PC World - It’s been a year since Panasonic debuted the first digital camera that combined the compactness of a point-and-shoot with the flexibility of interchangeable lenses. The Lumix G1 kick-started a new segment in the camera market, which this week saw a new model from Panasonic and the second showing of a prototype camera from Sony.
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Mar
11
2010
Julia Boggio Photography High School
Calling all ambitious photographers who fancy a short spell back at school.
Mar
10
2010
11 March, 2010 - Composing With Color, Part II
Today’s new tutorial, by our regular contributor Alain Briot, is titled Composing With Color, Part II.
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Mar
10
2010
Vodafone mobile phones
Vodafone 150 cell phone : Vodafone was of course present with its complete pallet of services and hardware during the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona. And in technical terms they are not all very remarkable products, but still form the necessary impact on the mobile phone market. Take the very cheap Vodafone 150 mobile phone, aimed at a large group of potential consumers that live in countries where wealth is not present for a large part of the population. We have to think about countries such as India, but also the African countries. To be able to communicate by mobile phone can mean a new chance for people from this group.
Mar
10
2010
Amateur Photographers visit the House of Lords
Nikon Press Photographer Makes History with first ever photographic workshop held inside the House of Lords.
Mar
09
2010
Tamron Announces Development of 60th Anniversal Lens Model - 70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di VC USD Premium Tele Zoom
President and CEO Morio Ono of Tamron Co., Ltd., announced another advance in Tamron’s pursuit of high resolution images in the telephoto lens category with the development of a 70-300mm F/4-5.6 telephoto zoom lens featuring image stabilization–VC (Vibration Compensation) and an ultrasonic auto-focus drive — USD (Ultrasonic Silent Drive). The SP AF70-300mm F4-5.6 Di VC USD (Model A005) high-resolution DSLR telephoto zoom lens has been produced first for the Nikon mount, with the development of compatible mounts for Canon and Sony to follow.
Mar
08
2010
When IT Security Advice Goes Overboard - BusinessWeek
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When IT Security Advice Goes Overboard
BusinessWeek In IT circles, bad security advice abounds. Just ask the administrators at Pennsylvania’s Lower Merion School District who somehow became convinced that it would be a good idea to use Webcams to keep tabs on students. … District hires firm to probe computer camera use Philadelphia Inquirer Staff put on leave in Merion ’spy cam’ case Infosecurity Magazine (US) Police Have Access to Student Webcam Spy Pics Tom’s Guide CNET - eSecurity Planet - The Associated Press all 259 news articles » |
Mar
08
2010
JOBO Goes Belly-Up
Reader Chris Lucianu points out another pertinent news item from photoscala.de. Last Friday, insolvency proceedings were initiated against the assets of JOBO AG and JOBO Labortechnik GmbH, of Gummersbach, in the North Rhine-Westphalia area of Germany. JOBO made a wide range of darkroom devices, mainly color paper and film processors.
I haven’t used a JOBO in many years, but the paper processors were a staple of home color printers, photo schools, and low-volume custom darkrooms. The devices were fairly Rube-Goldbergian, and not entirely in a good way—at the Corcoran, for example, where I did my brief turn as lab manager, the poxy magnets were forever falling off of the tubes, and there seemed to be no technology known to humankind that would stick them back on more than temporarily. This problem was reportedly later fixed.
JOBOs with Expert drums also made very good sheet film processors for either color or black-and-white.
The processors did a good job, but they weren’t fun to use. They were basically glorified tanks of temperature-controlled water, and the rooms in which they resided were typically warm, humid, and usually more than a little smelly. To use one, what you did mainly was…wait.
JOBO was founded in 1923 and was a third-generation-owned family business.
By the way, if you’re one of the those digital natives who think it’s quaint how we’re always going on about antediluvian technologies and their gradual expiry, I hope you’re looking into the future too, because this is a constant—when I was a kid there were older guys who’d go on and on about how they did things in the old days (for one thing, photo papers were always better in the old days—now, then, and forever), and some day you’ll be hearing about the last inkjet printer or the last digital camera with a reflex mirror being discontinued or whatever, and you’ll be going on about how you remember when a million pixels was such a big deal it needed a new word, and the kids then will roll their eyes. Plus ça change….
Mike
(Thanks to Chris)
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Mar
07
2010
Energizer Duo charger security exploit discovered
Energizer Holdings Inc. and the Department of Homeland Security’s United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team have jointly announced the discovery of a security exploit in the company’s Duo charger software distribution. According to US-CERT, the application - which provides an indication of battery charge level on an attached PC - includes a backdoor that listens for incoming connections on TCP port 777. Once connected, a remote computer can access files and directories or execute programs without the local user’s knowledge or authorization. While the battery status software wasn’t included in the product…
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Mar
07
2010
7 March - The Dynamic Range Debate
Yesterday’s review here by Mark Dubovoy titled Hasselblad H3D 50 II Multishot Versus Phase One P65+ / 645AF generated some considerable discussion on this site’s forum, particularly with regard to the issue of dynamic range. Though he found the Hasselblad and the Phase backs to be very similar in dynamic range, he also wrote “The dynamic range of a typical high-end professional 35 mm DSLR is around 7 F/stops. Medium Format cameras are closer to 13 F/stops of dynamic range,” and the cat was among the pidgeons.
The issue seems to be contentious because different people use different definitions of dynamic range. As one person put it, “It’s like comparing apples with cassaba melons.”
I have therefore just added an Editor’s Note to Mark’s review with my observation on the subject. Hopefully it will clarify a debate that has been murky for some time.
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