Feb 3, 2012

HDR used properly is appropriate for photojournalism, says Unified Color's Omvik

Are High Dynamic Range photos appropriate for illustrating news? That's the debate that's been started by the Washington Post's use of an HDR image on its front page in January. Sean Elliot, president of the National Press Photographers Association came down firmly against it, saying, 'HDR is not appropriate for documentary photojournalism.' John Omvik, Marketing VP with HDR software maker Unified Color understandably disagrees. He's written us a response arguing that what we see is closer to HDR than, say, a mono photo shot with Tri-X film.

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The new Pentax K-01 - we try to make sense of it

Yesterday's launch of the Pentax K-01 mirror-less system camera was quite a surreal experience. Its unusual colourful and boxy design, the lack of a viewfinder and a big question mark over who Pentax is actually targeting with the K-01 required some time to reflect and digest. 24 hours on, this is what we think about the K-01.

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Patent: 400 f/4, 300 f/4, 200 f/5.6

New Lens Formula Patents A new 400 f/4L IS non-DO would probably be a very welcomed lens. However, it will probably depend on the price of the 200-400 f/4L IS 1.4x ($8000+ I predict) as to whether or not it ever sees the light of day. The 200 f/5.6 is a strange one. Patent Publication...read more...

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MSNBC features best of the week

MSNBC features a fine gallery of The Week in Pictures.

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Kenko-Tokina exhibits mockup of image-stabilised 70-200mm F4 at CP+

Kenko-Tokina will exhibit a mockup of a 70-200mm F4 telephoto zoom that features both a ring-type ultrasonic autofocus motor and optical image stabilization at the CP+ trade show in Japan. The AT-X Pro SD 70-200 F4 (IF) FX will be the company's first stabilized lens, and will likely be especially interesting to Nikon SLR users who currently have no option that's directly comparable to Canon's popular and highly-regarded 70-200mm F4 designs. Further details are limited, but the lens appears to feature both internal zoom and focus mechanisms, and has a usefully-close minimum focus distance of 1m. (via Megapixel.il)

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Kenko-Tokina Reflex 300mm F6.3 compact telephoto for Micro Four Thirds

Kenko-Tokina has added the mirrors back into mirrorless with the launch of an ultra-compact Reflex 300mm F6.3 for Micro Four Thirds. This fixed-aperture, manual focus lens revives the catadioptric lens design that was especially popular in the 1970s and '80s for producing small high-magnification telephoto lenses. With a 55mm filter diameter and weight less than 300g, this is possibly the smallest lens of this type that's ever been made for stills cameras. The spec is rounded-off with a minimum focus of 0.8m and 0.5x maximum magnification, making the lens potentially interesting for chasing insects and the like, just as long as you can hold it steadily enough.

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Canon PowerShot SX240 HS Spotted

Canon PowerShot SX240HS It’s not a 5D Mark III, but it’s something. A photograph of the upcoming Canon PowerShot SX240 HS arrived moments ago. It seems it gets an increase from 14x zoom to 20x zoom. Probably a minor mp bump and DIGIC 5 as well. I’d expect it to be announced next week for...read more...

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Feb 2, 2012

Fujifilm says X-Pro1 will set you back around $2300. UK probably £1980

Fujifilm USA has announced its recommended pricing for the X-Pro1 high-end mirrorless camera. The MSRP will be $1699 for the body and $599-$649 for the lenses, meaning you can expect it to create around a $2300 dent in your pocket if you want to be able to take pictures with it. Canadian prices will be dollar-for-dollar equivalents. Fujifilm UK meanwhile hasn't yet announced pricing, but one of the country's retailers is taking orders at £1429 for the body and £549-599 for the lenses, which gives a good idea of how much you'll need to scrape together.

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DPNow.com Picture of the Day, Thursday 2nd February 2012

Click on the picture to find out more about the photographer and how the picture was taken. This is the kind of picture that I'm sure most enthusiasts photographers would like to net themselves. If you would like the prospect of being chosen to featured on the DPNow POTD, register on our discussion forum, netting free gallery space, and the rest is up to you! And you can help us decide who gets featured in future by nominating your favourites from the DPNow gallery.

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Canon updates EOS Utility for Mac

Canon USA has posted EOS Utility 2.10.4 for Mac. The only stated change is compatibility with OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.x.

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Pentax reveals K lens roadmap for 2012 and 2013

Alongside the announcement of the K-01 mirrorless camera, Pentax has updated its K-mount lens roadmap to include planned releases for 2012 and 2013. In a PDF document published on the company's website, it indicates that three lenses will be introduced during the course of this year - a 50mm 'standard' lens, a superzoom in the 18-200mm class, and a super telephoto in the 500-600mm range. Four zooms covering the full wideangle to telephoto range are projected to follow later, alongside a 1.4x teleconverter.  

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Fujifilm prices X-Pro1, new lenses

Fujfilm has released the U.S. pricing for their X-Pro1 interchangeable lens camera, which was announced back at CES. The camera will ship at the end of this month for $1699, body only. As for the three new lenses, they're priced as followed: FUJIFILM XF 18mm (27mm equivalent) F2.0 lens - $599.95 FUJIFILM XF 35mm (53mm equivalent) F1.4 lens - $599.95 FUJIFILM XF 60mm (90mm equivalent) F2.4 lens - $649.95

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Pentax unveils one-of-a-kind K-01 interchangeable lens camera

camera that uses the venerable K-mount. What makes it unique is its one-of-a-kind design created by Marc Newson, whom I admit I'd never heard of until I saw the camera last month. The retro modern design and color scheme is certainly going to garner a lot of attention, sot he K-01 is not for photographers who don't want to be noticed.

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CameraBag 2 image editor released

Nevercenter has released CameraBag2 a standalone image editor and special effects application available in versions for Windows and Mac. CameraBag 2 includes processing tools such as cropping and a curves editor as well as more than 100 styles and effects filters.

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5D X or Mark III Specs & Release Date? [CR1]

5D X / 5D Mark III The last week has been insane for rumors. I have had more than 150 “tips” sent in and going through them all has been lots of fun. The variance in information is wider than I’ve ever seen it previously. More stuff Below is a spec list I received last...read more...

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Pentax announce the new PENTAX K-01

An interchangeable-lens digital camera designed in collaboration with designer Marc Newson

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Pentax mirror-less K-mount DSLR alternative launch

Update: first launch pix and impressions. Pentax is to launch a mirror-less system camera for K-mount lens fans, called the Pentxa K-01. We have a preview of what to expect and will be updating this story from today's London launch event.

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Benro boosts tripod range with new Travel Angel 2

Benro has announced a new addition to its tripod range with the release of the Travel Angel 2.

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New from Rocky Nook - Architectural Photography, 2nd Edition

Architectural photography is more than simply choosing a subject and pressing the shutter-release button; it's more than just documenting a project.

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Tokina announces the new Tokina AT-X 17-35mm lens

Designed for full-frame cameras, Tokina's new AT-X 17-35mm F/4 lens adds a whole new meaning to the phrase "a wide choice."

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Pentax announces K-01 K-mount APS-C mirrorless camera

Pentax has formally announced the K-01 K-mount mirrorless interchangable lens camera and a revised 40mm F2.8 pancake lens to match. Built around a 16MP APS-C sensor, the camera can mount most of the lenses the company has ever made. It features sensor-shift image stabilization, a 920k dot rear LCD and can shoot at up to 6 frames per second. The rather interesting design is the work of respected product designer Marc Newson and features a logo of his signature on the base of the camera. The K-01 (which the company says should be pronounced 'kay-zero-one'), will cost around $749 body-only and $899 with the 'XS' version of the 40mm lens.

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Ricoh announces RICOH LENS A16 24-85mm F3.5-5.5

A new GXR camera unit featuring a 3.5x optical zoom lens (24-85 mm) and an APS-C size

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Ricoh launches standard zoom GXR module with 16MP APS-C sensor

Ricoh has released a 24-85mm equivalent F3.5-5.5 zoom module with a 16MP APS-C sensor for its GXR system. The latest camera unit offers a flexible focal length range that starts slightly wider than the average kit zoom, without making the camera excessively large. It's the first GXR module to be built around a 16MP sensor. Announced back in November, it is the first zoom module for the system to offer APS-C image quality. If our suspicions are correct and it uses the excellent Sony 16MP sensor, this promises a lot both in terms of image quality and focus speed (the faster readout of the sensor helps contrast-detection systems to more quickly ascertain correct focus).

