Fujifilm UK Press Release

The Fujifilm A700 is a 7.3 megapixel, user-friendly addition to Fujifilm’s respected ‘A’ range of digital cameras.

Fujifilm today announced the launch of the Fujifilm FinePix A700 - a straightforward compact with user-friendly controls and multiple scene positions for ultimate ease-of-use.  The latest addition to Fujifilm’s popular ‘A’ series entry-level cameras, the Fujifilm A700 contains a 3x optical zoom and a powerful Super CCD HR sensor, delivering 7.3 megapixels - providing a robust package, at a reasonable price point, that the whole family can use. The Fujifilm A700 offers a no-nonsense approach to photography, making it ideal for digital camera newcomers, or those keen to maintain high image quality levels without having to deal with the complexity that comes with some of the higher end cameras. The Fujifilm A700 has been designed so that the exterior controls and menus are easy to navigate.  In addition, the large 2.4” LCD monitor makes it possible to shoot and review images quickly and easily.

Lexmark Press Release

Lexmark International today introduced the Lexmark P350 Portable Photo Printer, featuring new Evercolor II ink technology, and PerfectFinishTM Photo Paper as part of a photo printing system that produces photos of exceptional quality and durability.  The Lexmark P350 has an estimated street price of £99.99*. The first to feature Lexmark’s new Evercolor II pigmented ink technology, the Lexmark P350 4-by-6 inch photo printer produces vibrant, borderless photos that print in as little as 75 seconds** with up to 4,800 x 1,200 dots per inch resolution. Evercolor II is a pigment-based ink system that is meant to be used with Lexmark’s new PerfectFinish Photo Paper, a micro-porous photo paper that absorbs the inks quickly. Compared with conventional dye-based inks, the Evercolor II pigmented inks dry more quickly and are highly resistant to water. Together, Lexmark’s Evercolor II inks and PerfectFinish Photo Paper yield high-quality photos that are remarkably resilient and durable – lasting for up to 100 years in a frame and up to 200 years in an album***

Lexmark Press Release

Lexmark International are proud to introduce the new Lexmark X5470 All-In-One with Fax and Photo, a feature-packed, four-in-one inkjet backed by the new Lexmark Protection Guarantee*. The X5470 has an estimated street price of £99.99**. The Lexmark X5470 sports a stylish, compact design for today’s home office, while also delivering workhorse performance with print speeds up to 25 pages per minute (ppm) black and 18 ppm colour***, a 10-sheet automatic document feeder, premium photo features and PC-free photo, fax and copy capabilities.  The Lexmark X5470 is backed by the new Lexmark Protection Guarantee that features next-business-day replacement for up to one year, helping to ensure a printing experience that is as reliable as it is productive.

Lexmark Press Release

Lexmark International are proud to introduce the new Lexmark Z845 High Performance Colour Printer, a single-function inkjet that delivers sharp, crisp text, high-end graphics and photos at exceptional speeds, priced under £60*. Designed for budget-conscious consumers with high expectations for productivity, quality and reliability, the Lexmark Z845 delivers speeds up to 24 pages per minute (ppm) black and 18 ppm colour**.  The Z845 features borderless graphic and photo printing, as well as an optional colour cartridge that provides six-colour printing capabilities. Lexmark’s exclusive Fast Pics and Imaging Studio Software make it easy for users to enhance, print and manage their photos.

Adobe UK Press Release

New Photoshop Elements 5 Provides Easy Editing and High Impact Options to Showcase and Share Photos - Adobe’s No. 1 Selling Consumer Photo Editing Software Offers Fun, Creative Possibilities for Consumers to Showcase and Share Photos in Engaging Ways

London. — Sept. 12, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 5.0 software, a major upgrade to the No. 1 selling consumer photo editing software*. Available for Windows®, Photoshop Elements offers new and more flexible ways for consumers to organize files, edit images with ease and share photos in engaging and innovative ways. Adobe Photoshop Elements allows for quick, one-click fixes to photos with the option of exploring more sophisticated editing techniques. In addition, Adobe today announced Adobe Premiere® Elements 3.0 software, a complete home video editing solution (see separate press release). Also available together in a single retail package, Adobe Photoshop Elements plus Adobe Premiere Elements delivers unique integrated functionality that provides consumers with the ability to do more with their photos and home videos.

