December 1, 2007

Lifehacker has published a two-part article on everything you need to know to start using your new digital SLR camera effectively. Among the lessons are the proper use of the flash, which ISO mode to use and when, maintaining proper white balance, controlling shutter speed and aperture size, composition, and the proper use of priority modes.

November 28, 2007

Anandtech has published their digital camera buyers guide for 2008. They have dubbed it the Year of the DSLR, because digital SLR cameras are getting better, faster, and cheaper. Among the cameras reviewed: Canon 5D, Olympus E-510, Canon 1Ds Mark III, Sony A700, Canon EOS 40D, Nikon D300, Olympus E-3, Nikon D40X, Olympus E-410, Olympus E-510, Pentax K10D, and Canon Rebel XTi.

August 6, 2005

MacDevCenter has published an informative guide to using the Flickr online photo management and sharing service. Find out how to create an account, upload photos, categorize groups of photos, and use the Flickr API to build cool web applications.

April 22, 2005

Nikon is about to release the Nikon D50, an affordable digital SLR based on the popular Nikon D70. Digital Photography Review has published a detailed preview of the product. Besides for costing less than the Nikon D70, the Nikon D50 is smaller, lighter, and easier to use. It also has enhanced autofocus when used with motion tracking. The Nikon D50 uses SD memory cards, unlike the Nikon D70, which uses CF memory cards. The Nikon D50 competes with other affordable digital SLR cameras like the Canon EOS 350D (Digital Rebel XT) and the Olympus E-300.

April 6, 2005

SiliconValleyWatcher is reporting that Apple has contracted with a small British company to use a powerful video processing chip designed for mobile devices. The chip can perform 3D rendering, play video on a 3.5 inch color LCD, and capture 8 megapixel images. The speculation is that Apple is working on a video player iPod that is also a gaming device, 8 megapixel digital camera, and possibly a cell phone.

April 4, 2005

Adobe today launched Adobe Creative Suite 2, containing updated versions of Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Version Cue, and GoLive. It also contains Adobe Bridge, designed for integrating workflow among the various components of the suite. Adobe has set retail price of the suite at $1,199 for the Premium edition ($549 for the upgrade), and $899 for the Standard edition ($349 for the upgrade).

April 2, 2005

O'Reilly Digital Media has published an article with very useful tips and tricks for boosting the performance of Adobe Photoshop Elements 3 for Windows.

April 1, 2005

PC Magazine just published a blockbuster digital camera review, taking a close look at 24 popular digital cameras in six different categories.

March 28, 2005

Details of Adobe's Creative Suite 2 have emerged after an accidental early posting of a press release. The product, to be announced on April 4th, has a number of significant improvements over the current Photoshop Creative Suite. New features include enhanced red eye and blemish removal tools, lens distorion removal, updated support for raw images, as well as new high quality scaling algorithms. In addition, new tools called Vanishing Point and Image Warp will provide enhanced professional image manipulation.

March 26, 2005

HardwareZone has an extensive 19 page review of the new Nikon D2X Digital SLR. This successor to the popular D1X features 12.4 megapixels, a new CMOS sensor (instead of CCD), 2.5-inch LCD display, USB 2.0 connectivity, optional wireless networking and GPS support, and much more. As for speed, it can shoot at five frames per second at the full 12.4-megapixel resolution or at eight frames per second at a lower 6.8-megapixel resolution.

March 23, 2005

A number of tech review sites have published reviews of the Canon EOS 350D (also known as the Digital Rebel XT). This 8 megapixel digital SLR offers a host of improvements over the original Digital Rebel, including being smaller, lighter, faster, and having many more features.

March 21, 2005

HP today announced that it is acquiring the Snapfish online photo service. Snapfish has 13 million registered members. Financial terms were not disclosed.

March 21, 2005

Yahoo has purchased Flicker, an online photo-sharing service. Yahoo hopes to integrate Flickr services with its own new Yahoo 360 service to better compete with an offering from Microsoft called MSN Spaces.

March 21, 2005

AnandTech has posted an excellent guide to digital photo postprocessing using Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. It's surprising how much a digital photo can be improved with a just a few simple steps.

March 12, 2005

AnandTech has posted a review of the Nikon Coolpix 4100, an affordable 4-megapixel digital camera with 3x optical zoom and the capability to record 640x480 movie clips.

March 10, 2005

Samsung has unveiled a Windows Mobile smart phone with an internal 3 gigabyte hard drive. The SGH-i300 has a 240 x 320-pixel (QVGA) display, MP3 / WMA / AAC / AAC+ / OGG audio playback, MPEG4 video recording and messaging, MPEG4 and WMV video playback, Bluetooth, USB 2.0 desktop connectivity, and 900/1800/1900MHz tri-band GSM/GPRS network support.

March 10, 2005

O'Reilly Digital Media has posted a review of the Casio Exilim EX-P505 digital camera. This 5-megapixel camera has 5x optical zoom, a 2" swivel LCD, and can record MPEG-4 video with stereo sound.

March 10, 2005

Samsung is unveiling a 7-megapixel camera phone at the CeBIT 2005 trade show in Germany. The phone, called the SCH-V770, has a lens of the same type used in high-end digital cameras, as well as a built-in MP3 player and other smartphone features.

March 4, 2005

The New York Public Library has scanned in over 275,000 images from their archives and placed them online. The images include rare manuscripts, maps, posters, prints, illustrated books, and photographs.

February 26, 2005

AnandTech has a very positive review of the Canon PowerShot SD300. This 4.0 megapixel beauty features a 2" LCD, which is huge for an ultra-compact digital camera. Among many other features, the SD300 is also capable of recording 640x480 movie clips at 30fps.