The Outdoors Show in London has announced that it will be launching a brand new element within the 2012 show – a dedicated Photography Village. Read more and comment . . . → Read More: Photography Village at The Outdoors Show 2012
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Ricoh has announced the establishment of Pentax Ricoh Imaging Company as its wholly owned subsidiary. Read more and comment . . . → Read More: Ricoh Establishes Pentax Ricoh Imaging Company Instagram has updated its popular free image processing and sharing app to version 2.0, adding an revised interface and more features. Instagram v2.0 includes an improved user interface, faster image processing and the ability to save its processed images at higher resolution. The app still only shares low-res versions of files but allows you to save full resolution versions to your ‘phone (10x larger in the case of the iPhone 4). The latest version also adds four more processing filters and the option to add or remove borders from the existing ones. . . . → Read More: Instagram v2.0 offers faster processing, larger images and more options The Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 25mm f/1.4 ASPH is a new standard lens for the Micro Four Thirds compact camera system. Providing an effective focal length of 50mm, a fast maximum aperture of f/1.4 and a Nano Surface Coating to help reduce flare, the Leica-branded Panasonic 25mm lens is small in both size and weight. Read our Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 25mm f/1.4 ASPH review to find out if this long-awaited premium optic is a must-have Micro Four Thirds lens. Read the review . . . → Read More: Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 25mm f/1.4 ASPH Review The Moms, Dads & Grads Gift Guide is divided into 4 price categories – Under $100 , $100 to $500 , $500 to $1,000 , and over $1,000 . Find your price bracket—but don’t be afraid to go under or over your desired spending amount. Who knows, you might win the lottery next week and then you can buy your loved ones all the gear they could ever want. For your gadget-conscious mom/dad/grad, make sure you consult the photo.net gift guide for recommendations on how best to add to his/her photography collection. Be prepared to give the best photography equipment and accessories to your loved ones. Here are a few product suggestions for the gadget-conscious dad from each price bracket. Under $100: Lensbaby Macro Kit $100 to $500: Canon Powershot SD1400 IS $500 to $1,000: Nikon D5100 Over $1,000: Profoto D1 Studio Kit . . . → Read More: Still looking for a Father’s Day gift? Olympus has announced the LS-20M pocket camcorder with built-in 24 bit/96 hHz Linear PCM stereo sound recording (or perhaps one of its sound recorders with built-in video). Capable of recording full 1080p HD videos, it features a 2″ color LCD, an additional 1.46″ data LCD, two microphones and HD output. It also includes the company’s ‘Magic filter’ processing effects. The camcorder will be available from June 2011 at a suggested retail price of $299.99. . . . → Read More: Olympus announces LS-20M pocket camcorder Razzi is a new photo sharing network that allows photographers to earn ad revenue on their photo views. Read more and comment . . . → Read More: Razzi Launches Budget doesn’t have to mean cheap and nasty, and that’s certainly the case with the stylish yet affordable Panasonic Lumix DMC-S3 camera. A 14 megapixel sensor, 2.7 inch screen, 4x wide-angle zoom lens and even 720p movies can be your for just over £100 / $125. Check out our Panasonic Lumix DMC-S3 Review to find out if this camera is less disposable than its price suggests. Read the review . . . → Read More: Panasonic Lumix DMC-S3 Review > James Nash didn’t pack a guitar when he went off to college, which in hindsight was a boneheaded move. Nash was 17 at the time and had been playing for about a dozen years. He was good. But he didn’t have any plans to “do music seriously” and didn’t think he’d play much while he was at school. That didn’t last. Once you’ve discovered you enjoy playing the guitar, you can’t stop playing the guitar. It wasn’t long before Nash was borrowing guitars, playing whatever he could get his hands on whenever he could get his hands on it. Somewhere along the line he picked up a cheap Japanese guitar and was happy. His father, however, was not. Dad loved