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3/30/2005 New Front Page Photo

San Luis National Wildlife Refuge

3/29/2005 Canon 1DS Mk. II Firmware Update 1.1.1

• What is fixed? "Improvement in communication reliability when using some CF cards. "

Maybe Canon fixed issues with some 4GB CF cards. We avoid to be an early adopter and use cards that work right now.

3/29/2005 Did we miss the Photoshop CS2 press release (leaked by Adobe)?

No, we don't. We just prefer to wait one week and present our readers a preview of PS CS2 with some more interesting details. We hope you can wait.

3/29/2005 Fun Mini Contest

Join this fun mini contest in our news group.

3/29/2005 Last Minute Reminder: Seminar "Managing the Digital Workflow" 3/30/2005

Uwe Steinmueller presents a 6 hour seminar 3/30/2005, 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 9am-5:30pm.

3/29/2005 Canon DPP 1.6.1 now available (Source Rob Galbraith)

3/28/2005 "Monitor Profiling Systems" by Ethan Hansen

There is no doubt in our mind that good color management starts with calibrating/profiling your monitor. Ethan Hansen has a long and in depth understanding of the color managed workflow.

3/28/2005 B&U Steinmueller's 350D Equipment Kit

We are now using the 350D on regular photo trips as our light travel kit (not really ultra light though).

3/23/2005 Only 3 seats left: Antelope Canyon Photography & Fine Art Printing Summit by Alain & Uwe

This year have a complete new format: Great location, hands on workflow and printing. Strictly limited to 24 attendees (3 are left as of today).

3/23/2005 Nikon D2X Reader Review Note by Laurin Rinder

We do not have a review sample of the Nikon D2X yet and not even sure we will receive one. So we are very glad that we got this personal review note from Laurin.

3/22/2005 Printing with the HP DJ30 at native printer PPI

Does make printing at native printer PPI make a difference for the DJ30?

3/21/2005 Special Realviz 4.0 deal at Outback Photo

Our friend Jim Collum stitches nearly every image to gain higher resolution (using 1Ds and now 1Ds Mk.II). First he did his work 100% manual in Photoshop. He uses now mainly Realviz 4.04 to get better color transitions and to save time. We were able to cut a deal with Realviz so that Outback Photo readers can get a very substantial discount. We plan to have a short review soon.

3/20/2005 New portfolio gallerry 2005-01 by B&U Steinmueller

Here is a gallery of photos that are candidates for our current portfolio prints. The gallery is from 2005 but most of the images are from 2003-2005.

3/20/2005 Canon Introduces Versatile New Large-format Inkjet Printers (source JCNNetwork)

Canon introduces in Japan the new printers W6400 and W8400. Both are wide format pigment based printers. Clearly Canon enters also the archival fine art printer market and their printers are known to be very fast.

3/19/2005 Uwe Steinmueller live on radio (Archive on MP3)

In case you missed the show you can now download the MP3 archive.

3/19/2005 RawShooter essentials 1.1.1 released

RawShooter 1.1 support for 350D was based on pre production camera files. The version 1.1.1 now works with the 350D production camera files.

3/19/2005 BreezeBrowser 1.1 released

The browser now also supports ranking and works with Windows shortcuts.

3/19/2005 Bibble 4.2 released

Bibble now also supports the Canon Rebel XT and Nikon D2x.

3/18/2005 Uwe Steinmueller live on radio (Friday 10-11am PST, KKUSP 88.9FM)

California's central coast public radio station invited Uwe Steinmueller as guest for this show. The show will also be available later from the same page. You can even call into the station and ask questions. The show is broadcast over the internet. You need a RealAudio player. Hope we all have some fun here.

3/18/2005 New Front Page Photo

3/17/2005 Canon Rebel XT (350D) Gallery opened

We opened our new 350D gallery and hope to add more images soon.

3/16/2005 Phil Askey's Fuji S3 Review (Source DPReview)

3/15/2005 Good lenses for the Canon 350D/Rebel XT

You need good lenses to get the most out of your Rebel XT. We checked into some options.

3/13/2005 Canon 350D/Rebel XT diary started

We start our review diary about his "hot" new camera. As usual we provide original raw files for our reader's inspection.

3/13/2005 As a kind reminder: This site is financed from the sales of our e-books and Photoshop tools

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3/11/2005 Alain's Marketing CD-1

Features an extensive collection of writings and materials on How to Market your Photographs. This CD has all the materials you need to get started with your photography business, take your existing photography business to the next step or learn how to market photography. If you enjoy reading my articles you will enjoy reading the texts on this CD, even if you do not currently sell your photographs.

3/11/2005 RawShooter essentials 1.1 released

Pixmantec just released a new free version of RawShooter essentials with major fixes:

• Win2K support
• Athlon and PIII support
• some other issues fixed

3/10/2005 First 7 megapixel phone (source DPR)

It seems that to P/S market for digital cameras will be mainly camera phones.

3/9/2005 Using MirrorFolder for offline disks

Veit Irtenkauf is also using MirrorFolder for some time. He added a comment on how to mirror data to offline disks.

3/9/2005 "Hasselblad and Leica support Adobe DNG"

Hasselblad and Leica are the first camera manufacturers that will support Adobe DNG in their cameras.

3/8/2005 Seminar "Managing the Digital Workflow" 3/30/2005

Uwe Steinmueller presents a 6 hour seminar 3/30/2005, 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 9am-5:30pm.

3/8/2005 Backup, Backup, Backup #3: MirrorFolder

Every day images get lost due to failures of harddisks or CD/DVDs. Create a backup of your essential data.

3/6/2005 Antelope Canyon Photography & Fine Art Printing Summit by Alain & Uwe

This year have a complete new format: Great location, hands on workflow and printing. Strictly limited to 24 attendees and seats we be gone soon.

3/6/2005 Contax 645 cameras still in production?

It seems that the new about Kyocera stopping camera production actually was very old news as it seems that only the production of digital cameras has been stopped.

3/5/2005 "Clarification Article: The need for a Stopping Set Screw on Non Canon Adapter" by Paul Caldwell

We have to thank Paul Caldwell that he reacted fast to the issues that have been reported about using certain lens adapters. Paul explains what may have been wrong in that case.

3/4/2005 Digital Fill Flash

Opening up shadows most often requires some sort of noise removal. We look into a useful workflow.

3/4/2005 Kyocera to end camera production (Source DPReview)

It is not clear what will happen to the Contax brand. This is not really surprising but still sad.

3/3/2005 New Front Page photo by Antonio Dias

Nevada Mountain Range

3/2/2005 "Where is Ben?" a BLOG by Ben Willmore

Ben is known to be clearly a Photoshop master. This BLOG not only gets you access to some of his recent Photoshop articles but also many other useful tips.

3/2/2005 "Wildlife Fill Flash" by Brad Hinkel

Brad discusses the important use of fill flash for wildlife photography.

3/1/2005 Point Lobos / Garapatta Beach by Jim Collum & Uwe Steinmueller

Once in a while Jim and Uwe are off for a photo trip. It is fun to see what we bring back from the same day and same scene.

3/1/2005 Explore Digital Outback Photo

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