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iOS App Review: Disposable Hipstamatic

Hipstamatic, an iOS app which mimics the look of classic 'toy' cameras is one of the most sucessful photography apps on the market. The latest variant, Disposable Hipstamatic, also builds on the appeal of the unpredictability of 'toy' cameras but includes built-in Facebook integration with a unique twist. Joanne Carter of theappwhisperer.com takes a closer look.

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Feb 1, 2012

DPNow.com Picture of the Day, Wednesday 1st February 2012

Click on the picture to find out more about the photographer and how the picture was taken. This picture was inspired conceived for a competition with the theme of 'Alter Ego' - and it may be no coincidence that this was just a couple of weeks before Hallowe'en. If you would like the prospect of being chosen to featured on the DPNow POTD, register on our discussion forum, netting free gallery space, and the rest is up to you! And you can help us decide who gets featured in future by nominating your favourites from the DPNow gallery.

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Canon PowerShot G1 X is the "Best Compact Camera"....

According to DXO Mark The folks at DXO have completed their review of the Canon PowerShot G1 X, and have come away impressed, but with some disappointment. They seem to have been pretty fair in the conclusions. From DXO Overall the G1X is definitely an excellent point and shoot cameras. But, now for the bad...read more...

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Great Canon EOS 7D Deals at Adorama

From Adorama Adorama has let us know about some coupon code deals for the Canon EOS 7D and various kits. You must enter the coupon code in the cart to see the sale prices.   Canon EOS 7D Body $1299 (save $300) Canon EOS 7D w/18-135 $1469 (save $430) Canon EOS 7D w/28-135 $1579 (save...read more...

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EOS Utility 2.10.4 for Mac OS X Lion

EOS Utility 2.10.4 Updater for Mac OS X IAmPtr on Twitter sent Planet5D information about the long awaited EOS Utility update for Mac OS X Lion. Download Here Release Notes EOS Utility is an application that brings together all of the functions required to communicate with the camera. Functions for downloading and displaying images, remote...read more...

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Win an Olympus XZ-1 camera during February 2012

During February you have the chance to win a fantastic Olympus XZ-1 premium compact camera.

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Magix announces the MAGIX MX Camera App

The Magix MX adds new speed and functionality to the market with real-time filters, but also brings an understanding of photo editing that only an established market leading can perfect.

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Canon launches the All-In-One – PIXMA MG4150

Canon today announces a new compact, web-enabled, All-in-One printer packed with clever features to suit students or families looking for an affordable, quality printer with the latest web features.

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Nikon - Introducing the COOLPIX P510 and COOLPIX L810

Nikon today announces two new super-zoom cameras.

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Nikon announces the COOLPIX S2600, COOLPIX L25 and COOLPIX L26

The trio consists of the COOLPIX S2600, an ultra-slim 14-megapixel camera with 5x optical zoom, the simple COOLPIX L25 with Easy Auto Mode, and the functional COOLPIX L26 with 16-megapixels and one-touch video recording.

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Nikon announces the COOLPIX L310

The camera’s 14-megapixel sensor and 21x wide-angle optical zoom lens work together to produce stunning results, whether you are shooting stills or HD movies.

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Nikon replaces high-end Coolpix 'P' series with P510 and P310

Nikon has updated its photographer-friendly P series with the Coolpix P510 and P310. The P510 gains GPS and an extended zoom, now reaching from 24-1000mm equivalent. This 42x range is likely to be quite a challenge for its VR image stabilization system, so we'll be interested to see how it performs. The P310 is a more subtle upgrade of the P300. Like the P510 it gains a 920k dot LCD and moves to using a 16MP back-lit CMOS sensor, with all the high-speed, multi-shot image processing modes it enables. More than any of the technology changes, we're most interested to see the addition of a 'Fn' button on the front - if this can be set to control useful functions, it may improve the handling of an already pleasant-to-use camera.

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Nikon refreshes Coolpix S series with 16MP CMOS and CCD cameras

Nikon has refreshed its line of S series style compact cameras, which ranges from $140 6x zoom models through to bells-and-whistles-including 18x compact superzoom. The range is topped by the S9300 which offers that 18x, 25mm-450mm equiv. stabilized lens, 16MP back-lit CMOS sensor, 1080p30 with stereo sound recording and built-in GPS. The S6300 is a slim, 10x 25-250mm equiv camera built around the same sensor. The S4300 and S3300 are more modest, CCD-based affairs with 6x, 26-156mm equivalent zooms.

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Nikon updates compact lineup, including Coolpix S30 entry-level rugged camera

Nikon has updated several of its simpler compacts with the launches of the Coolpix L810, L26 and S30. The L810 is a mid level 26x superzoom with a 920k dot LCD and 23-585mm equiv zoom. A 16MP CCD helps keep the cost down to around $279.95 but also means the L810 can only capture 720p video. Meanwhile the S60 is a shock- and water-proof 10MP camera with 3x, 29-87mm equiv lens. Finally, the L26 is a pretty standard AA-powered entry-level camera with a 16MP CCD and 26-130mm equiv stabilized lens.

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Nikon announces fast-lensed Coolpix P310, huge-lensed Coolpix P510

Nikon has updated nearly their entire Coolpix lineup today, and I'm going to start with the two flagship models. While the Coolpix P310 and its fast F1.8 lens are no doubt interesting, the camera that really caught my eye is the P510 super zoom. For those whom 24X, 30X, and even 36X zooms aren't enough, the Coolpix P510 has a whopping *42X* optical zoom lens. And no, it doesn't come with its own tripod.

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Nikon Coolpix S3300 / S4300 / S6300 / S9300 announced

Next we have a whole mess of cameras in Nikon's S-series, save for the budget waterproof model mentioned in the next item. These four models cover all the bases, from the basic Coolpix S3300 to the more enthusiast-friendly Coolpix S9300 compact ultra zoom. Let's start with the S3300 and work our way up:

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Budget-friendly Nikon Coolpix S30, L26, and L810

Let's close out the new Nikon models with three entry-level models, the first of which is waterproof:

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Panasonic rolls out Lumix DMC-ZS15 and DMC-ZS20 compact travel zooms

Panasonic has four cameras ready for your consumption today, with the first two being new additions to their very popular travel zoom series. The new Lumix DMC-ZS15 and DMC-ZS20 replace last years' ZS8 and ZS10, and the ZS20 now packs a 20X zoom lens into a small form factor. These new models are supposed to have less noise than their predecessors, which is good news. Here's more:

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Panasonic introduces rugged Lumix DMC-TS20 and DMC-TS4

Want a camera that you travel and get wet? Then you might be interested in the new Lumix DMC-TS4, which I'll describe right after I tell you about its little brother, the TS20:

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First full-res Fujifilm X-Pro1 images appear on the web

Four full-size images from the Fujifilm X-Pro1 have been released by the two photographers commissioned to shoot with the camera (apparently using a pre-production unit). Australian photojournalist Michael Coyne and landscape photographer Christian Fletcher are shooting with the camera and have published four images taken with the 18mm lens, alongside a video explaining their first impressions. All the images, shot at a range of ISO settings, have been passed through Photoshop, according to the EXIF, but are said to be unprocessed. (via PetaPixel) Following a request from Christian Fletcher, we've removed links to the images.

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Jan 31, 2012

NPPA attorney comments on police obstruction of photographers

The war on terrorism has become the war on photography, says National Press Photographers Association general counsel Mickey Osterreicher, as quoted on the web site of the (U.S.) National Press Club. In a presentation to Press Club members, Osterreicher detailed what he says is increasing repression and obstruction of photographers, both amateur and professinal, by police in the U.S. using what he refers to as a "catch-and-release" program.

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Three-camera harness offered by Holdfast

Accessories manufacturer Holdfast has developed a harness designed to hold two or three DSLR cameras in position for immediate use. The harness is intended for wedding photographers, photojournalists, and other shooters who like to work with two or three cameras essentially simultaneously.

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Coal featured in The Big Picture

The Big Picture from The Boston Globe features an interesting gallery on Coal.

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Nikon promises 'brighter lenses for better total performance' from 1 system

Nikon plans to develop 'brighter lenses for better total performance' from its 1 system, says Tetsuya Yamamoto, General Manager of Nikon’s Development Headquarters, Imaging Division. In an interview at this year’s International CES show in Las Vegas, he talked to us about some of the functions the company hopes to enhance on future models and offered some surprising news about the CX sensor's video capabilities.

