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”.
Download Demo for: Windows | Mac
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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PDN Photography Annual 2007 Award Winners
Photo District News (PDN) has announced the winners of the PDN Photography Annual 2007;
“As PDN’s Photo Annual marks another year of extraordinary photography, we honor the contest winners who grace the following pages. From Lauren Greenfield’s heart-wrenching multimedia project, “Thin,” to Gary Schneider’s hauntlingly beautiful photo story about obesity, this year’s contest was a study in extremes. Whether it be apoignant social statement, such as Jan Grarup’s Newsweek documentation of the devastation in Darfur, or a perfectly nutty ad campaign like Lyndon Wade’s for Nestle Crunch, each image has its own identity, worthy of recognition.”
Accolades and Honors for Two Gallery Photographers, Maria Passarotti and Jay Hochheiser
MARIA PASSAROTTI
The competitive photo annual American Photography (http://www.ai-ap.com/) has chosen two images by Maria Passarotti to include in their 2007 edition. The photographs, Row Houses and Canopy, were among 331 photographs selected from 8,000 submissions. They were commissioned in 2006 by Susan Eley Fine Art for an exhibition to benefit the West 90th Street Park Block Association.
Kingston Launches Icons of Photography Website
Kingston has recently launched Icons of Photography Website which has a series of interviews with award-winning photographers.
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Kingston Technology Company, Inc., has launched a series of interviews with photographers on its Icons of Photography Web site. The first interview is with award-winning Sports Illustrated photographer Peter Read Miller. The 20 Questions interview series provides visitors with an up-close and personal look at some of today’s most respected photographers. With this new series, Kingston also debuts a newly-designed Web site created to encourage visitor participation and interaction with Kingston’s Icons.
David VS Goliath in Stock Photography Industry
Business2.0 Magazine has published an article on how the giants of the stock photo business (ie. Getty Images and Corbis) are being challenged by the “microstock” agencies.
“Unless they adjust to the new reality, however, the giants could find themselves in trouble. Getty (Charts) has been profitable since it was founded–last year it took in more than $800 million in revenue–but magazine advertising is in decline, as is the demand for its kind of high-end photos. During the past year, Getty’s stock price has taken a dive, dropping from $90 a share at the start of 2006 to just over $50.”
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