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Foveon Press Release 21/06/04
FOVEON INTRODUCES THE FIRST SMALL FORMAT FULL-COLOR IMAGE SENSOR
4.5 Megapixel Direct Image Sensor Brings Revolutionary Patented Foveon X3O Full-Color Technology to Medical & Science Applications
Captures Color Like Film in 3 Layers
Santa Clara, CA, June 21, 2004 - Foveon Inc., a technology leader of award-winning high-quality digital camera image sensors, announced today the availability of the Foveon F19 sensor (FO18-50-F19), a 1/1.8-inch 4.5 Megapixel CMOS direct image sensor that incorporates Foveon?s breakthrough X3 technology to directly capture color in three layers, just like film. The company also announced that the F19 image sensor has been designed into the HanVision HVDUO-5M digital camera for industrial, scientific, medical, and communications applications.
Foveon Press Release 21/06/04 FOVEON INTRODUCES THE FIRST SMALL FORMAT FULL-COLOR IMAGE SENSOR 4.5 Megapixel Direct Image Sensor Brings Revolutionary Patented Foveon X3O Full-Color Technology to Medical & Science Applications Captures Color Like Film in 3 Layers Santa Clara, CA, June 21, 2004 - Foveon Inc., a technology leader of…
Fujifilm UK Press Release 21/06/04
Fujifilm today introduces the ultimate in smart travel accessories. The Fujifilm World Adaptor allows you to use your portable electrical appliances in more than 150 countries around the world, and is compact and easy to pack away in any bag or rucksack. Whether you’re charging your laptop or digital camera in Europe, or using your hairdryer in Hong Kong, this all-in-one unit eliminates the need for country-specific adaptors.
Safe and simple to use, the Fujifilm World Adaptor allows you to connect to international power outlets, wherever you’re travelling. It also incorporates a built-in safety fuse and has been approved by the Consumer Electronics Association, making it one of the safest adapters on the market.
Perfect for the frequent traveller, the compact design and multi-lingual packaging ensures the adaptor is particularly user-friendly.
What’s more, the Fujifilm World Adaptor is so reliable that it comes with a lifetime warranty.
Available from July 2004, the Fujifilm World Adaptor will be available from electrical and photographic retailers throughout the UK.
Fujifilm UK Press Release 21/06/04 Fujifilm today introduces the ultimate in smart travel accessories. The Fujifilm World Adaptor allows you to use your portable electrical appliances in more than 150 countries around the world, and is compact and easy to pack away in any bag or rucksack. Whether you’re charging…
The 29th Photo of the Week contest is now closed.
I have choosen what I think are the best photographs in my opinion. Now it’s your turn to vote for the overall winner of the contest. A Public Poll has been setup on the PhotographyBLOG Forums and you have 7 days during which you can vote for your favourite photo from the ones that I have chosen. Voting will end on Monday 28th June. The Poll will then be closed and the overall winner announced.
Vote now for your favourite image from the Photo Of The Week 14th-20th June 2004 contest
The 29th Photo of the Week contest is now closed. I have choosen what I think are the best photographs in my opinion. Now it’s your turn to vote for the overall winner of the contest. A Public Poll has been setup on the PhotographyBLOG Forums and you have …
The 30th Photo of the Week contest is now open. This is a weekly photography contest with no set theme and you can enter as many photos as you like.
The 30th Photo of the Week contest is now open. This is a weekly photography contest with no set theme and you can enter as many photos as you like.
The voting for the 28th Photo of the Week contest has now finished.
The overall winner of the contest is “Waves on my Beach” by tootsie. Congratulations!
You can view all of the entries that were submitted in this gallery.
The voting for the 28th Photo of the Week contest has now finished. The overall winner of the contest is “Waves on my Beach” by tootsie. Congratulations! You can view all of the entries that were submitted in this gallery.
Photoxels have published their review of the new 8-megapixel Nikon Coolpix 8700 digital camera.
“Another professional feature of the Coolpix 8700 that is directly related to image quality is the ability to record images in RAW file format. It takes about 12-15 sec. (though at times, it took up to 30 sec.) to save a RAW (Nikon NEF) or HI (TIFF) image (using a SanDisk Ultra II 256MB memory card). Unfortunately, the 8700 does not have a RAW internal buffer and you have to wait for the camera to finish writing to memory card before you can shoot the next picture.”
Photoxels have published their review of the new 8-megapixel Nikon Coolpix 8700 digital camera. “Another professional feature of the Coolpix 8700 that is directly related to image quality is the ability to record images in RAW file format. It takes about 12-15 sec. (though at times, it took up to…
The Japanese website PC Watch have posted a large number of sample images taken with the Epson RD-1 rangefinder digital camera, as well as their review of this unique product.
Website: PC-Watch - Epson RD-1 Report
The Japanese website PC Watch have posted a large number of sample images taken with the Epson RD-1 rangefinder digital camera, as well as their review of this unique product. Website: PC-Watch - Epson RD-1 Report
The Danish website Digital Magasinet have just published their review of the new 8-megapixel Nikon Coolpix 8700 digital camera.
