Category: Software & Technology
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A few problems found with Photoshop & Snow Leopard
John Nack on Adobe: A few problems found with Photoshop & Snow Leopard
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iPhone Remote Control Adds Nikon Support, Auto-Focus
iPhone Remote Control Adds Nikon Support, Auto-Focus | Gadget Lab | Wired.com: The software is a big upgrade from the original, and adds support (at last!) for Nikon DSLRs, as well as a slew of essential new features. To use DSLR Camera Remote you need to hook the camera up to a computer via USB…
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PDNPulse: DSLR Camera Remote 1.1 App Finally Gets Approval From Apple
PDNPulse: DSLR Camera Remote 1.1 App Finally Gets Approval From Apple
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DSLR Camera Remote v1.1 submitted to Apple's App Store
Rob Galbraith DPI: DSLR Camera Remote v1.1 submitted to Apple’s App Store
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Apple's new Final Cut Studio is out (short version: I am impressed)
Apple’s new Final Cut Studio is out (short version: I am impressed). – Boing Boing: Bottom line: normally I wouldn’t be so jazzed about an application update, but as someone who’s spent the better part of the last two years working on web video production, this struck me and other web video grunts in the…
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Using DNG profiles: A video demo
John Nack on Adobe: Using DNG profiles: A video demo: The inclusion of camera profiles in recent updates to Lightroom & Camera Raw greatly simplifies their use, and now Julieanne Kost has posted a 15-minute walkthrough showing their use & benefits
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Canon’s New Anti-Blur Lenses Will Be Available This Year
Canon’s New Anti-Blur Lenses Will Be Available This Year | Gadget Lab | Wired.com: The oddest part of the announcement, though, is that “The technology will be incorporated in an interchangeable single lens reflex (SLR) camera lens planned for commercial release before the end of 2009”.
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DSLR Camera Remote for iPhone comes to life in v1.1
Rob Galbraith DPI: DSLR Camera Remote for iPhone comes to life in v1.1: Here’s a rundown of what’s new in DSLR Camera Remote 1.1 (Pro Edition) for iPhone, as well as its companion Mac/Windows application, DSLR Camera Remote Server 1.1
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Why Moore’s Law does not apply to Digital Photography
Why Moore’s Law does not apply to Digital Photography: So why do I say that we are near the limit? The diffraction limit of our lenses is larger than the pixel size on some sensors. This means that the resolution of some current cameras is limited by the diffraction limit of the lens rather than…
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Wide-angle image correction tech
John Nack on Adobe: Wide-angle image correction tech: Adobe researcher Aseem Agarwala, working with Maneesh Agrawala & Robert Carroll at Berkeley, has demonstrated techniques to enable “Content-Preserving Projections for Wide-Angle Images.” That may sound a little dry, but check out the demo video (10MB QT) to see how the work enables extremely wide-angle photography.
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Fun Polaroid Simulator Will Waste Many Hours
Fun Polaroid Simulator Will Waste Many Hours | Gadget Lab | Wired.com: Toycamera’s Analogcolor isn’t the first Polaroid simulator, but it is the best I have seen so far. The $10 java application runs on both OS X and Windows. You drop a jpeg onto the window and from there you can mercilessly degrade your…
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A Day in the Life of 3G
A Day in the Life of 3G – PC World: During March and April, we spent a day testing the major 3G services in 13 cities across the United States. Verizon’s service showed a combination of speed and reliability, Sprint’s results lent credence to its ‘most dependable’ claim, and AT&T’s network showed fast upload speeds…
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The iPhone Software Revolution
Coding Horror: The iPhone Software Revolution: Here’s how far I am willing to go: I believe the iPhone will ultimately be judged a more important product than the original Apple Macintosh.
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John Nack on Adobe: Lightroom 2.4 and Camera Raw 5.4 Now Available
John Nack on Adobe: Lightroom 2.4 and Camera Raw 5.4 Now Available
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Firmware mod for 5D Mark II adds fixed audio gain, audio meters and more
Rob Galbraith: An experimental firmware modification for the Canon EOS 5D Mark II that adds audio meters, fixed audio gain, live audio monitoring via the A/V jack and more is now available to try in public beta form.
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IPhone Camera Remote Gets Improved UI, Nikon Support
Gadget Lab | Wired.com: Are you a Nikon shooter? And an iPhone owner? Are you jealous that those pesky Canon fanboys get to remote control their DSLRs directly from the phone itself? Are ya?
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Digital Asset Management and the Professional Photographer
Peter Krogh – A Picture’s Worth: Digital Asset Management (DAM) is a term that refers to everything one does with image files from the point of capture onward. This includes transferring, renaming, attaching metadata, rating, adjusting, proofing, backing up, archiving and more. Understanding the principles of sound DAM practices will help you design a workflow…
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Canon releases firmware update for EOS 5D Mark II
Rob Galbraith says: Canon has released a firmware update for the EOS 5D Mark II that enables manual control of ISO, aperture and shutter speed while the camera is set to capture video. Firmware v1.1.0 also disables the depth of field preview button when playing back photos or accessing the on-screen menus and corrects various…