Posts about 'Press Release'

Application Gap Announces Electronic Model Release Forms For iPhone – Never Leave Home Without One

Application Gap Announces Electronic Model Release Forms For iPhone – Never Leave Home Without One

Forget all the novelty apps, here is something Photographers can really use. Application Gap has released an electronic model release app for the iPhone. Now whenever you are away from the office or studio you can instantly produce a model release right on your iPhone. The app displays a legally binding model release, allows you to ... read more

March 11, 2010 in News by John Omvik 1 comment

Mamiya Announces New 40MP Medium Fomat Camera

Mamiya Announces New 40MP Medium Fomat Camera

Mamiya has announced the DM40 a new medium format digital camera system based on a large 44×33mm 40MP sensor with a 0.8s/frame capture rate enabling upto a 60 frame/min capture rate. The camera also features a dual shutter design allowing photographers to choose between the traditional focal plane shutter or an in-lens central leaf shutter ... read more

March 8, 2010 in News by John Omvik 0 comments

WPPI and Brooks Institute Announce First-Ever WPPI Scholarship

WPPI and Brooks Institute Announce First-Ever WPPI Scholarship

WPPI and Brooks Institute are teaming up to provide a scholarship for aspiring professional wedding photographers. This sounds like a great way to help kick start a career. Press Release: ——————————————————————— WPPI and Brooks Institute Announce First-Ever WPPI Scholarship Full scholarship available to enroll in the Wedding Certificate Program at Brooks Institute Culver City, CA (February 23, 2010) – Celebrating ... read more

February 23, 2010 in News by John Omvik 0 comments

Compact Flash Association Releases Specification For Next Generation CF Card – Increases Performance, Capacity And Video Support

Compact Flash Association Releases Specification For Next Generation CF Card – Increases Performance, Capacity And Video Support

The governing body of CF standards, Compact Flash Association (CFA) today released the specifications for CF5.0 the next generation of CF Cards. The key benefits of this new specification for consumers will be increased size, performance and compatibility marks for video performance. This is great news for professional photographers and videographers as future high end ... read more

February 22, 2010 in News by John Omvik 0 comments

Sigma Announces 5 New Lenses At PMA

Sigma Announces 5 New Lenses At PMA

Sigma announced 5 new lenses at PMA today including a super fast f1.4 85mm prime and 10x 50-500mm zoom for Sigma, Sony, Nikon, Pentax, Canon mounts. Unfortunately pricing and availability were not mentioned in the press releases. Sigma is also showing a new prototype of the SD15 Foveon based digital SLR that was first introduced at ... read more

February 21, 2010 in News by John Omvik 0 comments

Leaf announces Leaf Aptus-II 8 – Medium Format Back With 0.8 sec/frame Capture Rate

Leaf announces Leaf Aptus-II 8 – Medium Format Back With 0.8 sec/frame Capture Rate

Leaf Announced the Aptus – II 8 a 40MP medium format back with a maximum capture rate of 0.8 sec/frame (not frames/sec as usually quoted). This is an impressive performance for a medium format back processing 40 MP of data, but it is only half of the performance equation. While the press release mentions that ... read more

February 14, 2010 in News by John Omvik 0 comments

Unified Color Technologies Announces HDR PhotoStudio For Mac – Offers True 32-bit HDR Color Editing For Mac Users

Unified Color Technologies Announces HDR PhotoStudio For Mac – Offers True 32-bit HDR Color Editing For Mac Users

Unified Color Technologies announced that they have begun shipping a Macintosh version of their HDR PhotoStudio software. HDR PhotoStudio has a reputation for delivering true color and realistic looking High Dynamic Range images. It is based on the company’s own “Beyond RGB” color model that encompasses the full human visual gamut, and separates brightness from ... read more

February 3, 2010 in News by Micah Walter 0 comments

Canon Marks 50M EF Lenses

Canon Marks 50M EF Lenses

In a press release today, Canon announced that it had passed the 50 Millionth lens milestone in December 2009. That is a lot of glass in 22 years. It is a testament to the growth of the DSLR market to see that it took 8 and a half years to build the first 10 Million ... read more

January 29, 2010 in News by John Omvik 0 comments

Think Tank Announces Hydrophobia 70-200 – All Weather Rain Gear For 70-200mm And Smaller Lenses

Think Tank Announces Hydrophobia 70-200 – All Weather Rain Gear For 70-200mm And Smaller Lenses

Think Tank has offered Hydrophobia protective covers for Super Telephoto lenses for a while, now they are bringing this much needed functionality down to shorter lenses as well with the new Hydrophobia 70-200 cover. Wile it is not immersion water proof (a.k.a. a underwater housing) it does protect D-SLRs with short lenses from the elements ... read more

January 25, 2010 in News by John Omvik 0 comments

Canon Announces New Professional Wireless Transmitters – Enables Up To 10 Cameras To Shoot In Sync

Canon Announces New Professional Wireless Transmitters – Enables Up To 10 Cameras To Shoot In Sync

PRESS RELEASECANON U.S.A. EMPOWERS PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS VIA FAST WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY AND INNOVATIVE TRANSFER MODESThe EOS-1D Mark IV, EOS 5D Mark II and EOS 7D Cameras Utilize New Canon WFT Units To Help Professionals Deliver “The Shot”Lake Success, N.Y., January 7, 2010 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, is announcing a step forward ... read more

January 7, 2010 in News by John Omvik 4 comments