London, June 27, 2008 – Canon have announced the grand prize winner of the Canon Fan Foto online competition is amateur photographer Jan Kostal of the Czech Republic. His image entitled “Muddy Playground, Bangladesh” (above) was chosen by a panel of experts from Canon and Getty Images, the world’s leading creator and distributor of still imagery, footage and multi media products, for its perspective, action and overall composition.
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OBERKOCHEN/Germany, 25.06.2008.
Carl Zeiss expands its range of SLR lenses with the addition of the Distagon T* 3.5/18 super wide angle lens. With an impressive field of view of 99°, this new, rectilinear lens provides dramatic perspectives for architectural, landscape and close-range photography for photographers utilizing full-frame DSLRs or film-based cameras. The Distagon T* 3.5/18 is a derivative of the ZEISS designs for the Contax RTS series of cameras, but utilizing all modern materials and eco-friendly glass materials.

The Distagon T* 3.5/18 is designed with a floating lens element in the rear lens assembly, which results in impressive image quality from infinity to the closest focus range. Utilizing the superior ZEISS T* anti-reflective coating and critically designed interior elements, the lens is remarkably free from stray light artifacts and internal reflections. Images are brilliantly rendered, with extremely crisp resolution right to the edges – even at wide-open apertures under the most difficult lighting conditions. Like all Carl Zeiss SLR lenses, the Distagon T* 3.5/18 uses the ZEISS ‘color matching technology’, which provides homogeneous color rendition across all focal lengths in the product range. The front filter diameter of 82 mm allows for use of standard screw-in filters when combined with the included lens shade.
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Announcement Date: 18 June 2008

Fujifilm UK Ltd has announced the launch of a new 310x version of its CompactFlashTM card. The Fujifilm Professional UDMA enabled 310x CompactFlashTM card offers the fastest sustained write speed of any memory card available today.

Using a specially designed controller and the latest SLC flash memory chips, the Fujifilm 310x CompactFlashTM card is available in 4GB, 8GB and 16GB capacities.

This memory card provides support for the latest generation of UDMA compatible digital SLRs and professional video cameras. With a staggering sustained write speed of 46.5MB/sec, the Fujifilm 310x CompactFlashTM card will cope with every picture a professional photographer could ever want to take and more!

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Portland, OR June 23, 2008
onOne Software Announces Availability of Plug-in Suite 4 for Adobe® Photoshop. Updated award-winning software suite features the most complete collection of Photoshop plug-ins, solving the most common, time consuming Photoshop tasks in one integrated high value suite.

onOne Software, Inc., announces today the availability of its new Plug-in Suite 4 software for Adobe Photoshop. onOne Software’s Plug-In Suite 4 combines full versions of six essential software tools - Genuine Fractals 5 Print Pro, PhotoTools 1.0 Professional Edition, PhotoFrame 3.1 Professional Edition, Mask Pro 4.1, PhotoTune 2.2 and FocalPoint 1.0 - an affordable combination that includes everything a photographer needs to make their images look their best.
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Tokyo, Japan June, 24, 2008 Ricoh Co., Ltd. (president and CEO: Shiro Kondo) has announced today the development and release of the GX200. The GX200 is able to reproduce high quality images from edge-to-edge with low noise and natural gradation. This camera succeeds the award winning Caplio GX100 compact digital camera introduced in April 2007.
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Panasonic has provided a firmware update for its Lumix TZ4 and Lumix TZ5 cameras.

According to information from Panasonic, firmware version 1.2 provides a single key update: “Improved auto focus performance.”

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Ricoh understands the needs of the GIS professional. The 500SE provides the definitive streamlined process to integrate quality images into mapping software applications. From the flood waters of New Orleans to the sands of Iraq, the Ricoh Geo-imaging solution has passed the test of time in the most demanding of conditions. (more…)

Olympus Corporation (President: Tsuyoshi Kikukawa) is pleased to announce an international photo contest to be held in conjunction with Global Warming Witness – Mitsuaki Iwago Special, an Olympus online exhibition at http://www.olympus.co.jp/en/gww. Any amateur photographer in any country is eligible to enter this contest, which is accepting entries from July 1, 2008 to November 30, 2008. The panel of judges will be headed by wildlife photographer Mitsuaki Iwago and will include newscaster Crystel Takigawa as guest judge.
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Tokyo, Japan - Sony Corporation today announced the development of a back-illuminated CMOS image sensor (pixel size: 1.75µm square pixels, five effective mega pixels, 60 frames/s) with significantly enhanced imaging characteristics, including nearly twofold sensitivity*1 and low noise. This improved performance has been achieved by illuminating the backside of the silicon substrate, in contrast to conventional CMOS image sensors based on front-illumination technology.
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NEW SONY α (ALPHA) FLAGSHIP FLASH UNIT EXPANDS CREATIVE POSSIBILITIES WITH QUICK SHIFT BOUNCE

SAN DIEGO, Jun. 19, 2008 – Sony is expanding its a (alpha) system of accessories to include the new HVL-F58AM flash unit with exceptional features for versatile and flexible external lighting control.
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