"Just bought your latest e-book its really great, I am now working in layers much more efficiently. Also now using ACR properly. Good piece of work, well worth the money. " Gary Yelland
Free add-on PDF to DOP2000: Featuring Canon EVU and DPP raw converters (about 3MB)

10/18/2004 New front page photo "Feasting George"

While organizing portfolio photos we came across "George" and hope it also makes you smile. Your are not allowed to get closer than 15 feet to a sea otter. But we were in a harbor and George (so called by the people in the harbor) approached us (clearly violating the rules :-) )

10/17/2004 New Book: "Five Thousend Days: Pressphotography in a changing world"

Highly regarded British press photographer Neil Turner made us aware of this new book project.

10/15/2004 Corel buys Jasc

This may become big news as Corel probably has a different level of visibility than Jasc.

10/15/2004 Canon EOS 20D and 1Ds Mark II at our Summit

Great news for all our Summit attendees. We will have both the Canon EOS 20D and EOS 1Ds Mark II available for your own hands on evaluation. Hope this is extra motivation to sign up now.

10/14/2004 Bibble 4.0 released (see our review)

Finally Bibble 4.0 is released. Very interesting is the Pricing: Pro version $129 and Lite $69.

10/14/2004 Hotel rooms at our Summit

Country Inn & Suites is offering the special room rate of only $79 for conference members only until October 19th. To get this rate participants need to mention they are attending the Fall 2004 Digital Fine Art Photographers Summit. After October 19th the price goes up to & $99 per night.

We strongly recommend that you stay at the Summit Hotel, the Country Inn and Suites. You will be right where the Summit takes place (no commutings and you will enjoy great service and accomodations).

A block of rooms has been reserved for Summit participants. However, these rooms are only available until October 19th. To take advantage of this offer you need to make your reservations now. 1-800-456-4000 (or 623-879-9000). Make sure tomention that you are attending the "Fall 2004 Digital Fine ArtPhotographers Summit" to get this rate.

10/13/2004 Digital Fine Art Photographer's Summit Discount expires 10/15

Only 3 days left to save nearly $70 when you register for the Digital Fine Art Photographers Summit. Attend for only $430 instead of $499, but only if you sign up before October 15th... Don't miss the deadline!

10/13/2004 PayPal seems to be back on track

To all our customers: PayPal had big trouble the last couple of days. This seems to be much better now.

10/13/2004 Peter iNova & Uwe Steinmueller's new e-book "DSLR: Nikon D70" order here and get free shipping (a $6.50 value)

This is the first collaboration of Peter iNova and Uwe Steinmueller. The core of the book is clearly Peter's work while Uwe added some content about Photoshop Layers and RAW processing. What we always liked about Peter's e-books is that he understands to spread fun about photography in his writing. Of course we are biased but still highly recommend this new e-book to all current and future D70 owners.

you can order here with free shipping

10/12/2004 Seminar "Managing the Digital Workflow" 11/4/2004

Uwe Steinmueller presents a 6 hour seminar 11/4/2004, 10am - 4pm at Keeble & Shuchat in Palo Alto. The price is $99 and you can sign up directly at Keeble & Shuchat: 650.327.8515. Ken and Jim at Keeble can be reached Mon-Fri during the hours of 9-5:30.

10/11/2004 Big Sur and Carmel Photos with the EOS 20D

10/10/2004 Bibble 4.0 Raw Converter Preview

Great News: Bibble is back. There was a long wait for the new version of Bibble but the wait should be over this week. We publish a first preview.

10/10/2004 Alain's Print of the Month October 2004

10/10/2004 New Frontpage Photo added

10/9/2004 "Learning to See" (Source Luminous Landscape)

Michael Reichmann writes some ideas about this so important subject. Very often seeing without a camera is so much more important than looking through the viewfinder.

10/9/2004 Free PTLens 5.1 released

If you install the new pano12.dll PTLens is now twice as fast (cannot hurt).

10/8/2004 Digital Fine Art Photographer's Summit

Friday Digital Workflow Seminar with Uwe Steinmueller

The 2004 Summit is getting close (Nov 12-14). Uwe is offering an all-day Digital Workflow Seminar on Friday, November 12th. This is the perfect opportunity for you to build your skills in the area of Raw conversion and to benefit from Uwe's expertise in this area. Find out all the details here.

10/8/2004 Some news about the new Japanese Epson printers (Source Luminous Landscape)

This may signal a replacement for the Epson 2100/2200 printers. But also often Japanese printers never reach the US or Europe.

