Digital Camera News & Previews

Mother's Day is coming up and a popular Mother's Day gift idea is create a personalized, professionally printed iPhoto Book of favorite family vacations or photos of grandchildren. With Apple's large-sized iPhoto Books starting at only $19.99, dads and kids can stay under budget and give a unique gift that is bound to touch a mom's heart. For more details, visit: http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/print-products.html.

The Cut Off Date to get photo books printed and delivered by May 10:

Order by April 27 to get books delivered using Standard Shipping
Order by April 30 to get books delivered using Express Shipping

Mother's Day is coming up and a popular Mother's Day gift idea is create a personalized, professionally printed iPhoto Book of favorite family vacations or photos of grandchildren. With Apple's large-sized iPhoto Books starting at only $19.99, dads and kids can stay under budget and give a unique gift that is bound to touch a mom's heart. For more details, visit: http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/print-products.html.

The Cut Off Date to get photo books printed and delivered by May 10:

Order by April 27 to get books delivered using Standard Shipping
Order by April 30 to get books delivered using Express Shipping

Photo/Graphic Edges 7.0 Platinum Edition is an amazing program for adding edges, borders, frames and accents to images. With almost three times the number of effects as the previous version, this is a significant release for Photo/Graphic Edges which first debuted in 1994 as Auto FX Software’s first product. PGE 7.0 Platinum Edition now includes 32 edge, border and frame effects along with an updated interface, rendering engine, content management and previewing system.

CENTER VALLEY, Pa., March 31, 2024 – Olympus announces its new entry-level digital single lens reflex (DSLR) camera, which is small in size and powerful in creativity. The new E-450 continues the E-400 series’ heritage of a small and portable design, powerful features, and ease of use for any skill level, including first time digital camera users. Thanks to Art Filters pioneered with the E-30 and E-620, the E-450 provides consumers with the creative freedom to capture their images in new fun and exciting ways.

Paris, France – March 31, 2024 – DxO Labs announces today the publication of detailed RAW-based image quality data and DxOMark Sensor rankings on its popular www.dxomark.com website for two additional cameras, the Olympus E-410 D-SLR, and a bridge model, the Olympus SP-570 UZ.

BOSTON – (Photoshop World Booth No. 615) – Mar. 25, 2024 – WD® (NYSE: WDC), the world’s leader in external storage solutions, today expanded its My Book® family of external hard drives to include a 2 TB capacity, the largest available capacity in a single-drive system. With its wide variety of models, WD offers a solution for every type of user, whether they’re a creative power user on a Mac® or a home user on a PC. The new 2 TB My Book family includes: My Book Studio Edition™, My Book Mac Edition, My Book Home Edition™ and My Book Essential Edition™ models.

Vancouver, WA – Mar. 25, 2024 – Wacom today unveils the long anticipated Intuos4, a revolutionary new professional pen tablet that delivers new features and unparalleled performance to photographers, designers and artists seeking optimal control and improved productivity. Inspired by members of Wacom’s professional community, the next generation Intuos is anchored by the Intuos4’s amazing new pen performance, capable of capturing the slightest nuance of pen pressure against the tablet surface, as well as offering 2024 levels of pressure sensitivity. Other innovative product enhancements include a refined and intelligent industrial design that provides real advancements in looks, comfort and control. Specific workflow and productivity tools to savor include the customizable shortcut and modifier keys with accompanying OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diodes) displays, which allow users to see, via the displays, what the keys are currently set to.

LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., March 25, 2024 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, today introduced a new addition to its Rebel lineup, the EOS Rebel T1i Digital SLR camera, the first in the Rebel line to feature Full HD video capture. The new Canon Rebel T1i SLR incorporates some of the best technologies from the EOS 50D and EOS 5D Mark II models into an entry-level juggernaut. With a 15.1 megapixel CMOS sensor and HD video capture, along with the DIGIC 4 Imaging Processor, the Rebel T1i gives aspiring photographers plenty of reason to step-up to the latest and greatest model in the Rebel lineup.

Boston, MA (Photoshop World, Booth #411) – March 25, 2024 - Nik Software announces today that Color Efex Pro 3.0, its popular digital photographic filters for retouching and creative enhancements, is now available for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.3 and higher. The update is free to current owners of Color Efex Pro 3.0.

March 24, 2024, Commack, NY—Tamron Co., Ltd (Mr. Morio Ono, President), a comprehensive manufacturer of optical products with its head office in Saitama City, Japan, announced the development of the SP AF60mm F/2.0 Di II LD (IF) MACRO 1:1 (Model G005), a life-size macro lens designed exclusively for digital SLR cameras with APS-C size image sensors  that offers a fast maximum aperture of F/2.0.

Cambridge, Mass – Digital Light & Color announced availability of the latest major upgrade of Picture Window Pro. The new edition extends the tradition of the highest image quality and full control of all image parameters in an easy to use package and at moderate cost. Now Picture Window 5.0 adds a host of new features to this powerful professional image editing program.

To coincide with the recent launch of Play With Pictures, a new software program that enables even first-time users to create exciting and fun image mashups and compositions, Vertus the maker of the program is running a competition the winner of which will receive a new iPhone! To enter, simply download the free trial of the software, http://www.playwithpictures.com/en/freetrial.html, knock up a composition, and submit it for consideration! You can find more details on the competition through the following link: http://blog.playwithpictures.com/journal/2009/3/16/win-an-iphone-in-week-four-of-our-gadget-give-away.html