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Article: Android and iOS App Tools For Photographers
As we mentioned in our first roundup of photo apps, the mobile photography app market for both Google’s Android OS and Apple’s iOS has expanded in ways few could foresee. The convenience and ease with which images can and are being shared as well as the incredible diversity of features that apps offer, has made [...]
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Tokyo Stock Exchange places Olympus shares ‘under supervision’
Well, that would be the multi-billion dollar question. I hope Olympus survives this if only because I like their product, and loosing such an important player will further erode an already diminished field of camera makers. Of course, one can’t help but wonder, as you say, how many others are playing the same game. Olympus [...]
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SLR Magic launches HyperPrime 12mm F1.6 for Micro Four Thirds
Hong Kong-based SLR Magic has formally announced its HyperPrime 12mm F1.6, a manual focus lens for Micro Four Thirds cameras. This fast wideangle prime, which has been doing the rounds of testers and reviewers for the past few months, features a traditional aperture control ring and metal-bodied construction. Its optics include three Tantalum glass elements [...]
Free ArcSoft Perfect365 for One-Touch Photo Makeovers
ArcSoft, Inc.’s Perfect365 is a free photo makeover software application that lets users adjust up to 21 individual facial features on their pictures and portraits with a single click of a button. Perfect365 is immediately available as a free download for Windows PC at www.perfect365.com. The iPad and iPhone versions are to be available in [...]
The Pentax K-5: It’s A Matter Of Tradition
Pentax has a long history of innovation as well as a rabid fan base that loves the company’s tradition of optical excellence and originality. In fact, this fan base is the reason I’m writing this review. If you’re not already a Pentaxian you probably didn’t know that Pentax (derived from PENTAprism refleX) built the first [...]
Simply Color Lab’s Simply VIVID Prints
| Equipment Reviews | Techniques | Forums | Picture This | Galleries | Vote | Image Tech | Columns | Blogs | News | Contact ; News Simply Color Lab, Inc. announces its new line of 100% digital photos – Simply VIVID Prints. With bolder, more vibrant colors, the new line brings professional photographers a [...]
The Nikon COOLPIX P500: Ultra Zoom Personified
The 12.1-megapixel Nikon COOLPIX P500 ($399.95, MSRP) is an integral lens camera with an incredible zoom range of 36x—that’s optical, not digital zoom and it gives you the equivalent angle of view of a wide-angle 22.5mm to a super tele of 810mm! The Zoom-Nikkor ED glass lens can also be used for “super close-ups” with [...]
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Adobe issues Lightroom 3.6 and ACR 6.6 release candidates
I already work with camera RAW 7.0 and I like that one more, why? see for yourself as it is included the new CS6 with is now availble for one year as a trial.
Lowepro Expands Fastpack Series
| Equipment Reviews | Techniques | Forums | Picture This | Galleries | Vote | Image Tech | Columns | Blogs | News | Contact ; News Lowepro has expanded its Fastpack line with the release of the DSLR Video Fastpack AW series. This flexible, dual-compartment backpack is expressly designed for fast-moving multimedia photographers who [...]
Denver Art Museum Presents Robert Adams Retrospective: Robert Adams: The Place We Live Opens September 25, 2011
The Denver Art Museum (DAM) is the first US venue for Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs. The exhibition will feature more than 200 black-and-white photos spanning Adams’s 45-year career, showcasing the artistic legacy of the American photographer and his longstanding engagement with the contemporary Western landscape. Adams lived and [...]