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Feb 1, 2012

Apple's Final Cut Pro X v10.0.3 starts to regain pro features

Apple has updated Final Cut Pro X, its high-end video editing package, to v10.0.3 with the ability to import projects from Final Cut Pro 7. The upgrade includes several pro-level options, such as multi-camera syncing, that were not included when the first release replaced the more expensive and complex Final Cut Pro 7. Initially its different way of handling clips made look like Apple wouldn't be able to get Pro 7 projects to work in Pro X but a $9.99 Apple app called 7toX has found an xml-mediated method of doing so.

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Jan 31, 2012

Panasonic goes that bit further with DMC-ZS20 and ZS15 travel zooms

Panasonic has updated its range of travel zoom cameras with the DMC-ZS20 and DMC-ZS15. The 14MP ZS20, sold as the DMC-TZ30 outside North America, is the slimmest 20x zoom camera on the market. Its lens covers a 24-480mm equivalent range and features the company's latest Power O.I.S stabilization. The 16x, 12MP ZS15 will appear as the TZ25. The high-speed MOS sensor allows the ZS20 to offer autofocus taking as little as 0.1 seconds, and it can shoot at up to 10 frames per second (5fps with AF-tracking). It also has GPS and an updated mapping function to show photos on a map with greater detail.

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Panasonic launches rugged DMC-TS4 / FT4

Panasonic has announced the DMC-TS4 (FT4 outside North America), the latest in its rugged series of compact cameras. The TS4 gains an altimeter, compass and barometer in addition to the GPS that appeared in the TS3. The camera comes with a DVD of maps that can be loaded onto the camera, helping the camera add better location data to its pictures' EXIF. Beyond this it's a pretty familiar affair, with a 12MP CCD capable of 1080p video housed in Panasonic's familiar industrial-looking tough-camera body and a 4.6x 28-128mm equivalent zoom.

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Panasonic makes DMC-TS20 semi-rugged compact camera

Panasonic has updated its less rugged, more stylish tough model - the DMC-TS20. The TS20 (FT20 outside North America) replaces the TS10 and offers a more useful 25-100mm equivalent lens than its predecessor's 35-140mm equiv unit. It's built around a 16MP CCD sensor that limits it to 720p video but this does come in the easy-to-use MP4 format. Despite its less butch styling, the TS20 is still waterproof to 5m (16') and shockproof from a height of around 1.5m (5'), which should see it withstand relatively carefree use.

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Review: Delock Card Reader FireWire B (Nr. 91694)

Over the last year or so, the supply of FireWire-equipped CompactFlash card readers has almost completely dried up, despite the fact that, for many photographers who use Macs, FireWire is their computer's only peripheral port that's fast enough to allow for efficient offloading of pictures. That's the bad news. The good news is that a new FireWire 800 CompactFlash card reader has arrived on the scene, one that provides true FireWire 800 speeds, a compact design and excellent compatibility with all but certain older cards. Called the Delock Card Reader FireWire B (Nr. 91694), it nicely fills the opening left by the demise of all earlier FireWire readers. If you're a Mac user in particular it may carry you through until native USB 3.0 ports begin popping up on Apple's products. Read on for a rundown of our experience with the Delock reader, based on both six weeks of regular use as well as performance and compatibility testing.

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Jan 30, 2012

Canon EOS-1D X Technical Report

From the Canon Museum Canon has posted a technical report about the Canon EOS-1D X  at their Canon Museum. It’s a good quick reference for the camera. The following information is covered. Development objectives Advances in image quality, resolution, and digital functions New 61-point AF system New exposure control system High-speed continuous shooting and silent...read more...

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Lens & Speedlite Rebate, Final Week

Just a reminder The Canon USA Lens & Speedlite rebates end on Saturday, February 4, 2012. There has been no mention of an extension at this time. I will update this post if that changes.   Lens & Speedlite Instant Rebates at B&H DSLR, Printer & Lens Bundle Instant Rebates at B&H cr

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MSNBC highlights week in sports

MSNBC features a fine gallery of images in the Week in Sports Pictures.

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India's Republic Day visited

The Frame from The Sacramento Bee features India's Republic Day 2012, a colourful gallery of images showing the event commemorating the Constitution of India.

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Sony introduces ultra-compact Cyber-shot DSC-TX200V with 18MP sensor

Sony has introduced a trio of compact cameras, and I'll begin with the smallest of the three: the Cyber-shot DSC-TX200V. Believe it or not, camera buyers are still thinking that the more Megapixels a camera has, the better it must be. Sony certainly noticed this, as the TX200V is the first compact camera to feature an 18 Megapixel sensor (!). Here are its other features:

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Sony Cyber-shot DSC-WX50 / DSC-WX70

Next up we have two more conventional-looking Cyber-shots. Despite having "only" 16 Megapixel sensors, the WX50 and WX70 described below are still packed with features:

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Sony announces three CMOS-based compacts including 18MP DSC-TX200V

Sony has announced three CMOS-based compact cameras - the Cyber-Shots DSC-TX200V, DSC-WX50 and DSC-WX70. The TX200V is a GPS-equipped card-style touch-screen waterproof camera with Sony's latest 18MP back-lit CMOS sensor. It also includes the company's fast AF system that aims to reduce focus times down as low as 0.1 sec and 0.2 sec in low light. It can also grab 13.5MP stills while shooting 1080p60 video. It also has an WVGA-equivalent OLED touch screen and glass front panel, spoiling the whole thing only slightly by using Micro SD cards. The WX50 meanwhile offers the older 16MP and 5x, 25-125mm zoom.

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Sony Japan creates TX300V TransferJet/WiFi camera with inductive charging

Sony Japan has launched a more capable variant of the TX200V announced today in the US, offering contactless charging and data transfer, and Wi-Fi. The Cyber-shot DSC-TX300V comes with a TransferJet-compliant inductive charging and data transfer station, allowing images and video downloading, as well as charging, just by placing the camera on the pad. It also features DNLA-compliant WiFi that allows direction connection to iOS and Android smartphones, for transferring 2MP images. No announcement of either model has yet been made for Europe. (From DCWatch)

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Jan 29, 2012

*UPDATE* New High-End DSLR Later in February [CR3]

*UPDATE* Invites have gone out to Canon Platinum CPS members to prioritize purchases of the new EOS-1D X. This is most likely the CPS event we’ve been told about. For the launch of the Canon EOS-1D X, Canon would like to offer priority purchase for CPS Platinum members, as our most valued customers, we want...read more...

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Jan 28, 2012

Reader request gallery published

The Atlantic features All-Request Photos: Aurora Borealis, Blue Frogs, Spacewalks..., a gallery of images solicited from readers.

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*UPDATE* 5D Mark III - February 7, 2012 [CR2]

*UPDATE 2* Another source highly doubts February 7, 2012 is the date for an announcement. All the little bits of information that are leaking say it’s close, but it may not be that close. Please do not treat February 7, 2012 as fact until I can [CR3] it. *UPDATE* Another source says it’s odd that...read more...

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Jan 27, 2012

*UPDATE* Canon Pixma Pro-1 Review Sneak Peek

*UPDATE* The review will have to wait, as my Pixma Pro-1 is broken. Something is wrong with the paper feed as I am getting scraping down various kinds of paper. 285, 310 & 325 GSM paper are all showing the issue. The obvious cleaning and maintenance has been performed, and the issue is not improving....read more...

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Canon EOS-1D X Delayed?

April 2012 Release? From Calumet in the UK, comes word that the Canon EOS-1D X may not be shipping until April. I had heard that previously, and it’s not overly shocking. No word on why the camera may be delayed. Canon EOS-1D X at B&H cr 

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Michihiro Yamaki, Sigma founder and CEO dies

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Jan 28, 2012

MicroOLED promises even greater electronic viewfinder resolution

French manufacturer MicroOLED has announced a 5 million dot OLED suitable for use as an electronic viewfinder - far beyond the resolution of the current best units used in recent Sony cameras. The 5.2M effective dots mean it can display 1280x1024 pixel resolution in color, assuming a four-dots-per-pixel layout. Imaging Resource has written an  article in which they suggest it could spell the end of the optical viewfinder. (From Imaging Resource)

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Jan 27, 2012

Daminion launches Daminion Server network-based digital asset manager

Software maker Daminion has announced Daminion Server, a network-friendly digital asset management program. The software allows multiple users to access a centrally-held archive of images, with version control and user access controls to ensure images are kept safe and only edited or accessed by authorized people. It also ensures multiple people don't work on the same file simultaneously, avoiding data loss. It includes extensive control of metadata in a wide range of file types to help manage files within the archive. It is designed to integrate with standalone image and document editors such as Photoshop and InDesign, to allow users to continue to use their preferred editing tools.