Adobe UK Press Release

New Adobe Premiere Elements 3 Brings Home Videos to Life with Powerful and Accessible Editing Tools - Latest Video Editing Software Offers Unparalleled Ease-of-Use for Beginners and Interactive Sharing with Adobe Flash Video

London. — Sept. 12, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe® Premiere® Elements 3.0 software for Windows®, a landmark upgrade to the No. 1 selling consumer video editing software*. The simplified interface and drag-and-drop simplicity of Adobe Premiere Elements enables users to easily add professional quality effects and enhancements, as well as output to a wide variety of devices and formats – including Adobe Flash® Video, the standard video format for popular social networking Web sites. In addition, Adobe today announced Adobe Photoshop® Elements 5.0 software, a complete photo editing solution (see separate press release). Also available together in a single retail package, Adobe Photoshop Elements plus Adobe Premiere Elements delivers unique integrated functionality that provides consumers with the ability to do more with their photos and home videos.

Adobe UK Press Release

Adobe Takes Home Videos and Photos to New Level with Landmark Release of Photoshop Elements Plus Premiere Elements Software Bundle - Integrated Photo and Video Functionality Offers More Ways to Make and Share Creations Just in Time for the Holidays

London. — Sept. 12, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced two milestone upgrades to its digital photo and video products for consumers, Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 5.0 for Windows® and Adobe Premiere® Elements 3.0 for Windows. The unique integrated functionality of the products allows users to do more with their photos and videos, whether adding impact to photo slideshows with video effects and transitions, providing dramatic pauses to videos with freeze frame effects or creating professional-looking printed CD/DVD labels and covers. Available separately or together in a single retail package, Adobe Photoshop Elements software, the new version of the No. 1 selling consumer photo editing software*, adds more creative ways to organise, edit and share digital photos. For video enthusiasts, Adobe Premiere Elements, the No. 1 selling consumer video editing software*, offers a simplified user interface that makes turning home videos into professional-quality DVDs even easier.

Corel Press Release

New Release Sets The Standard For Easy-to-Use, Professional-Quality Image Editing Software At An Affordable Price

Maidenhead, UK - 12 September 2006 - Corel Corporation (NASDAQ:CREL; TSX:CRE) today announced the release of Corel® Paint Shop Pro® Photo XI, a major new product release from its award-winning digital imaging portfolio. The new flagship digital imaging software package continues the tradition of providing easy-to-use, professional-quality editing software at an affordable price. Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI is a complete digital photography toolkit that allows users to edit, manage and share their photos as well as create stunning photo projects, Paint Shop Pro XI offers a range of versatile new features and enhancements that meet the needs of novices, photo hobbyists and professional photographers alike. In addition, business users will also find Corel Paint Shop Pro XI an ideal solution for editing and enhancing photos used in a variety of corporate communications materials such as presentations, technical documentation, marketing collateral and emails.

Priced at £77 excl VAT for the full box and £52 excl VAT for the upgrade, Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI is available immediately.

O’Reilly Press Release

In a Sea of Digital Photo Software, an Affordable Pearl O’Reilly’s Newest Missing Manual Explains Everything You Need to Know About Photoshop Elements 5

Sebastopol, CA—If you love scrapbooking, arranging photos in galleries, or creating cool slideshows set to music, you’ll definitely want the just-announced Photoshop Elements 5. And for those serious about photography, the new version of Elements now includes Photoshop’s most sophisticated drawing tool, Curves. This major upgrade combining Photoshop’s power with Elements’ simplicity gives digital photography enthusiasts the tools the pros use to make their pictures shine. “The new version helps keep photos organized, makes top-notch prints and truly nifty creative projects,” says Barbara Brundage, bestselling O’Reilly author and Photoshop Elements’ expert. Adobe is really jumping on the scrapbooking bandwagon with this release. It’s the must-have software for the scrapbooking hobbyist.”

