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Free add-on PDF to DOP2000: Featuring Canon EVU and DPP raw converters (about 3MB)
DOP Photoshop Tools: Tonality Tuning & EasyS Sharpening Toolkit

12/31/2004 Michael Reichmann about his Canon Lenses (Source Luminous Landscape)

Our own Canon lens selection you find discussed here. What about Nikon lenses? Here you are.

12/30/2004 Over 4,000,000 Visitors in 2004

With over 4 million visitors in 2004 alone we had more visitors this year than in over 3 years before. Thanks for visting Digital Outback Photo. We work hard to make 2005 an even better experience. All this would not be possible without our excellent contributors. Thanks to all of them.

This site is mainly financed by selling our own ebooks and Photoshop Filters.

12/29/2004 Hasselblad H1 & Phase One P25

We had finally the chance to use a Phase One P25 back on a Hasselblad H1.

12/29/2004 "Using Metadata in Your Workflow, Part 1" by Veit Irtenkauf

Metadata are an important part of any digital workflow. Veit helps to understand the basics. He covers in Part 1 the EXIF information.

12/27/2004 Our XMas 2004 Portfolio: "San Juan Bautista"

We could use a trip to San Juan Bautista to give the Hasselblad H1 and the Phase One P25 some workout. Review note on the P25 coming soon.

12/27/2004 "FujiFilm FinePix S3 Pro" First Look by Michael Reichmann (source Luminous Landscape)

Michael has a first look at the Fuji S3. We may receive a review sample early next year.

12/25/2004 Two new 300D Entries by Alain Briot

Alain writes about a few new lenses and hot pixels for long exposures.

12/24/2004 Happy Holidays to all our Readers

12/23/2004 Harald Johnson "Mastering Digital Printing, Second Edition"

Harald's books is our favorite book on digital printing and a must have resource. The new edition covers all recent developments and printers.

12/23/2004 New E-Book: "Photoshop Layers for Photographers"

Using layers is essential for our digital workflow. In our main ebook DOP2000 we teach a layer based workflow. This e-book is an extract from DOP2000 and just concentrates on how to use layers for the photography workflow.

12/22/2004 Lens Adapters for Canon Mount

This article was published in August but you may have missed it at that time (too much info available here :-) ). We actually will check soon a Nikon to Canon adapter ourselves.

Check out our Series:

• The Bag
• Computers

12/22/2004 Firmware updates tweak AI Servo autofocus in EOS-1D Mark II, EOS-1Ds Mark II (Source Rob Galbraith)

As usual be careful and follow instructions step by step.

12/20/2004 Phase One P25 Field Report (Michael Reichmann)

Michael reviews his own P25 back. We hopefully will check this back out over Christmas (for a few days only).

12/19/2004 Epson R800 new Drivers

12/18/2004 Adobe Camera Raw 2.4 public beta available

"...The Camera Raw 2.4 beta has added support for the following cameras:

* Canon EOS 20D
* Canon PowerShot S70
* Canon PowerShot G6
* Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
* Konica Minolta DiMAGE A200
* Konica Minolta MAXXUM 7D
* Nikon D2X

..."

12/17/2004 Pure B&W workflow with Capture One Revisited

Sean Reid found some nice settings to get a very nice B/W workflow in Capture One.

12/17/2004 Bad News for the friends of Monarchs: Pacific Grove Sanctuary closed this season

We planned to take some pictures of the monarchs in Pacific Grove. But the sanctuary is closed due to fallen trees. Even worse they seemed to have killed an old lady.

12/16/2004 "Pi Media Networks" (Source Luminous Landscape)

Michael Reichmann writes about Canada's biggest photo studio.

12/16/2004 Alain also made his Epson 9600 Diary available on CD

You can now buy a CD from Alain that includes his full 9600 diary in PDF and many of his previous articles.

12/16/2004 Epson R800 prints too dark?

