Saturday, June 30, 2007

Nokia has launched a fully integrated mobile printing service in Europe, allowing users to order photo prints directly from their compatible Nokia Nseries device. All orders are is processed by CeWe Color. The Nokia mobile printing service is available - you just need to download the necessary Nokia XpressPrint application for free.

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The new MicroSync Digital is the world’s smallest and lightest wireless radio slave flash trigger. Measuring 27x51x11mm and weighing just 30g, the MicroSync Digital fits onto the hot shoe of your camera. The MicroSync transmitter and receiver kit will be available from June for £189.99.

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At Intrepid Travel’s photography evening in its London store on July 4th, professional travel photographer Chris Coe will tell you how to improve your people photography. The evening is held in memory of Mike Matsushita, an Intrepid employee who was sadly killed in the London bombings in 2005. The event, which begins at 7pm, is free to attend, but you must book a space through Intrepid’s website.

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PMA 2007: The JOBO Spectator is a mid-range, affordable way of backing up, storing and viewing your digital images. Available in Spring 2007, the JOBO Spectator will be available in three sizes - 40GB, 80GB and 120GB - for €249, €299 and €379 respectively. Also new is the JOBO photoGPS, a Global Positioning System (GPS) for digital camera users which writes GPS data to each digital picture’s EXIF file. JOBO photoGPS will be available in Summer 2007 for €149.

Update June 30th 2007: UK pricing has just been announced. Available mid July, the Jobo Spectator will be offered in 40GB, 80GB and 120GB capacities with suggested retail prices of £199, £229 and £279 respectively including Vat.

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The Mencap Snap! photo awards took place last Friday night (22 June) at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, with 36 gold, bronze and silver awards to entrants in six categories. Snap! is a competition open to people with a learning disability, their friends and families and is organised by UK learning disability charity Mencap. All 36 images will remain on display at the V&A for one month (until 22 July).

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Thursday, June 28, 2007

Small enough to fit on an office desk, but big enough to print up to A2+ / 17”, the new Epson 3800 is the latest addition to the Stylus Pro range of large format printers. The Epson 3800 incorporates 9 high capacity,, 80ml ink cartridges which use the UltraChrome K3 ink-set, with automatic switching between Photo and Matte black inks depending on the media selected. Offering 2880 x 1440dpi max resolution and 3.5pl minimum ink droplet size, does the new Epson Stylus Pro 3800 deserve a place on your desk? Jon Canfield finds out.

Website: Epson Stylus Pro 3800 Review

Sigma has unveiled two new HSM lenses for Nikon DSLR cameras - the 18-50mm F3.5-5.6 DC HSM and 55-200mm F4-5.6 DC HSM. The Sigma HSM lenses provide quiet and high-speed auto focusing with all Nikon DSLR cameras. The Sigma 18-50mm HSM lens will cost £129.99, and the Sigma 55-200mm HSM lens £159.99 in the UK.

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DxO Optics Pro 4.5 adds an Adobe Photoshop Lightroom plug-in, Flickr Export plug-in, Automatic Crop and is faster and more efficient than previous versions. “The new DxO Optics Pro Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is the first step in tightly integrating DxO image science into this very popular photographic software embraced by photographers around the world,” says Luc Marin, vice president of the Photography business at DxO Labs. The upgrade to DxO Optics Pro v4.5 is free for all users of DxO Optics Pro v4.x and is available immediately.

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The UK photo storing, sharing and printing website Photobox has just passed the 2 million member milestone. Commenting on PhotoBox’s growth, Mark Chapman, UK Managing Director said, “We are delighted to have achieved such outstanding results. The combination of the PhotoBox service and an increasingly web-savvy audience has undisputedly helped us reach 2 million members.”

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CameraLabs have just reviewed the new Panasonic DMC-FZ8 ultra-zoom compact digital camera.

“Panasonic claims to have improved both with its latest Venus III processor, but there’s still some serious issues when you look closely at images. Viewed at 100%, the FZ8 exhibits smearing of fine detail even at its lowest sensitivities – and with the with noise reduction turned down. It’s certainly not the camera for someone who likes to examine images on-screen at 100%, but to be fair, this is becoming par for the course for non-DSLRs and we’ve actually seen worse examples.”

Website: CameraLabs - Panasonic DMC-FZ8 Review