Slovenian website Slo-foto.net have just reviewed the Epson P-2000 Multimedia Storage Viewer and Nikon Coolwalker portable storage devices.

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The Slovenian website Slo-foto.net have published their review of the Nikon D50, a new affordable 6.1 megapixel digital SLR.

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DIWA member and Spanish website Nuevafotografia have published their review of the 7 megapixel Sony Cybershot DSC-V3.

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The Lexmark P450 printer is announced today. The Lexmark P450 is a 4x6 inch photo printer with a unique feature, a built-in CD burner. The Lexmark P450 has an estimated street price of $199 and will ship in the US in October.

Lexmark Press Release

Lexmark Introduces First-Ever Inkjet Photo Printer with Built-In CD Burner

—Lexmark P450 makes it easy to save, organize and share digital memories without a computer –

LEXINGTON, Ky., Sept. 12, 2005—Lexmark International, Inc. (NYSE: LXK) today introduced the Lexmark P450 4x6-inch inkjet photo printer, featuring the industry’s first-ever built-in CD photo burner, giving users a complete photo processing center and easy-to-use digital image archiving system—all with no PC hassle.

Users will find it easy and affordable to transfer images from their camera cards to CDs using the built-in CD burner, creating digital archives on CD that are simple to save, organize and share.

“The Lexmark P450 brings more photo processing functions to the home. People can now save and organize their digital photos on CD, print from a cell phone, view their photos on a television and much more. The Lexmark P450 is quite intuitive, easy to use and affordably priced,” said Najib Bahous, Lexmark vice president and president of its Consumer Printer Division.

A couple of Canadian websites are reporting that Konica Minolta has decided to close its Canadian arm. “Stiff competition” is apparently to blame for the closure. Konica Minolta products will continue to be sold in Canada through distributors.

Website: Digital Home Canada - Konica closes Canadian Camera unit

Website: Graphic Exchange News - Konica shuts down Canadian digital camera operation

DIWA member and Polish website Fotopolis have an exclusive review of the new Sony Cyber-shot DSC-R1, a 10.3 megapixel compact camera with an APS-C sized sensor that allows for a “live” preview.

Website: Fotopolis - Sony Cyber-shot DSC-R1 Review

ProFotoSoftware Press Release

ProFotoSoftware, the UK based Digital Imaging Software House, today announced their strategy to eliminate the artificial gap created by proprietary (‘Raw’) Image Formats that are produced by many digital cameras.

This gap is the need to firstly ‘develop’ Raw Images into another format before performing the ‘traditional’ image adjustments such as sharpening, altering saturation and so forth. This has led to the creation of many Raw Development packages, of various costs and qualities, which photographers must use before they can access their images.

Said ProFotoSoftware Founder Andy Bell, “It is our intention to bridge the gap caused by Raw Image Formats by seamlessly integrating them into all our image editing products. Our software will no longer require separate treatment of Raw Images before they can be accessed and edited. “

Smugmug Press Release

Smugmug Aims to Conquer the Earth… One Picture at a Time

“Travel and photos go together like peanut butter and jelly. Putting them together was a ‘No duh’ concept,” says Smugmug founder.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Smugmug Inc., the ultimate photo sharing site, has announced the launch of smugMaps – a feature that allows users to combine photos and maps with a click.

“If you’ve been there and done that, smugMaps let you prove it,” said Don McAskill, co-founder and Chief Geek, Smugmug Inc. “Bragging rights aside, it’s a great way to store your photos by location or let your friends and family experience your travels as though they were actually there.”

Fujifilm UK Press Release

Fujifilm sponsors exhibition of legendary photographer Mick Rock’s most iconic work

Fujifilm is to be the official sponsor of legendary music photographer Mick Rock’s major new exhibition, ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Icons: The Photography of Mick Rock’. The exhibition will have its world premiere at the Urbis, Manchester, from 29 September 2005, running until 8 January 2006, and will present the artist’s most iconic portraiture, along with some of his contemporary work, such as Razorlight, Kasabian and The Killers.

The Urbis exhibition will showcase more than 150 images, chronicling intimate moments with some of the world’s greatest rock legends and will include some rare and previously unseen material. Full details can be found at www.urbis.org.uk.

Nikon USA Press Release

Nikon Kicks off the ‘D50 Digital Experience’ Multi-City Road Tour, Proving To Consumers That Incredible Photos are Incredibly Simple to Take with a D50

MELVILLE, N.Y., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/—This fall consumers in major cities across America will have the chance to see for themselves what the buzz surrounding digital SLR cameras is all about, as Nikon today embarks on a national multi-city road tour to put its newest, lightest and easiest-to-use digital SLR camera - the D50 - directly into the hands of curious consumers. Nikon’s “D50 Digital Experience” tour kicks off today at the St. Louis County Fair and Air Show in St. Louis, Missouri, and will continue on to stops in 11 major cities across the country, helping people experience firsthand how easy taking incredible photos can be using the D50.

Pretec Press Release

Pretec 4GB MMC Plus 266X Extendable to 2TB, the Fastest Flash Memory Card in the World

BERLIN, Germany—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Sept. 4, 2005—Pretec Electronics Corp., the 1st in the world to demonstrate MMC 4.0 card since 2004, and the 1st in the world to offer 4GB SD card since July 2005, has released 4GB MMC Plus 266X, the largest capacity MMC card, and the fastest flash memory card in the world, today at IFA 2005 (Hall 7 1B, Booth #124) in Berlin.