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Tokina adds focus motor to create AT-X 116 Pro DX II wide-angle for APS-C DSLRs

Tokina has announced an updated version of its highly-regarded 11-16mm F2.8 wideangle zoom for APS-C SLRs. The AT-X 116 PRO DX II adds a 'Silent Drive-Module' (SD-M) focus motor that enables it to autofocus on all Nikon SLRs. The latest version also includes improved surface coatings (which are particularly important for wide-angle lenses) and adds a 'GMR' sensor to locate the focus element's current position, to speed up autofocus - a technology first introduced on the AT-X 16-28 F2.8 PRO FX full-frame wide-angle. US distributor THK Photo tells us the Nikon version should be available around April with a Canon version following around August.

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Winter Youth Olympics in The Big Picture

The Big Picture from The Boston Globe features a nice gallery of sports images in the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games from Austria.

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Canon Rumors Forum Update

Changed things up We’ve decided that the forum needed to be switched up a bit. There just wasn’t enough categories to cover the range of topics, so we’ve streamlined some parts, and expanded others. List of the biggest changes Added a “Gear talk” section, this area will be for gear & photography topics and not...read more...

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Patent: Canon RAW Video

Canon has filed a patent for RAW video “The recording of successive frames of raw sensor data depicting a moving scene is provided. The raw sensor data comprises pixel data for an image sensor having pixels arranged in correspondence to a mosaic of plural different colors in a color filter array.” EOSHD broke it down...read more...

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Wedding photographer explains the reasons behind 'unrealistic' prices

PetaPixel has published an excellent response from a photographer to a Seattle-area bride criticizing the pricing of wedding photographers. In a remarkably calm response, Nikki Wagner details the expenses connected to her wedding photography business, dismissing the idea that wedding photographers set their prices high simply because they can. After reading Wagner's response it's understandable why the bride is having so much trouble finding an 'exceptional, amazingly talented, fun photographer' that she also deems 'decently priced.' (From PetaPixel)

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Jan 26, 2012

Adobe posts some Lightroom 4 beta questions and answers

Adobe's Photoshop.com blog has posted a series of questions and answers about the Photoshop Lightroom 4 beta. The questions were collected from Adobe's Facebook and Twitter users.

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Tamron and Tokina join Micro Four Thirds

Tamron and Tokina have joined the Micro Four Thirds group, meaning all three major third-party lens makers are likely to produce optics for the system. No further details of their intentions have been given. The announcement comes just after Sigma announced its first lenses for both Sony's E-mount and Micro Four Thirds - both lenses that we think make more sense on APS-C than the Micro Four Thirds format. It will be interesting to see whether Tamron and Kenko Tokina develop lenses specifically for the smaller format. Meanwhile high-end video manufacturer Astrodesign has also joined the consortium, and released a Micro Four Thirds mount 4K video camera head.

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High-end video maker Astrodesign joins Micro Four Thirds

Astrodesign, a high-end Japanese video manufacturer has signed-up to the Micro Four Thirds system. It offers a 4K camera system (including separate camera head, processor and control unit) that captures 3840×2160 4K video at 60p. The company suggests its use for movie and broadcast shooting, live monitoring of medical operations and other applications requiring super-high resolution video. While the move is unlikely to directly affect most Micro Four Thirds camera users, it could boost the system's position within the video industry, encouraging the creation of an eco-system of accessories for video makers using the system.

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Dramatic light the focus in tennis gallery

While peak action and tight images of the face and ball are usually the focus of a tennis gallery, The Atlantic features an interesting gallery of dramatically-lit images on the The 2012 Australian Open.

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Jan 25, 2012

Pentax announces Optio VS20 20x zoom with twin shutter buttons

Pentax has announced the Optio VS20, possibly the first compact camera with a second shutter button and zoom lever for portrait-orientation shooting. Beyond that it's a pretty well-specified 20x compact superzoom, featuring a 28-560mm equivalent zoom lens with sensor-shift image stabilization for its 16MP CCD. It's not the smallest 20x zoom camera we've seen but it manages to include a anti-glare-coated 460k dot 3.0" LCD and costs $249/£199, so it's not uncompetitive.

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Q&A with enlight photo's James Madelin about ioShutter (updated)

Next month, photography accessories maker enlight photo will release ioShutter, a cable and an app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch that enables these devices to fire a connected camera. The 35.4in/90cm ioShutter cable runs from the headphone jack to the camera's remote input. At launch, one cable will be available for Canon, Pentax and Hasselblad models with a 2.5mm remote port, and a second cable will support N3-socket Canons. A Nikon 10-pin cable is planned. The app is in two flavours, Lite and Pro, with the latter providing the broadest range of control for shooting time lapse sequences, Bulb exposures, sound triggered photos and more, plus the various app functions can be used individually or together. In this article, enlight photo's James Madelin answers our questions about ioShutter, focusing mainly on the features of the Pro version of the app.

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NASA releases stunning high-resolution photo of Earth from space

NASA today has released a stunning 64-megapixel photo of Earth from space. Assembled from multiple images captured earlier this month by a research satellite orbiting 512 miles (824km) away, the resulting "Blue Marble" view of our planet is similar to past such photos released by the U.S. space agency, except the resolution and detail is much higher.

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DxO Optics Pro v7.2 extends Panasonic G-series support and adds Canon S100

DxO Labs has added the Canon S100 and Panasonics' GF3, G2 and G1 to the list of cameras supported by its DxO Optics Pro software. The cameras are added to both the Standard and Elite versions of the Optics Pro v7.2, that the company says are more stable than before. Version 7.2 also gains the ability to import Optics Pro v6 databases containing the image processing settings for existing images.

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Similar, but not copied, image found to breach copyright

Amateur Photographer magazine has published an interesting story about a copyright infringement case of similar, but not directly copied, images. The issue of copyright is thorny, contentious and often misunderstood but this case sheds some light on the current attitude of courts in the UK. Despite significant differences between the two images (there was no implication that the second image was a duplicate of the first), the court found that the second image copied substantially from the 'creative expression' of the first (that is the elements that can be protected by copyright in the original image, including a consideration of the composition, lighting and processing of the image).

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Review: Lexar 1000X blazes to 129MB/s read speed, best-in-class write speeds

Slated to begin shipping next month, Lexar Professional 1000X 16GB, 32GB, 64GB and 128GB CompactFlash cards will, based on our testing of the 32GB capacity, deliver class-leading in-camera write speeds with newer Canon and Nikon digital SLRs, as well as card-to-computer transfer rates topping out at over 129MB/s, which is far faster than any other memory card we've ever tested. If you have the need for speed, read on.

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Jan 24, 2012

Lytro meeting suggests Apple looking beyond conventional photography

Steve Jobs met Lytro founder Ren Ng to discuss the photographic aspects of Apple products, according to a new book about the company. Details are understandably sparse but, according to Adam Lashinsky's book 'Inside Apple,' Jobs asked Ng to prepare a list of three things he'd like Lytro to do with Apple. If nothing else, the story is interesting as it suggests Jobs was as excited by the Lytro and its effect on photography as the rest of the tech community has been. It also suggests Apple's approach to mobile photography might overlap with Lytro's aim of creating something fun, shareable and engaging, rather than attempting to replace conventional photography. Such an approach would certainly be in keeping with Apple's 'disruptive' approach to technology. (from 9-to-5Mac) [Updated with response from Lytro]

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PDN reviews Photoshop Touch and Perfect Photo Suite 6

PDNOnline has recently posted reviews of two software applications, Adobe Photoshop Touch for the Android OS and onOne's Perfect Photo Suite 6, which is available standalone or in plug-in versions for Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, and Apple Aperture.

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Possible unannounced Canon digital SLR spotted and photographed in Africa (updated)

While on a shoot in Kenya, photographer and Aperture Academy instructor Stephen Oachs came across someone taking pictures with the upcoming Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM Extender 1.4x, EF 600mm f/4L IS II USM and EOS-1D X. But that's not the only gear that caught Oachs' attention. He also spotted - and took a photo of - the same man snapping away with what looks like an as-yet-unannounced Canon digital SLR, one whose button placement and other features distinguish it from existing models.

