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Jeff over at DCResource has just launched his new printers orientated website, PrinterSpot.com. This new website is aimed at providing news and reviews for both photo and multifunction printers. The site will be run by Marc Frochtzweig and Jef Keller and already sports seven printer reviews including the Canon Selphy CP710, Pixma iP6000D, Epson PictureMate Deluxe Viewer Edition and the HP Photosmart 8250. We wish Marc and Jeff all the best with their new venture. Do them a favour and pop over to see if there’s anything of interest for you.

Olympus Europe introduces six kits to accompany the sales start of the E-330 digital SLR. Whatever your interest, you will find a customized, professional solution for any situation: - Pro kit: Body, Lens, Flash and Bag - Traveling Pro kit: Body, 2 Lenses, Flash and Bag - Medical & Macro kit, Body, 2 Lenses, ring Flash, Bag - Architecture Pro kit: Body 2 Lenses, Flash, Bag - Nature Pro kit: Body, 4! Lenses and Bag - Underwater Pro kit: Body, 2 lenses, Flash, Underwater Cases, Ports and Brackets…

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The Panasonic Lumix DMC-L1 is Panasonic’s first digital SLR, and it’s the second digital SLR to feature a live-view LCD screen.

The Olympus E-330 digital SLR is a very good midrange dSLR with unique live scene viewing on its large LCD.

When I introduced the Earthbound Light Solution for Curves (and other goodies) in Photoshop Elements just over a year ago, I also wrote briefly about a nice plug-in known as Curvemeister that I’ve been meaning to take a more detailed look at ever since. By now, Curvemeister is up to version 2.1. Mike Russell, the program’s author has indeed been busy, and the thoughtful features found throughout the program are the obvious result….

(GOLDEN, CO) March 25, 2006…Nothing screams "take me with you" quite like the line of PENTAX Optio waterproof digital cameras. So, that is exactly what world-class surf champion Kelly Slater and his friends did when they convened recently for the second annual Kelly Slater Invitational (KSI) surfing event on the beautiful coast of Kona, Hawaii in February 2006. Every year, KSI brings together pro surfers, Hollywood celebrities and musical guests…

AP - Toshiba won a lawsuit against South Korean rival Hynix Semiconductor over patents for computer chips widely used in cell phones, digital cameras and portable music players.

PC World - Beating Blur: The latest hot feature in digital cameras is antishake technology, which helps reduce photo blurriness resulting from a shutterbug’s jitters. Several leading camera makers have introduced antishake features in their affordable point-and-shoot lines.

The updated Fujifilm FinePix S5200 offers great value with a 10x optical zoom and 5.1-megapixel CCD in an amazingly small package. The S5200’s higher resolution is a welcome improvement, providing great image quality for a budget-priced digital camera, and its 10x optical zoom is excellent for distant subjects. Its color is more accurate than that of most consumer digicams, alth…

Epson Perfection 4490 Office provides automatic document scanning along with advanced photo imaging capabilities at an affordable price LONG BEACH, Calif., March, 23, 2006 - Epson America, Inc. is announcing the latest addition to its Perfection line of scanners with the Epson Perfection 4490 Office model. This product combines the best of two worlds for small office/home office businesses by adding advanced, automated document scanning capabilities…

Being lightweight and capable of taking quality images, this shooter is ideal for amateurs and photography enthusiasts who want to strike a balance between looking semi-professional and having the optical power.

On March 24 Ricoh will release firmware to improve GR Digital operability. The new functions are: (1) A new mode where the LCD screen does not light up when shooting: This is also convenient when using an external viewfinder. (2) Settings adjusted by the ADJ. dial or zoom button can be set by half-pressing the shutter release button. (3) The direction of rotation for adjusting aperture and shutter speed with the dial can be selected: This allows users to adjust the direction of rotation for operations to match other cameras they are familiar with…

Web Site Continues to Inspire and Educate Photographers at All Levels with Helpful Tips and Techniques from World-Class Pros Fountain Valley, CA – March 20, 2006 – Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, announced that world-class portrait and fashion photographer Barbara Bordnick is the new featured photographer on Kingston’s Icons of Photography beginning today. “Icons of Photography” is an online forum…

So you want to take your collection of photographs from decades past and be able to send them through email? Just scan them on a flatbed scanner or take the film to a lab and have them scanned. It sounds too easy, but this is the best way to get your film into your computer. The only problem with scanning old film and photographs is the degradation in quality: dust, scratches, and fading color. Thankfully, we have Adobe Photoshop on our side.

Lightning Strikes: At 12.4MP, this bolt is fast and highly charged

Reuters - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
(005930.KS) expects flash memory chip prices to stabilize at
the end of the second quarter, a top executive said on Tuesday,
as demand for the chips used in MP3 music players and digital
cameras recovers.

The DIMA digital camera shoot-out event at the recent PMA show seems to have passed quietly and even had a significant smaller scope as before. In 2004 and 2005 we have seen winning digital cameras selected from 9 categories, 7 point-and-shoot digital cameras and 2 digital SLRs. This year we have seen only 3 winners in 6 point-and-shoot categories: - $100 to $199 category: HP Photosmart M22 - $200 to $299 category: Pentax Optio W10 - $300 to $399 category: HP Photosmart R717 You wonder why, may be this is because of this years improved setup and more critical judges…

The generic rule of thumb is that you can expect to successfully hand hold your camera down to a shutter speed of one over the focal length. For example, if you are shooting with a 200mm lens, hand held shots should generally be sharp if your shutter speed is at least 1/200 second. The rule was devised back in the film days though, so it’s worth taking a look at whether digital has changed things    especially after spending the past two weeks looking at other effects of the digital crop factor….