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Canon have released a new firmware update (version 1.2.2) for the EOS-1D Mark II DSLR.
This firmware update (version 1.2.2) includes the following additional functons and improvements:
1. When pressing the DISPLAY button immediately after shooting, the LCD monitor would turn completely white, the camera would hang, and the images in the buffer memory would be lost. Countermeasures for this issue have been incorporated into this update.
2. Errata in the German and Russian language displays have been corrected.
This firmware update applies to cameras with firmware version up to 1.2.1 installed. If your camera’s firmware is already version 1.2.2, it is not necessary to perform this update.
Website: Firmware Update Version 1.2.2
Canon have released a new firmware update (version 1.2.2) for the EOS-1D Mark II DSLR. This firmware update (version 1.2.2) includes the following additional functons and improvements: 1. When pressing the DISPLAY button immediately after shooting, the LCD monitor would turn completely white, the camera would hang, and the images…
The Czech website FotoAparat.cz have reviewed the 5 megapixel Nikon Coolpix 5600 that was announced back at PMA in February.
Website: FotoAparat.cz - Nikon Coolpix 5600 Review
Website: Read my Nikon Coolpix 5600 Review
The Czech website FotoAparat.cz have reviewed the 5 megapixel Nikon Coolpix 5600 that was announced back at PMA in February. Website: FotoAparat.cz - Nikon Coolpix 5600 Review Website: Read my Nikon Coolpix 5600 Review Check the Latest Prices for the Nikon Coolpix 5600 Write a Review of the Nikon Coolpix 5600
digitalreview.ca have published 7 sample images taken with a production version of the Nikon D50, a new affordable 6.1 megapixel digital SLR.
digitalreview.ca have published 7 sample images taken with a production version of the Nikon D50, a new affordable 6.1 megapixel digital SLR. Website: digitalreview.ca - Nikon D50 Sample Images
The Norwegian website Akam.no have reviewed the Ricoh R2, a 5 megapixel digital camera with a 4.8x optical zoom and 2.5 inch LCD screen. The Ricoh Caplio R2 is less than 26mm thick and has a battery life of around 500 shots.
Website: Akam.no - Ricoh R2 Review
The Norwegian website Akam.no have reviewed the Ricoh R2, a 5 megapixel digital camera with a 4.8x optical zoom and 2.5 inch LCD screen. The Ricoh Caplio R2 is less than 26mm thick and has a battery life of around 500 shots. Website: Akam.no - Ricoh R2 Review
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Gomma and JPG are two very new photography magazines that focus on photos rather than equipment and are both sold online - auspiciousdragon.net takes a quick look at both titles.
“Neither contains any advertising. JPG contains very little writing and Gomma almost none. Both are filled with pictures from photographers from (in JPG’s words) “....the great in between: not quite amateur, not quite professional. Some do it for art, some as a kind of visual journal, some because they want to become professional one day, and some just because we have to. It’s just what we do.”
Website: auspiciousdragon.net - Gomma & JPG Magazines Review
Gomma and JPG are two very new photography magazines that focus on photos rather than equipment and are both sold online - auspiciousdragon.net takes a quick look at both titles. “Neither contains any advertising. JPG contains very little writing and Gomma almost none. Both are filled with pictures from photographers…
In this month’s Sunday Morning Photographer column Mike Johnston considers all things lens-related.
“Well, this is possibly the silliest and potentially least useful thing I’ve ever done in my life as a photo-writer, but I’ve decided to publish my personal list of BOKEH RATINGS. I’ve simply assigned a numerical ranking on a scale of 1-10 to some of the many of the camera lenses I’m familiar with, rating the subjective visual quality of the out-of-d.o.f. areas or bokeh.”
Website: Sunday Morning Photographer: Fun Stuff: Bokeh Ratings and Lens Awards
In this month’s Sunday Morning Photographer column Mike Johnston considers all things lens-related. “Well, this is possibly the silliest and potentially least useful thing I’ve ever done in my life as a photo-writer, but I’ve decided to publish my personal list of BOKEH RATINGS. I’ve simply assigned a numerical ranking…
Good news for everyone who is waiting for the Leica Digital-Modul-R digital back - Leica have announced today that deliveries wil begin on June 15th. This news comes just a couple of weeks after Leica announced that shipments would be delayed, so it seems that the German company have been working hard to rectify last-minute problems.
“Deliveries of the LEICA DIGITAL-MODUL-R will start on June 15th 2005. The digital addition to the Leica R SLR range, developed in cooperation with Denmark’s Imacon A/S and Kodak’s sensor business Kodak ISS has fully met the stringent testing and acceptance conditions of Leica Camera AG and is now ready to market.
