30th April 2008, 02:55 pm
WE trialled a ZMags version of the January 08 issue of Photoworld here. We then looked at Uniflip. However, all these places want a few hundred dollars to leave a slightly adjusted Flash or Java version of a PDF we create, on their server for 12 months. The ZMags trial is now removed and after testing Uniflip, it was clear we had no reason at all to use this service either.
You can simply download a modest sized PDF (72 dpi screen res) of the January08 Issue here instead…
- David
28th April 2008, 11:09 pm
The first SONY World Photography Awards were presented in the late April sunshine of Cannes, to what must have been an exclusive gala dinner audience - at €250 a head, our ‘man on the spot’ Thomas Goseberg decided against the opportunity to take his wife out for a quiet meal…
Continue reading ‘Sony World Photography Awards at Cannes’ »
16th April 2008, 09:49 am
USERS of the Nikon D3 downloading the latest firmware update have found information strings referring to the D3X and listing the file sizes the forthcoming camera will produce. The sizes match the pixel count of the Sony full-frame CMOS sensor due to be used in the ‘Alpha 900′ Sony full-frame body. Continue reading ‘Nikon D3X 24.4 megapixel sensor leak’ »
15th April 2008, 01:06 pm
The launch of the Alpha 350, with its small 0.74X viewfinder, makes a proper eyepiece magnifier attachment an essential addition to the Sony accessory range. Olympus, Nikon and Pentax all have such magnifiers, which permit a full view of the screen for most wearers and make all the difference to the manual focusing and general comfort in composing shots. We tested two devices, one of them the highly affordable Seagull 1x-2.5x right angle finder, and the other Olympus’s ME-1 1.2X ocular magnifier. Continue reading ‘Eyepiece magnifiers for the Alpha DSLRs’ »
15th April 2008, 10:16 am
This is the latest press release from Sony UK - filling the streets of Miami with club-style foam for their new digital photography ad campaign: Continue reading ‘Sony has users foaming at the mouth!’ »
7th April 2008, 09:57 am
We are announcing a very unique trip for budding travel and reportage photographers out there. This is a “Photo Expedition†– different from a traditional tour package – put together by professional photographer and Sony Alpha system e-Book author Gary Friedman (who runs the stock photo website www.FriedmanArchives.com ). Continue reading ‘Join Gary Friedman on a photo experience in Latvia’ »
2nd April 2008, 09:59 am
London— April 2, 2008 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today announced Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 beta, a public preview of new and improved functionality to be delivered in the next major release. Lightroom is the professional photographer’s essential toolbox, providing one application for managing, adjusting, and presenting large volumes of digital photographs. Lightroom 2.0 beta will feature enhancements such as dual-monitor support, localised dodge and burn correction and will be the first Adobe application to support 64-bit for Mac OS X 10.5 Intel Macs and Microsoft Vista 64-bit operating systems. Continue reading ‘Adobe Lightroom 2.0 beta available’ »
2nd April 2008, 01:02 am
Daniel Oi - who provided our most popular external link in recent weeks with his Glasgow Merchant City surround-vision stitched VR panorama - has created a superb view of the Kibble Palace glasshouse at Glasgow’s Botanical Gardens:
The full virtual reality pan-around (up down and everywhere!) version is at:
http://cnqo.phys.strath.ac.uk/~daniel/Panos/Kibble.html
Another great example of this technique from Daniel, who is preparing an article for Photoworld’s Spring edition covering the techniques used to make these images.
– David