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2/26/2007 PMA 2007 soon: 3/8/-3/11 in Las Vegas

2/25/2007 LightZone RAW Contest #6 (Leica M8)

Check out how different photographers can interpret the same picture.

2/24/2007 Epson Stylus Pro 3800 Diary: unidirectional or high speed UPDATE?

2/24/2007 Qimage v2007.160 available

2/22/2007 PMA 2007: Canon Releases the EOS-1D MARK III Digital SLR

"Canon, the worldwide market leader in digital cameras, celebrates the 20th anniversary of its top-selling EOS single lens reflex camera system by announcing the EOS-1D Mark III Digital SLR, the world's fastest digital SLR camera. At 10 frames per second, the 10.1 megapixel EOS-1D Mark III digital SLR ....The all-new 10.1 megapixel, APS-H size CMOS sensor which is designed and manufactured by Canon, is the most light-sensitive and innovative sensor that Canon has developed to date. It features a new microlens array and a more efficient pixel structure for ultra-low noise, resulting in exceptional image quality and an amazing ISO range of 100 to 3200 with extensions to ISO 50 and a highly usable ISO 6400. ...

....Scheduled for initial U.S. shipments in Spring, the estimated selling price of the EOS-1D Mark III Digital SLR will be similar to that of its predecessor, ..

• See the Whole Picture with a Live View LCD
• The EOS Integrated Cleaning System
• The lens magnification factor is 1.3x

Here is the white paper.

2/22/2007 LightZone 2.2 free public beta posted

2/22/2007 Adobe - Photobucket relationship on web-based video remix and editing technology

Why do we believe this is relevant for photographers? We think video and photo will come closer the years to come and many services will move to the web.

2/22/2007 Lightroom: Pixmantec RAWShooter Premium FAQ

2/21/2007 Hack: How to use Apple Aperture for M8 RAW files

Please check it again as we made some changes.

2/21/2007 New larger Print Studio for consulting and presentation of our artwork

We plan soon to have a jour fix where you can meet us at the studio to talk and buy artwork.

2/20/2007 Phot-Art International publishes Bettina + Uwe Steinmueller portfolio "Light in the Dark"

Thanks to Phot-Art International we can publish our portfolio here as a PDF. All photos are also available as prints.

2/20/2007 Star Trail Photography (source Alain Briot)

2/20/2007 Photographing in the Digital Outback with Uwe & Bettina Steinmueller (Interview by Harris Fogel)

Harris Fogel of Mac Edition Radio interviewed both Bettina and Uwe Steinmueller at Mac World 2007 in San Francisco.

2/19/2007 Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 30 day trial version is available for download now

Read our full review on Lightroom 1.0.

Also a Camera Raw 3.7 is ready for download.

2/19/2007 Mark Hamburg Interview: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Part 2 of 2 (source since1968.com)

2/18/2007 Why is Selective Editing so important? Part 1

2/18/2007 HP Technical Paper: "Zebra marks (ink smearing) on thick papers"

The principles described in this note are relevant for all printers (also from other brands).

2/17/2007 Dorothea Lange: "The other migrant mother" (source OPF)

2/16/2007 Portfolio Invitation #021: High Key #1 (Submissions closed, Gallery open for voting)

2/15/2007 Nikon releases Capture NX 1.1 (Source Rob Galbraith)

2/15/2007 LightZone RAW Contest #6 (Leica M8)

This time our LightZone RAW contest is based on a Leica M8 photo from a county park in Silicon Valley.

2/14/2007 Book review note "Nash Editions: Photography and the Art of Digital printing"

2/13/2007 Epson Stylus Pro 3800 Diary: unidirectional or high speed?

2/12/2007 Portfolio Invitation #021: High Key #1 (Submissions open till 2/15/2007 8am PST)

2/11/2007 Can Photographers Be Plagiarists? (source Slate via The Online Photographer)

Very interesting slide show.

2/10/2007 Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 web gallery: Light in the Dark

We plan to publish now more often web galleries that we generate from Lightroom. All photos itself were created using Photomatix. LightZone and Photoshop.

2/9/2007 Leica Digital-Modul-R discontinued (Source Rob Galbraith)

We have confirmed this news with Leica.

2/8/2007 Free and new Fotoespresso 1/2007 published

This time our free magazine covers exclusively in depth Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0.

2/8/2007 Epson Stylus Pro 3800 Diary: 1400 DPI vs. 2800 DPI

2/7/2007 Leica M8 Diary: M8 Gallery "Oak Trees"

All images are organized in Lightroom, edited in LightZone and finally the Flash gallery was created directly from Lightroom.

Now also a colorized version of the gallery.

2/5/2007 Portfolio Invitation #020: Old Machinery #1 (Voting closed)

2/4/2007DOP Lightroom 1.0 FAQ launched

All our readers can participate:

a) asking questions (post them in our news group)

b) contributing answers (also post them in our news group). We will post selected answers and will post them as part of the Lightroom FAQ page.

2/3/2007Creative Fun with Lensbaby 3G

We took a closer look at Lensbaby 3G.

2/3/2007Aperture to Final Cut Pro plugin released (source Rob Galbraith)

2/2/2007"The Museum" by Pete Myers (PDF)

The article is a humorous look at the world of "fine art."

2/1/2007Epson Stylus Pro 3800 Diary: Profiling for the Advanced Black and White Mode

1/31/2007 Nikon issue new firmware for D40 and D80 (Source DPReview)

1/29/2007 Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 in depth Preview

About one year after Adobe posted the first Lightroom public Beta it announced the final product today.

• USD 299 (introductory price in the US is USD 199 till 4/30/2007)
• Shipping 2/19/2007
• 30 day trial version will be posted 2/19/2007