Lomography has just announced the LomoKorrespondent product family, a new line of photo stationery that includes a variety of photo frames, albums and greeting cards. JourneyFrames come in four different sizes, including 10x10cm, 13x13cm, 9x13cm and 10x15cm. Each JourneyFrame is available in a pack of three, selling at €4.90. PhotoAccordions (€8.90-€12.90) are essentially photo albums that fold and unfold like an accordion, while ChapBooks (€9.90) are more traditional photo albums featuring an embossed soft cover and visible stitching line on the spine. Finally Freundschaftskarten, or “friendship cards”, come in sets for 9x13cm and 10x15cm photos, and retail for €6.90 in The Lomography Store.

The 48th Bièvres International Photographic Fair at will open at 2pm on Saturday, 4th June. As every year, this outstanding event of the photographic world will bring together 300 traders and 15000 visitors from France, Europe and the world at large, in an open space of 5 acres. Traders and artists may register now and book their booth through the fair’s website. The show closes at 6pm on Sunday, 5th June.

Jane Hilton’s book, “Dead Eagle Trail”, which contains a collection of her portraits of 21st-century American cowboys, will be launched in the US at Nailya Alexander Gallery on 25th May. The book launch coincides with the opening of her solo show at the Gallery, which will run until 8th July. The title of her book and exhibition refers to her discovery of a dead Golden Eagle in the middle of the road in Nevada. The experience inspired her to document and explore one of the most iconic, romantic archetypes of American culture and history, the cowboy and his way of life. However, unlike previous expositions of the American West, Hilton’s subjects are photographed within their own personal environments, surrounded by their collections of artifacts and memorabilia. Nailya Alexander Gallery is located at 41E 57th Street, Suite 704, New York. The exhibition opens on 25th May, with a book signing taking place from 6.30 – 9.00 p.m. the next day.

pson Print Academy is offering four new photography, printing and imaging classes for 2011. Hosted at Epson’s headquarters in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire from April 2011, with the potential for additional classes to run at the Epson cartridge manufacturing factory in Telford, the classes will provide real-life practical advice on image capture through to print, with expert guidance from highly-knowledgeable Epson staff and acclaimed photographers, the company says. Click through / read on to learn more about the individual classes, entitled “The Perfect Black and White Print”, “Making Perfect Exhibition Prints”, “Confidence with Colour” and “Fine Art Photography”.

The Panasonic GH2 Guidebook is a new camera training course created by Apple Certified Pro instructor Noah Kadner. Available as a digital download, the Panasonic GH2 Guidebook features original content broken down into learning modules with interactive demonstrations and easy to understand, real-world examples. The course focuses on the use of this DSLR-like compact system camera as a filmmaking tool. It can be purchased directly from the publisher for $34.99 through the website below.

Adobe today announced the new Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 product line. This launch marks a major change to Adobe’s product release strategy for Creative Suite, with the company now planning to have milestone Creative Suite product introductions at 24-month intervals and – starting with Creative Suite 5.5 – significant mid-cycle releases designed to “keep the worldwide creative community ahead of the latest advances in content authoring”. From a photographer’s point of view, the most important news related to the CS 5.5 release is the introduction of a new Adobe Photoshop Touch SDK, which enables developers to build tablet applications that interact with Photoshop from Android, BlackBerry PlayBook and iOS devices. Adobe also announced three new iPad applications that demonstrate the creative possibilities of using tablets to drive common Photoshop workflows – Adobe Color Lava for Photoshop, Adobe Eazel for Photoshop and Adobe Nav for Photoshop.

The Adobe Photoshop Touch Software Development Kit allows software developers worldwide to create mobile and tablet applications that interact with Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended. “Our research shows that creatives are adopting tablets faster than any other group and we heard loud and clear that they want to use their devices to interact with Photoshop, the tool they depend on most of all,” said John Loiacono, senior vice president and general manager, Digital Media Solutions, Adobe. Using the software development kit, Adobe has developed three initial Photoshop CS5 companion apps for Apple iPad: Adobe Color Lava for Photoshop, Adobe Eazel for Photoshop and Adobe Nav for Photoshop. The apps are designed to enable users to create custom colour swatches, paint and drive popular Photoshop tools from tablet devices. All three are expected to be available from early May on the iTunes App Store.

HitRolls have released Miniatures Pro, an iOS app that makes time lapse photography easy and accessible for iPad 2, iPod touch and iPhone users. A variety of settings allow users to manipulate the time between shutter clicks, making the application practical for many different types of project. Additionally, it allows users to apply a simulated tilt effect to their videos, which makes the subjects look like miniatures (hence the name, we believe). Miniatures Pro is available for $0.99 through the iTunes App Store.

AKVIS today released an update to AKVIS Enhancer, an image enhancement program that improves image detail and enhances photos through tone correction. It is available both as a standalone application and as a plug-in to a photo editor. Version 12 includes support for batch processing in the standalone edition, adds support for raw image files and includes a new “Prepress” mode, which helps adjust photos before printing or web publishing. Note that two of Enhancer’s modes, “Focus” and “HDR”, which used to be available in previous versions, have been separated from the program and, enriched with some new features, are now offered as AKVIS Refocus and AKVIS HDRFactory. All registered users of Enhancer v.1.0-11.5 can get these new programs for free.

