10/5/2006 Phot' Art International September issue with focus Cuba

10/4/2006 Soft proofing for B&W Images (re-posted)

More and more photographers print digital B&W images. This technique by Roy Harrington helps to get better results and also allows more precise previews for B&W.

10/3/2006 The Plugin Site released B/W Styler

10/2/2006 LightZone RAW Contest #2 September 2006 (max entries extended to 30)

10/2/2006 Hasselblad H3D Concerns (source Luminous Landscape)

We post this article because we find it as strange as Michael Reichmann how Hasselblad tries to lock in customers. In the past such strategies fortunately failed often enough and we hope Hasselblad will return to open systems in the future. Third party back manufacturers seem now to endorse a new medium format system that is created be Rollei but also branded as Leaf and Sinar. Maybe Hasselblad helped to form their own competition.

10/2/2006 Think Tank Photo releases new air travel photo gear

10/1/2006 Portfolio Invitation #018: Infrared #1 (Submissions voting final)

9/28/2006 Photokina 2006: Seitz 6x17 Digital

9/28/2006 Photokina 2006: Leica M8

9/27/2006 Canon with new 44" imagePROGRAF iPF8000

9/27/2006 Photokina 2006: HP Designjet Z2100/3100 Large Format Printers

9/27/2006 Photokina 2006: X -Rite unveils Integrated Product Portfolio for Digital Photography

9/26/2006 Photokina 2006: Apple releases Aperture 1.5

9/25/2006 Photokina 2006: Epson announces the new Stylus Pro 3800 17" printer

This is clearly Epsons answer to the Canon IPF5000 printer.

9/25/2006 Photokina 2006: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Beta 4 announced

From the press release: ".. The final branding of the software, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, confirms its place within the Photoshop family. .."

9/24/2006 Photokina 2006: Meet Uwe Steinmueller at Photokina 9/28/2006 10-10:45am

We plan to be at our publisher's "dpunkt" booth (hall 4.1 booth D021) Thursday 9/28/2006 10-10:45am. We are also there to sign books you buy.

9/22/2006 Photokina 2006: LightZone 2.0 (Public Beta) Preview

Have a look at this major new release. Visit the LightCrafts booth at Photokina hall 4.1 booth D030.

9/22/2006 Photokina 2006: Bibble 4.9 released

Features now Spot Heal, Defect Correction, Ratings and new cameras.

9/22/2006 On our Way to Photokina

This years Photokina we concentrate on a few topics:

• our 3 seminars
• Leica M8 (maybe the star of the show)
• Printers from HP and Epson (this will be very interesting)
• Imaging software (Aperture, Lightroom, LightZone)
• The color management solutions by the new X-Rite company (now including former GretagMacbeth)

9/21/2006 Akvis Enhancer: A Second Opinion by Jim Collum

Read why Jim Collum is more and more often using this plugin for his image workflow.

9/21/2006 Canon updates DPP (Source Rob Galbraith)

9/20/2006 Camera Raw 3.5 released

Note on the Adobe site: "Adobe Camera Raw 3.6 development has been accelerated to accommodate recently announced cameras such as the Nikon D80 and the Canon EOS 400D / Digital Rebel Xti. The update will be provided this fall."

9/20/2006 Capture One 3.7.5 released

Capture One 3.7.5 LE is also bundled with the new Leica M8.

9/19/2006 "Of Cameras and Art" by Alain Briot (source Luminous Landscape)

This is the kind of discussions we plan to have with our students at our "Vision Trilogy" seminars. The tricky part is that Photography is based on art and technique. If you just concentrate on one end the other suffers. It is better to err on the artistic side as this always will define the need for a proper technique.

9/16/2006 LightZone RAW Contest #2 September 2006

We think that the LightZone Contest #1 contained a lot of interesting image interpretations. We are sure this one will be even more interesting.