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My favorite photo hosting site, SmugMug, has integrated with Lightroom 3 that will make it easier than ever to import, organize, edit and publish your photos to SmugMug.
I haven’t tested this yet, but it sounds like a great new feature. If you’re a Lightroom 3 user and aren’t using SmugMug, now is is great ... read more
September 2, 2010 in News by Thomas Boyd

Steve Jobs announced during Apple’s new product announcement that iOS 4.1 (which we’re expecting today) brings HDR photography to Apple’s mobile platform.
HDR is a technique of taking several photos of varying exposures and combining them together in order to create a photo with a greater range of tonal detail. There are numerous apps that can ... read more
September 1, 2010 in News by David Schloss

The good folks over at NASA have taken a “giant leap” in image sharing by making their image archive collection available on Flickr. The image-sharing website has long hosted historic image collections in a section call The Commons and the NASA on the Commons section contains an astounding array of historical photos.
The entire archive isn’t ... read more
August 31, 2010 in News by David Schloss

We didn’t think that secret would keep, well here you have it, Olympus have officially announced the new all-black E-P2 micro four thirds camera today, along with 40-150mm and 75-300mm lenses.The new E-P2 EVF Edition kit comes with a 17mm 1:2.8 pancake lens (also in black), and the VF-2 electronic viewfinder, in black too. Also ... read more
August 31, 2010 in News by Joanne Carter

We’re sure you’ve read the announcement from Canon’s team last week announcing a massive 120 megapixel sensor, well this week the technicians at team Canon have announced the biggest ever CMOS sensor, measuring 202×205 mm – that’s round 8 inches square; making this sensor roughly around 40 times larger than the sensor currently found in ... read more
August 31, 2010 in News by Joanne Carter

Vancouver based Beanheads Consulting Inc. today announces Sort Shots – iPad Edition 2.0. Sort Shots – iPad Edition utilizes metadata/EXIF information from photos for easy image searching. Easily import keywords from Adobe Bridge and Lightroom, Apple iPhoto, Nik Software/Nikon NX2, Microsoft Expression Media. Update your keywords and export the images with the keywords to Adobe ... read more
August 30, 2010 in News by Joanne Carter

Voitgländer has announced the production of new lenses for the MicroFourThirds system. The first lens to be unveiled is the new Nokton 25mm f/0.95 lens. This lens has been designed for MFT and you don’t need to use any adapter! This is a manual focus lens and is expected to be $1000 with availability by ... read more
August 30, 2010 in News by Joanne Carter

No secret is safe anymore including the latest cameras coming from Olympus, that’s if 42rumors.com are to be believed and it certainly looks pretty believable.The new E-P2 kit + 2 new MicroFourThirds lenses will be announced tomorrow August 311) The new E-P2 kit with black 17mm lens and black external flash.
There will ... read more
August 30, 2010 in News by Joanne Carter

Our good friend Joe McNally has a nice blog post about long-lens portrait work with the moon as a backdrop. Joe never ceases to amaze me with his portrait work, and the fact that he’s doing moonlight shots where the actual moon is a major part without multiple exposures, well that’s just great.
Jump on over ... read more
August 29, 2010 in News by David Schloss

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August 27, 2010 in News by David Schloss