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Jan 23, 2012

Canon posts series of video tutorials on portraits with Speedlites

The Canon Digital Learning Center has posted a series of video tutorials on how to use Canon Speedlites to make environmental portraits. The videos feature photographer Bruce Dorn and cover a range of off-camera and multi-flash techniques aimed at photographers of varying levels of expertise.

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TIME LightBox features police work

TIME LightBox features the documentary images of the late Leonard Freed on New York City's Police Work.

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Reuters features best of December

Reuters' Full Focus gallery features the best Images of December.

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Joe McNally posts blues guitarist video recorded with Nikon D4

Photographer Joe McNally, who shot numerous still photos with the D4 for Nikon leading up to the camera's launch earlier this month, has now posted a video he and his team recorded with the new pro digital SLR. It's of blues guitarist Little Freddie King, and features the musician playing as well as being interviewed. Says McNally: "He made for a wonderful subject for stills. But, his is a story that has heart, soul, history, legs and music. Shooting the video let us see him, and let us listen, too."

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Jan 21, 2012

SI gallery asks the question

Sports Illustrated features a gallery of interesting images in Did You See That?

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Globe photographers share some Kodak memories

The Globe and Mail features a nostalgic view of Kodak film from its photographers.

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Jan 20, 2012

Rode announces VideoMic HD with built-in recorder, audio monitoring

Billed as "the world's first digital recorder video microphone," the Rode VideoMic HD is a shotgun mic (derived from the company's well-regarded NTG3) that captures sound to a built-in audio recorder and features live sound monitoring through the included 3.5mm headphone jack, a secondary 3.5mm mic input and the option to send the audio signal through to a video camera's mic input for simultaneous audio recording by the VideoMic HD and directly into the video file.

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Eye-Fi CEO says patented technology violated by Wireless LAN SD standard

At the opening of the CES trade show last week, the SD Association announced the Wireless LAN SD standard, an add-on to the specification for SD/SDHC/SDXC memory cards that provides a framework for incorporating Wi-Fi features. Eye-Fi, which has been making SD and SDHC cards with embedded Wi-Fi for several years, subsequently told us that the SD Association's move was premature and hinted at the possibility of a legal response. Now, Eye-Fi CEO Yuval Koren has issued a more detailed statement, one that echos the company's original position: that the new standard runs afoul of Eye-Fi's patents.

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MSNBC gallery runs fowl

MSNBC features The Week in Pictures, a gallery of fine images as always from this source.

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Jan 19, 2012

LPA Design, Phottix settle patent infringement lawsuit related to Atlas transceiver (updated)

A patent infringement lawsuit brought by LPA Design, maker of PocketWizard wireless radio remotes, against photographic accessories maker Phottix (and parent company Eternal Fortune), has been settled and dismissed, says LPA Design CEO and President Tim Neiley.

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Scenes from India In Focus

The Atlantic's In Focus features an interesting and colourful gallery on Scenes From India.

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Kodak files for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

Kodak has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S., it was announced last night. The storied photography company "believes that it has sufficient liquidity to operate its business during chapter 11, and to continue the flow of goods and services to its customers in the ordinary course," says a press release. Kodak expects to complete its restructuring and emerge from bankruptcy protection in 2013.

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Jan 18, 2012

Canon EOS lens to Sony NEX camera "smart" adapter announced

A Canadian company called Conurus has announced what it is calling a joint venture with another company, Metabones, to manufacture and market a Canon EOS lens to Sony NEX camera adapter. The adapter will support aperture control from the camera as well as image stabilization in IS lenses, but autofocus does not function.

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National Geographic galleries always of interest

A pair of National Geographic galleries highlight a number of recent additions to the site: The Calm Before the Wave and Kazakhstan's Tomorrowland.

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NYT LENS: Love finds a way

LENS, The New York Times photo blog, features a story and image gallery on Grey Villet's Life magazine assignment about an interracial couple back in 1965.

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Jan 17, 2012

Animals in the news featured by Atlantic gallery

The Atlantic features an interesting gallery on Animals in the News.

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Adweek: Corey Rich's Nikon D4 video

Adweek has published an interesting article on the Nikon D4 promo video shot for Nikon by adventure shooter Corey Rich. "To launch its D4 professional-grade DSLR, Nikon asked photographer Corey Rich to use the camera to shoot video and stills—all of his own choosing. "They said, 'It's a blank canvas, and it's up to you to fill it,'" Rich recalls. In the end, working with agency K+L in Tokyo, he filmed three of the world's top adventure athletes in their element, from Moab to Mexico, for a gorgeous mini-documentary that asks what drives these fringe sports devotees— and lets the camera do its thing."

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TIME LightBox highlights Ali's 70th with images

TIME LightBox features Happy Birthday Muhammad Ali: 70 Iconic Images for 70 Years, an interesting gallery covering the life of the boxing legend.

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Poynter discusses Washington Post HDR front page image

An article at Poynter.org discusses a high dynamic range image that ran on the front page of the Washington Post three days ago. The image was made by combining five different exposures, and the article includes a brief discussion of whether multi-exposure HDR shots are appropriate for documentary photojournalism.

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Jan 16, 2012

Sports galleries lead off the week

A pair of sports galleries of interest are Sports Illustrated's Did You See That? and MSNBC's Week in Sports Pictures.

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The Atlantic features gallery on cruise ship accident

The Atlantic features a gallery on The Wreck of the Costa Concordia.

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Jan 15, 2012

Q&A with Nikon D4 engineer Toshiaki Akagi

We sat down this week with Toshiaki Akagi, an engineer and senior manager at Nikon in Japan, as well as a key figure in the development of the company's newest flagship digital SLR, the D4. In an hour-long chat at the 2012 International CES trade show in Las Vegas, Akagi answered our questions about D4 autofocus, image quality and more.

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Jan 13, 2012

NPR features Russia By Rail

National Public Radio features a number of interesting slideshows in Russia By Rail.

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ioShutter cable now to ship "by February 2012" (updated)

Photography accessories maker enlight photo now says the ioShutter cable will ship "by February 2012", which presumably means before the end of this month. The cable, when used with a companion app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, enables these devices to fire a connected camera. A free Lite version of the app is already out, while the cable (which will come in both 2.5mm and Canon N3-socket versions) had originally been planned for release in December of last year.

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Stern features daily images

Stern's online magazine features a large gallery of interesting images from the past month.

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Adobe to offer CS6 upgrade pricing to CS3 and CS4 owners

Partly reversing an earlier policy announcement, Adobe now says that it will offer special upgrade pricing to current users of Creative Suite 3 and 4 who want to upgrade to CS6 when it is rolled out later this year. Late last year, Adobe announced that only users of the previous major release of the Creative Suite bundles or applications (i.e. only users of CS5 applications) would be eligible for discounted upgrade pricing on CS6.

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NYT LENS: features rodeo photographer

LENS, The New York Times photo blog, features Sweetheart of the Rodeo, a story and images on the late rodeo photographer Louise Serpa.

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MSNBC features week in pictures

MSNBC features a gallery of fine images in The Week in Pictures.

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Eye-Fi to SD Association: our intellectual property is not available

Earlier this week, the SD Association announced an add-on to the SD specification, called the Wireless LAN SD standard, which provides SD, SDHC and SDXC card makers a framework for incorporating Wi-Fi wireless functions into their products. Eye-Fi has been making SD and SDHC cards with embedded Wi-Fi for several years, so we asked the company what role, if any, Eye-Fi played in the development of the Wireless LAN SD standard. The answer back was in the form of an official statement, one with a clear message: Eye-Fi believes the capabilities outlined in the Wireless LAN SD standard may tread on their intellectual property and that "you can draw your own conclusions as to what this means" about the company's intentions going forward.

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Jan 12, 2012

Understanding the Nikon D4 battery's lower capacity rating

Nikon's adoption of a lower capacity battery for the D4 was a bit of a head-scratcher, especially in a camera that's overflowing with specification improvements. We sat down this week with Toshiaki Akagi, an engineer and senior manager at Nikon in Japan, as well as a key figure in the development of the company's newest pro digital SLR, and got the skinny on why, in the case of the EN-EL18, less is more. Here's what we learned.

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Sigma announces 19mm and 30mm lenses for m4/3rds and NEX mounts

Sigma has announced two new single-focal-length lenses available in mounts for Micro Four Thirds and Sony NEX CSC cameras. Part of a new line for CSC cameras designated "DN", the lenses are a 19mm f/2.8 and a 30mm f/2.8.