Hitachi Press Release

Hitachi Storage Breakthrough Signals Bright Future on Hard Drive’s 50th-Birthday; New Perpendicular Recording Data Density Demo Promises 2-Terabyte Hard Drive by Decade End; Hitachi Plans 1-Terabyte Drive for 2007

SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Sept. 13, 2006—Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi) has much more to celebrate than the birth of the hard drive, which happened 50 years ago today in San Jose, California. The company is also celebrating an areal density(1) achievement of 345 gigabits per square inch (Gbits/sq. in.) using perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology. This areal density, demonstrated in laboratory testing, represents an increase of more than two-and-a-half times the areal density of today’s highest-capacity products. By 2009, Hitachi predicts that 345 Gbits/sq. in. would result in a two-terabyte (TB) 3.5-inch desktop drive, a 400-gigabyte (GB) 2.5-inch notebook drive or a 200-GB 1.8-inch drive(2). In the first half of 2007, Hitachi expects to bring hard drive areal density half way to the 345 Gbits/sq. in. mark with a 1-TB 3.5-inch product.

Wetpixel.com / DivePhotoGuide.com Press Release

The 2nd Annual Wetpixel.com and DivePhotoGuide.com International Underwater Photo & Video Competition, in association with Our World Underwater—over $35,000 in prizes.

(PRWEB) September 12, 2006—Wetpixel.com and DivePhotoGuide.com have teamed up again in association with Our World Underwater to celebrate the beauty and delicacy of the marine environment with their 2nd annual international underwater photography and video competition. The competition aims to become the “Superbowl” of international underwater photo competitions—with fantastic prizes, celebrity judges and the opportunity to have your images showcased to the world as some of the world’s best. A new website has launched to support the competition at http://www.underwatercompetition.com

SeeFile Press Release

SeeFile debuts Global version of innovative Web image review application - Rollouts at AppleExpo and Photokina, pricing €399 to €3995; European resellers sought

Paris, September 11 2006 - SeeFile Software is unveiling a new version of its software, SeeFile 2.6, at Apple Expo (stand P28) and Photokina (hall 10.1, stand C018 and hall 4.1, stand C017) this month. SeeFile 2.6 is the first version of the software to be offered in a language other than English (in this case French and German).  The software allows photographers, graphic designers and video editors to share private folders with their clients and collaborators, requiring only a PC or Mac web browser at the client end. Additional localizations can be done by modifying a small number of files associated with the product, and do not require any recompilation or software development. With this version of the product, SeeFile is aiming to bring the software’s capabilities the European market for the first time. Sales of the product, as well as highly positive reviews (Seybold Reports, Studio Photography and Design, Shutterbug, Big Picture), have so far been concentrated in North America.

LaCie Press Release

PORTLAND, OR (September 2006) – LaCie today announced increased capacities for its LaCie Hard Drives Design by FA Porsche. New drives reach a phenomenal 500GB in a small, sleek case created exclusively for LaCie by the renowned agency Porsche Design GmbH. Exhibiting world-class style and elite performance, LaCie Hard Drives Design by FA Porsche allow people to easily add massive storage to a desktop computer. New USB drives are shipping now, and FireWire drives ship in October. LaCie Senior Product Manager Olivier Mirloup said, “LaCie’s awarded FA Porsche-designed hard drives are quiet, easy to carry and stack, and now have some of the largest capacities available at a low price per gigabyte. These drives are the fastest, easiest way to add storage to your computer, making room for lots of additional video, audio and music files. And our 1-Click Backup Software simplifies data protection.”

SanDisk Press Release

SanDisk Introduces 4GB miniSDHC Flash Card for Mobile Phones; Industry’s Highest Capacity Card For Cellphones Will Enable High-Resolution Photography, Digital Video, Music, Games and Data Storage

LOS ANGELES—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Sept. 12, 2006—SanDisk(R) Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) today announced a 4-gigabyte (GB)(1) miniSD High Capacity (SDHC(TM)) flash card at the CTIA Wireless Show, where the company is exhibiting in Booth #1147. The 4GB SanDisk miniSDHC card will be able to provide the fast speed and large capacity required to support increasingly popular but storage-intensive applications such as digital imaging, music and video record/playback functions as well as mobile television and videogames. The 4GB capacity can store more than 2,000 high-resolution pictures, more than 1,000 digital songs or up to 8 hours of MPEG 4 video.(2)

PhotoSource International Press Release

Photographer directory is in its seventh year. Published from a hundred-year old barn in the hinterlands of Wisconsin.

