11/5/2006 Leica M8 Diary: Monterey and Carmel

11/5/2006 Slrgear.com launches User Review Sweepstakes

Our friends at Imaging Resource launch these Sweepstakes to encourage users to write short but meaningful reviews about their lenses and other SLR gear. Good user reviews are great to complement editorial reviews.

Note: Digital Outback Photo started in 2000 based on self published user reviews of the Nikon D1 (read this for your entertainment). Actually even our reviews (2006) today are still user reviews (use of gear in the field).

11/5/2006 Leica M8 Diary: M8 "Auto" WB issues

11/4/2006 Adobe Color Management Module Prerelease available

"..The CMM can be used by applications that support selection of third-party CMMs. It can also be integrated into workflows using custom software to access the CMM APIs...Adobe intends to provide the final release of the CMM after the prerelease cycle is complete. It will be provided free of charge to users who agree to the licensing terms in the CMM licensing agreement."

11/3/2006 Apple Aperture 1.5.1 released (source Rob Galbraith)

Finally there is also a 30 day trial of Aperture available.

11/2/2006 Using HDRI in landscape photography

11/2/2006 Phase One releases Capture One 3.7.6

Features live preview for Phase One backs and improved handling of the Leica M8.

11/1/2006 Adobe releases Camera Raw 3.6

This is now the final release of Camera Raw 3.6.

11/1/2006 Leica M8 Diary: Santa Cruz Boardwalk and new Gallery

10/31/2006 Michael Reichmann's "Hands-on Field Review" of the Leica M8 (Source Luminous Landscape)

10/29/2006 Focusing In The Digital Era: Part 2 (Source Luminous Landscape)

10/29/2006 Leica M8 Diary started

We are very excited to work with the new Leica M8. There is not too much to learn for us on the digital end but using a rangefinder camera is very different from using a (D)SLR.

10/28/2006 Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi/400D in practical use and first gallery

On our brief trip to Pismo Beach we used the Canon Rebel XTi/400D the first time for our real work.

10/27/2006 Focusing In The Digital Era: Part 1 (Source Luminous Landscape)

10/26/2006 Adam Tow releases Annoture 1.0.1 for Aperture 1.5

Adam Tow also released a second tool for Aperture called Timeature to correct shooting times for Aperture 1.5.

10/24/2006 Portfolio Invitation #019: Birds in Flight #1 (Submissions open till 11/20/2006 8am PST)

10/21/2006 Note on the new Dust Removal features of the Rebel XTi/400D

10/21/2006 ChronoSync Updated to Version 3.3.3

10/21/2006 Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi/400D

Finally we got our review sample. Like the other Rebel cameras before this is a very serious camera.

10/20/2006 Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Beta 4.1 now ready for download

10/20/2006 Akvis Enhancer 5.0 now available

Enhancer now also support Photoshop batch processing.

10/19/2006 The Making of the Alcatraz Photos

We added a new step using Enhancer 5.0 which improved the images even more.

10/19/2006 LightZone RAW Contest #3

We think that our LightZone contests are quite a success because our readers demonstrate how many different interpretations a single RAW file allows. LightZone allows them to share the complete editing instructions. Give it a shot.

10/18/2006 Creating Beauty (source The Online Photographer)

10/17/2006 The Making of the Alcatraz Photos

10/17/2006 SILKYPIX Developer Studio 3.0 Beta English available for test

10/16/2006 Photomatix 2.3.1 released

Some improvements and bug fixes.

10/16/2006 Canon 400D Review (source DPReview Phil Askey)

We hope to get our review sample soon.

10/15/2006 Portfolio Invitation #019: Birds in Flight #1 (Submissions open till 11/20/2006 8am PST)

10/13/2006 Alcatraz

We joined a unique photo workshop on Alcatraz organized by Keeble & Shuchat. Alcatraz proved to be the ideal place to explore HDR photographs.

10/10/2006 Q&A with Uwe Steinmueller featuring our book "The Art of RAW conversion" (source The Digital Filmmaker)

Check our our books.

10/10/2006 Reality & Vision: Framing is the Key

10/8/2006 Adobe Camera RAW 3.6 Public Beta posted

ACR 2.6 supports now Canon 400D, Nikon D80, Pentax K100, Panasonic DMC-LX2, Leica Digilux 3.

10/7/2006 Innova Fiber-Based Glossy Paper wins the TIPA Award– Photokina 2006

Listen to the interview.

10/6/2006 Summit 2006 News

• HP will have two 9180 printers at the Summit
• Henry Wilhelm plans to give a keynote on print longevity at our Summit

Sorry, the summit is sold out. Check our our Vision Trilogy seminars in February 2007.

10/6/2006 Photomatix 2.3: HDRI for Photographers

HDRI (High Dynamic Range Imaging) is one of these buzwords. We wanted to know how HDRI could help our practical art work.