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Fujifilm X-Pro1 sample images posted

Fujifilm has posted 9 full resolution JPEG images taken with the new X-Pro1 CSC camera that the company announced earlier this week. The samples include 3 images each from the new XF lenses introduced with the camera and were taken at ISOs ranging from 200 to 1600.

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Jan 11, 2012

ShutterSnitch 2.2.0 released

ShutterSnitch 2.2.0 for the Apple iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, our favourite app for receiving pictures from a wireless camera, properly recognizes an iPhone's Personal Hotspot in iOS 5.x, adds a rotation gesture and other small changes and fixes.

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Eye-Fi issues firmware update for X2 cards

Eye-Fi has released firmware v5.0001 for its X2 series of Wi-Fi/memory SDHC combo cards. The release notes cite several Direct Mode fixes as well as general wireless and camera compatibility improvements.

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Jan 10, 2012

Toshiba to ship FlashAir wireless SDHC card this quarter

Announced last September, Toshiba's FlashAir memory/wireless SDHC combo card is nearing release. It offers a capacity of 8GB, 802.11b/g/n wireless (and actual Wi-Fi throughput that's promised to be up to about 1.2MB/s), a Class 6 minimum speed rating and wireless features derived from the recently-announced Wireless LAN SD standard. The FlashAir 8GB card is to ship globally in February or March of this year, with an expected street price in the U.S. of about US$60-65.

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Phase One Media Pro 1.2 released

Phase One has updated its image cataloging and digital asset management program, Media Pro, to version 1.2. Improvements in the new version include support for additional camera raw formats, and several enhancements to metadata handling and XMP file handling and features.

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Snapseed comes to Mac and Android

Nik Software has announced that its photo editing and sharing application, Snapseed, previously available for the iOS, is now also available for the Mac OS and for Android tablets powered by the NVIDIA Tegra processor and running Android 4.x (a.k.a. Ice Cream Sandwich).

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America at Work In Focus

The Atlantic's In Focus features an interesting gallery on America at Work.

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Nikon resumes DSLR production in previously flooded Thai factory

Nikon has announced that limited production of DSLR cameras and lenses was re-started at its factory in Ayutthaya, Thailand on January 3rd, a bit earlier than expected. This factory suffered severe damage from flooding last fall. Nikon continues to project that the factory's production will return to full capacity by the end of March 2012.

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Post features pictures of the week

The Denver Post photo blog features Pictures of the Week: January 6, 2012.

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Adobe commences public beta program for Photoshop Lightroom 4

Adobe has kicked off a public beta program for Photoshop Lightroom 4, a new version of the pro photo management and RAW conversion software for Mac and Windows. Among the changes are expanded video editing, a built-in photo book builder that uses Blurb for the fulfillment, simplified RAW adjustments, soft proofing, new geolocation features and the ability to apply noise reduction and white balance and selectively to a photo.

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SanDisk adds 64GB, 128GB capacities to Extreme SDHC/SDXC line

SanDisk's Extreme UHS-1 SDHC/SDXC line gains two new capacities today. The Extreme SDXC UHS-1 64GB and 128GB cards are rated to deliver up to 45MB/s read and write speeds and come with RescuePRO Deluxe photo recovery software for Mac and Windows.

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Jan 9, 2012

Fujifilm announces X-Pro1 interchangeable-lens CSC with APS-C sensor

Fujifilm has announced the X-Pro1, a 16-million image pixel interchangeable-lens compact system camera with a new "X-Trans CMOS" APS-C size sensor. Announced along with the X-Pro1 are three prime lenses to fit the camera's new X mount: an 18mm (27mm equivalent) f/2.0, a 35mm (53mm equivalent) f/1.4, and a 60mm (90mm equivalent) f/2.4. The camera features a hybrid optical/electronic viewfinder (like the X100), a top ISO of 25,600, and no anti-aliasing filter over the sensor.

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Pelican cases for tablets and portable electronics recently unveiled

Pelican Products has used the opportunity presented by this week's CES show to re-announce a series of 5 slim hard cases for portable electronics that the company first unveiled last November. Co-designed with BMW DesignWorks, the line is called HardBack and includes cases for eReaders, tablets, and laptops in sizes from 7 inches to 15 inches.

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Embedded Wi-Fi functionality now part of SD standard

The SD Association, an industry group that oversees specifications related to Secure Digital memory cards, has announced a new standard for the embedding of Wi-Fi wireless functions into the ubiquitous card format. Called Wireless LAN SD, the standard allows for 802.11a/b/g/n wireless networking and a variety of transfer scenarios including web upload, peer-to-peer and more.

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AfterShot Pro digital photography workflow software announced

Corel has announced AfterShot Pro, an all-in-one photo workflow application designed to compete with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Apple Aperture. AfterShot Pro is the Corel product based on Bibble, the venerable raw conversion and photo workflow program. The sale of Bibble Labs to Corel was announced last week on the Bibble web site.

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Lexar video shows the inner workings of a memory card

Lexar has created an interesting video that depicts the path a digital photo takes from camera to memory card to computer, with an emphasis on the inner workings of the card and how a card reader can impact transfer speed. Though geared towards a consumer audience, even the more tech-savvy photographer is likely to learn something about a how a picture makes its way into a camera memory card, and then back out again.

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Lexar introduces first SDHC, SDXC cards with UHS-1 support

Lexar has introduced its first SDHC and SDXC cards to utilize the faster UHS-1 data timing protocol. The new Lexar Professional 600X UHS-1 cards are comprised of 16GB and 32GB SDHC plus 64GB SDXC capacities, while 8GB, 16GB and 32GB SDHC, as well as 64GB and 128GB SDXC, make up the Professional 400X UHS-1 line.

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Larger sensor at the heart of 14.20 million image pixel Canon Powershot G1 X

Canon has unveiled a new PowerShot model that's certain to be a hit with serious amateurs and pros seeking a weekend carry-about camera. Called the PowerShot G1 X, it combines a Canon-developed 14.20 million image pixel CMOS image sensor, one that's almost as large as the company's 1.6X crop factor digital SLRs, with the general styling and features of the company's current PowerShot flagship, the G12. The G1 X is expected to deliver similar image quality and depth of field characteristics as a camera like the 60D, but in a smaller, lighter package that's meant to operate more like a top-end point-and-shoot than a digital SLR.

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Posey Magazine offers a look at simpler times

Indiana's Posey Magazine, unusual in this day and age, offers a look at life in Posey County, Indiana that is very pleasing to the eye.

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Jan 7, 2012

Nikon D4 intro article updated with new info, menu screenshots and more

Our introductory article on the Nikon D4, published earlier this week, has been updated with numerous menu screenshots, new information and more product pictures since this article first went live.

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An Atlantic look at Iran

The Atlantic gives us A View Inside Iran, an interesting gallery of daily life in that country.

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LightBox posts pictures of the week

TIME LightBox features Pictures of the Week, December 30 - January 6.

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Bibble discontinued as Bibble Labs joins Corel

Bibble Labs, a small software company based in Austin, Texas and the maker of Bibble RAW conversion and image editing software, has announced that the company was purchased by Canadian software developer Corel in 2011. The latest release of Bibble Pro and Bibble Lite, v5.2.3, is expected to be the last, while Corel will unveil a "new photo workflow solution that is based on the core Bibble technology" next week.

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Jan 6, 2012

64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities join Lexar 400X CompactFlash series

Lexar has announced three new capacities in its Professional 400X CompactFlash series: 64GB, 128GB and - an industry first - 256GB.

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Sony unveils XQD memory cards, readers

Sony has announced a pair of XQD memory cards, in 16GB and 32GB capacities, as well as a USB 3.0 reader and ExpressCard/34 adapter for the emerging memory card format. Sony's announcement has been timed to coincide with the unveiling of the Nikon D4, which has both CompactFlash and XQD card slots. The company says that its XQD cards will be faster than existing CompactFlash offerings in Nikon's new flagship digital SLR.

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Nikon announces 16.16 million image pixel, 10fps D4 digital SLR

Nikon has announced the D4, a new pro digital SLR that features a 16.16 million image pixel full-frame CMOS image sensor, 10fps top shooting rate (or 11fps with restrictions), a standard ISO range of 100-12,800 (and an extended range of 50-204,800), a revised 51-point AF system capable of autofocusing with f/8 lenses, all-new 91,000-pixel RGB ambient/flash metering sensor, twin memory card slots (CompactFlash and the emerging XQD format), EXPEED 3 image processing, 1080p video capture with audio monitoring and optional uncompressed video output through the HDMI port, built-in Ethernet, a new EN-EL18 battery, in-camera HDR and timelapse creation, all in a dust and weather sealed magnesium alloy body.

