brisbane area. |
| October 30, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| METAmachine captioning utility now available for Windows |
| Hindsight METAmachine, a slick utility for writing and reading XMP metadata in JPEG, TIFF, PSD and DNG-format photos, is now available for Windows (in addition to the Mac). |
| October 29, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Monitor features Halloween at the zoo |
| The Christian Science Monitor, which has discontinued its print edition, features an interesting gallery In Pictures called Halloween at the zoo! |
| October 28, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| CNN features 83-year-old Sam Haskins |
| CNN features Photographer falls in love every day, a multimedia presentation on fashion photographer Sam Haskins. |
| October 28, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Phase One releases Capture One 5 PRO |
| Phase One has released Capture One 5 PRO, a new version of its RAW conversion and image editing software. |
| October 28, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Photographer worked with The Beatles and Beckett |
| The Guardian features a multimedia presentation and gallery featuring the 60-year career of The Observer's Jane Bown, one of the UK's most famous portrait photographers. |
| October 27, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Canon prepping firmware update for EOS 7D ghosting phenomenon |
| Canon today has announced that a firmware update for the EOS 7D is in development to address an instance where "barely noticeable traces of the immediately preceding frame may be visible" when the camera is shooting continuously. |
| October 27, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| LENS showcases the Roma in Rome |
| LENS, The New York Times blog, features Showcase: The Roma in Rome, the interesting black-and-white work of photographer Marco Baroncini on the poverty-stricken gypsies of Rome. |
| October 26, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| DSLR Camera Remote 1.2 now available in Apple's App Store |
| onOne Software's DSLR Camera Remote 1.2 for the iPhone/iPod Touch has been made available for download from within Apple's App Store. |
| October 25, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Canon posts Windows 7 compatibility document |
| Canon has posted a document describing the level of compatibility Windows 7 users can expect with its range of digital cameras, inkjet printers and more, including digital SLRs. The document is short on details but does give the impression that most of Canon's EOS digital lineup will be supported, with relatively few limitations affecting only a handful of models. |
| October 23, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Canon Digital Photo Professional updated to v3.7.2 |
| Canon has released Digital Photo Professional (DPP) 3.7.2 for Mac and Windows. The new release fixes an instance (perhaps affecting the Mac version only) of the program quitting unexpectedly and also incorporates the changes in v3.7.0, which include the ability to convert RAW files shot with the EOS 7D, PowerShot G11 and S90, the addition of a noise reduction preview dialog (this makes the noise reduction feature much more usable in our experience) and more. |
| October 23, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Nik Software announces Viveza 2 |
| Nik Software has announced Viveza 2, an update of its image correction plug-in for Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Lightroom and Apple Aperture. |
| October 22, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Adobe releases public beta of Photoshop Lightroom 3 |
| Adobe has released a public beta of the next major revision of Photoshop Lightroom. Dubbed Photoshop Lightroom 3 Beta, it's available now as a free download for Mac and Windows from the Adobe Labs website. |
| October 22, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Reuters posts a then-and-now gallery |
| Reuters has posted an interesting gallery of images from the celebrity world called When they were young. |
| October 22, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Natural History Museum features wildlife competition |
| London's Natural History Museum features a gallery of wildlife images from the Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. The MailOnline has posted large images of some of the wining images here. |
| October 21, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Windows 7 compatibility statement posted by Nikon |
| Nikon has posted a statement describing their plans for supporting various digital cameras, scanners and software in Microsoft Windows 7. |
| October 21, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| The Frame reminds us that winter is near |
| The Frame from The Sacramento Bee features Winter approaching, a gallery reminding us that winter is just around the corner and has left its mark already in some locales. |
| October 21, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Stern posts October gallery of daily images |
| We've always liked the sports image galleries from Stern.de, an online German magazine, but on the same site we've discovered Bilder des Tages, a gallery of daily images from around the world that is also very good. |
| October 21, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon ViewNX 1.5.0 adds support for D3S, GPS logs |
| Nikon has posted ViewNX 1.5.0, adding support for files captured with the upcoming D3S. It also includes the ability to interpret certain GPS log formats, is compatible now with Epson's E-Photo printing utility and fixes bugs. This version of ViewNX is also able to operate in 64-bit Windows Vista, and has been certified for use in Mac OS X 10.5.8. It is not usable in Mac OS X 10.6.x, owing to a continuation of the strange menu display bug of the previous ViewNX release. |
| October 21, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| LPA Design launches PocketWizard firmware beta program |
