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February 27, 2006 - 17.00 GMT Samsung announces the VP-MS15, the market’s first digital camera that comes with built-in 512MB memory, blending six innovative functions - including camcorder, digital camera, MP3 player, voice recorder, PC camera and storage device - into one handy device as small as an identity card. The camera comes in light but solid aluminum body in metallic, high-gloss exterior in metallic silver, wine red and mysterious black and chrome-plated framework with a non-protruding optical 3x zoom lens and a 2.5” LCD screen…

Samsung announces the VP-MS15, the market’s first digital camera that comes with built-in 512MB memory, blending six innovative functions - including camcorder, digital camera, MP3 player, voice recorder, PC camera and storage device - into one handy device as small as an identity card. The camera comes in light but solid aluminum body in metallic, high-gloss exterior in metallic silver, wine red and mysterious black and chrome-plated framework with a non-protruding optical 3x zoom lens and a 2.5″ LCD screen…

By shooting RAW you are making the most of your camera and bring out the best of your photos via PP(post processing). The myth for some novice SLR photographers is that RAW is big (file size wise) and harder / more time consuming to work with.
Well, let me bust that myth for you. […]

PMA 2006: Today HP announced its new A3+ Photo Printer, the Photosmart Pro B9180. With eight individual high capacity pigment ink cartridges that can print up to 80 A3+ prints, or 840 10×15cm photos. The B9180 is said to produce instantly dry, waterproof prints that resist fading for up to 200 years.

OTTAWA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Feb. 27, 2006–Corel Corporation today announced a partnership with Lexar Media, Inc. (Nasdaq: LEXR) to provide customers with a unique automated solution for transforming photos as they are downloaded from a memory card. Corel(R) Paint Shop Pro(R) X and Corel(R) Photo Album(TM) 6 software will now support the Lexar(R) ActiveMemory-enabled flash memory cards for digital cameras. By storing their Paint Shop Pro X automation script on a Lexar AMS-enabled flash memory card, customers can download and preprocess their photos in a single, seamless process.

ORLANDO, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Feb. 27, 2006–Corel Corporation today introduced Paint Shop Pro Photo Art Suite at the PMA 2006 International Convention and Trade Show. Corel has combined three powerful products into one box, making the Photo Art Suite the easiest way to manage, fix, and add a creative touch to all your digital photos. The suite contains Paint Shop Pro(R) X, Photo Album(TM) 6 - Deluxe Edition, and Painter(TM) Essentials 3 - all for one low price.

We’re continuing to publish new items all day long from the show floor at the Photo Marketing Association tradeshow. Over the last few hours, we’ve posted two new videos - one looking at color calibration with Ross Hendricks from ColorVision by DataColor, and the other covering the Pepcom DigitalFocus press event (products include Pantone’s Huey color calibration system, Shutterfly’s online photo services, and Olympus’ Stylus 720SW digital came…

After a preliminary tour of the trade show floor, we gain some perspective on what’s going on at the afternoon’s keynote and an evening with Adobe. There’s certainly a subtle shift toward integration — or playing nice, as one rep put it. Hardware with software, software with other software. Alliances were to be seen everywhere you looked. The afternoon keynote focused on turning the digital photography craze into a photo print bonanza. An…

February 27, 2006 - 08.45 GMT Sigma announces the new APO 70-200mm F2.8 EX DG Macro HSM lens. This large aperture telephoto zoom lens has a minimum focusing distance of 100cm (39.4 inch) throughout the entire zoom range. Sigma’s APO zoom lenses have been made using special low-dispersion (SLD) glass, to minimize color aberration and a motor driven by ultrasonic waves (HSM) ensures high-speed and quiet auto focus…

Rider: John Hauer, Location: Cupertino, CA

One of the things I wated to experiment with this shot is to bring some pop to the rider and isolate it from its rather cluttered background. This is actually one of the few times I have positioned a flash behind the subject to created the effect and something […]

Sigma announces the new APO 70-200mm F2.8 EX DG Macro HSM lens. This large aperture telephoto zoom lens has a minimum focusing distance of 100cm (39.4 inch) throughout the entire zoom range. Sigma’s APO zoom lenses have been made using special low-dispersion (SLD) glass, to minimize color aberration and a motor driven by ultrasonic waves (HSM) ensures high-speed and quiet auto focus…

Hewlett-Packard Co. has announced a new printer model based on pigmented inks that the company says has shown fade resistance of more than 200 years in preliminary testing. The tests, conducted by Wilhelm Imaging Research, suggest that HP’s Photosmart Pro B9180 Professional Photo Printer will offer exceptional fade resistance (when using the new eight-color HP Vivera pigment inks and HP Advanced Photo Paper, HP Matte Photo Paper, HP Hahnem&uum…

Breakthrough photo kiosk and in-store studio deployed in chains nationwide PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 23, 2006 - HP today marked its entrance into the retail photo-printing market with the introduction of a self-service photo kiosk and an in-store photo studio that will be rolled out in top-tier retail chains nationwide. Albertsons, Longs Drugs Stores, Bashas’ Supermarkets and specialty photo stores Dan’s Camera City in Allentown, Pa., and Rush Hour…

The Canon EOS 30D is a modest update to the excellent EOS 20D.

Olympus Corporation (Olympus) and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic) have been engaged in joint development of cameras that comply with the Four Thirds System standard for interchangeable-lens-type digital SLR cameras, and will display the fruit of their labors at the PMA 2006 International Convention and Trade Show that starts today, February 26, in Orlando, Florida. Olympus will exhibit the E-330, a recently introduced product…

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., whose digital cameras are sold under the Panasonic brand name, has today unveiled what may be one of the most anticipated products at this year’s Photo Marketing Association tradeshow. The Panasonic Lumix DMC-L1 brings to fruition the company’s pledge last April that it would create a digital SLR under its own branding, compatible with Olympus’ Four Thirds lens mount standard. The L1 looks to be quite a…

Alongside Panasonic’s announcement of its new single-lens reflex digital camera, the company has today released news of a new lens that is a joint development with Leica Camera AG. The Leica D VARIO-ELMARIT 14-50mm/F2.8-3.5 ASPH lens is, the companies note, the first interchangeable Leica lens to be designed specifically for digital cameras. The lens offers Panasonic’s proprietary MEGA O.I.S. image stabilization technology, and also integrates…

Casio USA has today announced its new EXILIM EX-Z60 digital camera. Announced in Europe and Asia on February 21st, the EX-Z60 will reach US shores by mid April, with two variants - black and silver body colors respectively - both being available priced at $249.99. The Z60 is a six megapixel camera with a 3x optical zoom lens, 2.5" LCD display, USB 2.0 High-Speed and NTSC/PAL video connectivity. It stores images on SD / MMC cards and 8.3M…

As this year’s PMA 2006 trade show is about to kick off, Casio USA has officially announced the EXILIM ZOOM EX-Z600, a camera that was announced in late January in the rest of the world. Full details can be found in our coverage of the earlier announcement. To recap, though, the EX-Z600 is a six megapixel ultracompact model with a 3x optical zoom lens, and a large 2.7" LCD display. The camera offers a generous helping of scene modes (dubb…

Sigma Corp. has today announced a new 70-200mm lens destined for the Canon, Nikon and Sigma lens mounts. The Sigma APO 70-200mm F2.8 EX DG MACRO HSM lens has eighteen elements in fifteen groups, and a nine bladed diaphragm, with an angle of view ranging from 34.3° - 12.3°. It focuses down to 100 centimeters, accepts a 77mm filter thread, and weighs 1,380 grams. More details can be found in the specifications sheet and press release bel…