Aperture 1.5 for Mac is due out this week and Apple have given a few glimpses of its new features at a packed presentation in Köln.

It can now work with pictures wherever they reside, not just on a single drive as before
The adding of metadata on import has been streamlined
RAW photos can be exported with [...]

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This new Epson is a 17 inch wide printer with many of the attributes of the 4800, minus roll feed, carries 9 ink cartridges and has the ability to switch between Matt and Photo Black. Shipping is due to begin December 2006 with a price tag of $1295.
CreativePro Epson press release

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With release of Beta 4 Lightroom has now been given its full name “Adobe Photoshop Lightroom”.
Beta 4 features:

Groundbreaking changes in the way tone curve adjustments are made and displayed, giving you the highest quality results in an interface that’s easier to use than ever before.
More streamlined and elegant user interface – We’ve made several changes [...]

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Here’s a novel notion of how to make sure your kit is secure if you have to check it in on a plane. Special rules apply for transporting weapons, so the suggestion is pack a starting pistol with your cameras. Matt Brandon’s blog relates his experience of using this method. Its followed by a number [...]

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Support for the following cameras has been added from Camera Raw 3.4 to 3.5.

Kodak EasyShare P712

Nikon D2Xs

Panasonic DMC-FZ50, DMC-L1

Sony A100

- The DNG Converter is now available as a universal binary for Intel-based Macintosh hardware
- The new camera support added to Adobe Camera Raw 3.5 is not officially available in Adobe Lightroom beta 3.
- Adobe Camera [...]

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This is quite an extraordinary camera. The Seitz 6×17 Digital is extremely fast, giving image results comparable to a one-shot digital or film back. This is possible thanks to a very high read-out speed of 300 MB per second – 100x faster than for any existing scan back. The fastest exposure speed is 1/20000 [...]

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Almost every RAW file requires some degree of sharpening to counter the effect of blurring that occurs at some stage of image capture or image processing. But when do you apply the sharpening? In Camera Raw or later in Photoshop? The answer isn’t as straightforward as you might think.
Mikkel Aaland, author of Photoshop CS2 [...]

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Carl Zeiss have really exceeded themselves this time. Never before has the world of photography seen such a lens. Developed for long distance wildlife photography this 1700mm supertele lens provides 21x magnification. It’s currently on show at Photokina.
[viewed here attached to a Hasselblad body]
link to Carl Zeiss

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Leica produced the first M series camera in 1954. Now, fifty two years later, another landmark has been reached as Leica enter the digital era. Built from the ground up, the M8 retains its metal construction and brass top plate.
It incorporates a 10 megapixel CCD, the new KAF-10500 CCD, developed by Kodak specifically for the [...]

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This year Leaf comes to Photokina with their Aptus S-Series camera backs delivering shooting speeds from 0.8 seconds per frame—or as many as 75 frames per minute—with unlimited burst depths. Leaf has doubled the CCD sensor readout speed, and has doubled the buffer size, resulting in unlimited burst depths. The new series maximizes the newest [...]

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To celebrate a brilliant generation of British comedy talent, the Guardian newspaper (UK) asked the best names in the business – from Ricky Gervais to Russell Brand – to recreate a few famous images ….you may never look at Johnny Vegas the same again …
Click here to see all the photos

Photographs by Karl J Kaul [...]

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The guys over at Digital Outbackbatch have produced XBATCH, a FREE plugin which produces batch operations like Image Processor in Photoshop CS2 but maintains the folder hierarchy of the original folder of images.
Get XBATCH

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