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Nikon D80 Firmware update:

This service provides software for upgrading D80 A and B firmware to Ver 1.11. When performing this firmware upgrade, be sure to upgrade both A and B firmware. Correct operation of your camera is not guaranteed if only A or B of the firmware is upgraded without upgrading the other part.

This firmware resolves an issue which, in rare cases, causes the battery indicator to blink whilst shooting regardless of the level of charge in the battery.

Firmware update

Canon WFT-E3/E3A Firmware update:

Firmware update

Olympus E-520 Firmware update:

Improved brightness level of optical viewfinder AF target points.

Firmware update

Press Release:

PARK RIDGE, N.J. Sept. 29, 2008 – Sony is expanding its line of Memory Stick® media to offer higher levels of versatility and mobile entertainment options. The new products include enhancements that range from USB connectivity and pre-bundled movie content to faster data transfer rates and higher storage capacities.

The newest member in the line is the HX series of Memory Stick media, offering high speed and convenience at an affordable price in either 4 or 8 GB capacities. The new HX products include a USB adaptor and enable higher transfer rates – especially for large capacity files.
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Press Release:

Digital photography software developer outlines product specific support for Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended

onOne Software, Inc., a leading developer of innovative software tools for photographers, today announces that all of their currently shipping Photoshop software plug-ins are already compatible with the new Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended software announced yesterday by Adobe. Specifically, the following Photoshop plug-ins from onOne Software are compatible with Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended. (more…)

Press Release:

German Photographic Society will present Steve Sasson with Cultural Award for inventing world’s first digital camera

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 24 — Kodak’s Steve Sasson, inventor of the world’s first digital camera, will accept Germany’s highest honor for imaging, the Cultural Award, from the German Photographic Society (DGPh) at a September 27th ceremony in Cologne. The ceremony takes place during Photokina, the world’s largest photo and imaging trade fair.
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Press Release:

At photokina 2008, Hasselblad is introducing a new pricing strategy and exhibiting a range of new high-end products, including a new flagship camera, the H3DII-50, a versatile zoom lens in the HCD 4.0-5.6/35-90mm, and the HTS 1.5 Tilt and Shift adapter.

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Hasselblad Launches aspherical zoom lens

25th September 2008

Press Release:

Specifically aimed at those high-end 35mm DSLR users who are increasingly looking to buy in to the superior quality offered by a Hasselblad H3DII DSLR - now available at a far more attractive price point - Hasselblad today launches its HCD 4-5.6/35-90mm Aspherical zoom lens. Complementing Hasselblad’s existing HC 3.5-4.5/50-110mm zoom lens, the new HCD 35-90mm lens offers a wider angle of view to provide new Hasselblad users with a range corresponding to a 25-70mm zoom on a 35mm DSLR. (more…)

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Hasselblad’s Revolutionary Tilt and Shift Adapter Expands its Scope

25th September 2008

Press Release:

Following the overwhelmingly positive response from the professional photographic market, Hasselblad has extended the tilt and shift capabilities of its lenses by developing its ingenious HTS 1.5 tilt and shift adapter, originally designed for its HCD28mm, HC35mm, HC50mm and HC80mm lenses, to work with both its HC 2.2/100mm lens and its set of 13mm, 26mm and 52mm HE extension rings for macro photography. Staying true to its philosophy of camera integration, Hasselblad has also introduced digital feedback from the HTS 1.5 to the H3D camera and Phocus software by logging in the metadata of the image files all adjustments of the HTS. On the H3D camera this feedback adds on-line control of the exact tilt/shift movements, and it enables the automatic execution of Hasselblad’s digital lens correction to optimise image quality, eliminating color aberration, distortion and vignetting. When photographers subsequently browse through the metadata, they can see the exact tilt, shift and rotation applied for each shot.
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New Phocus 1.1 for Mac and Phocus 1.0 for Windows Extend the Functionality and Appeal of Hasselblad’s Image Processing Software

25th September 2008

Press Release:

Hasselblad today offers new image processing capabilities to its Mac users with the launch of Phocus 1.1 for Mac and brings the world’s most powerful image processing software to its growing numbers of Windows users with the launch of Phocus 1.0 for Windows. Windows users of the Hasselblad H3DII – the world’s most advanced DSLR – now have access to a processing toolbox that is both intuitive to use, having been modelled on popular workflow software, and that is capable of extracting the best images from the world’s most advanced digital camera system and the world’s largest raw image files. (more…)

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EYE-FI MAKES PHOTO UPLOADS TWICE AS FAST

24th September 2008

Press Release:

PHOTOKINA, COLOGNE, Germany, Sept. 23, 2008 – Eye-Fi Inc., makers of the world’s first wireless memory card for digital cameras, today announced enhancements to its family of Eye-Fi cards that will make the upload of digital photos from camera to computer twice as fast. The faster wireless speeds will also be made available to existing Eye-Fi users at no extra cost. In addition, users will be able to upgrade their Eye-Fi cards to add the individual services they want, including Web sharing, geotagging and hotspot access.
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Results of the DxO Photo Contest

24th September 2008

From DxO:

The DxO Contest on the subject of movement was a great success! We received more than a thousand of beautiful photographs.
The jury based their selection on two equally important criteria:
Artistic: General look, originality, subject choice…
Technical: Exposure, framing, post-shoot corrections… (more…)

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