Capturing, handling and printing photographs
Hurtling down the new product chute at high speed is version two of Adobe’s popular photo-editing and organising suite, Photoshop Lightroom.
The company is hoping that with booming sales of high-end SLR cameras, enthusiast snappers will be looking for more sophisticated methods of sorting, categorising, editing and tweaking collections of images scattered over their bulging hard drives.
We’ve already talked about Panasonic’s new superzoom camera, but to be honest we’re far more interested in its new prosumer Lumix DMC-LX3 digital camera.
Aimed at pros looking for a carry-everywhere SLR back-up and mustard-keen photo enthusiasts who insist on manual options galore, the compact LX3 comes in moody black and no-nonsense silver colour finishes.
Heading for the shelves and ready to to start wooing bird-watchers, wannabe paparazzis and other looooong zoom-lovin’ types is the mid-range Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28 digicam.
Sporting a veritable John Homes of a zoom, the 10 MP DMC-FZ28 packs a colossal 18x (F2.8-4.4) optical range, starting off at a handy wideangle 27mm setting and soaring up to a 486mm – which is probably powerful enough to snap the Phoenix lander on Mars. Possibly.
Samsung today launched the NV100HD, a compact digital camera with a bonkers 14.7 Mpx resolution.
It sits at the top of their style-led NV range and has a 28mm Schneider Kreuznach wide-angle lens onboard.
It’s not just a still-shot beauty, 720p resolution video can be recorded at up to 30 frames per second – and then be watched, via an HDMI cable, on an HD TV.
Ready and waiting to capture your mate’s drunken mishaps and have them ready for uploading on YouTube in a flash is Casio’s latest digital compact, the Exilim Zoom EX-Z150.
The deal between Getty and Flickr, which exclusively gives Getty the right to pick the best images from Flickr and sell them via gettyimages.com to their customers in the creative, commercial and editorial industries — they call it the ‘first commercial licensing opportunity for photo-enthusiasts in the Flickr community’ — is, in many ways, inevitable.
Getty have caused a considerable amount of heart ache to professional photographers by re-adjusting their rates and contracts for images in their commercial library.
Sidling up to fill the slot between the excellent semi-pro D300 dSLR and their wallet draining high end D3 flagship snapper is Nikon’s new D700 full-frame camera.
With its rugged design lines and black finish, the camera looks like it means business, with the D700 inheriting some of the durability characteristics of its big brother.
We almost dribbled with must-have camera love when we got our hands on Ricoh’s high-end Caplio GX100 digital compact camera last year, and fresh moist patches have already appeared around the office with news of its successor, the GX200. (more…)
Stepping out in the the highly competitive glare of the entry-level dSLR market is Canon’s new 10 Megapixel snapper, the EOS 1000D.
The compact dSLR packs a 7-point wide area AF system, 2.5″ LCD and continuous JPEG shooting ratcheting up to 3fps until the memory card is full.
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We’re all aware of how the news media has been changed by the use of photos and video shot by members of the public and sent in to news desks.
They provide the instant captures of the moment events happen and enables viewers of the news to be in places that news crews just can’t get to. Early examples of this was the London Tube Bombings.
The latest we’ve come across is the shocking earthquake at Chengdu in China.