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Nikon to ship AF-S 85mm f/1.8G in March for US$499.95

Nikon has also announced the AF-S 85mm f/1.8G, an update of the fast aperture telephoto that features a nine-element optical design, seven-blade aperture diaphragm and Silent Wave autofocus. It's to ship in March at an expected street price of US$499.95 in the U.S.

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Jan 5, 2012

Spyder4 color calibration devices announced

Datacolor has announced three editions of the Spyder4, the latest in the company's line of colorimeters for color calibrating and profiling monitors and other display devices. The new Spyder4 devices, called the Spyder4 Express, the Spyder4 Pro, and the Spyder4 Elite, offer improved color accuracy and low luminance performance.

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Lexar unveils Professional 1000X CompactFlash in four capacities up to 128GB

Lexar has unveiled the first series of CompactFlash memory cards with a 1000X speed rating and a promised "minimum guaranteed sustained read speed of 150MB per second" in the company's own testing.

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Winter Arrives at The Atlantic

The Atlantic features a gallery of creative and colourful images in Winter Arrives.

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Jan 3, 2012

Shots seen around the world

Foreign Policy's online magazine features a gallery of Shots Seen 'Round the World.

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Jan 2, 2012

Updated: Alternate mounting options for the Vagabond Mini Lithium

Back in November, we published a roundup of the light stand mounting methods available for the Vagabond Mini Lithium. Since then, a new option has emerged. Called the VML Bracket, it's the first (and only, as far as we know) third party accessory to be created and sold expressly for the purpose of attaching the Paul C. Buff portable power pack to a stand. We've added information on this new product to the roundup, and rewritten the conclusion to factor in its arrival.

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TIME LightBox selects 365 days in pictures

TIME's LightBox features LightBox 365: A Year in Photographs, a picture selected every day of the year.

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Post photographers feature best pictures

Canada's National Post features National Post's Photographers' best images from 2011.

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Snapseed image editor free today

Snapseed 1.3.1, Nik Software's smart, simple image editing app for the Apple iPad and other iOS devices, is available for free for a limited time. Snapseed is by far the most fluid and pleasant-to-use app we've tried for making adjustments to photos on an iPad. While there's plenty it doesn't yet do, it excels at making basic tone and colour corrections, including selective corrections to targeted areas such as faces.

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Dec 30, 2011

Times features pictures of the year

The Los Angeles Times features The Year in Pictures: 2011.

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TIME selects best viral images of the year

TIME LightBox features an interesting gallery on TIME Picks the Best Viral Photos of 2011.

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Dec 28, 2011

First Look: Nikon Mount Adapter FT1

Back in October, the Nikon 1 system launched with a quartet of 1 Nikkor lenses covering focal lengths between 27mm and 297mm (35mm frame equivalent). These lenses are crisp, and three of the four are especially compact too, but if you've wanted to reach further into the telephoto range with Nikon's J1 or V1 cameras, or work at apertures wider than f/2.8, you've been out of luck. Until now. Last week's release of Mount Adapter FT1 brings most of the catalog of full-size Nikkor lenses to the Nikon 1 system. Lenses with an AF-S designation are able to autofocus, while others will work but with restrictions on their capabilities. Here's a first look at the newest and perhaps most interesting accessory to emerge for the Nikon 1 system to date, especially for those - like me - who want to combine the stealthy operation of the camera with some of Nikon's longer telephoto or wider aperture lenses.

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Dec 27, 2011

Photographer follows wounded marine's story

The Frame from The Sacramento Bee features a photo essay by Anja Niedringhaus on Wounded Marine inspires AP photographer's search.

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Kim Jong-il mourning gallery featured

Aljazeera features In Pictures: 'Dear Leader' mourning continues, an interesting gallery on the grieving period in North Korea for Kim Jong-il.

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Dec 24, 2011

POY part 3 in The Big Picture

The Big Picture from The Boston Globe features The Year in Pictures: Part III, a strong selection of the best images of 2011.

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The colour of the season in The Frame

The Frame from The Sacramento Bee features Holiday season lights up the globe, a gallery of colourful images from around the world.

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The Atlantic marks fall of Soviet Union

The Atlantic features an historic gallery of images marking 20 Years Since The Fall of the Soviet Union.

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Dec 23, 2011

PhotoRescue photo recovery software updated to v3.2.9 Build 13221

DataRescue's PhotoRescue Wizard, our longtime go-to software for photo recovery from memory cards, has been updated to v3.2.9 Build 13221. The new release for Mac and Windows improves recovery of several camera RAW formats, including those captured with the Nikon D5100, Olympus EP-3 and over a dozen other models from various manufacturers, plus it corrects two bugs that could cause the program to crash and alters the default settings for the Advanced Recovery mode.

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Santa is coming to town

The Atlantic features a wide variety of interesting and humorous images in Santa Claus is Coming to Town.

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NYT: features Year in Pictures

The New York Times features 2011: The Year in Pictures which is based on several interesting themes.

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SI features Pictures of the Year

Sports Illustrated features a fine gallery of peak action images in Pictures of the Year.

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Dec 22, 2011

National Geographic: photographing lions with the help of remote technology

Since earlier this month, National Geographic has been publishing regular dispatches from staff photographer Michael "Nick" Nichols on his experience photographing lions in Tanzania using an array of technology designed to get Canon digital SLR cameras closer to his fearsome and beautiful subjects.

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NYT LENS: explores the darkness

LENS, The New York Times blog, explores the archives in search of images showing the darker days of this time of year with Black and White, and Black All Over.

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Part 2 of the best in The Big Picture

The Big Picture from The Boston Globe features The year in Pictures: Part II.

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Multi Accessory Port Adapter AS-N1000 now shipping in the U.S. (updated)

Multi Accessory Port Adapter AS-N1000, a cold shoe mount for the Nikon 1 V1 camera, is now shipping in the U.S. The primary purpose served by the AS-N1000 is to allow for small external mics, ones with cold shoes such as Nikon's own Stereo Microphone ME-1, to be fitted to the V1.

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Nov 17, 2011

Channel Islands VAT dodge to end in 2012

The story below may not seem very important to photographers, but actually, it affects suppliers including 7DayShop, MyMemory, and indeed all the digital and photo processing companies who have used the Channel Islands VAT loopholes. —————————————————- The group of retailers campaigning against an industrial-scale offshore VAT avoidance scheme that has destroyed scores of viable, job-creating [...]

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Oct 5, 2011

Master Photography Awards - merits video

You can now watch a low resolution, 33-minute video of the original HD1080p movie slide show produced from all the 550-plus merits awarded for the 2011 Master Photography Awards. From these merits, the Awards of Excellence and the category winners, the International Master Photographer of the Year, the UK/European/World Portfolio winners, and the UK and [...]

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Aug 15, 2011

EISA Awards 2011-2012

So far three photographic products have been announced for EISA Awards – as announcements continue to come in, we’ll update this post. European Advanced SLR Camera of the Year 2011-2012 Nikon’s D7000 has fought off some extremely stiff competition, including the Pentax K-5 and Sony 16.2Mp models for this prestigious award. The judges’ statement hints [...]

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Jul 20, 2011

Mapping the planes

Samsung has a patent and a plan for using two lenses with triangulation (image offset) depth detection between two images in what is roughly a stereo pair. Here’s a link: http://www.photographybay.com/2011/07/19/samsung-working-on-dslr-like-bokeh-for-compact-cameras/ Pentax also have a system on the new Q range which takes more than one exposure, changes the focus point between them, and uses [...]

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Jul 14, 2011

Pentax 645D Japan announced

Hasselblad has their Ferrari edition, Leica has the Ti and other special editions – and now Pentax, already making a veritable rainbow of K-r colours, are adorning their flagship 645D Medium Format system with a classical Japanese finish. The 645D is pretty much what happens when you approach medium format without any preconceptions and with [...]

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Jun 23, 2011

Pentax Q's up mirrorless system...

With their 645D offering a revolutionary balance of cost, features and usability for the medium format world, and the K-5 16Mp DSLR offering a flexible blend of enthusiast and professional features, Pentax is already blurring the distinctions between the genres traditional camera manufacturers exploit. The new Q system announced today further moves the boundaries, by [...]