10/8/2004 New Firmware 1.0.5 from Canon for the EOS 20D

Canon posted a new version that should fix all the previous problems that we had reported. We performed the upgrade ourselves and had not problems. But follow the instructions word by word (e.g. don't forget to remove the lens and charge your battery full).

10/7/2004 Official note by Canon Inc. USA about the 20D camera lockup.

we got the following note from Canon Inc. USA:

"Canon Inc. has acknowledged the EOS 20D lock-up issue as follows:

Canon is aware of this [EOS 20D lock-up] issue; it is currently being investigated. It seems to occur very rarely, under extremely limited conditions. If it does occur, you can remove and reinsert the battery to restore your camera to its normal condition. Please note that this issue does not affect images taken with the camera. We plan to release a firmware update for download from the Web when the appropriate countermeasures are determined; we will let you know the schedule for this release when it becomes available."

As we ourselves experienced a lockup we know that the outlined solution works. We keep you updated.

10/6/2004 Noise Ninja Photoshop plug-in beta

The new plug-in for Noise Ninja is now available for your own tests.

10/6/2004 Comparing Images from EOS 20D and EOS 1D Mark II

We photographed the same scene with the 20D and 1D Mark II. You can be the judge as we provide even the original raw files.

10/6/2004 EOS 20D Lockup is real and be cautious about the firmware update 1.0.4

We experienced today ourselves a lockup of the Canon EOS 20D but could solve the issue. Also read our note about the new firmware update 1.0.4.

10/4/2004 Sensor Brush reviewed by Rob Galbraith

When we published our Sensor Brush review by Rick Decker we got mixed reply. Read Rob's finding as a qualified second opinion.

10/4/2004 Schloss in Heidelberg with EOS 20D

During our trip to Photokina we had the chance to photograph the Schloss of Heidelberg with our Canon EOS 20D review sample.

10/3/2004 Image Copyright

All images on this site are copyright by Uwe & Bettina Steinmueller or by the specially mentioned contributors. At Photokina we attended a presentation that used illegally one of our photos (raw original). All our readers are welcome to use these photos for their own tests and inspections but never for any commercial use. If you want to use any picture commercially you need to contact us and ask about licensing.

We also would like to ask our readers to notify us about any possible infringement.

10/3/2004 Our Photokina 2004 Summary

We are just back from the Photokina 2004. The aftermath of PK 2004 will keep us busy for quite some time:

• Canon 1Ds Mark II
• Nikon D2X
• Olympus E300
• Hasselblad H1D
• Leica R Digital
• DxO
• ........

9/29/2004 Mamiya ZD 22MP digital MF DSLR

This is the first digital MF DSLR (not only a back). We expect Hasselblad to follow the same route.

9/28/2004 Our first shot with a pre-production beta Canon 1Ds Mark II

During a press reception we had a chance to take first test shot with the new 1Ds Mark II. This is a beta camera. We provide a full out of camera JPG.

9/28/2004 Olympus E300 EVOLT 8MP DSLR announced

9/28/2004 Adobe Camera Raw 2.3 supports DNG format

The new version of ACR supports the newly announced DNG format. Canon 20D users check it out for your camera as it unofficially opens 20D raw files.

9/28/2004 Adobe Digital Negative Format DNG

Adobe today launched an initiative to standardize the raw formats for digital cameras. Adobe also provides a free converter.

9/27/2004 Will be at Photokina from this afternoon (European time)

Tomorrow the Photokina 2004 opens its doors. Today is press day.

You can meet us (Uwe Steinmueller) at the dpunkt Verlag booth 10.1 E012 for our signing sessions:

Tuesday: 12pm - 1pm
Wednesday:12pm - 12:50pm
Thursday: 11am-11:50am
Friday: at our seminar 10:30 - 16.30 Uhr, Photokina 2004 Köln, CongressCentrum Ost

9/27/2004 Last reminder: Workflow Seminar at Photokina (will be in German)

Here is a reminder for all our German speaking readers of our first workflow seminar in German at Photokina 2004. The seminar will feature part of our workflow covered in our new German book. Every attendee will also get a copy of that book at that seminar. The content of that book is essentially the same as our English E-Books DOP2000, DOP2000LE and DOP2100 (plus some additions and refinements). Hope to meet you at Photokina.

9/26/2004 Hasselblad H1D

Hasselblad seems to announce an new all digital H1D at Photokina. No big surprise after the merger with Imacon. We only found the news on the German Hasselblad page. We will meet with Hasselblad at Photokina.

Watch our Photokina Page during this week.