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Shutterbug’s Exclusive photokina Coverage; Memory Cards: Increases In Speed And Capacity
Peter K. Burian  |  Jan 01, 2009  |  0 comments

Because of the increasing resolution and burst speed of some new cameras, the capacity and speed of memory cards continues to increase. While a super-fast card cannot boost a camera’s maximum framing rate, the extra card speed can provide greater burst depth (more frames in a long series) and shorter data recording times. A high-speed card is also ideal after a long trip, when you’re...

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Shutterbug’s Exclusive photokina Coverage; New Photo Printers: From Desktop To Fine Art Studio
Peter K. Burian  |  Jan 01, 2009  |  0 comments

As the price of D-SLRs and high-resolution digicams drops to more affordable levels, an increasing number of families and serious photo enthusiasts want a better photo printer. We found lots of new machines at the photokina show, some with high-tech features such as Wi-Fi and Ethernet compatibility. Lack of space precludes coverage of every new product, but the following printers are worth...

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Medium Format Camera News
Shutterbug’s Exclusive photokina Coverage; Medium Format: High-Res Backs Raise The Ante
Roger W. Hicks  |  Jan 01, 2009  |  0 comments

As ever, medium format—hereafter MF—ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous. For sublime, it’s hard to beat the new 50-megapixel Hasselblad or the 37.5-megapixel Leica S2, or possibly the Rollei/Sinar/Leaf Hy6, built by Franke & Heidecke (with their new option of a 6x6cm rollfilm back). As for ridiculous, well, I know I’ll get hate mail from Holga owners, but...

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Shutterbug’s Exclusive photokina Coverage; Integral Lens Digital Cameras: Upping The Megapixel Ante
Peter K. Burian  |  Jan 01, 2009  |  1 comments

The primary emphasis was on D-SLRs during the photokina 2008 show, but many new digicams with integral lenses were introduced, including some inexpensive models strictly for quick snapshooting. While those may find eager buyers, I’ll concentrate on cameras intended for the photo enthusiast. In these categories, only a few trends became obvious, starting with resolution: 13- and 14-megapixel...

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Shutterbug’s Exclusive photokina Coverage; Formats Aplenty, Printer/Camera Workflows, And A 3D Comeback
George Schaub  |  Jan 01, 2009  |  1 comments

The photokina trade fair held in Cologne, Germany, every two years has a solid reputation for previews and announcements meant to shake up the practices and worldviews of photographers, be they amateur or pro. This can come in the form of products real and imagined, with some making it to shelves and others just a wistful dream of designers and engineers who hope what they propose will become the...

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Hoya HD Circular Polarizers; Still A Prime Filter In The Digital Age
Jack Neubart  |  Jan 01, 2009  |  0 comments

When I shot film, I carried a number of glass filters in my camera bag to every destination. And since I was shooting slide film, I needed the effect then and there—I didn’t depend on post-processing. Now that I’m shooting digital, one would think that I no longer needed glass filters. Well, that’s a misguided notion. There is always at least one filter in my camera bag: a...

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Editor's Notes
photokina Reports:New Year’s Resolution
George Schaub  |  Jan 01, 2009  |  0 comments

In this issue we bring you our photokina report, information gathered over a week spent at the worldwide photo show held every two years in Cologne, Germany. Our team of reporters covered the vast show halls to bring you reports on the latest products and technology in the photo and imaging world as photokina has always been the source for new trends in photography, and a good deal of inside...

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Digital Innovations
Best Products Not At photokina; There’s More To Imaging Than Those At The Big Show
Joe Farace  |  Jan 01, 2009  |  0 comments

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”—Pablo Picasso

I’ve attended many photokina shows since my first in 1978 where I met two men whose work affects me to this very day. One was Norman Rothschild who wrote a popular magazine column called “Offbeat” and the other was Jean Coquin who had just invented a modular...

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Digital Help
Digital Help
Q&A For Digital Photography
David B. Brooks  |  Jan 01, 2009  |  0 comments

Digital Help is designed to aid you in getting the most from your digital photography, printing, scanning, and image creation. Each month, David Brooks provides solutions to problems you might encounter with matters such as color calibration and management, digital printer and scanner settings, and working with digital photographic images with many different kinds of cameras and software. All...

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News
Free Holiday Frames Now Available for PhotoFrame
 |  Dec 31, 2008  |  0 comments

onOne Software, Inc. announced the availability of holiday-themed frames, textures, layouts, backgrounds, and adornments for their award-winning Photoshop® plug-ins, PhotoFrame 3 and PhotoFrame 4. The new content adds the perfect finishing touch to holiday cards, portraits or albums and is immediately available as free downloads from the onOne Exchange www.ononeexchange.com. These free elements are in addition to the 1000+ frames, backgrounds, textures, and adornments included with PhotoFrame 4 and are compatible with Essentials 2 for Apple iPhotoand Essentials 2 for AdobePhotoshopElements
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“In the spirit of the holidays, we wanted to give our PhotoFrame users free content to add to their frame, texture and adornment library,” said Craig Keudell, president of onOne Software. “This is just the first of many free frame packs that we intend to provide to PhotoFrame users so they continue to get extra value out of their software.”

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