Corbis Launches SnapVillage
SnapVillage, empowered by Corbis, today announced the beta opening of a fresh, interactive and innovative online marketplace for user-generated photography at http://www.snapvillage.com. The new website has no membership fees and is now accepting submissions from photographers anywhere in the world and offering image licensing in the United States.
Built from the ground-up after an extensive review and analysis of existing microstock sites and the rapidly evolving Web 2.0 and user-generated environments, the beta opening of SnapVillage introduces innovative advances in the submission, pricing, searching and purchasing of royalty-free (RF) photography that can be bought once and used almost anywhere for any duration.
Fotolia Presents V2
NEW YORK, NY – June 18, 2007 – Fotolia (http://www.fotolia.com), the first global online marketplace for micro-priced digital stock images, announced today the launch of Fotolia V2. This new version offers users both performance and feature enhancement, as well as two new features: a public API and the ability to distribute vector files.
“Our improvements have been designed around a combination of user feedback and the team’s vision for Fotolia’s continued expansion,” explains Oleg Tscheltzoff, co-founder and president of Fotolia. “We’ve implemented changes to the site based on feedback from some of the country’s top media buyers and from our community of photographers to ensure the best user experience across the board.”
Performance: Speed, Stability and Search enhancement
Tamron AF 18-250mm F/3.5-6.3 Di-II LD Aspherical (IF) Macro
Last update: Review by SLRGear (added on 21 June’07)
The Tamron 18-250mm F/3.5-6.3 Di-II LD Aspherical (IF) Macro is a lightweight, compact and ultra high power zoom lens designed exclusively for digital SLR cameras with APS-C sized imager sensors.
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TGLC Launches PerfX Shots
TGLC inc. has just release two new ICC color management (profiling) softwares, working with its new reference targets, specially made for for digital camera and desktop printer for the mass market.
PerfX Shots™ is the name of the new digital camera ICC profiling software and target solution. Easy to use and less expensive than other solution on the market. The software, freely dowloadable from the www.perfxshots.com web site, work with a special target made for camera profiling.
SendPhotos - Where Photos Come Together
Avanquest Software, a leading developer and publisher of business and consumer software for the global PC market, today announced the release of SendPhotos 5, an enhanced version of its comprehensive digital photo sharing and storage solution for the consumer market.
SendPhotos 5 is an easy-to-use software-service combination that provides seasoned digital photographers and novices alike with innovative options for sharing photos through email or online while at the same time affording them peace of mind about the privacy and preservation of their digital images.
Kodak Introduces New Image Sensor Technology
Kodak has introduced its latest digital camera sensor which capable to dramatically reduce high-ISO noise levels.
Kodak claims that the new sensor technology provides a 2x to 4x increase in sensitivity to light (from one to two photographic stops) compared to current sensor designs.
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Redbubble - Online Art Gallery and Community
There comes a time for pretty much every photographer when they decide they want to sell their images and recoup some of the small fortune we all end up spending on cameras, lenses and other dodads !
Redbubble - Online Art Gallery and Community
Redbubble gives photographers a unique place to showcase their work, sell and participate in the vibrant community. Fulfillment of orders is completely taken care of by Redbubble with high quality laminated, mounted and framed prints available right now, and cards and canvas prints around the corner in a few weeks. When a sale is made the image is printed, mounted or framed, checked, packed and sent anywhere in the world, the artist just sits back and gets paid their cut.
Leica D 14-50mm/F2.8-3.5 ASPH Lens
Last update: Review & Sample Photos @ CameraLabs (added on 7 June’07)
Leica has launched the new Leica D VARIO-ELMARIT 14-50mm/F2.8-3.5 ASPH lens, the first leica lens optimized specially for digital SLR cameras. The lens featuring Panasonic’s proprietary MEGA O.I.S. image stabilization technology, 16 elements in 12 groups, including two aspherical lenses providing high definition image rendering that conveys even the finest details and nuances and minimizing distortion and peripheral vignetting at the wide end.
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As Simple As Photoshop Version 6.1
Andrei Doubrovski has released version 6.1 of video-book “As Simple As Photoshop”.
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This course offers you an original method of a quick but total immersion into the Photoshop environment. Are you looking for Photoshop CS3 video course? Every tutorial here is packed with a short movie showing some practical usage of the wordy lesson. 104 embedded clips may be played as a single full-length and full-size movie (total running time about 3 hours). The elaborated controls allow users instant finding a required page or episode.
SensorScope™ System
Last update: Review by Digital Outback Photo (added on 16 May’07)
Delkin Devices, Inc has announced the SensorScope™ System, a new cleaning system for Digital SLR cameras. With high intensity light, SensorScope enables camera owners to inspect their camera’s sensor to see if it needs cleaning.
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