| LPA Design today has launched a beta testing program for the firmware that drives its PocketWizard MiniTT1 and FlexTT5 wireless radio remotes for Canon digital SLRs. In conjunction with the launch of the program is the availability of beta firmware that introduces compatibility with the Canon EOS 7D, eliminates a fast lens/small aperture limitation with the 5D Mark II, adds a function to boost the TTL pre-flash burst for more accurate flash exposures when the Speedlight is in bounce position and brings rear curtain sync to the wireless remote system. Plus, a number of bugs are addressed. |
| October 20, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Colour and action featured in National Geographic gallery |
| National Geographic features Blaze of Blue, a gallery of highlighting Charlie Hamilton James' work on the spectacular Eurasian kingfisher. |
| October 20, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Artist uses photography for his diner paintings |
| The National Public Radio (npr) site features Really Real Photorealism, a story and image gallery about artist Ralph Goings who uses photography as a tool for his realistic paintings of diners. The gallery shows each photo then the corresponding painting. |
| October 20, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| An analysis of EOS-1D Mark IV autofocus performance |
| Canon has just announced the EOS-1D Mark IV, a replacement for the troubled EOS-1D Mark III that incorporates a revamped autofocus system and other changes. Once we have a production-level EOS-1D Mark IV body to test, and have spent several weeks shooting with it, we will publish an analysis of its autofocus performance here. |
| October 20, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Lexar rejoins speed race with Pro 600X CompactFlash |
| Lexar has taken the wraps off a new series of CompactFlash cards geared towards the pro digital SLR shooter. Called Professional 600X, the series will be available in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB capacities that relaunch Lexar into the speed race in a serious way in our testing. The Fremont, California-based division of Micron has also unveiled the ExpressCard CompactFlash Reader, an ExpressCard/34 adapter for CompactFlash cards that gets the design right, as well as an updated version of Image Rescue that sports an all-new interface and more powerful photo recovery algorithms. |
| October 20, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Best UK landscape images for 2009 highlighted by BBC |
| The BBC News site features an eight-image gallery showing the results of the Landscape Photographer of the Year 2009 contest in the UK. |
| October 20, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Upcoming firmware for 5D Mark II will include 24fps, 25fps video capture options |
| New firmware for the 5D Mark II, being developed now and scheduled for release in the first half of 2010, will enable the camera to capture video at 24fps or 25fps, in addition to the 30fps it offers currently. |
| October 20, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Canon announces revised transmitter for 5D Mark II |
| Canon in the UK has announced the WFT-E4 II, a new version of the wired/wireless transmitter for the 5D Mark II that includes support for 802.11a wireless networks, in addition to 802.11b/g, and incorporates the same WFT Server and remote camera linking features as the WFT-E5/WFT-E5A for the 7D and the WFT-E2 II/WFT-E2 II A for newer 1-series models. |
| October 20, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Vincent Laforet posts video shot with the EOS-1D Mark IV |
| Photographer Vincent Laforet has posted a video entitled Nocturne and shot in available darkness with a preproduction EOS-1D Mark IV. |
| October 19, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Canon announces 16.06 million image pixel EOS-1D Mark IV |
| Canon has revealed the details of its next 1-series digital SLR, the EOS-1D Mark IV. The new model is an evolution of the EOS-1D Mark III and features a 16.06 million image pixel, 1.3x crop sensor, an ISO range that tops out at a heady 102,400, 1080p video with external stereo mic jack, revamped 45-point AF system and wider-gamut, 920,000-dot rear LCD. All of this is inside a body that's essentially identical in appearance and control layout to the camera it replaces. The EOS-1D Mark IV is slated to ship in late December 2009 at an expected street price of US$4999 in the U.S. Canon has also unveiled a companion wireless transmitter, the WFT-E2 II/WFT-E2 II A. |
| October 19, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Canon releases firmware update for EOS 7D |
| Firmware v1.0.9 for the Canon EOS 7D, released today, improves autofocus accuracy in Live View, corrects a problem in which the colour in video mode would be incorrect and fixes a flash-related bug. |
| October 19, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Paul C. Buff ceases sale of products outside the U.S., Canada |
| Strobe manufacturer Paul C. Buff has ceased the sale of its line of lighting products to new customers outside the U.S., Canada and U.S. possessions Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam for the time being. |
| October 16, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| New blog focuses on agriculture |
| William DeKay, a photographer and reporter with The Western Producer, has created Crop of Photos, a blog relating to his work with the weekly agricultural newspaper based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and of interest to farmers in western Canada. |
| October 15, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| National Geographic features Visions of Earth |
| While several nice images have been added to this interesting Visions of Earth gallery from National Geographic, we were especially impressed with the second one. |
| October 15, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Paul C. Buff unveils 640ws Einstein 640 monolight |
| Paul C. Buff has released full details about the company's next studio strobe. Called the Einstein 640, it amalgamates the features of the AlienBees AB MAX series, which the Nashville-based strobe maker had intended to release earlier this year, into a new 640ws monolight designed to provide superb action-freezing capabilities - perhaps the best available in a monolight at about 320ws and below - as well as colour temperature consistency on par with a premium-priced power pack. |
| October 14, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon releases photos taken with the D3S |