We hear quite often that readers find R800 being too dark. We checked ourselves with one of our reader's images.

12/16/2004 "Digital Printer Test Strips" by Brad Hinkel

With this article we would also like to introduce our new contributor Brad Hinkel. We are very happy to have Brad on board.

12/15/2004 Alain added new entries to his Epson 9600 diary

We are certain that Alain's 9600 diary is the most comprehensive Epson 9600/7600 review out there. Next Alain will explore more the Epson 4000 printer.

12/15/2004 Nikon D2H now available at a bargain price: $1999 (Source Rob Galbraith)

12/14/2004 Note on orders for our ebooks and filters by check

Once in a while we get a check from customers without:

- Email address
- Phone number
- Number of the the ordered item

In this case we have no chance to deliver what you ordered and have to wait for you sending us an email. Please send us a note if you feel we did not deliver an item in time. We write this note as we have just such a check sitting here. If it maybe yours please contact us: uwe@outbackphoto.com.

12/14/2004 "Market your Images Part 1" by Byron Jorjorian

Byron gave a very interesting presentation on marketing stock photos. He will now also share his experience with our readers.

12/12/2004 Portfolio: "Santa Barbara II"

Also our second trip to Santa Barbara was fun and we laso got some nice pictures.

12/12/2004 Analysis of our Canon 1Ds Mk. II, 1Ds and 1D Mk. II Tests RAW Files by Phil Lindsay

Phil checked the result of our test raw files using real large format prints.

12/12/2004 Already 1500 downloads of our free upsizing plugin

12/11/2004 Santa Barbara Front Page Photo

Just back from our second trip to Santa Barbara this year. Hope to have a short portfolio up soon.

12/8/2004 "Cataloguing your Images with Extensis Portfolio 7" by Veit Irtenkauf

Archiving images is a tricky business. Check out how Veit uses Extensis Portfolio 7.

12/7/2004 Other uses of the Tonality Masks

The use of the Tonality Mask plugin is not really limited to tonality tuning. That is why we added a brief note on other uses.

12/7/2004 Breezebrowser Pro 1.0 (aka BreezeBowser 3.0) released

12/5/2004 "Tonality Tuning" by Uwe Steinmueller

We talk about tonality tuning and offer our first commercial plugin/action tuning toolkit.

12/5/2004 New E-Book: "Photoshop Layers for Photographers"

Using layers is essential for our digital workflow. In our main ebook DOP2000 we teach a layer based workflow. This e-book is an extract from DOP2000 and just concentrates on how to use layers for the photography workflow.

12/4/2004 Upsizing Automation Filter beta posted

We created a Photoshop automation plugin that implements Jack Flesher's upsizing method.

12/4/2004 Alain's Epson 4000 Diary started

Alain's 9600/7600 diary is the most popular and comprehensive resource on these printers. Now Alain checks out his own new Epson 4000 printer.

12/3/2004 Photorescue Success Story

For a long time Photorescue is known to be a leading solution for recovering data from memory cards. Fortunately we never needed it for our own images. Today we made a friend very happy: He deleted accidentally the images on his PC and also formatted the card on the same PC. Unfortunately one shot was very important to him. We helped out with Photorescue and recovered all missing images form the card.

We added Photorescue to our new directory of "Useful Tools".

12/2/2004 "Canon 1Ds Mk. Ii vs. Phase One P25" by Michael Reichmann (source Luminous Landscape)

Michael compares the high-end of digital cameras. We will probably test a P25 later this month.

12/1/2004 Qimage 2005

Mike Chaney just released a bew version of Qimage. Mike wrote: " The 2005 edition is a major rewrite that allows Qimage to run much faster than before while using less memory. Users will enjoy faster printing, faster file conversions, ability to handle much larger images, and greater stability especially on older, less capable machines due to reduced memory requirements..."

12/1/2004 C1 3.6 for Mac released

The new version supports the Canon 1Ds Mk. II but unfortunately only for the Mac.