Pentax has partnered with Warner Bros. Consumer Products, on behalf of DC Entertainment, to offer a DC Super Heroes-inspired collection of personalised Pentax Optio RS1500 cameras Owners of the “DC Super Heroes RS1500” collector pack can personalise their camera with one of their favourite Super Heroes including Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash and Superman, or super villains, such as Catwoman and The Joker. Obviously targeted at the adolescent market, the limited-edition RS1500 camera will come in a specially designed package, including different skins depicting the well known characters, and a 4GB SD card. Timed to coincide with the release of a new Warner Brothers action-adventure film, Green Lanterns, the Pentax Optio RS1500 DC Super Heroes collector pack will be available from 1 May 2011 at the RRP of £119.99 including the camera itself, the super hero themed skins, memory card and a special Green Lantern protective camera case.

Painting with Light: Light Art Performance Photography is a new title from Rocky Nook. Light Art Performance Photography is a unique form of art that was invented and developed by the authors of Painting with Light, Joerg Miedza and JanLeonardo Woellert. Unlike other types of light painting, Light Art Performance Photography doesn’t just involve illuminating existing objects; it also requires the photographer to create and capture new subjects constructed entirely of light. Real-world surroundings are combined with transient, light-based elements to produce spectacular effects. This bookdescribes the evolution of Light Art Performance Photography as told by its originators, while the middle section goes on to present a gallery of images. The final section offers some basic steps and tips to give you a starting point for creating your own artworks. The 224-page book is available now for £27.50 / $39.95 through the website below.

Canon has announced function-enhancing firmware upgrades for its XF300 and XF305 camcorders, which will enable two units to be easily set up for 3D HD video recording. The firmware upgrades also bring about an updated Scan Reverse function, Double Slot Recording for instantaneous backup, and the option to disable Relay Recording. Canon will be demonstrating the 3D recording functionality at its booth, # C4325, at the NAB Show in the Las Vegas Convention Center, starting Monday.

Canon USA has introduced two advanced-design PL-mount lenses that address the emerging 4K production standards. Designated as the Canon FK14.5-60 wide-angle cine zoom and the Canon FK30-300 telephoto cine zoom, both of these lenses are more compact and lightweight than contemporary PL-mount lenses and both feature a totally new Canon optical design that virtually eliminates focus breathing. The wide-angle FK14.5-60 (pictured) maintains its T2.6 maximum aperture over the entire focal range, and boasts a high MTF even wide open. (T-stops are prectically f-stops corrected for light loss caused by the absorbance and reflectance of the actual lens elements employed.) As you will probably have guessed, these lenses are not meant for the amateur videographer, although some of the technology used to make them may eventually trickle down to lenses used by mere mortals.

Canon has announced the latest update for its EOS Movie Plug-in-E1 – a custom-developed application that provides quicker and easier editing of EOS Movie footage in Apple’s Final Cut Pro software suite. Version 1.2 makes the importing of EOS Movie files even easier, allowing users to transfer files from any folder, without needing to mirror the folder structure on the camera itself. In addition, the update also enables smoother importing from Canon’s EOS 7D, EOS 5D Mark II and EOS-1D Mark IV models, allowing users to import footage without requiring the THM file generated by the camera. The free update will be available for download from 25th April.

Delkin has announced a USB 3.0 Universal Memory Card Reader boasting transfer speeds over 12 times that of current USB 2.0 readers. This new unit from Delkin promises to deliver actual speeds approximated around 3.2 Gb/s, or 400 MB/s, the company claims. “Our customers are primarily photographers, videographers and early adopters of technology,” explains Marketing Manager, Anna Lopez.  “While we’re not seeing USB 3.0 in every new computer sale just yet, our unique market is hungry for the increased speeds that will enable the transferring of large HD and 3D video files and raw image files without the lag that they experience with USB 2.0 technology.”  Five memory card slots enable universal compatibility across dozens of flash card formats including UDMA enabled CompactFlash cards, SDXC enabled Secure Digital cards and brand-specific memory cards such as Memory Stick and xD. The Delkin USB 3.0 Universal Memory Card Reader will be available shortly for a retail price of $39.99.

Delkin has announced its fastest memory card built to Secure Digital format specifications, with a 633X speed rating that more than triples previous Class 10 capabilities. Boasting read speeds of up to 95MB/s and write speeds of up to 80MB/s, the new Elite 633X UHS-I SDHC memory card from Delkin utilises the Secure Digital Association’s “Ultra High Speed” (UHS-I) specification, which enables bus-interface speeds up to 104 Megabytes per second and full backwards compatibility among SDHC and SDXC host devices. The Delkin Elite 633 card will be offered in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB capacities, with a 64GB SDXC version planned for the near future. Cards will begin shipping on 13 April 2011 to speciality photography and videography retailers worldwide at retail prices of $139.99, $249.99 & $439.99, respectively.

Technicolor has announced it has formed a strategic alliance with Canon USA. Aimed at facilitating “greater usability and integration of Canon EOS DSLR cameras into the motion picture and television production pipeline”, the cooperation was prompted by key professional cinematographers “eager to incorporate Canon EOS DSLR cameras into their creative palettes”, the two companies said in a statement. The first fruit of this cooperation is the new Technicolor CineStyle, a profile that gives post-production professionals image files with much greater latitude and versatility when colour grading EOS footage.