“The quality of the digital photographs taken with the LEICA DIGITAL-MODUL-R is even better than we expected. The new product shows that Leica is able to puts its special strengths in optics and product design into attractive, high-performance digital solutions. Our customers had to wait longer than planned for the unique digital solution from Leica, but are now rewarded with an outstanding product,“ says Mario Thurnherr, Manager of Leica Camera’s Photo Division.”
Good news for everyone who is waiting for the Leica Digital-Modul-R digital back - Leica have announced today that deliveries wil begin on June 15th. This news comes just a couple of weeks after Leica announced that shipments would be delayed, so it seems that the German company have been…
DIWA member LetsGoDigital have reviewed the Ricoh R2, a 5 megapixel digital camera with a 4.8x optical zoom and 2.5 inch LCD screen. The Ricoh Caplio R2 is less than 26mm thick and has a battery life of around 500 shots.
“Concluding I can say that the Ricoh Caplio R2 left a good impression. The overall quality is fine and the settings offer the (beginning) photographer many creative possibilities. We did have some comments, but still we’d like to recommend the Ricoh Caplio R2 for those who look for a digital camera at which speed and ease are on par. Add to this the excellent quality of the housing, the beautiful optical range and you will find a compact 5 megapixel camera with sufficient potency to offer the beginning photographer a lot of photographic joy over a long period of time.”
Website: LetsGoDigital - Ricoh R2 Review
DIWA member LetsGoDigital have reviewed the Ricoh R2, a 5 megapixel digital camera with a 4.8x optical zoom and 2.5 inch LCD screen. The Ricoh Caplio R2 is less than 26mm thick and has a battery life of around 500 shots. “Concluding I can say that the Ricoh Caplio R…
DigiCamReview.co.uk have published their review of the 4 megapixel Canon PowerShot A520 digital camera.
“Image quality is very good, the images have very good colour, saturation, contrast and good detail with farly low purple fringing - however there is high noise at ISO200 and ISO400, and images are a bit soft. The camera did a good job focusing. There is a good range of image sizes and a very good choice of compression options. The macro mode is good. Auto white balance and metering seemed to be good. Red-eye was controlled well. The movie mode is good but oudated due to the limited length videos and low frame rate.”
Website: DigiCamReview.co.uk - Canon PowerShot A520 Review
DigiCamReview.co.uk have published their review of the 4 megapixel Canon PowerShot A520 digital camera. “Image quality is very good, the images have very good colour, saturation, contrast and good detail with farly low purple fringing - however there is high noise at ISO200 and ISO400, and images are a bit…
DIWA member and Turkish website Diginorm have posted their review of the 5 megapixel, 10x optical zoom Kodak EASYSHARE DX7590 digital camera.
Website: Diginorm - Kodak EasyShare DX7590 Review
DIWA member and Turkish website Diginorm have posted their review of the 5 megapixel, 10x optical zoom Kodak EASYSHARE DX7590 digital camera. Website: Diginorm - Kodak EasyShare DX7590 Review Check the Latest Prices for the Kodak EasyShare DX7590 Write a Review of the Kodak EasyShare DX7590
The Czech website Digineff have published the first online review of the Ricoh Caplio GX8, an 8.24 megapixel update of the Ricoh Caplio GX.
Website: Digineff - Ricoh GX8 Review
Website: Read my Ricoh Caplio GX8 Review
The Czech website Digineff have published the first online review of the Ricoh Caplio GX8, an 8.24 megapixel update of the Ricoh Caplio GX. Website: Digineff - Ricoh GX8 Review Website: Read my Ricoh Caplio GX8 Review
DIWA member and Danish website Digital Magasinet have published their review of the new 8 megapixel Canon EOS 350D / Digital Rebel XT DSLR.
Website: Digital Magasinet - Canon EOS 350D / Digital Rebel XT Review
Check the Latest Prices for the Canon EOS 350D / Digital Rebel XT
DIWA member and Danish website Digital Magasinet have published their review of the new 8 megapixel Canon EOS 350D / Digital Rebel XT DSLR. Website: Digital Magasinet - Canon EOS 350D / Digital Rebel XT Review Check the Latest Prices for the Canon EOS 350D / Digital Rebel XT Write…
Pocket-Lint have reviewed the 5 megapixel Nikon Coolpix 5600 that was announced at PMA in February.
”...overall image quality is very good with detail in macro particularly excellent and metering also generally very good in all but some bright landscapes shots, where it seemed to want to underexpose. Even using the camera’s Landscape scene mode I got some uncharacteristically dark images although you do get +/-2EV exposure compensation to play with so this can be countered.”