Theoretical maximum speed of today’s popular MMC 3.x and SD 1.0 cards are 2.5MB/s (16X) and 12.5MB/s (83X) in SD’s favor, however, theoretical maximum speed of advanced specifications call for much higher speed of MMC 4.x at 52MB/s (346X) vs. SD 1.1 at 25MB/s (166X). Pretec 4GB MMC Plus 266X, with access speed up to 40MB/s, doubling the speed of recently announced Pretec 4GB SD card 133X, is the fastest small form factor flash memory card of any format in the world. Pretec 4GB MMC Plus is available now for key customer sampling with unit price of $699 each, mass production is scheduled by Q4 of this year.

DigitalCameraReview have published their review of the Fujifilm FinePix Z1 Zoom, a 5 megapixel compact digital camera with a large 2.5inch LCD screen and 3 optical zoom.

“Image quality is a decidedly mixed bag. As I’ve said in other reviews, if you simply desire to print 4x6 or 5x7 prints, the Z1 will do the job. However, in many shaded outdoor photos or indoor photos the images are noisy. In others, the photos appear as if a slight mosaic filter was applied to the image. Lines in images lack definition and patches of solid color appear mottled. This is true of many of the test photos I took.”

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TrustedReviews have reviewed the new 5 megapixel Pentax Optio SVi.

“Of course there’s not much point having lots of nice creative features if you don’t have the picture quality to back them up, but here the Optio SVi scores major points. In every circumstance it turned in nothing but superb top-quality pictures, both social snapshots and artistic photography. Colour rendition was perfect, as were exposure and focusing, all of which coped well with a wide variety of lighting conditions. “

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Imaging Resource have just posted their review of the Fuji FinePix S3 Pro digital SLR.

“Now comes the S3 Pro, a camera that takes a somewhat different path, trading off image resolution to achieve dramatically greater dynamic range. Its body size and design will prompt many to compare it with lower-end (and much cheaper) “prosumer” d-SLRs, but that’s not really a fair comparison, given its amazing imaging capabilities. When it comes to preserving difficult highlights without disturbing the tonality or color rendition of the rest of the image, the Fujifilm S3 Pro is unquestionably without equal anywhere in the digital camera market.””

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DIWA member and Norwegian website Digit.no have published their review of the eagerly-anticipated Panasonic DMC-FZ30. This is an 8 megapixel compact digital camera with a 12x Leica optical zoom lens equivalent to 35-420mm, optical image stabilizer, addition of a manual zoom ring and rotating LCD screen with 235,000 pixels.

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DIWA member and Norwegian website Digit.no have reviewed the Panasonic DMC-LX1, an 8.4 megapixel digital camera with a 4x Leica optical zoom lens equivalent to 28-112mm, optical image stabilizer and a 2.5 inch LCD screen.

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H&M Systems Software Press Release

StudioLine Photo 2 Helps Photographers Email Perfectly Sized Pictures - Release 2.12 Streamlines Digital Imaging Workflow with Email Enhancements

Upper Saddle River, NJ; September 8, 2005—H&M Systems Software, Inc. today introduced Release 2.12 of its award-winning StudioLine® Photo 2 digital imaging software. This latest release streamlines digital imaging workflow by making it easy for photographers to meet critical email deadlines.

“StudioLine Photo 2.12 provides hobby and professional photographers with an efficient way to share photos in just the right size and format,” says Peter Oltersdorf, marketing director, H&M Software. “The level of flexibility and ease of use added to StudioLine 2.12 make it the best image management software in its price range.”

Graphics Management Press - Press Release

Digital Secrets and Graphics Management Press have released DSLR: Canon Digital Rebel XT / EOS 350D eBook.

A deep camera deserves a deep eBook. Something that goes beyond the manual and explores how to get much more out of the camera and its features. That’s the targeted goal of the DSLR series of eBooks.

The Canon Digital Rebel XT is an amazing camera with features so deep that virtually no single photographer uses them all. There are even four different functioning cameras inside the XT and each behaves with different buttons in different ways for different kinds of photographic results.

Here’s a camera that has redefined the DSLR market and the new Rebel XT eBook digs deep beneath its surface to bring out its secrets, special techniques, tricky technologies and wide range of accessories and lenses.

X-Rite Press Release

Epson America, Inc. chooses X-Rite for creating premium RGB ICC profiles for their latest Stylus® Pro product line over competing products

BOOTH# 7518, PRINT 2005, Chicago, IL — September 10, 2005 — X-Rite (NASDAQ: XRIT) today announced that it has signed an agreement with Epson to provide X-Rite premium ICC profiles for its entire Stylus Pro line of printers. ICC profiles are a standard for specifying the color attributes of imaging devices such as digital cameras, scanners, displays, and printers so that the color of an image remains true from source to destination. Epson tested X-Rite’s ICC profiles against many competing profiles for its Stylus Pro 4800, 7800, and 9800 professional series of printers. X-Rite’s ICC profiles proved to provide superior color fidelity, better graybalance, and superior shadow to highlight detail and smoothness. X-Rite’s premium ICC profiles are generated using its award-winning MonacoPROFILER 4.8 software.

PCMagazine have published their review of the Canon PowerShot S2 IS, a 5 megapixel digital camera with a 12x optical zoom equivalent to 36–432mm on a 35mm camera.

“In our PC Labs testing, simulated-daylight shots revealed just a little bit of noise and could have been a bit sharper. Still, they had very good color saturation and accurate color matching. There was some fringing in the image, but overall we found a nice exposure, with a good dynamic range that included a rich, deep black.”

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