Archive for: November, 2009

Black Friday and Deep Dark Secrets To Watch

Black Friday and Deep Dark Secrets To Watch

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, often offers deals on photography and electronics that may seem almost too good to pass up. If you’re lucky, and, we do mean lucky, you may score an item long desired. Here are some TIPS to give you insights that can prove valuable before you get started.

New Eye-Fi Selective Share Feature lets you choose which photos/videos to send to the Web

New Eye-Fi Selective Share Feature lets you choose which photos/videos to send to the Web

If you own an Eye-Fi card or plan on writing about it soon, check out this new feature just released today called Selective Share. Now Eye-Fi users can choose which photo or videos to wirelessly upload to sharing sites – like Facebook, Flickr, Snapfish or Picasa – before it leaves their camera.
Just click the Protect [...]

World Photography Awards

World Photography Awards

On Friday 20 November it will be the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC),  - to mark this occasion the World Photography Awards and UNICEF are joining together and asking for photo pledges portraying one of the 5 fundamental rights of a child from members of the [...]

Capture Life’s Elements on EXILIM Digital Cameras from Casio / Casio Releases World’s Slimmest*1 Shock-Resistant Digital Camera

Capture Life’s Elements on EXILIM Digital Cameras from Casio / Casio Releases World’s Slimmest*1 Shock-Resistant Digital Camera

XILIM G – Waterproof and Dustproof, in a .78-inch,*2 Smart Design
DOVER, NJ, November 18, 2009 — Casio America, Inc. and its parent company, Casio Computer Co., Ltd., announced today the release of the EX-G1 shock-resistant, waterproof, dustproof digital camera—the first in the company’s new EXILIM® G brand of digital cameras. With its smart design featuring [...]

Canon 7D worse than Canon Rebel XSI?

Updated 11/21/09:
There seems to be a lot of interest in this report. I have added the raw files below. Try the Raw converter test yourself.
Download All Raw Files Plus a Few More (warning large 230mb zip file)
Canon Rebel XSI (450D) vs. Canon 7D Raw Files Zipped
Here are the links to some free downloads of the [...]

Adobe Announces New Camera Raw, Lightroom and DNG Converter Release Candidates

Adobe Announces New Camera Raw, Lightroom and DNG Converter Release Candidates

Adobe today announced the Photoshop Camera Raw 5.6, Lightroom 2.6 and DNG Converter 5.6 Release Candidates, available for immediate download on Adobe Labs. The term ‘release candidate’ means this update is well tested but would benefit from additional community testing to provide the highest quality experience for customers working on a variety of hardware and [...]

Leica Camera AG and Hermès Paris present the special LEICA M7 Edition ‘Hermès’ in limited quantities

Leica Camera AG and Hermès Paris present the special LEICA M7 Edition ‘Hermès’ in limited quantities

Leica Camera AG, Solms presents a new, limited special edition – the LEICA M7 Edition ‘Hermès’. As the successor to the ‘LEICA MP Edition Hermès’ launched in 2003, this is now the second series of cameras created in cooperation with Hermès, the Parisian company renowned throughout the world for its exclusive products.  This strictly limited [...]

X-Rite Says Show Us Your ColorMunki & Win Big

X-Rite Says Show Us Your ColorMunki & Win Big

Contest For Side-splitting Videos Featuring ColorMunki On YouTube – Up To 500USD Monthly Cash Awards Plus 2,500USD Grand Prize
Grand Rapids, MI – November 16, 2009 – X-Rite (NASDAQ: XRIT), Incorporated, the world leader in color management and measurement technologies, launches a Show Us Your Munki contest, featuring its award-winning ColorMunki, (www.xritephoto.com) a product designed to [...]

Magazines Now Admit to Airbrushing Baby Shots

Magazines Now Admit to Airbrushing Baby Shots

As unbelievable as this may sound babies are getting airbrushed to make them look more beautiful. Apparently, babies aren’t pretty enough with what nature game them since retouching removes those infant blemishes and those cute little wrinkles even though it’s supposed to be minimal. We’re not sure whether to laugh or cry like a baby [...]

Is Robert Capa’s Photo of the Falling Soldier Really a Fake?

Is Robert Capa’s Photo of the Falling Soldier Really a Fake?

The controversy over Robert Capa’s Falling Soldier photograph continues. The famous shot showing a Spanish soldier captured at the very moment of his death is no stranger to controversy. So-called new evidence claims that the image was faked. Recently, we spoke with a professional photographer and educator from Spain during a visit to the United [...]

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