Website: Pocket-Lint - Nikon Coolpix 5600 Review
Website: Read my Nikon Coolpix 5600 Review
Pocket-Lint have reviewed the 5 megapixel Nikon Coolpix 5600 that was announced at PMA in February. ”...overall image quality is very good with detail in macro particularly excellent and metering also generally very good in all but some bright landscapes shots, where it seemed to want to underexpose. Even using…
DIWA member and Czech website FotoAparat have published their review of the new Nikon D70s DSLR camera.
Website: FotoAparat - Nikon D70s Review
Website: Read my Nikon D70s Review
DIWA member and Czech website FotoAparat have published their review of the new Nikon D70s DSLR camera. Website: FotoAparat - Nikon D70s Review Website: Read my Nikon D70s Review Check the Latest Prices for the Nikon D70s Write a Review of the Nikon D70s
The Spanish website Quesabesde have posted their review of the new Olympus mju DIGITAL 500 digital camera (also known as the Olympus Stylus 500), which has 5 megapixels, a 3X optical zoom lens and large 2.5” LCD display.
Website: Quesabesde - Olympus mju DIGITAL 500 Review
The Spanish website Quesabesde have posted their review of the new Olympus mju DIGITAL 500 digital camera (also known as the Olympus Stylus 500), which has 5 megapixels, a 3X optical zoom lens and large 2.5” LCD display. Website: Quesabesde - Olympus mju DIGITAL 500 Review Check the Latest Prices…
Imaging Resource have reviewed the Konica Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400 II film scanner, the successor to the popular Scan Elite 5400 model.
“What impressed us especially was how easy it was to confuse a color negative conversion with a slide capture. We didn’t find much fault with the 5400’s negative conversion and there’s little evidence of the new Film Expert Algorithm in the 5400 II. You don’t, that is, have to select a film type (as you do in VueScan). We threw a very oddly colored Kodak Gold 200-2 emulsion at it and got a very nice conversion (VueScan handled this well, too).”
Website: Imaging Resource - Konica Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400 II Review
Check the Latest Prices for the Konica Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400 II
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Imaging Resource have reviewed the Konica Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400 II film scanner, the successor to the popular Scan Elite 5400 model. “What impressed us especially was how easy it was to confuse a color negative conversion with a slide capture. We didn’t find much fault with the 5400’s…
The Nikon Coolpix 8400 is a digital camera with a rather unique selling point. The Nikon 8400 has a 24mm wide-angle lens, which is currently the widest focal length available on any compact digital camera. This does come at the expense of a shorter telephoto focal length, which is equivalent to 85mm, but that is still fine for portrait shots. Other standout features on the Nikon 8400 include an 8 megapixel sensor with support for RAW, TIFF and JPEG formats, full creative control over exposure in the form of aperture-priority, shutter-priority and manual modes, plus a hotshoe that accepts a Nikon Speedlight flashgun. The Nikon Coolpix 8400 is aimed firmly at the serious prosumer, but can it compete in a market where DSLR cameras are quickly becoming more affordable? Read my review to find out.
Website: Nikon Coolpix 8400 Review
The Nikon Coolpix 8400 is a digital camera with a rather unique selling point. The Nikon 8400 has a 24mm wide-angle lens, which is currently the widest focal length available on any compact digital camera. This does come at the expense of a shorter telephoto focal length, which is equivalent…
In what must be one of the most prolonged digital camera “launches” in history, more details have emerged about the Samsung Digimax 815 that I reported on a few weeks ago. Several websites have published the full specification and more pictures of the Samsung 815. As the name suggests, the Samsung 815 will have an 8 megapixel sensor and a massive 15x optical zoom lens equivalent to 28-420 mm. Other standout features include a 3.5 inch LCD screen with 235,000 pixels, which will easily be the largest on any digital camera, plus a 1900 mAh litium-ion battery that allows you to take around 500 shots. No mention of image stabilisation for that zoom lens though…
In what must be one of the most prolonged digital camera “launches” in history, more details have emerged about the Samsung Digimax 815 that I reported on a few weeks ago. Several websites have published the full specification and more pictures of the Samsung 815. As the name suggests, the…
Now that red-eye has been largely banished from digital camera photos, it’s time to remove that other common problem of portrait shots, shut-eye. Yes, a team of scientists have apparently developed a system that eliminates blinking, even from group photographs of up to 30 people. Eye-opening stuff (groan…).
“The system developed by Kaneko’s team gets around the problem by snapping 15 frames in 0.5 seconds after the shutter button is clicked. A computer then rapidly analyses these image, discarding those in which the subject is blinking, leaving photographer with a better final snap.”
Website: New Scientist - Sensor prevents shut-eye in digital snaps
Now that red-eye has been largely banished from digital camera photos, it’s time to remove that other common problem of portrait shots, shut-eye. Yes, a team of scientists have apparently developed a system that eliminates blinking, even from group photographs of up to 30 people. Eye-opening stuff (groan…). “The system…