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12/13/2005 Apple Aperture 1.0 Review (part 1)

Aperture is the hottest digital imaging application right now. Juergen Gulbins had a closer look at its functionality.

12/13/2005 Capture One 3.7.3 released (Source Rob Galbraith)

12/13/2005 Phase One starts shipping it's 39MP P45 camera back (source press release)

12/13/2005 Revolutionary new chip delivers better pictures (source DPReview)

12/11/2005 Iridient RAW Developer

Check out this review about a new RAW converter for the Mac. It is not brand new but we had the first time checked it out in more detail.

12/11/2005 Soft-proofing for B&W: Some helpful clarifications by Roy Harrington

12/11/2005 Comparative review of the Nikon D2X, Canon EOS 5D and Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II (source press release)

Lloyd wrote us: " Photographer Lloyd Chambers (diglloyd) has released his 170 megabyte three-way comparative review of the Nikon D2X, Canon EOS 5D and Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II. The $39.95 review compares resolution, color, noise and ISO performance, long exposures, dynamic range (including over and under-exposure), depth of field and background blur, usability and more—with both studio and field shots."

To find out about Lloyd's review style read this.

12/10/2005 Sony R1 diary: Note on Image stabilization

12/10/2005 Coffee with Uwe at the Great Bear Coffee shop in Los Gatos?

Many know this picture from our reviews. Why did we use this scene? Because we like the look and the coffee shop. Through a discussion in our news group we came up the the idea to meet there 12/13/2005 11am. You are welcome to join us if you have time. The Bear Coffee shop is at 19 N. Santa Cruz Avenue, Los Gatos. Please drop me a note if you plan to come. We have no agenda except to meet and chat.

12/10/2005 Annoture: a metadata bridging for Aperture and iView MediaPro

Adom Tow writes "Introducing Annoture, a metadata bridging solution for Aperture and iView MediaPro! With Annoture, you’re just a click away from sharing metadata between these two popular image management and cataloging applications. Spend more time working with your decisive moments than worrying about double-entry and incomplete metadata!..."

12/10/2005 Summit 2005 summary by Alain Briot

12/09/2005 Sony R1 diary updated (first test photos)

12/09/2005 Soft-proofing for B&W

As part of his QuadTone RIP our friend Roy Harrington solved the problem how to do a good soft-proofing for B&W.

12/09/2005 Olympus EVOLT E-500 (Source ImagingResource)

12/09/2005 Samsung Pro815 Review (Source DPReview)

12/08/2005 Sony R1 diary started

This camera could start a new trend: Digicam with larger APS sized sensor.

12/08/2005 Portfolio Invitation #8: Old Buildings #1 results posted

12/7/2005 Phil Askey's Sony R1 Review (source DPReview)

This camera gets very good marks from Phil. Whether you like to work with an electronic viewfinder or not is probably the main criterion and also ISO above 400.

12/6/2005 Bill Atkinson publishes a "bouquet" of 48 comparison profiles for the Epson Stylus Pro 9800 with Premium Luster Photo Paper (250)

Bill wrote us: "For each of six different print quality setups, one detailed and careful set of measurement data (5 copies of 16x16x16 patches) was used to create eightdifferent variations, using different profile making software and software options.

For the first time, photographers will be able to open one of their own images in Photoshop and soft-proof or make test prints with each of a number of different perceptual mappings, so they can choose for themselves which profile works best for that particular image.

Also, before purchasing an expensive profile making software package, you can make an informed choice of which one gives the best results for your personal preferences and the kind of images that you usually make.

The profiles and documentation may be downloaded by going to www.billatkinson.com and clicking the link at the bottom of the page."

We consider this a major service for the fine art photographers community by Bill Atkinson.

