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Kodak sells Image Sensor Solutions business
Exactly … No viable product, no viable product plan. I do not think they lack the engineering talents, but that’s what happens when a tech company becomes controlled by bean-counters who pinch pennies when it comes to making a product, but reward themselves generously for destroying a great icon! Without products to compete head-on with [...]
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Just Posted: Updated Samsung NX200 Studio Comparison (raw & JPEG)
whoo! thanks for redoing these samples and adding RAW files, even if they are beta (hopefully when the real support comes the beta ones will be replaced?) EDITActually…on actually looking at the samples, while some problems have been resolved, new ones seem to have surfaced. The detail retention is definitely better than before, and whatever [...]
Tenba Expands Discovery Collection
| Equipment Reviews | Techniques | Forums | Picture This | Galleries | Vote | Image Tech | Columns | Blogs | News | Contact ; News Tenba announced another expansion of its popular Discovery collection of lightweight professional-level camera bags. Tenba has added the new Top Load and Photo/Laptop Messenger bags to further broaden [...]
Canon EOS 60D: The Next Generation Takes A Turn In The Road
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”—Herman Melville The generation of Canon EOS digital SLRs beginning with the 10D have been evolutionary, with each camera adding resolution and new features. The 60D continues in that vein but also takes a slightly different tack, adding some features from Canon’s own PowerShot [...]
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Olympus executive dismissed amidst loss revelations
Olympus has dismissed its executive vice president after admitting concealing losses on investments. In the most serious revelation since the departure of former chief executive Michael Woodford, the company said that funds from previous acquisitions had been used to hide losses on securities investments since the 1990s. The news saw Olympus shares fall in value [...]
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Panasonic announces upcoming firmware update for DMC-GH2
“Since the GH2 sensor is 60hz, one might think there be firmware to allow 1080 60p video, but maybe that’s being reserved for the GH3.” Pana seem to have dropped the ball. Their camera would most probably be able to record 1080 60p, particularly now that AVCHD2.0 is out too. They, however, don’t implement this [...]
Rogue Gels
| Equipment Reviews | Techniques | Forums | Picture This | Galleries | Vote | Image Tech | Columns | Blogs | News | Contact ; News ExpoImaging, Inc. announced availability of Rogue Gels, the newest addition to its Rogue Photographic Design line of products. Rogue Gel Kits offer photographers a choice of 20 dynamic [...]
Survival
| Equipment Reviews | Techniques | Forums | Picture This | Galleries | Vote | Image Tech | Columns | Blogs | News | Contact ; Talking Pictures While hiking an overlook at Capitol Reef National Park in Utah I came across this wonderful juniper tree as a storm was approaching. The tree’s gracefully gnarled [...]
Student Union: Room 620
Room 620 Joliet Central High School Joliet, Illinois Class Acts It’s a small magazine—51⁄2×41⁄4 inches, 16 black-and-white pages—handmade, unpretentious and totally engaging, charming even. Room 620 is published quarterly during the school year by the students in Joe Baltz’s third-year photography class at Joliet Central High. Years ago when the budget for photo magazines in [...]
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Panasonic launches DMC-3D1 compact camera for 3D and 2D images
Panasonic announces the Lumix 3D1, a twin lens 4x optical zoom compact camera that records 3D and 2D still images as well as 1080i HD video. The camera’s dual 12MP ‘High Sensitivity MOS’ sensors are powered by a Venus Engine processor and allow the user to capture both 2D stills and HD video simultaneously, with [...]
