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July 2, 2006 Wondering which cataloguing tool to use, Iview Media Pro 3 or Extensis Portfolio 8?
Digital Outback have been conducting an in depth review of these leading applications and marginally come down in favour of iView Media Pro.
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June 27, 2006 
Apple have just released Mac OS X 10.4.7 Update
Amongst other things the following benefits are listed…
Its usually advisable to allow a few days for initial bugs to be ironed out before getting the Updater.
detailed info: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n303771
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June 27, 2006 Microsoft has aquired iView Multimedia whose Media Pro asset management tool is used by many professional photographers. The precise reason for this aquisition is not clear, although it has only been a matter of time and the right price before before someone snapped them up. So far iView has been sold as single licenses and it may be that Microsoft could bring the ability to allow iView to be used as a network tool.
Yan Calotychos’ (founder of iView Multimedia) open letter is reproduced below… Read the rest of this entry »
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June 26, 2006 
SAN JOSE, Calif. — June 26, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced it has acquired the technology assets of Pixmantec ApS, makers of digital imaging software that provides advanced workflow management and processing capabilities for digital camera raw files. The acquisition strengthens Adobe’s leadership position in raw processing. Read the rest of this entry »
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June 21, 2006 
Apple has published an extensive Aperture online tutorial, aimed at letting Aperture users learn how to use the application better in just ten steps.
Written by former MD of the Association of Photographers, Jonathan Briggs, the tutorial offers a selection of keyboard short-cuts and ten easy-to-comprehend notes covering a variety of the application’s functions.
Hints include easy ways to navigate through projects, use of the Loupe tool, moving between viewing angles, suggestions for effective use of tabbed browsing, and shortcuts for using full-screen view when working on an image.
http://www.apple.com/uk/pro/techniques/aperture/pictures.html
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June 20, 2006 
Press Release: iView Multimedia has released a free update to its flagship digital asset management program iView MediaPro.
Version 3.1.1 provides the following improvements and enhancements:
• Improved support for IPTC metadata during file synchronization, including the reinstatement of support for IPTC legacy metadata. The IPTC block is now UTF-8 encoded and fully inclusive (i.e it contains all iView supported fields).
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June 16, 2006 
Up late working?… need to count some sheep?
Well here’s 10,000 of them…
…courtesy of the staff at Amazon who hand drew all of them.
(oh by the way, this is sheep number 3161… nice eh!)
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June 13, 2006 
Press Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. — June 13, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced an update to the public beta of Adobe Lightroom, an all-new digital imaging workflow solution for professional photographers that allows them to import, select, develop and showcase large volumes of images. The latest version adds features suggested by beta testers that allow greater control over export size and resolution, refined metadata selection with print output and RGB value readouts for greater editing precision.
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom
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June 12, 2006 
Own It offers free intellectual property advice and is operated by the University of the Arts London.
They are currently offering two Podcasts for free download, which could be essential reading for any UK photographer and are of likely interest to many others.
They are…
“Photographing other people’s property – architecture, trademarks, logos”
and…
“Your Work On The Web And How To Protect It”
You can find them at…
http://www.own-it.org/ipinfo/podcasts/
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May 22, 2006 
Photoshopnews.com has reported on the latest six Lightroom Podcasts.
You can access the podcasts through the Adobe RSS feed (using Safari, Opera, or a Newsfeed reader) or by subscribing through the Podcast section of iTunes.
http://rss.adobe.com/www/special/light_room.rss
Podcast #6: Seetha Narayanan, Zalman Stern, Dave Story and Jeff Schewe
Podcast #5: Mac Holbert and Graham Nash of Nash Editions
Podcast #4: Martin Evening, Bryan O’Neil Hughes, and Peter Carides
Podcast #3: Greg Gorman, Marc Pawliger, Bryan O’Neil Hughes
Podcast #2: Jeff Schewe, Bruce Fraser and Tom Fors
Podcast #1: Mark Hamburg, Kevin Tieskoetter and Jeff Schewe
Tutorial #2: Color and Tonal correction basics with the Project Lightroom Beta
Tutorial #1: Getting Started Guide to Adobe ® Lightroom ™
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May 19, 2006 
The Luminous Landscape has published an article titled ‘Measuring Megabytes’.
Featured are comparisons with the following kit:-
Phase One P45 back(s): 39 Megapixel
Phase One P30 back: 31 Megapixel
Phase One P25 back: 22 Megapixel
Canon 1Ds MKII with Canon Macro 100mm f/2.8: 16.6 Megapixel
Canon 5D with with Canon Macro 100mm f/2.8 : 12.7 Megapixel
Canon 1Ds with with Canon Macro 100mm f/2.8 : 11 Megapixels
Linhof 679cs camera with Rodenstock HR digital lenses: Various backs
Linhof 4X5 camera with Sironar HM lenses: Drum scanned film
Linhof 4X5 camera with Sironar N lenses and BetterLight Super 6K scanning back
Hasselblad H1 with Hasselblad H lenses: Various backs
Mamiya 645 with Mamiya lenses: P45 39 Megapixel and drum scanned Velvia
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May 15, 2006 
Susannah Price has written an appreciation in the Sunday Times of Bob Carlos Clarke, who died suddenly this March.
“Can the signs of his violent end be seen in his edgy, sexually charged work?
Subversive, voyeuristic, controversial – words used again and again to describe the sexually charged photographs taken by Bob Carlos Clarke, who died suddenly in March, aged 55. He was known for photographing stars such as Jerry Hall, Rachel Weisz and Jodie Kidd, but he was just as keen to work with unknown teenage girls he spotted in the street. Advertising agencies also sought him out, knowing he would bring something intriguing to their campaigns.”
Read the full article
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-2173123.html
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May 5, 2006 
Entries are now open for the SUN AWARDS 2006
New Categories for Photographers AND Designers!
Best Image – open to photographers
Best Use of an Image – open to photographers & designers
Best Promotion of a Photographer: PRINT – open to photographers & designers
Best Promotion of a Photographer: WEB SITE – open to photographers & designers
click here
GO TO THE DOWNLOAD PAGE to get your entry forms
CLOSING date is 30th June 2006
(photo: Bill Halford – one of the winning entries from 2005)
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April 27, 2006 
a SPECIAL AFTEROON SEMINAR
at The Biscuit Factory Newcastle
1.30-5.30 Thursday 4th MAY 2006
An afternoon with 3 of the country’s leading experts
…. not to be missed! Read the rest of this entry »
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