12/5/2005 Sean Reid launches a new subscription based review web site

Luminous-Landscape reviewer Sean Reid, a documentary photographer best known for his writing about the Epson R-D1 and rangefinder lenses, has begun a subscription web site of camera and lens reviews as well as
more general articles about photography. Reid plans to write about a wide range of digital SLRs, digital rangefinders, lenses and small-sensor camera

12/4/2005 Changed the e-book content of "California Earthframes" by B&U Steinmueller

The e-book now includes two versions:

• The full book with all the pictures (144 pages, cannot be printed)
• The full book without the main pictures but all the text and image annotations (57 pages, can be printed)

12/3/2005 The making of the book "California Earthframes" by B&U Steinmueller

Hard to believe we made our first photo book. Read about our journey.

12/3/2005 RAW Converters and "good" colors?

There is a lot of discussion about "good" colors or not so "good" colors that you get from RAW converters. This article intends to be some food for thought.

12/3/2005 GretagMacbeth released Profile Maker 5.0.5

12/2/2005 Extensis Portfolio 8 ships

We put currently Portfolio 8 through the paces.

12/2/2005 Bill Atkinson has updated his new printer profiling targets

The link to the new targets is at the bottom of the page.

12/2/2005 Discussions on Aperture

Apple's Aperture is clearly a very hot topic right now because many photographers got their copy this week. We are in touch with Apple to get Aperture and have a review hopefully the next few weeks.

Adam Tow publishes a blog about his experience with Aperture. Some good information already.

12/2/2005 Epson posts new ICC profiles for R1800, R2400 and 2200 (source Rob Galbraith)

We are not sure whether the 2400 profiles are that new because Epson does not show version numbers for their profiles.

12/1/2005 "Give Your Photos a Velvia® Touch" by Glenn E. Mitchell II

12/1/2005 Uwe's Nikkor Lenses

We have updated our Nikkor lens page. You will find that we use close the same set of lenses on the Nikon cameras as we use on the Canon system. Actually we started digital with the Nikon D1/D1x, then added a Canon system which very much mirrored what we used on the Nikons. Now going dual system we have about the same lens set for both systems. With the D2x we are a bit more prepared for the longer range to also photograph wildlife.

11/30/2005 Altostorm Rectilinear Panorama™ Pro 20% off till February 2006 for DOP readers

11/29/2005 Portfolio Invitation #8: Old Buildings #1 voting till 12/5/2005

11/27/2005 Uwe & Bettina's Main Cameras

We thought you maybe interested to know which cameras and lenses we use most of the time. Also that we now use a Canon/Nikon dual system is likely more unsual.

11/26/2005 Phatte Black Printing (source Luminous Landscape)

If you want to print with one Epson 4800/7800/9800 on matte and glossy papers switching inks is no fun (and quite costly). For some photographers the new ColorByte Phatte Black offering maybe the solution they waited for.

11/26/2005 "Marketing Your Images" course on CD by Byron Jorjorian

Byron the author of our marketing series is offering his course on CD for DOP readers at a special discount. Read Byron's articles and you will understand that he understands his subject because his main business is selling images.

11/25/2005 Altostorm Rectilinear Panorama™ Distortion Correction Plugin

For many photographers the correction of distorted images (mainly perspective issues) is a very important task. Checkout this new plugin.

11/24/2005 New DOP Variations plugin

We are quite excited to release a first version of our new DOP Variations plugin. Read this article and find out what this plugin can do for you. Now also working on the Mac.

11/23/2005 Monochrome Photographic Printmaking with the Epson UltraChrome K3 Inkset by Pete Myers

For all fine art photographers printing is the key to get the images they can be proud of. B&W printing with inkjet printers has come a long way. Pete Myers seems to have found a digital printing solution that satisfies his demands.

11/23/2005 Mike Chaney (Author of Qimage) releases camera profiles for RSP

Right now he sells reasonable priced profiles for the Canon 300D, 20D and 5D. More coming soon.

11/22/2005 Bill Atkinson posted brand new printer profiling targets

Bill Atkinson is well know for his first rate profiles for the Epson 7600/9600 printers. He now created new targets to improve the profiling quality with GretagMacbeth and X-Rite software. The link to the new targets is at the bottom of the page.