The Art of RAW Conversion 2005 (English and German)
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8/31/2005 Digital Outback Photo is now five years old

Just for the fun we left the first (and only :-) ) editorial on our server. We find that we fulfilled our vision. DOP has gone a long way and has even changed our lives. DOP is more successful than we ever thought. We want to thank our contributors, friends and customers that make DOP possible. Let's keep the vision fresh for the next five years. We like the dialog with all our readers and the right place to share ideas are our forums.

8/31/2005 A Few new IR Photos

8/29/2005 Free Fotoespresso 3/2005 published (English)

This issue covers:

• Intro to RSE (part from our E-Book DOP3002)
• Epson 2400 review
• "The RAW Flaw" is about the OpenRAW initiative

8/29/2005 Book Review Note: "Photoshop LAB Color : The Canyon Conundrum and Other Adventures in the Most Powerful Colorspace" by Dan Margulis

8/25/2005 Hasselblad announced new H2 and H2D Cameras (source DPReview)

8/25/2005 Nikon Capture v4.3.1 (Source DPReview)

8/24/2005 Our new Konica Minolta 7D Diary

8/23/2005 Portfolio Invitation #6: Lighthouses #1 started

8/23/2005 Canon's EOS 5D sample shots

Note: The landscape shot is limited by the Canon 17-40mm f/4 lens at 17mm. The macro shot looks very nice if sharpened with EasyS Sharpening Toolkit (with edge mask and level N).

8/23/2005 Canon just announced new DSLRs and Lenses for Fall 2005

You can also download the complete white papers for both cameras. The new Canon EOS 5D will take center stage of this announcement. The new Canon EF 24-105 f/4 IS USM lens could be the lens we waited for.

8/22/2005 Portfolio Invitation #5: Color Nature Abstracts #1 (submissions closed, gallery up)

You can now vote for your favorite picture till 8/31/2005.

8/22/2005 New Qimage Lite (Windows only)

Mike Chaney wrote us "Over the past 8 years, Qimage has become the Swiss Army knife of Windows photo printing tools and has earned recognition from professionals worldwide who want to be able to produce the best quality photographic prints possible. While Qimage serves the needs of the professional and advanced amateur well, it was time to trim some fat from that Swiss Army knife to give people a tool that has most of the power of the original, but isn't as bulky or difficult to carry around.

The result is Qimage Lite. Qimage Lite packs the same punch as it's big brother, the professional edition, except Qimage Lite does it in a much more compact and easy to use package. We've taken all the tools that are commonly used by the casual photo shooter and wrapped them in an interface that is both easy to learn and powerful to use. Unlike the control panel type approach used by the Qimage "power users", Qimage Lite has more of a walk-through feel that leads users down the right path...."

We always found that Qimage is a bargain application (our review). Now Qimage Lite is at $34.95 even cheaper. Honestly we find the lite version more easy to use and it does all we want from a good printing application:

• Fully color managed
• Excellent upsizing
• Smart final sharpening
• Image sizing
• Borders

8/21/2005 "Photoshop Insight Injection: Open As Smart Object Script" (source whereisben.com)

We covered how to open a RAW file as a smart object in Ben's Tip #2. Now you can download a script that does exactly what we described in that article.

8/21/2005 Front Page Photo Gallery discontinued

Because we have now every month a new Portfolio Invitation we have discontinued our front page gallery. The Portfolio Invitation will give at least 30 readers per month the opportunity to show their artwork.

8/20/2005 National Museum of American History Adds Nash Editions Digital Photography Equipment, Prints to Collections

Nash Editions is a pioneer and premier fine art printing studio in the US. We visited Nash Editions in 2003.

8/20/2005 Digital Infrared Continued

Our journey with digital IR photography continues. Today we shot at Point Lobos.

8/18/2005 Ben's Photoshop Tip #3: "Precise Masking"

8/16/2005 Added some B&W IR Conversions

8/15/2005 Digital IR Cameras

IR photography has always been a special discipline in photography. Some love and some not. Check out what a digital camera can do if modified for IR.

8/14/2005 Improved Dust Removal with Photoshop CS2 "Spot Healing Brush"

8/12/2005 Bibble 4.3 released

8/11/2005 Epson 4800's MNT REQ 0088 code

If you get this code read the note by Pete Walsh and save ink.

8/10/2005 New Front Page Photo

We started today working with an IR modified Canon 1Ds. Looks like fun. We will post a review in the next few weeks.

8/10/2005 Firmware update for EOS 20D fixes EOS Capture problem (Source Rob Galbraith)

8/8/2005 Leica Digital Module R

We used one of the first US samples of the Leica Digital Module R.

8/7/2005 Nikon D50 Gallery started and D50 shots from Big Sur

8/7/2005 "Chasing the Fog"

Do you love photographing in fog? We do :-) .

8/6/2005 Epson 4800 idle for two weeks

Jack Flesher reports what happened when he had his 4800 sitting idle and without power.

8/4/2005 PTLens 6.2 released

8/4/2005 Info on possible "Matworks!" problem

8/3/2005 "Matworks!" by Giorgio Trucco

Regular contributor Giorgio Trucco created a free Windows (a Mac version may follow) tool that makes it easy to calculate mat openings for your art work (single and double mats).

8/1/2005 Reminder: August Portfolio Invitation #5: Color Nature Abstracts #1 (submissions end 8/15)

8/1/2005 Portfolio Invitation #4: Coast #1 voting ended and results published

8/1/2005 Sensor cleaning: A note of caution

We post to this blog not because we know "who did what?" but to make all readers aware that you are at your own risk using 3rd party cleaning solutions. All the supported solutions by Nikon and Canon don't work and all that work are somehow risky. We always applauded Fuji/Kodak for officially supporting Sensor Swabs. Also the Olympus way (ultra sound) to clean sensors maybe a step in the right direction (we just never did the testing). We hope that the industry will improve on this issue rather sooner than later.

8/1/2005 Finding a matching zoom for the D50