music and always had nice guitars lying around. It wouldn’t do to have his son playing something that sounded like a cat in heat. He showed up one day with a Santa Cruz Guitar six-string he’d picked up secondhand. An OM , Sitka spruce and Indian rosewood. “Here,” he said. “Play this.” It was perfect, with a bright, clear tone and great sound. Well, almost perfect. The neck was just a bit … off. Not quite the right shape. No amount of adjustment would set it right. Finally, Nash walked into Santa Cruz Guitars to see what they could do. “Let me have a look at that,” company founder Richard Hoover said. Santa Cruz was — and still is — a small place, the kind of place where Hoover himself will show you around if you ask for a tour. He did everything he could think of to set that neck right, but nothing worked. So he made a new neck and installed it for free, just because. Nash, who’s 37 now, still has that guitar. He’s played it at hundreds of gigs with his band, The Waybacks . And all these years later, he hasn’t forgotten what Hoover did for a kid who wandered in one day looking for some help. “You never forget something like that,” Nash said. “I was a 20-year-old kid. A no one. Not even in a band. But he treated me nicely when he had absolutely no reason to, or anything to gain from it.” That’s how they are at Santa Cruz Guitar. Above: Gerard Egan sets up a guitar before it heads out the door at Santa Cruz Guitar. It takes about four hours to install and adjust everything that touches the strings, from the bridge to the frets to the tuning keys. Once a guitar is properly set up, it’s played to make sure everything is just right. “He’ll make the guitars speak their first words,” Hoover said. > View all All photos: Jim Merithew/Wired.com . . . → Read More: Building the Guitar You’ll Keep Wacom has announced the Bamboo Stylus, a pen which can write comfortably on iPad displays. Read more and comment . . . → Read More: Wacom Bamboo Stylus for iPad Olympus has issued a firmware update for the Olympus XZ-1 digital compact camera. Read more and comment . . . → Read More: Olympus XZ-1 Firmware 1.2 Olympus UK has reduced the price of the Olympus PEN E-PL1 compact system camera to £299.99. Read more and comment . . . → Read More: Olympus E-PL1 Price Drops to £299.99 The video on top shows a funny and not so technical comparison between the Panasonic GF2 vs Canon 600D . M43photo.blogspot (Click here) posted a more detailed GH2 vs GH1 video quality comparison: “ One could be tempted to think that the GH1 gives better video quality, due to the twice as high video bitrate. But the GH2 has other advances…it is reasonable to guess that it samples more pixels as a basis for the video output…the GH2 gives somewhat better contrast and sharpness. The GH1 has slightly washed out colours and that the compression algorithm is better. My conclusion so far is that the GH2, even with lower bitrate, gives slightly better video quality .” GH2 direct links at Amazon , Adorama , B&H , J&R , eBay . One more thing…two lens reviews: Zeiss (Rollei) 50mm F1.4 tested on the GH2 at EosHD (Click here) . The Zeiss is only available on eBay (Click here) . Panasonic 8mm Fisheye Review at E-P1.net (Click here) . Check price and availability of that lens at Amazon , Adorama , B&H , J&R , eBay . . . . → Read More: Panasonic GF2 vs Canon 600D — And Panasonic GH2 vs hacked GH1 Read more at http://www.eoshd.com/content/603-Can…video-features . . . → Read More: Canon link with Technicolor for new DSLR video features (UPDATED) Read more at http://www.eoshd.com/content/602-Cam…e-sees-reality . . . → Read More: Cameron & Jackson are right – 60p and 3D are how our eyes see reality Read more at http://www.eoshd.com/content/601-Nik…p-axed-for-30p . . . → Read More: Nikon D5100 announced, 24p axed for 30p Read more at http://www.eoshd.com/content/601-Nik…p-axed-for-30p . . . → Read More: Nikon D5100 announced (UPDATED) Read more at http://www.eoshd.com/content/599-Tip…ore-like-Canon . . . → Read More: Tips and tricks for making Panasonic look more like Canon Read more at http://www.eoshd.com/content/595-GH2…project-update . . . → Read More: GH2 hack project update Read more at http://www.eoshd.com/content/594-Jam…ject-on-a-DSLR . . . → Read More: James Cameron to shoot low budget personal project with 5D Mark II |
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