Nikon’s 10.2 megapixel D200 has a new preview available at Camera Labs and here’s an excerpt. “The D200 combines advances and refinements that Nikon fans had every reason to expect: higher resolution, lower noise, faster autofocus, and a more polished interface. If there is anything shocking about the D200, it’s the fact that nothing is shocking about it. With the D200, Nikon delivers a solid performer. Canon, in contrast, keeps on delivering surprising cameras – the 5D has a full-frame sensor for less money than people expected. The 1D Mark II n cranks out 8.5 frames per second (and does it at 8 megapixels for a faster burst rate at twice the file size of the Nikon D2Hs), and the 1Ds Mark II brought photographers 16.7 megapixels at under $8,000.”
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Nikon’s 5.1 megapixel Coolpix S2 has been reviewed at Digital Camera Buyer Magazine and here their verdict. “Has lots of promising features, and so many annoyances that this is definitely not a worthwhile addition to the Coolpix range. Sadly, style wins over substance.”
BusinessWeek Online has taken a look down the digital photography road and shows us an item that is in the concept stage but none the less very impressive. Lunar Design’s MicroMedia Paper — is a highly visual, rather than text-driven, concept. Playing on the idea of the postcard and the snapshot photo, Lunar, a 21-year-old San Francisco Bay-area company whose clients include Motorola, Apple, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell, conceived of MicroMedia Paper as a basic digital-media player.
Olympus’s 8 megapixel Evolt E-500 has been put through a series of review tests at the German site Photo World and here is an excerpt. “The housing of the Olympus E-500 is extremely compact for a mirror reflex camera, although it possesses the typical compared with its small sister E-300. The Olympus E-500 possesses very large adjustment possibilities for the white balance. When shooting in black and white mode you can electronically set filter modes to mimic red, green, yellow, or orange filters. An example would be converting cloud formation to high-contrast dramatic photos, in camera.”
About.com has released an article showing the correct way to email digital photos. The article shows you how to slash the huge files size and decrease the download times. Your family and friends will appreciate your new lean and fast digital images. Now you’ll only need to make sure the pictures you send are worth looking at. Six easy to follow steps and you are on your way to a whole new easy way of sending those precious digital photos.
Canon i9900 Photo Printer has been reviewed at Creative Pro and they write, “Print quality is simply outstanding. Canon’s gamut claims seem to be true, with the i9900 delivering richer tones overall than 6-color Canon printers. Greens fare especially well. When compared to Canon’s current generation of 6-color printers, it’s easy to see that the 9900 can handle a full variety of green tones with much greater aplomb than the company’s other print engines.”
Every photographer has different needs when it comes to how they transfer, review, catalogue and organize their files. Professional photographers needs are perhaps more demanding because they also need to ensure that all of their files are well annotated using the IPTC fields, with copyright information and extensive keywording so that images can be easily identified and retrieved.
