"California Earthframes" as printed hardcover book for sale now

"You and Bettina should be very proud of this work. The images are truly beautiful. I think the arrangement in the book is excellent -- the facing images complement each other very well." Mark Saperstein 1/11/2006

1/30/2006 Porfolio Invitation "Fog #1" gallery up for voting only till 1/31/2006 8am PST

1/29/2006 Review Cameras for Sale

We often buy cameras for the only purpose to do a review them. This happens in cases where we find a camera important but the manufacturer is not getting us a review sample fast enough. This means all these cameras are bought by us through regular channels and are not free samples from the manufacturers.

1/29/2006 Did you get your Fotoespresso 4/2005?

1/28/2006 RAW Developer 1.4.4 available for download

Read also our RAW Developer review.

1/27/2006 Olympus E-330 (EVOLT) Digital SLR (soucre DPReview)

World’s first digital SLR with continuous live view.

1/26/2006 "California Earthframes" some statistics

We recorded which cameras uses and when the pictures were taken. Overall we used 13 different digital cameras for the pictures in the book.

1/25/2006 Apple abandons plan to charge US$49 for Aperture Universal Binary crossgrade (source Rob Galbraith)

1/24/2006 Warming up for PMA 2006

PMA is shaping up. If you have new information please contact us.

1/24/2006 Graham Nash and Mac Holbert Win Award for Inventing Digital Fine Art Printing

Congratulations to Mac Holbert and Graham Nash. We visited Nash Editions in 2003 and were honestly impressed by their work. All started with the strong B&W photos by Graham Nash. Not to mention that we also love the music of CSN(Y). We were fortunate to be at a live CSN concert in 2004.

1/23/2006 PictoColor Corporation released iCorrect EditLab Pro 5.0

We use iCorrect on a regular basis for additional while balance tuning. Read our review about the previous version 4.5.

1/23/2006 Check out our DOP Variations plugin

We think this article is useful for everyone even if you do not plan to buy the plugin.

1/22/2006 Nikon D200 Banding

Our friends at Imaging Resource checked into this issue in more detail.

1/22/2006 Portfolio Invitation #11: Reflections #1 (Submission ends 2/15/2006 8am PST)

1/21/2006 "California Earthframes" as printed hardcover book for sale now

Customer testimonial: "I received the printed version of Earthframes a few days ago and just wanted to let you know that I thought it was truly excellent! Reading and viewing it is a pleasure." Howard Grill, 1/18/2006

1/21/2006 4x5" Drum Scanned Film vs. 39 Megapixel Digital (Charles Cramer at Luminous Landscape)

Charles Cramer did a test comparison between 4x5" film versus a Phase One P45 back.

1/21/2006 Camera Raw 3.3 Release Version posted

Camera Raw 3.3 beta was posted before Christmas. Now the official release is available.

1/20/2006 Konica Minolta withdraw from camera business (DPReview)

Truly surprising news. We have to see what Sony will do with the Minolta assets in the future.

1/20/2006 Establishing a Metadata-Driven Workflow with Portfolio 8 (PC/Mac)

Veit Irtenkauf had a look at the latest version of Extensis Portfolio.

1/18/2006 Zeiss officially introduces lenses for Nikon F-mount (source Rob Galbraith)

1/17/2006 Adobe Lightroom Beta 1.1 posted

1/16/2006 Porfolio Invitation "Fog #1" gallery up for voting till 1/31/2006 8am PST

1/15/2006 Photo Mechanic 4.4.1 now in new beta

We also start using Photo Mechanic as one of our main photo browsers on the Mac.

1/15/2006 DOP contributor Giorgio Trucco won best of show award at NANPA

Congratulations!

1/14/2006 Impressions of the MacBook Pro and iWeb (source Rob Galbraith)

1/12/2006 RAW Converters: The Setting File Dilemma

Ever wondered why you have all these extra settings files for your RAW converters on your disk? Unfortunately they can cause quite a few problems.

1/12/2006 The Arca CUBE tripod head (Jack Flesher for Luminous Landscape)

1/11/2006 News from the Mac World 2006 in SF

• Intel based iMac and MacBook Pro (opens the question: when will be Photoshop available to support Macintel native?)
• OS X 10.4.4 update (fixes the RAW IPTC bug)

1/10/2006 Nikon D200 Sample Gallery online

1/10/2006 Adobe Lightroom Public Beta 1 for Mac announced

Today Adobe launched the answer to Aperture. We have our first review online.

1/8/2006 Hasselblad introduces a 39MP back (via Luminous Landscape)

1/7/2006 Rumors have a new Adobe Application dubbed LightRoom next week

Rumors spread like wildfire and we heard them too. We cannot and do not want to comment on rumors. Fortunately we all know better next week.

1/6/2006 UPstrap note by Jim Collum

1/5/2006 Aperture Stacks

Once you used Stacks you miss them everywhere.

1/5/2006 Did you get your Fotoespresso 4/2005?

1/4/2006 "California Earthframes" will start selling next week

We have now books in stock and will start to have the book for sale next week. Thanks for your patience.

1/3/2006 Uwe's Mac Experience Diary

We recently switched to a Mac as our main imaging machine and plan to share our findings.

1/3/2006 Our revised California Earthframes Gallery is now online

The gallery was created with Aperture (with only a few manual tweaks). The gallery features the photos from our book California Earthframes and a brand new portfolio "Dunes".

1/2/2006 Aperture: Trick to change Web Gallery Themes

1/1/2006 Aperture: Web Galleries

We continue in 2006 with full speed :-)