| Full-resolution photos taken with the D3S by photographers Bill Frakes, Vincent Munier and Shigeo Gomi have been posted for download on the Nikon Imaging site. The photos were captured at ISOs ranging from 200 to 12,800. |
| October 13, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon announces D3S with 102,400 top ISO |
| Late next month Nikon will ship the D3S, an update of its venerable D3 digital SLR that features improved high-ISO image quality (and an eye-popping top ISO of 102,400), a 720p D-Movie mode with external stereo mic jack, approximately double the burst depth of the D3, a useful 1.2x crop mode and various other refinements. |
| October 13, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Nikon introduces AF-S DX Micro Nikkor 85mm f/3.5G ED VR |
| Nikon's newest DX Format lens is the AF-S Micro Nikkor 85mm f/3.5G ED VR, an internal focus macro featuring a nine-blade aperture diaphragm, four-stop image stabilization and a maximum reproduction ratio of 1:1. |
| October 13, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| It's all done with mirrors |
| Reuters shows the effectiveness of the use of reflections by photographers in the news agency's feature called Photo technique: Mirrors. |
| October 13, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| LENS features National Geographic Image Collection |
| LENS, The New York Times blog, features Showcase: National Geographic Image Collection, an image gallery of 18 images from a newly-published, 500-page book of images taken from the archives. |
| October 13, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| onOne Software releases DSLR Camera Remote Server 1.2 |
| onOne Software has posted DSLR Camera Remote Server 1.2 for Mac and Windows. The new release of the computer side of the iPhone/iPod Touch remote camera control system adds support for the Nikon D300s, fixes various bugs and provides more informative dialogs when certain errors occur. The software has also been qualified for use in Mac OS X 10.6.x and Windows 7. |
| October 9, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Eye-Fi cards to go sale in the UK this month |
| Eye-Fi has announced that three of its Eye-Fi SD memory/wireless card models will soon be available for purchase in the UK. Eye-Fi Home Video, Eye-Fi Share Video and Eye-Fi Pro will go on sale beginning on October 19, 2009 in the European nation. |
| October 9, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Fall comes to The Big Picture |
| The Big Picture from The Boston Globe features a nice gallery that focuses on Autumn scenes. |
| October 9, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Flip the pages of Life magazine at Google Books |
| If you enjoyed leafing through Life magazine in years gone by, you can relive the experience online at Google Books. The site is home to high-resolution scans of each page of the iconic publication, presented in an easy-to-navigate web interface. Entire issues from 1936 through 1972 are available for viewing, at no charge. |
| October 8, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| U.S. National Parks Foundation releases list of "most photogenic parks" this fall |
| The U.S. National Parks Foundation has announced their list of the ten U.S. parks expected to offer the best fall foliage pictures in the weeks ahead. The announcement has been made in conjunction with the Share The Experience photo contest, sponsored by Olympus. |
| October 8, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Post picks top 10 sports photos |
| The Washington Post features a selection of outstanding images in it Top 10 Sports Photos gallery. |
| October 6, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Inventors of CCD honoured with Nobel Prize for Physics |
| The inventors of the CCD imaging sensor, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith, have been given this year's Nobel Prize for Physics. The two share the 2009 award with Charles K. Kao, a pioneer in the development of fibre optics. |
| October 6, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Cartier-Bresson galleries always pleasing to the eye |
| Magnum Photos highlights an interesting gallery of images, many of them very recognizable but some we hadn't seen, from the legendary photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. Another fine gallery of Cartier-Bresson's portraits can be found on the Washington Post's online archive. More images and information about the man is available on the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson site which has an English translation at the bottom of the page. |
| October 6, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| TIME slideshow features Top 10 Doctored Photos |
| TIME's online magazine features a slideshow on the Top 10 Doctored Photos featuring such notables as Hitler, Oprah, Martha Stewart and The Beatles. |
| October 5, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Sumatra earthquake in The Big Picture |
| The Big Picture from The Boston Globe features the dramatic aftermath of the 2009 Sumatra earthquakes. |
| October 5, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Smithsonian gallery features contest winners |
| The Smithsonian magazine 6th Annual Photo Contest features winners and finalists in the various categories. |
| October 2, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Reuters posts the best of September |
| Reuters has posted the best images from its photographers worldwide in Pictures of the month: September. |
| October 2, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| Aerials of New York in The Frame |
| The Frame from The Sacramento Bee features New York from above, a slideshow from Getty Images photographer Mario Tama. |
| October 2, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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| TechRestore launches matte screen replacement service for MacBook Pro 13 inch |
| TechRestore is now offering its matte screen replacement service for the Apple MacBook Pro 13 inch, for photographers and others who love this computer's display quality but are put off by its glossy front. |
| October 1, 2009 | FULL STORY |
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