Solms, Germany/St. Moritz, Switzerland (September 7, 2011) – Magnum photographer Steve McCurry is the winner of the inaugural Leica Hall of Fame Award. During the “Tribute to Photography” night on September 1st, an event within the framework of the St. Moritz Art Masters in Switzerland, Steve McCurry was awarded the prize donated by Leica...
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CUPERTINO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) today announced it is shipping a new 4TB GoFlex® Desk external hard drive – the highest capacity hard drive in the industry. This latest addition to the GoFlex Family of external hard drives showcases Seagate’s new desktop design. The streamlined industrial design delivers a smaller footprint and better reflects the aesthetic of today’s modern...
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In a previous post, I posited that the recently announced Sony NEX-7 stands to threaten the Leica M9 as the street shooter camera of choice. The Leica M series of rangefinders (analog and digital) were instrumental in the creation of the genre. The Leica M lenses are world renowned for their quality and ability...
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With the announcement of the SLT-A77, Sony has taken a bold step in trying to radically change the technological landscape of photography. Something like this hasn’t really happened since Oskar Barnack created the Ur-Leica. I realize that this statement may sound outlandish to quite a few people, but let’s look at the situation critically.
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FUJIFILM Corporation (President and CEO: Shigetaka Komori) is proud to announce the addition of a new premium compact camera to its digital camera line up for Autumn 2011. The X10 features a large 2/3″ 12 megapixel EXR CMOS sensor and a high-definition F2.0 wide-angle and F2.8 telephoto FUJINON 4x manual zoom lens (28-112mm)*1 that...
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A recent firmware update for the H4D-60 brought Hasselblad’s flagship camera to a new level of sophistication with added features and functionality. Now, H4D-40 and H4D-50 users can benefit from the same advancements thanks to the free user-installable firmware. Hasselblad is supporting this exciting news with a campaign that sends photographers an extraordinary message: “You’ve got...
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Pro photographers (myself included) looking for a more cost effective alternative to Leica’s M Digital cameras may have an answer in Sony’s new top-end NEX-7 camera. Built to professional specifications and available Carl Zeiss optics makes this camera an attractive offering for the street shooter and travel photographer. Can the NEX-7 beat Leica at...
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645D IS EISA European Professional Camera 2011-2012 GOLDEN, CO. (August 15, 2011)…PENTAX Imaging Systems Division is pleased to announce that the PENTAX 645D medium-format digital SLR camera, first launched in June 2010, was selected as the EISA European Professional Camera 2011-2012 by the prestigious European Imaging and Sound Association. The award was presented in...
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SAN DIEGO, Aug. 24, 2011 – Blazing speed, enhanced image quality, high resolution and incredible performance are just some of the features advanced amateurs and photo enthusiasts will find in Sony’s newest alpha cameras, models SLT-A77 (α77) and SLT-A65 (α65).
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Adobe updated Photoshop Lightroom to version 3.5 (release candidate) today. The update will be available for download on their Labs site until October 31, 2011. The update adds support for several new cameras including the new Olympus E-P3 family, the Panasonic G3 family, and Phase One’s P40+. P65+, IQ140, IQ160 medium format digital backs....
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