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The Click Site Update
The Click should be back up to full speed Wednesday morning. It’s been a long two weeks, and it will be nice to be back.
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EXCLUSIVE: Canon engineers held back by marketing department's "megapixel race" – Yahoo! News UK
The employee told Tech Digest that Canon have the technology to “blow the competition away” in terms of image sensors, but are instead being asked to focus on headline figures like the number of megapixels a camera has. When asked for his opinion on the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, which we covered this morning,…
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A Photo Editor – SEO Is Not Just For Wedding Photographers Anymore
I know that for a wedding photographer or a local portrait photographer, SEO (Search engine optimization) may be one of the most important things for their business after the images Check it out here.
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David Pogues Gadget List of 2008 – Pogue’s Posts – Technology – New York Times Blog
“I would love to see a feature where you list what you personally use. Call it Pogue’s List or something. It would be great to see what someone as plugged in as you uses personally. Everything tech — watch, laptop, TV, car, digital camera, film camera, like that.” What’s really surprising to me is how…
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Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection: The Top Five Reasons Not to Upgrade to the New iPhone 3G
I’ve had my new 3G iPhone for about a month now and I thought I’d take a few minutes to write some of my thoughts and reflections on the experience for people who might be considering upgrading to the new 3G iPhone. Check it out here.
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Olympus, Panasonic Plan Assault on Fortress of Pretentious Photography | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
A new camera standard promises to cram the quality of a digital SLR camera into a smaller, more portable package — and may even bring back the golden age of candid street photography. Hey, a guy can dream. Check it out here.
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Casio Catches Video Before You Shoot It
The new firmware update gives the EX1 the same feature—for video. That is, when you press the Movie Record button while using the new mode, the camera stores the five seconds of video that it witnessed BEFORE you pressed the button. Once again, it’s great for capturing unexpected events without wasting a lot of “tape.”…
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Caught in a rebel offensive in eastern Chad | Blogs | Reuters.com
Fearing imprisonment or worse, I said I was a journalist, held up my cameras and gestured I wanted to take their picture. Check it out here.
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Abdullah The Butcher's House Of Ribs & Chinese Food
If your future plans include being anywhere near Atlanta and you like offbeat eateries, you’d be making a terrible mistake if you neglected to visit Abdullah The Butcher’s House Of Ribs & Chinese Food. Abdullah’s primary claim to fame, of course, is as a professional wrestler with a reputation as a bloodthirsty brute. In the…
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A Photo Editor – Send Photos To AP From Your iPhone
Techcrunch is reporting from the Apple event today (here) that AP (Associated Press) is releasing an application for the iPhone that allows people to upload photos and text directly to AP when they witness live news events. Check it out here.
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The Future of Digital Photography, Geotagging Baked Inside the Camera
The Holy Grail for geotagging for me of course will be when Canon actually includes GPS in a professional grade digital SLR built in — or at a minimum offers an external battery grip type GPS device that can be added to a Canon digital SLR to add geotags based on GPS. Bottom line is…
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Click Update
Super busy week covering the polygamy raid in Texas, so the usual flow of links has slowed. You can follow my experiences on my tribune blog. I’ll try to keep the Click as current as I can.
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A 3-D Viewfinder for a Shoebox of Digital Photos
In contrast, Viewfinder, which is not yet a commercial service, is intended to make it simpler for users to manually “pose” photos in services like Google Earth — to place them in the proper location and at the original angle at which they were taken. It is already possible to insert photos into Google Earth,…
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site note: best category changed to editor's choice
also, last five editor’s choice links are available in the far right sidebar. these are the stories and photographs you really shouldn’t miss.
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Coming Soon: Nothing Between You and Your Machine – New York Times
PicLens currently offers a small icon cue inset in each Web photo that lets users know they are at a site like Facebook, Google or Flickr that can be browsed with the software. Clicking on the icon transports the user away from the conventional page-oriented Web into an immersive browsing environment. The software does away…
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Tech Support Gets a Reprieve While Users Take a Hit – Pogue’s Posts – Technology – New York Times Blog
I learned that when they say, “Your call may be recorded for quality assurance purposes,” that’s only partly true. They also record your calls so they can pass around recordings of the funniest ones. They actually gave me one of those “Best Of” disks at the end of my day in the call center. Herewith:…
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Start-up lets you fix focus after snapping the shutter | Underexposed – CNET News.com
Refocus Imaging, a Silicon Valley start-up, thinks its technology can be used to make cameras that can fix that problem–after you take the photo. By fitting a camera’s image sensor with a special lens and then processing the resulting data with new methods, Refocus Imaging’s technology will let photographers fix their photos and exercise new…
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Sudden Change in Leadership at Leica – PDNPulse
According to the U.K.-based magazine Amateur Photographer, an interview the publication conducted with Lee during PMA 2008 could have been the cause of his firing. In an editor’s note written by Damien Demolder of Amateur Photographer, Demolder claims that Lee “hinted strongly” to his magazine that Leica was planning a full-frame version of the M8…
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Chase Jarvis Blog: 4 Photo Technologies You Need to Know
: The following 4 photo-related technologies are cool and quickly slipping into the marketplace. Some are already in heavy rotation, some are in development, others are in still in commercial viability studies. I thought you’d appreciate an aggregate of them into one post for your speedy perusal. Check it out here.