Osceola, WI (PRWEB) September 8, 2006—PhotoSource International, the company that sends member photographers the daily photo needs of book and magazine publishers, has announced a “Fire Sale” sign up to its photographer directory, the PhotoSourceBOOK 2007. The directory is in its 7th year and is popular with editors and photobuyers. “We call it a Fire Sale this year because the sale to sign up at a discount price is open only during the span of seven days, September 12th to the 18th,” said Rohn Engh, publisher of the PhotoSourceBOOK. “Not only will stock photographers receive a substantial discount for membership in the directory, but also seven different free bonuses, which include a year’s membership in the PhotoSourceBANK and a free copy of “Photographer’s Market 2007.”

Athentech Technologies Press Release

CALGARY, Alberta, Canada – Athentech® Technologies Inc. (“Athentech”) announced today it has chosen photokina to introduce home, studio and lab versions of its award-winning, patented Perfectly Clear® image correction technology, currently licensed to photo kiosk makers, imaging software developers and other photo, signal processing and digital imaging enterprises around the world. The company also announced that Athentech President Brad Malcolm will be a featured speaker at the “Imaging With Mobile Devices” seminars set for Thursday, 28 September, at the Offenbachsal, Congress Center East, adjacent to photokina.  Malcolm will discuss “Advances in Digital Image Correction” during the morning seminar on “Picture-Taking with Mobile Imaging Devices.”

Casio have released a firmware update, v1.02, for the 10 megapixel Casio EX-Z1000 compact digicam.

Improvements Provided by This Update:

- Fixes a problem that occasionally causes a thin black line to appear along the bottom of an image recorded using the BEST SHOT “Old Photo,” “Business cards and documents,” or “White board, etc.” sample scenes.

Website: Casio EX-Z1000 v1.02 Firmware Update

Pentax USA Press Release

GOLDEN, CO. (September 12, 2006)…PENTAX Imaging Company has launched a TEST DRIVE A PENTAX program to introduce consumers to the manufacturer’s new K Series digital SLR camera line.  From now until December 31, 2006, any customer who visits a participating dealer and test drives a PENTAX K Series camera at a participating retailer becomes eligible for a chance to win the Grand Prize 2007 Toyota FJ Cruiser.  A PENTAX TEST DRIVE consists of visiting a participating retailer and asking for a hands-on demonstration of any PENTAX K Series camera or viewing a product video available on-line at: www.pentaxslr.com/testdrive .No purchase is necessary for the consumer. Limited to U.S. residents only.

Casio Europe Press Release

Norderstedt, September 2006 - Autumn is approaching and welcomes us with glowing colors. A clear blue sky and the multi-colored leaves make us feel like taking long walks during the colorful season. EXILIM is also contributing to the colorful hustle and bustle: the color variations blue and red complement the EXILIM Zoom EX-Z700, which is already available in silver, grey and gold. Besides its exciting exterior, the technical qualities of the digitally compact camera are captivating. The 7.2 mega-pixels and the extra bright 2.7 inch screen are the foundation for brilliant photos. At the same time, a fast ready status and short shutter delay make sure the user does not miss one`s motif.

Buy-n-Shoot.com have reviewed the 7.5 megapixel, live preview Olympus E-330 DSLR camera.

” Live View is a great addition and one that will most likely be followed up by every DSLR manufacture with their future releases. It works pretty much in the same way as compact digitals, but has a light boost function for the LCD which pretty much allows the photographer to see in almost near dark conditions. However, as the situation becomes very dark the screen eventually loses its colour and switches automatically to a black & white mode, something like night vision.”

Website: Buy-n-Shoot.com - Olympus E-330 Review

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