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The Pro-View Wireless Remote Display (WRD) uses a micro-colour video camera and a 2.4 GHz transmitter in a custom enclosure that slips on the camera in place of the eye cup. You are now ready to see the view through your lens on your remote hand-held colour display. A focus adjusting knob allows for precise focusing on any camera.

The Pro-View WRD allows the photographer the freedom to be much more creative in camera placement. New perspectives can be attained with precise composition; no more point and hope shots. With the Pro-View WRD, you see what your camera sees by viewing the live view on a hand-held colour display.

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New Photoshop Elements Provides Easy Editing and High Impact Options to Showcase and Share Photos

Adobe’s No. 1 Selling Consumer Photo Editing Software Offers Fun, Creative Possibilities for Consumers to Showcase and Share Photos in Engaging Ways

Adobe Photoshop Elements Ver. 5.0

Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 software, a major upgrade to the No. 1 selling consumer photo editing software*. Available for Windows, Photoshop Elements offers new and more flexible ways for consumers to organize files, edit images with ease and share photos in engaging and innovative ways. Adobe Photoshop Elements allows for quick, one-click fixes to photos with the option of exploring more sophisticated editing techniques.

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PrinterSpot has recently reviewed the HP Photosmart A716, a compact inkjet photo printer that has memory card slots and an adjustable 2.5″ LCD display, which allows you to easily print photos without hooking it up to a computer.

“The HP Photosmart A716 produces good quality images that lack a slight amount of detail. The colors and brightness are fairly true to our control image, but the grays have a slight purplish cast, the aqua is more of a blue, and not surprisingly, the green was darker, showing less true green…The Photosmart A716 does a fair job with skin tones, but some detail is lost. The black background is not as deep as the original, and it had difficulty with the control image’s ash and gold tones in the hair.”

The new Zigview S2 attaches to your Digital SLR viewfinder and displays a live video feed from the viewfinder to its large 2.5 inch high resolution LCD. With this cool device, you can move the LCD to fully tilt and rotate for viewing at any angle. The Zigview S2 screen can also be detached from the main unit to view the subject and fire the shutter from a remote location up to 10 meters away.

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ACDSee have recently launched their latest imaging software, the ACDSee Photo Editor. ACDSee Photo Editor will help you create stylized photos for use in cards, albums, and calendars of your kids, friends, extended family, vacations, and memorable moments for everyone to share.

The software will also actually teach you how to fix common photo problems, like poor exposure, red-eye, awkward framing, fuzziness, skin blemishes, make the creative changes you want, like adding Lens Flare, Glowing Edges, Oil Paint, and a ton of other cool effects that are a cinch to apply. It also gives you creative project ideas, and shows you the steps and tools you need to turn them into a reality.

You can download and try ACDSee Photo Editor here, or here to buy ACDSee Photo Editor.

If you buy the software, don’t forget to enter the coupon code: “editorlaunch” to get your 10% discount.

PhotographyBlog’s Mark Goldstein has reviewed the Epson P-4000, a multimedia storage with capacity of 80GB, a huge 3.8″ LCD Screen, with dimensions of 142mm x 23mm x 91.5mm and weighs 415 grams when the battery is fitted.

“The Epson P-4000 Multimedia Storage Viewer is a gorgeously designed device that impresses from the first moment that you first take it out of the box. Resembling the PlayStation Portable gaming device in terms of design layout, the Epson P-4000 is dominated by its 640×480 resolution, 3.8 inch LCD screen, which has 921,600 pixels. It’s difficult to describe how impressive the picture quality is without actually seeing it for real - screen and product shots just don’t do it justice. “

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Sony Europe Press Release

Paris, 10 July, 2006 - Sony Europe’s Recording Media & Energy (RME) division today announced the launch of the new 4GB Memory Stick PRO Duo. Sony Memory Stick media are available in capacities ranging from 128MB to 4GB depending on their format (Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, Memory Stick PRO High Speed and Memory Stick Micro) and are easily identifiable through a revitalised Sony packaging design, incorporating colour coding for easy identification of the different format line-ups as well as the different capacity. In addition, all Memory Stick Duo and PRO Duo media now come complete with a standard size Memory Stick adaptor to enable use with standard size Memory Stick compatible devices - as well as the Duo size compatible products.

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The Epson Stylus Photo RX640 is an all in one photo printer featuring high-definition 2.5″ LCD preview, CD-R print, and a 3200dpi scanner with built in transperancy unit.

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DigitalCameraReview.com has published a review of Google Picasa Web Albums, Picasa’s newest feature to help users post and share their photos quickly and easily on the web.

“The new (and of course still in “beta”) Picasa Web Albums is, to some extent, yet another way to share your images. However, the integration with the Picasa software is very nice and easy to use. And, if you’re away from your computer, you can still access your Web Albums account to upload and share your images. There are still plenty of things that Google can improve upon (like a way to delete select images within an album at one time instead of one at a time), but their philosophy is to get the basic functions there and then just keep on adding. If you’re already a Picasa user, or even if you aren’t, I would recommend trying Picasa Web Albums out (if Google lets you in).”

Name: SendPhotos
Description: SendPhotos will easily insert digital photos and captions right into your emails - eliminating the struggle with oversized files, cumbersome attachments, slow downloads, and frustrated friends who can’t open your pictures.
License: Free to try; $29.95 USD to buy
File Size: 17MB
Requirements: Windows 98, Me, 2000, or XP

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