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Jun 17, 2011

Hasselblad is new UK Broncolor agent

Hasselblad is set to become sole distributor of broncolor lighting products in the UK. 'We will use the same approach with bron as we have with the new-look Hasselblad UK' - Chris Russell-Fish, Hasselblad UK MD and Global Sales and Marketing Director Chris Russell-Fish, Hasselblad UK MD and global sales and marketing director, announced the [...]

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Alamy hits 24m images with added celebrity collection

Alamy.com has further strengthened its collection with the addition of over a million celebrity images, and now has over 24 million images on line. The company represents over 570 of the world's leading stock and specialist agencies and over 25,000 photographers worldwide. Rachel Wakefield, head of sales at Alamy, said: "We are extremely popular with [...]

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May 19, 2011

Top ten most photographed buildings

Independent stock photo agency, Alamy, has the largest collection of images online. Here, the company provides its inaugural list of the top ten most photographed buildings across the world[1]. And, there are some surprising results. Eiffel Tower (Paris) - currently 15,536 images on the Alamy website. No visit to Paris is complete without a trip [...]

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Apr 22, 2011

Perfect Layers - free trial download

onOne Software are announcing that a Public Preview of Perfect Layers is now available to download and try out, free of charge. Perfect Layers is a standalone application that works on its own allowing you to create and edit layered Photoshop files. If you use Lightroom or Aperture and you've ever wanted to or wished [...]

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May 1, 2010

Refine Edge hair masking in Photoshop CS5

Photoshop CS5 now offers the ability to successfully make cut-out masks of complex subjects against busy backgrounds. This isn’t something new as there are a number of third-party plug-ins that have been able to do this type of masking, but this is the first time Photoshop has provided an effective, built-in solution. OK, there was [...]

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Adobe Ships Creative Suite 5

Breakthrough Interactive Design Tools and Innovative Online Services Maximize Impact of Creative Content and Digital Marketing Campaigns SAN JOSE, Calif., -- April 30, 2010 -- Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the availability of the Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 product family, the highly-anticipated release of the industry-leading design and development software for virtually every creative workflow. [...]

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Apr 13, 2010

Removing sensor marks in Photoshop CS5

Photoshop CS5 was announced this week and we have seen a wealth of new features for photographers, more so than any other version of Photoshop I can think of. By now you may already have had a chance to see some of the star new features in action such as Content-Aware filling, Puppet Warp [...]

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Adobe Launches Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended

Milestone Release Celebrates 20 Years of Unrivaled Image Editing and Innovation SAN JOSE, Calif., -- April 12, 2010 -- Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe® Photoshop® CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended software, must-have releases of the professional industry standard for digital imaging. With millions of users celebrating the product's 20th anniversary this year, Photoshop CS5 [...]

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Mar 23, 2010

Adobe Releases Lightroom 3 Beta 2

Tom Hogarty, Lightroom product manager has posted a story about the release of the new Lightroom 3 Beta 2 available now on Labs.Adobe.com/technologies/lightroom3. Here’s a quick summary of what’s new in this release: Improved performance throughout the application for faster importing and loading of images Native tethered shooting support for select Nikon and Canon DSLR cameras Luminance noise reduction [...]

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Feb 18, 2010

Happy Birthday Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop Hits Twenty Community Celebrates Software that Changed the Way We View the World SAN JOSE, Calif., – Feb. 18, 2010 – Adobe(r) Photoshop(r), the software product that redefined creativity in the digital age, turns 20 on Feb. 19, 2010. Around the world, Photoshop fans are celebrating the impact their favorite software has had across photography, [...]

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Dec 18, 2009

Adobe Releases Camera Raw 5.6 and Lightroom 2.6 GM Versions

I thought you would like to know that Adobe today announced the immediate availability of Lightroom 2.6, Photoshop Camera Raw 5.6 and DNG Converter 5.6 on Adobe.com. Originally posted as release candidates for community testing on Adobe Labs, these final versions include raw file support for 20 new popular camera models, including the Canon EOS [...]

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Nov 19, 2009

Adobe Releases RC’s of Camera Raw 5.6 and Lightroom 2.6

Adobe has announced that Photoshop Camera Raw 5.6, Lightroom 2.6 and DNG Converter 5.6 Release Candidates are 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 [...]

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Oct 22, 2009

Adobe Releases Lightroom 3 Beta

New Lightroom beta delivers faster performance, refined image processing and streamlined publishing SAN JOSE, Calif. – Oct. 22, 2009 – Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today introduced Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 beta software for Macintosh and Windows, a public preview of new and improved functionality to be delivered in the next major release. Lightroom is the essential [...]

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Oct 16, 2009

Adobe Brings Photoshop to the iPhone

Well, sorta. It’s actually limited to some basic editing features such as cropping, rotating, changing color and a few processing effects such as soft focus, vignette and others. But it is sorta like having Photoshop on your iPhone. Here’s Adobe’s press release: Adobe Unveils Photoshop.com Mobile for iPhone New Adobe application brings must-have photo tools and eye-catching [...]

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Jul 24, 2009

He’s Back. Mark Hamburg Returns to Adobe

After over a year spent working at Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington offices, Mark Hamburg has resigned from Microsoft to rejoin Adobe Systems, Inc. where he will again be working in the Digital Imaging department. Mark, a former Photoshop Architect and the founding engineer on Lightroom had gone to Microsoft to work on new usability for Windows. [...]

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Jun 24, 2009

Adobe Updates Camera Raw, Lightroom and DNG

Adobe today released the final Photoshop Lightroom 2.4 and Camera Raw 5.4 updates, available for immediate download at www.adobe.com/downloads/updates/. Both updates bring additional raw file support to 31 camera and camera back models including the Canon EOS 500D, Nikon D5000 and 18 Hasselblad models. A full list of the newly supported camera and camera back [...]

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May 6, 2009

Perspective correction for Camera Raw images

Click to view movie This movie extract is from  Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: The Ultimate Workshop. One of the top requests for Camera Raw and Lightroom has been to include perspective corrections, so that users can apply perspective corrections to raw images. It so happens there is already a method in Camera Raw and Photoshop that [...]

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May 5, 2009

Best Prank Ever? Real-Life Dead Pixel in Google Earth

Source: Unplggd Author: Taryn Dead Pixels are annoying little dark bits you’ll see on your screen when a bunch of teeny tiny subpixels are permanently off. It might be a broken transistor or just a pixel that’s stuck on black. Or if you’re messing around with Google Earth, it might be an 82-centimeter by 82-centimeter square of [...]

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Apr 20, 2009

Photoshop weightloss

Click here to view movie This movie extract is from  Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: The Ultimate Workshop. You know how the camera always seems to add 10 lbs.? You can shave those extra pounds away using Photoshop. This demo shows two methods of making people look thinner. And, if you do it with subtlety, you'll never [...]

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Apr 5, 2009

One way to retouch loose hairs

Click here to view movie This movie extract is from  Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: The Ultimate Workshop. Here is an interesting challenge that I was presented with recently. I shot the model shown above for an advertising job and was asked by the client to make sure that the skin tone and nails looked flawless. After [...]

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Mar 23, 2009

On The Road To Boston

I’m off to Boston and Photoshop World this week. I’ll be hooking up with Martin Evening there as well-we are actually doing a conference session together! Which Download Movies should be fun because I’ll get to make fun of the way Martin pronounces common Photoshop tools’ names. Those Brits…they even misspell the word color! Andrew [...]

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Mar 19, 2009

Advanced color to black and white conversion

Click to view movie Yep, there are already a lot of ways to convert a color image to grayscale in Photoshop or Camera Raw. But all of them except this technique mean your image is converted as a global correction. Using color channels as grayscale layers means you can use layer masks to alter the grayscale [...]

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Mar 6, 2009

How to remove objects using two exposures

Click to view movie Have you ever found yourself in the position where you are trying to photograph a building, but can’t get a clear view of the subject because of lamp posts or other objects that are in the foreground? In this short movie clip I show how with a little forward planing it is [...]

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Mar 3, 2009

Adobe Releases Camera Raw 5.3 and Lightroom 2.3 GMs

Adobe has released the final versions of Photoshop Lightroom 2.3 and Camera Raw 5.3, available immediately for download at www.adobe.com/downloads/updates/. The Lightroom 2.3 and Camera Raw 5.3 updates, originally posted as release candidates for community testing on Jan. 23, provide raw file support for the newly-released Nikon D3X and Olympus E-30 cameras. The Lightroom 2.3 update also provides support for eight additional languages [...]

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