SplashUp: ‘Mini Photoshop’ Free Online Image Editor

SplashUp: 'Mini Photoshop' Free Online Image EditorSporting an interface that could at best be described as a ‘loving tribute’ to the legendary – and vastly expensive – image manipulation program Photoshop, Splashup is a cunningly clever web-based editing tool and photo manager.
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Ricoh GR Digital II Launch, London

Ricoh GR Digital II Launch, LondonWhen we first clapped our eyes on the Ricoh GR Digital two years ago, we purred like a cat that had not only found the cream, but had dived whiskers-first into a bottomless pit of the stuff and then been handed the deeds of the cream making factory.

We’d been looking for a digital equivalent of our favourite ever film compact, the Olympus XA for an eternity, and the GR camera came satisfyingly close.
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Portable Photo Storage Choices For Travellers

Portable Photo Storage Choices For TravellersAlthough digital cameras and cheap memory cards are conspiring to make us take more and more photos, backing up those precious snaps when you’re away from home can be a bit of a fiddly task, especially if you’re shooting in the memory hungry RAW format.

For short trips, a couple of spare memory cards should be more than enough, but for longer jaunts, more versatile back up solutions are often needed.
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Technology, Trains And Trainspotting (Pt 2)

Technology And TrainspottingFollowing on from our piece yesterday looking at plethora of railway related websites.

I remember Adlestrop
Another fantastic resource is the New Adlestrop Railway Atlas, which offers a clear and crisp historical atlas of Britain’s railways, mapping passenger lines, stations and freight routes, both extant and abandoned.
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4 Gigapixel Picture: The Devil’s Tower

When we first saw the photographic results of a 4 gigapixel camera a couple of years ago, we nearly exploded.

Some clever clogs in the US had taken an ex-Cold War satellite and started snapping shots with it.

4 Gigapixel Picture: The Devil's Tower

The amazing thing was the resolution – 4,000 pixels per inch. Yes, you read that right. See why we had such a strong reaction, eh?
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Olympus Evolt E-410 Review: Digital SLR Camera (Part 4 – 78%)

In this final part of the Olympus Evolt E-410 Digital SLR Camera Review we look at image quality and give you our conclusion.

Image quality
Straight out of the box and set to auto, results were pretty good, although we found the camera had a propensity to over-expose in high contrast scenes with bright sunshine and shade (curiously, other reviewers found that the Olympus under-exposed, something we only encountered a couple of times).
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Olympus Evolt E-410 Review: Digital SLR Camera (Part 3)

Yesterday we looked at the lens, screen and viewfinder on the Olympus Evolt E-410 Digital SLR Camera.

Using the camera
First off, we have to say that we loved the size of the camera. Although it’s by no means pocketable, the skinny shape meant that we were more inclined to grab the E-410 instead of a digital compact, and the minimal weight meant that it wasn’t a burden to shunt about all day.
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Olympus Evolt E-410 Review: Digital SLR Camera (Part 2)

Yesterday we took the Olympus Evolt E-410 Digital SLR Camera in hand and looked at the top plate and lens.

Viewfinder
The prism style viewfinder comes with a comfortable removable rubber eye cup (and dioptre adjustment) but offers a rather tunnel-like view, with the optics considerably smaller than, say, a Nikon D80. Although we moaned about the titchy viewfinder at first, in reality we soon got used to it and it was bright enough to avoid any real usability issues.
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Olympus Evolt E-410 Review: Digital SLR Camera

Currently the lightest and slimmest digital SLR available, the Olympus E-410 might bring a nostalgic tear to the eye of old school Olympus owners, with the camera’s traditional lines evoking memories of the legendary OM series of film cameras.
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