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.
Category: Software & Technology
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IPhone Camera Remote Gets Improved UI, Nikon Support
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 that is secure and efficient, and can help you increase profitability in the world of digital photography.
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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 bugs.
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Spending an Afternoon With Adobe’s Lightroom Team
Thomas Hawk says:
On Monday May 18, I spent the afternoon and early evening down meeting with the Lightroom team at Adobe’s headquarters in San Jose California. At present there are about 30 individuals directly related to the production of Lightroom, the software that I use to process my images (you can see many of their names on the splash screen for the product when Lightroom loads). There are many additional people beyond the 30 that contribute to the product in some way, shape or form and you can click on full credits to see an even larger list of names.
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Tristan Eaton iPhone App – B-Bot
Josh Spear, Trendspotting says:
For the past year, the urban vinyl community has relied on Face Your Manga for all our avatar needs. But now one of our own has stepped up with an app that renders our likenesses in Kidrobocolor. That would be the awesome Tristan Eaton, whose Thunderdog Studios just released the B-BOT app for iPhone. B-BOT is the closest you will ever get your mug to a Munny. You can create your own B-BOT and also customize your contacts. When you receive a call from them, their B-BOTs will show up on the caller ID (and vice versa).
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Free Software Beats Nikon at its Own Game
Gadget Lab | Wired.com says:
Sofortbild is the second cheap alternative to a Nikon product we have seen this week.
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With a Private MiFi Hot Spot, Be Online Wherever You Like
David Pogue says:
But imagine if you could get online anywhere you liked — in a taxi, on the beach, in a hotel with disgustingly overpriced Wi-Fi — without messing around with cellular modems. What if you had a personal Wi-Fi bubble, a private hot spot, that followed you everywhere you go?
Incredibly, there is such a thing. It’s the Novatel MiFi 2200, available from Verizon starting in mid-May ($100 with two-year contract, after rebate). It’s a little wisp of a thing, like a triple-thick credit card. It has one power button, one status light and a swappable battery that looks like the one in a cellphone. When you turn on your MiFi and wait 30 seconds, it provides a personal, portable, powerful, password-protected wireless hot spot.
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Some thoughts about the PSD format
John Nack says:
Here’s what I think people want to know: Is Photoshop’s PSD format a goofy, antiquated piece of crap, and by extension is Photoshop slow, clumsy, and/or outdated?
No. (Read on for details.)
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Clipstart
Riverfold Software says:
Clipstart complements your photo application to give you a place that is designed for home movies. Import your movies, tag, search, and upload with one click to Flickr and Vimeo. You can even quickly upload a trimmed portion of a movie without needing to save a new copy. If you have dozens or hundreds of short movies from a Flip or video camera, Clipstart provides the workflow to finally make sense of them.
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liveBooks Opens Low-Cost Web Portfolio Service to All Photojournalists
From PDNPulse:
The pre-release of liveBooks photojournalist websites is over! Now any photojournalist is qualified to take advantage of this special offer.
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Adobe and Nikon | Nikon Rumors
From Adobe and Nikon | Nikon Rumors:
I am not sure what this statement exactly means, but the bottom line is “Nikon intends to cooperate with Adobe”
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Novelties – On the Lookout, With a Digital Security Camera – NYTimes.com
From Novelties – On the Lookout, With a Digital Security Camera – NYTimes.com:
The camera, the Digital Window D7, uses five 1.3 megapixel sensors just like the ones in camera phones, each aimed at its slice of the total view. Ingenious programs and a controller chip synchronize the five images as they are received, stitching them simultaneously into a panoramic stream that transmits at 15 frames a second.
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About Those New CrunchPad Pictures
From About Those New CrunchPad Pictures:
The goal – a very thin and light touch screen computer, sans physical keyboard, that has no hard drive and boots directly to a browser to surf the web. The operating system exists solely to handle the hardware drivers and run the browser and associated applications. That’s it.
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Is Your Web Designer Full of Crap? – A Picture's Worth
From Is Your Web Designer Full of Crap? – A Picture’s Worth:
Your website design isn’t just for people who visit it. The fundamental construction of the website can help attract visitors even if they don’t know who you are.
