Canon announce a new lens…
“United Kingdom/ Republic of Ireland, 26 August, 2008: Canon today strengthens its EF-S series of lenses with the launch of a versatile new model: the EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS. With an equivalent focal length of 29-320mm, the lens offers an 11x zoom range – making it a powerful, lightweight alternative to [...]

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Nikon has unveiled its competition to Canon’s G9, the Nikon P6000. Available from 12th September Nikon manage to translate a US $499.95 into £429 for the UK (umm my exchange rate calculator makes that £254!)
It’s packed full of features, such as an equivalent 28-112mm lens, 13.5 megapixels,  GPS, and ethernet connection. BUT its RAW format [...]

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The full version of Lightroom 2 has just been released by Adobe.
New features include:

Local adjustment brush
Enhanced organizational tools
Volume management
Extensible architecture
Multiple monitor support
Flexible print package functionality
Streamlined Photoshop CS3 integration
Enhanced output sharpening
64-bit support for Windows® and Mac OS

link: Adobe Lightroom

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Press Release: COPENHAGEN, Denmark —  Phase One A/S announces the P 65+ digital back and the P 65+ camera system based on Sensor+ CCD technology co-developed with DALSA Semiconductor. This patent-pending, Sensor+ technology represents a significant advancement in image capture. The chip platform offers the most demanding photographers upgradeable CCD functions, ensuring a longer lifespan for [...]

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“The W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography is presented annually to a photographer whose past work and proposed project, as judged by a panel of experts, follows the tradition of W. Eugene Smith’s compassionate dedication exhibited during his 45-year career as a photographic essayist. For 2008, the grant will be $30,000, with an additional [...]

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The latest Firefox browser has just been made available.
And along with a whole host of other features it now makes it possible to display images according to their correct ICC profile. BUT it’s turned off in the default mode, so you’ll have to turn it on to get the advantage.
Instructions:
1 – Type [...]

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In 2006 the EU announced an initiative called i2010 Digital Libraries Initiative. Its aim is to enable the digitisation of work held by cultural institutions, for the public good. However it also raised the problem of not being able to digitise some works because the authors could not be traced, ie. Orphan Works. [...]

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Press Release:
The Ian Parry Scholarship 2008 deadline is Friday 20th June 2008.
All applications must be digital. Our FTP instructions and the application form are available from www.ianparry.org
Ian Parry was a photojournalist who died whilst on assignment for the Sunday Times during the Romanian revolution in 1989. He was just 24 years old. The Scholarship was [...]

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If you are a photographer, you are eligible to enter Think Tank Photo’s drawing for free round-trip airfare, hotel, spending money, and exhibition passes to photokina, the world’s leading photo and imaging trade fair. Join over 160,000 visitors from 156 countries in exploring 1,600 exhibitors of cutting edge imaging products from almost 50 countries. And, [...]

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EPUK, the forum for editorial photographers, has launched a sister web site “Copyright Action”.
Their first major item carries news from the Stock Artists Alliance is about the Orphan Works Bill passing into law in the USA.
link: Orphan Works Bills introduced in USA

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New in version 2.0 beta…
An improved layout in the Library module allows for a more intuitive approach to image organization by simplifying the location of the features needed to find and filter photographs. A new feature called Smart Collections automatically updates collections with images that match desired criteria such as star-rating, keyword or other metadata. [...]

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Its with great pleasure we can announce a new book from two of our longstanding Prodig subscribers…
‘Mac OS X for Photographers’ has been written by Rod Wynne-Powell. Its part of the series on Digital Workflow from Focal Press edited by Richard Earney.
According to Rod “It covers Tiger and some of Leopard as it relates to [...]

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Over recent years photographic forums have resounded with grumblings about competitions that make it a condition of entry that photographers surrender all rights to submitted images indefinitely.
The legal position in most countries is that the photographer automatically has the copyright in their work, unless they sign that right away.
So is there any reason why competition [...]

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Phase One have released an update for Capture One that is compatible with Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard
link: Capture One Leopard

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