The Danish website Digital Magasinet have just published their review of the new 8-megapixel Nikon Coolpix 8700 digital camera. Website: Digital Magasinet - Nikon Coolpix 8700 Review
Shuttertalk have just reviewed the Ricoh Caplio RX, the 3 megapixel successor to the Caplio G4 Wide.
“The macro mode is quite remarkable on this camera - objects can be minimum of 1cm away. Focusing was fast, and I was able to achieve a focus lock most of the time. The camera was also smart enough to throttle the flash power back when in macro mode, so that objects weren?t washed out. Overall, this camera produced some good macro shots.”
Website: Shuttertalk - Ricoh Caplio RX Review
Shuttertalk have just reviewed the Ricoh Caplio RX, the 3 megapixel successor to the Caplio G4 Wide. “The macro mode is quite remarkable on this camera - objects can be minimum of 1cm away. Focusing was fast, and I was able to achieve a focus lock most of the time…
About Photography have just reviewed FotoFusion 3.0, a software tool for home and studio use that makes stunning artwork from digital photographs. It works quickly and with uncompromising quality, allowing users to share or to sell their work with ease.
“For any photographer who regularly makes pages with several prints for clients, either as finished work or as proofs, FotoFusion is certainly worth considering. If you produce wedding albums, face cards, class composites or anything similar you should take a look. It enables a much more automated throughput than standard imaging software, and once you have defined your templates, the saving in time could be considerable. It will also work in tandem with an application such as Photoshop, so that you can edit images using that program while working with them in Fotofusion.”
Website: About Photography - FotoFusion v3.0 Review
Website: LumaPix
About Photography have just reviewed FotoFusion 3.0, a software tool for home and studio use that makes stunning artwork from digital photographs. It works quickly and with uncompromising quality, allowing users to share or to sell their work with ease. “For any photographer who regularly makes pages with several prints…
Photo-i has posted its review of the HiTi Photo Printer 730PS, which allows you to create 4x6, 5x7 and 6x8 inch borderless prints through its Dye Sublimation technology at 300 dpi.
“The print quality is very good, but you need to find the optimum setting, as with the 640PS the 730PS prints also lack the extra depth you would get from a black ink. This is more noticeable on larger prints. For average home use the HiTi 730PS at ?329.95 may be too expensive. For the casual digital photographer who just wants to print happy snaps and stick them in an album, then the HiTi have a range of small format printers that are well suited to the task.”
Photo-i has posted its review of the HiTi Photo Printer 730PS, which allows you to create 4x6, 5x7 and 6x8 inch borderless prints through its Dye Sublimation technology at 300 dpi. “The print quality is very good, but you need to find the optimum setting, as with the 640PS the…
Luminous Landscape have today published the first in a new series of advanced Photoshop techniques, written by Glenn E. Mitchell II.
“Clipped channels are serious. The enlarged view of the daylily in Figure 2 has a reddish cast from clipped red channel. The yellow tones are also not continuous. Posterization is evident as the eye moves from the edge toward the center of the flower.
Once a channel is clipped, the customary advice is that information is lost and little or nothing can be done about it.
This article presents a technique that can rescue many images: the use of a saturation mask. Saturation masks are grayscale images that transition from black for the least saturated colors to white for the most saturated colors. Saturation masks are perfect for restoring images with severe saturation problems, such as clipped channels.”
Website: Luminous Landscape - Restore Those Clipped Channels
Luminous Landscape have today published the first in a new series of advanced Photoshop techniques, written by Glenn E. Mitchell II. “Clipped channels are serious. The enlarged view of the daylily in Figure 2 has a reddish cast from clipped red channel. The yellow tones are also not continuous. Posterization…
We all know what the digital revolution is doing to film photography. A hidden side-effect is the loss of social interaction between photographers as traditional darkrooms, once a common meeting place, start to close their doors. Will this have a detrimental effect on photography, as we all sit at home/in our offices, working on our own images but never seeing other photographer’s work? (found via Digital Photography Blog
“The communal print-washing pans and the color-printing setup at Latent Image “made it possible for you to see other people’s work,” Ms. Burstein said. “You could be fabulously inspired by it, or feel jealous when someone else printed very beautifully.”
Website: The New York Times - In a Digital Era, the Darkroom Is Fading as a Photographic Hub
We all know what the digital revolution is doing to film photography. A hidden side-effect is the loss of social interaction between photographers as traditional darkrooms, once a common meeting place, start to close their doors. Will this have a detrimental effect on photography, as we all sit at home/in…
The 28th Photo of the Week contest is now closed.
I have choosen what I think are the best photographs in my opinion. Now it’s your turn to vote for the overall winner of the contest. A Public Poll has been setup on the PhotographyBLOG Forums. There are 2 days left during which you can vote for your favourite photo from the ones that I have chosen. Voting will end on Monday 21st June. The Poll will then be closed and the overall winner announced.
