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Seculine LED Lighting
Press Release  |  Nov 16, 2011  |  0 comments
Interfit announced the Seculine LED lighting panel, said to be ideal for photographers or videographers on the move or in the studio. LED panel lighting offers portability yet a wide range of lighting potential from a high powered, high definition source. Each panel is fully controllable in 1 to 30 steps with fan cooling to keep the electronics and lamps cool. Two module versions are available to suit your preferred shooting style from Tungsten lighting or Daylight balanced, or the dual controlled Tungsten and Daylight unit. Each has an LCD control panel to keep you informed. Each unit comes with Battery, Battery Charger, Ball & Socket, Honey Comb Grid.
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The Last Windup: Steve McCurry Takes The Last Roll Of Kodachrome
Suzanne Driscoll  |  Nov 15, 2011  |  First Published: Oct 01, 2011  |  1 comments
“Say it isn’t so!” exclaimed photographers all over the world when they heard the news about the end of Kodachrome film. Due to dwindling sales, Kodak made the difficult announcement they would no longer manufacture Kodachrome on June 22, 2009. The one remaining developer in the world, Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas, ceased processing the film early this year.
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Wacom’s All-New Line of Bamboo Pen Tablets
Press Release  |  Nov 15, 2011  |  0 comments
Wacom® introduces an all new lineup of Bamboo™ pen tablets, bringing together an elegant new design and value added software that enhance the use case interests of computer users better than ever. Consisting of three new choices, Bamboo Connect, Bamboo Capture and Bamboo Create, the Bamboo family of tablets bring ideas and creativity to life by delivering a flexible and fun computing experience. Bamboo Connect is designed for visual communicators in a home or office environment who want to express their ideas visually and collaborate with digital ink. Bamboo Capture is the ideal choice for the photo hobbyist who wants to have fun editing or retouching photos with the benefits of Wacom pen input. For the artistically inclined, Bamboo Create is the platform of choice to turn creative ideas into works of art. Bamboo Capture and Bamboo Create also feature multi-touch input capabilities, giving users up to 16 touch points for gesture-based input such as scrolling, zooming and many more, depending on application support.
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The International Polaroid Collection: Impossible And WestLicht Museum Of Photography Preserve A Legacy Of Images
Staff  |  Nov 14, 2011  |  First Published: Oct 01, 2011  |  0 comments
Editor’s note: One of the joys of attending photokina in Cologne, Germany every two years was the display at the Polaroid stand (they had a hall to themselves) where works by renowned artists and photographers on Polaroid materials would be displayed. When the old company went out of business many of us were concerned with what happened to that collection. Now, the International Polaroid Collection has been preserved, thanks to the Impossible Project and WestLicht. Following is their official announcement, plus they courteously granted us permission to reproduce a few images from the vast collection as well.
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Phottix Odin TTL Flash Trigger
Press Release  |  Nov 14, 2011  |  0 comments
OmegaBrandess and Phottix are proud to announce the forthcoming availability of a new product: The Phottix Odin TTL Flash Trigger for Canon (patent pending). The Phottix Odin will start to appear in US shops in October.
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The Pentax K-5: It’s A Matter Of Tradition
Joe Farace  |  Nov 11, 2011  |  First Published: Oct 01, 2011  |  2 comments

Pentax has a long history of innovation as well as a rabid fan base that loves the company’s tradition of optical excellence and originality. In fact, this fan base is the reason I’m writing this review. If you’re not already a Pentaxian you probably didn’t know that Pentax (derived from PENTAprism refleX) built the first camera to incorporate a penta-prism viewfinder and reflex mirror system in 1957 and went on to introduce the first TTL metering system in 1964. While late to the digital SLR game, when they finally arrived it was with a series of entry-level cameras that delivered impressive image quality at affordable prices. Over time they’ve dipped their toes into the semipro market and the K-5 is the latest model with professional aspirations yet it retains all the quirky uniqueness that all Pentax cameras have and that endears them to so many photographers.

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Free ArcSoft Perfect365 for One-Touch Photo Makeovers
Press Release  |  Nov 11, 2011  |  0 comments
ArcSoft, Inc.’s Perfect365 is a free photo makeover software application that lets users adjust up to 21 individual facial features on their pictures and portraits with a single click of a button. Perfect365 is immediately available as a free download for Windows PC at www.perfect365.com. The iPad and iPhone versions are to be available in mid-November, and the Facebook and Mac versions will be available before the end of the year.
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The Nikon COOLPIX P500: Ultra Zoom Personified
George Schaub  |  Nov 10, 2011  |  First Published: Oct 01, 2011  |  0 comments

The 12.1-megapixel Nikon COOLPIX P500 ($399.95, MSRP) is an integral lens camera with an incredible zoom range of 36x—that’s optical, not digital zoom and it gives you the equivalent angle of view of a wide-angle 22.5mm to a super tele of 810mm! The Zoom-Nikkor ED glass lens can also be used for “super close-ups” with a minimum focusing distance of 0.4”.

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Simply Color Lab’s Simply VIVID Prints
Press Release  |  Nov 10, 2011  |  0 comments
Simply Color Lab, Inc. announces its new line of 100% digital photos – Simply VIVID Prints. With bolder, more vibrant colors, the new line brings professional photographers a better, faster, less-expensive alternative to traditional prints.  And have the added benefit of being eco-friendly.

Simply Color Lab, Inc., which provides print services to professional photographers including canvas, paper prints, and press-printed products, will be adding to their paper prints line with Simply Vivid™ Prints. This new line of prints utilizes state-of-the-art printing processes and inks that allow the most bold, vibrant colors available in the industry. The larger color gamut and digital process offers better consistency and color accuracy and allows photographers to more accurately represent what was actually photographed without compromising color range as in the past.

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Denver Art Museum Presents Robert Adams Retrospective: Robert Adams: The Place We Live Opens September 25, 2011
Staff  |  Nov 09, 2011  |  First Published: Oct 01, 2011  |  0 comments
The Denver Art Museum (DAM) is the first US venue for Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs. The exhibition will feature more than 200 black-and-white photos spanning Adams’s 45-year career, showcasing the artistic legacy of the American photographer and his longstanding engagement with the contemporary Western landscape. Adams lived and worked in Colorado for nearly 30 years. Many of his most acclaimed images were taken in the Rocky Mountain region and will strike a familiar chord with visitors. The exhibition, organized by the Yale University Art Gallery, will be on view September 25, 2011-January 2, 2012 in the museum’s Gallagher Family Gallery.
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