Most Expensive Point-and-Shoot Digital Camera?
Kwiat Diamonds and Eastman Kodak Company have announced to host the Ultimate Luxury Suite to celebrate the 78th Academy Awards(R). Both companies will give each Best Actress nominee a Kodak EasyShare V570, which has been personalized with their initials in 75 brilliant-cut diamonds provided by Kwiat. This will make the cameras original price of US$179 are now valued at $20,000 each.
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Corel Announces Paint Shop Pro® Photo Art Suite
Corel has recently announced the Paint Shop Pro® Photo Art Suite at PMA 2006. The Paint Shop Pro® Photo Art Suite contains Paint Shop Pro® X, Photo Album™ 6 – Deluxe Edition, and Painter™ Essentials 3 for the easiest way to manage, fix, and add a creative touch to all your digital photos. Corel Paint Shop Pro® Photo Art Suite will be available in April 2006 for US$149 SRP
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The New Live MOS Sensor
Olympus has published a press release explaining how their lates Live MOS sensor in the Olympus E-330 and Panasonic DMC-L1 DSLRs works. The new Live MOS sensor enables Digital SLR users for framing of shots without the need to look through the view finder.
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Canon Launches imagePROGRAF iPF5000
Canon has announced a new printer model that offers 17-inch wide large format prints using 12-color “Lucia” pigmented inks aimed at professionals. The new Canon imagePROGRAF iPF5000 features dual print heads with a total of 30,720 ink nozzles (2,560 nozzles per color), and 12 separate ink tanks, and speed of 3 minutes for a 16.5″ x 23.4″ (A2 sized) print. Canon imagePROGRAF iPF5000 will be available in April 2006 with a retail price of $1,945
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Kodak Partners with Bible Labs
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Kodak and Bibble Announce Technology Agreement
New cross-licensing and co-marketing agreement creates workflow improvements for imaging professionals
ORLANDO, February 24 – Eastman Kodak Company and Bibble Labs today announced a cross-licensing and co-marketing agreement that will allow both companies to offer new, improved products to imaging professionals that further strengthens Kodak’s ‘Connect with Pro Quality’ products and programs. Under the agreement, Kodak is licensing to Bibble two proprietary technologies, the KODAK COLORFLOW Color Management Module (CMM) and the KODAK COLORFLOW ICC Input API. New versions of Bibble’s highly successful professional workflow software will integrate both of these technologies to create a best practices data path for generating finished files suitable for display and printing on KODAK output systems with minimal image adjustments.
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Spitfire Photo Pro Partners with International Sports Images
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INTERNATIONAL SPORTS IMAGES SELECTS SPITFIRE PHOTO PRO FOR IT’S ONLINE IMAGE ARCHIVE
Major sports photography agency takes advantage of Spitfire Photo Pro’s powerful search and distribution features
SAN FRANCISCO, February 16, 2006 – Virtual Moment, LLC, announced today the launch of its online image management service for professional photography workflows. Spitfire Photo Pro (http://www.spitfirephoto.com) provides photographers with maximum control and flexibility in image rights management and distribution. It is the first service provider to offer a turnkey solution for agencies and photographers alike.
“Spitfire Photo offers an advanced user access system that allows agencies an out-of-the-box solution for collaborative work environments,” says Virtual Moment President, Steven Rabkin. “This service provides unsurpassed flexibility in establishing access rights to match the various roles within any organization.” Features such as FTP and downloadable lightboxes, powerful search capabilities, and batch captioning greatly simplify otherwise tedious and time-consuming workflow tasks.
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Most Expensive Photograph
A photograph of ‘Pond’ shot by Edward Steichen more that 100 years ago in Long Ingland is sold for $2.9 Million at Auction. This easily setting a world record for the highest-priced photograph ever auctioned.
According to Sotheby’s spokesman – Matthew Weigman, the photograph was sold for $2,928,000, including the buyer’s premium, to Peter MacGill, of Pace/MacGill Gallery, on behalf of a private collector.
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Adobe Lightroom Beta 2.0
PRESS RELEASE: Adobe Updates Lightroom Public Beta
Lightroom Beta is the First Adobe Application to Deliver Universal Binary Support for PowerPC and Intel based Apple Hardware
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Feb. 14, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) today announced an update to the public beta of Adobe® LightroomTM, an all-new digital imaging solution for professional photographers. Just one month after its introduction at the Macworld Show in San Francisco, Lightroom Public Beta 2.0 is now available as a Universal Binary for compatibility with PowerPC and Intel based Apple hardware and includes new features to streamline digital photography workflows. A Windows version is expected to follow the final Macintosh release in late 2006.
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Torino Winter Photoblogs
If you want to get the last photos from the Winter Olympics in Torino – Italy, you can visit these blogs belong to several photographers who are doing their job covering the games.
- John Lehmann of Canada’s Globe and Mail
- Scott Strazzante of the Chicago Tribune
- Scott Sady of the Reno Gazette-Journal
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Ricoh Firmware Updates
Ricoh has announced the release of their latest firmware updates for Ricoh Caplio R3 and Ricoh GR Digital. The new firmware version 1.09 will improve the exposure level when using Sigma external flashes with Ricoh GR Digital. While the new Ricoh Caplio R3 firmaware version 1.29 will improve the stability at turning on the camera.
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