Vote now for your favourite image from the Photo Of The Week 7th-13th June 2004 contest
The 28th Photo of the Week contest is now closed. I have choosen what I think are the best photographs in my opinion. Now it’s your turn to vote for the overall winner of the contest. A Public Poll has been setup on the PhotographyBLOG Forums. There are 2 days…
Sigma Press Release 18/06/04
A new design concept for digital cameras. (2004.6.18)
MACRO 105mm F2.8 EX DG
Compact and lightweight medium telephoto macro lens.
Optimized image quality for Digital SLR cameras.
- Super Multi Layer (SML) coating reduces the ghost caused by reflections from the surface of digital image sensors.
- Features a compact lens design with an overall length of just 95mm.
- Minimum aperture of F/45 provides greater depth of field (F/45 for Sigma, Canon and Konica Minolta mounts and F/32 for Nikon and Pentax mounts).
- A screw-in lens hood for convenient use of circular polarizing filters
Sigma Press Release 18/06/04 A new design concept for digital cameras. (2004.6.18) MACRO 105mm F2.8 EX DG Compact and lightweight medium telephoto macro lens. Optimized image quality for Digital SLR cameras. - Super Multi Layer (SML) coating reduces the ghost caused by reflections from the surface of digital image sensors…
Sigma Press Release 18/06/04
From life-size close up to infinity, superior image quality for digital SLR cameras is achieved across the range.(2004.6.18)
MACRO 50mm F2.8 EX DG
- Optimized image quality for Digital SLR cameras.
- Floating Internal Focusing (FIF) system minimizes the aberration in entire focusing range.
- Super Multi Layer (SML) coating reduces the ghost caused by reflections from the surface of digital image sensors.
- Minimum aperture of F/45 provides greater depth of field (F/45 for Sigma, Canon and Konica Minolta mounts and F/32 for Nikon and Pentax mounts).
- A screw-in hood for convenient use of circular polarizing filters
Sigma Press Release 18/06/04 From life-size close up to infinity, superior image quality for digital SLR cameras is achieved across the range.(2004.6.18) MACRO 50mm F2.8 EX DG - Optimized image quality for Digital SLR cameras. - Floating Internal Focusing (FIF) system minimizes the aberration in entire focusing range. - Super…
Another new niche digital, the Livecam is a digital 360 degree camera, capable of creating 70 megapixels panoramas.
“Sizes of Livecam files can be scaled up or down depending on available bandwidth, 4mb recommended for a full res panorama and 100 kb for an internet panorama. The camera is capable of shooting panoramas of up to 80mb. The included software’s open-source, so the Livecam portal can be embedded in websites or further developed.”
Thanks to Sanj for the link.
Website: The Inquirer - New livecam can handle 70 megapixels
Website: Livecam
Another new niche digital, the Livecam is a digital 360 degree camera, capable of creating 70 megapixels panoramas. “Sizes of Livecam files can be scaled up or down depending on available bandwidth, 4mb recommended for a full res panorama and 100 kb for an internet panorama. The camera is capable…
Luminous Landscape have reviewed Canon’s new EF70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM telephoto zoom lens, which measures less than 10cm long and includes Canon’s Image Stabilisation technology to reduce camera shake.
“Would I recommend the 70-300 DO? It is probably not for most people, especially at the price. Here in the UK it sells for ?1,049. Canon have to recover the R+D costs of diffractive optics so early products will carry a premium price. They see the technology coming to cheaper lenses eventually, allowing shorter low-cost lenses to be produced. The cost of moulding diffractive elements, if mass-produced, is said not to be inherently high.”
Luminous Landscape have reviewed Canon’s new EF70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM telephoto zoom lens, which measures less than 10cm long and includes Canon’s Image Stabilisation technology to reduce camera shake. “Would I recommend the 70-300 DO? It is probably not for most people, especially at the price. Here in the…
Steves Digicams have just reviewed the Konica Minolta DiMAGE G600, a value-packed, high performance 6 megapixel digital camera.
“We were pleased with the G600’s outdoor shooting results. The lens produced sharp results throughout its 39-117mm (35mm equivalent) zoom range, with a moderate degree of barrel distortion at extreme wide-angle. Chromatic aberrations (purple fringing) were well controlled and nearly absent from our test shots. Our test images were both well exposed and nicely saturated, with colors true to the original subject.”
Website: Steves Digicams - Konica Minolta DiMAGE G600 Review
Steves Digicams have just reviewed the Konica Minolta DiMAGE G600, a value-packed, high performance 6 megapixel digital camera. “We were pleased with the G600’s outdoor shooting results. The lens produced sharp results throughout its 39-117mm (35mm equivalent) zoom range, with a moderate degree of barrel distortion at extreme wide-angle. Chromatic…