"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

Our brand new E-Book: The Art of Digital Fine Art printing      

2/28/2006 PMA News 2/28/2006

• Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 for Mac
• Sigma launches 5 Four Thirds lenses
• HP Disrupts Retail Consumer Photo-printing Market (source HP)

2/27/2006 Portfolio Invitation #11: Reflections #1 voting till 3/1/2006 8am

2/27/2006 PMA News 2/27/2006

• Nikon Capture NX
• Olympus & Panasonic Four Thirds System SLR cameras
• Leica lenses for Four Thirds System

2/26/2006 PMA News 2/26/2006

• Nik UPoint technology
• New Hahnemuehle paper in the making
• Free RSE 2006 released

2/26/2006 Bibble Labs releases Version 4.6 with Noise Ninja Technology

2/24/2006 Off now for PMA 2006 in Orlando

We are not sure how much we can publish directly from PMA. We expect that papers (Crane Silver Rag, papers of the same league e.g. Innova) and printers (Canon & HP competing with Epson with pigment based printers) will be among the more exciting products at PMA.

2/24/2006 HP Photosmart Pro B9180 Photo Printer

HP Photosmart Pro B9180 Photo Printer featuring (fact sheet):

• 8 colors (2 shades of black)
• Pigmented inks
• Both matte and photo black in the printer at the same time

Clearly HP aims with this printer at the Epson R2400. Only real world tests will tell how these two printers compare. We try to get a review sample ASAP.

2/24/2006 Portfolio Invitation #12: Motion (Submissions open till 3/15/2006 8am PST)

2/24/2006 Portfolio Invitation #11: Reflections #1 voting till 3/1/2006 8am

2/24/2006 DPReview publishes its Nikon D200 review

2/23/2006 Phase One P45: A first look

Today we had a first chance to get our hands on a Phase One P45 back (39MP).

2/22/2006 Canon announces imagePROGRAF iPF5000 professional printer

This is a 17" printer featuring:

• 12 colors (3 shades of black, red, green, blue)
• Pigmented inks
• Both matte and photo black in the printer at the same time

Clearly Canon aims with this printer at the Epson4800. Only real world tests will tell how these two printers compare. We try to get a review sample ASAP. We are waiting when Canon will announce 24" and 44" wide variants with the same inkset.

2/22/2006 Canon announces Pixma Pro9500 pinter

This is a 13" printer featuring:

• 10 colors (2 shades of black)
• Pigmented inks
• Both matte and photo black in the printer at the same time

Clearly Canon aims with this printer at the Epson R2400. Only real world tests will tell how these two printers compare. We try to get a review sample ASAP. For us one of the first real PMA 2006 highlights.

2/22/2006 Canon announces 30D

This seems to be a moderate yet useful update to the popular 20D at a reduced price.

2/21/2006 Pixmantec RSP 1.0.2 Update released

"Version 1.0.2 is a service release which contains performance and quality related optimizations as well as a host of bug fixes and general improvements.". RSP now also supports the Nikon D200.

2/19/2006 Phase One joins as a sponsor for the Summit 2006

We are very pleased to announce that Phase One will sponsor our summit. This means for you:

• Kevin Raber (a passionate photographer himself) of Phase One will join the summit
• You can try out a P45, P30 or P25 back yourself (probably on a MF camera and a view camera)
• Kevin will provide a presentation about working with the P45 and Capture One

Remember that the P45 is defining the high end of digital one shot photography (not counting scanning backs with their own limitations) as of today (2/13/2006). Digital Outback Photo plans to cover this back in 2006 in more detail. Some people say that digital MF photography is really approaching 4x5 film now. Check the P45 out yourself and join us at the summit.

2/18/2006 Crane & Co. Museo Silver Rag (by Pete Myers at Luminous Landscape)

We also posted a quick preview here. Actually as we speak we know at least 2 more papers of this type and are testing one other right now. These are exciting times for fine art printers.

2/18/2006 Bibble Labs to license Noise Ninja™ from PictureCode

2/18/2006 DOP Filter Bundle Special

Special Bundle offer with 3 of our popular filters:

• EasyS Plus Sharpening Toolkit
• DOP Variations
• DOP Tonality Tuning Toolkit

Receive 3 of our popular workflow plugin filters for just $69.95 (instead of $89.85 if bought as single filters). If you are already a DOP customer (e-books or filters) then you can save even more (check out the update price).

2/18/2006 Kodak and Bibble join forces (source DPReview)

2/17/2006 Our brief history about dust on sensors

Dust and digital photogaphy seems a never ending story. First with scans and now with digital SLRs. We look back.

2/16/2006 Portfolio Invitation #11: Reflections #1 (Submission closed and gallery open)

2/16/2006 Nikon invests in Nik Software

Looks like Nikon want to strengthen their software offerings. Maybe we see new software already at PMA.

2/16/2006 The Russell Brown Show-News Update (source Photoshop News)

2/15/2006 Fotoespresso 1/2006

We just published our first Fotoespresso for 2006. This time we feature:

• Adobe Lightroom Beta 1
• Ring Arounds and Variations

This is a good time to thank our friend and co-author Juergen Gulbins for all his work (content and layout). Juergen Gulbins and Uwe Steinmueller work as a close team on all our newer books. Enjoy.