Old Jewel Software announces Painter's Picker version 2.2

Old Jewel Software is pleased to announce the release of Painter's Picker version 2.2, the latest iteration of our popular color selection utility.

Old Jewel Software is pleased to announce the release of Painter's Picker version 2.2, the latest iteration of our popular color selection utility.
Painter's Picker puts an interactive color wheel in almost every Mac OS X application. It adds the ability to choose related colors, such as complementary colors, analogous colors, etc. directly within the standard color picker. It also adds more precise controls for choosing saturation, hue angle, and brightness.
Lesa Snyder of planetphotoshop.com had this to say about Painter's Picker "... with Painter's Picker, it's like having a virtual color theory teacher by my side to boot."
Others, like this person from macupdate, have put it more simply: "I love colors, I love Painter's Picker..."
Painter's Picker, as its name implies, is the way for people who work with color on a daily basis to quickly find colors that work well together from within almost any application they use.
Version 2.2 updates Painter's Picker's interface and includes some other changes:
Painter's Picker now supports custom color spaces (such as color spaces that derive from color profiles). It will accept them, work within them, and report them to the user.
Fixed a problem where Leopard would not report Painter's Picker's name correctly in the fly-away menu of the color picker
Updated website information within the program
Improved the ability to paste the registration code into the registration dialog
Hopefully fixed an incompatibility with GL Golf
Painter's Picker is shareware. A single user license costs $19.95 US. Nearly all features are available without registering, but users will be reminded regularly until they choose to register and a watermark will appear behind the color wheel reminding users to register. For the time-being, users ordering from the Old jewel Software store can get a 15% discount when ordering more than one copy of any product, including Painter's Picker.
Information about Painter's Picker 2.0 can be found at http://old-jewel.com/ppicker/
Support and feedback can be directed to feedback@old-jewel.com

credits: http://www.creativepro.com/article/painters-picker-22-old-jewel-software

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Recreation and Sports: Eisstock schießen - a bavarian winter sport similar to curling

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New Organization For IR Photographers

The League of Creative Infrared Photographers (http://www.irleague.com/) was officially formed in January 2008. It was established to promote the joy, excitement, and creativity of infrared photography from in-camera capture to enhancing images in the digital darkroom.

The group was founded in 2008 by Rick Sammon and Deborah Sandidge. Rick Sammon, the founder of The League of Creative Infrared Photographs is an avid IR shooter. He also hosts digital SLR photography lessons on http://www.xtrain.com/. Deborah Sandidge, the director of The League of Creative Infrared Photographers, is inspired by what she sees in nature’s endless and changing opportunities. Deb enjoys a variety of in-camera and Photoshop/Painter creative photographic techniques and enthusiastically shares her knowledge of digital imaging. Joe Farace, the Technical Director of League of Creative Infrared Photographers, is a widely published Colorado-based photographer and author of 30 books including "The Complete Guide to Digital Infrared Photography" published by Lark books. He has written more than 1700 magazine stories and is Contributing Photographer and Writer for Shutterbug magazine.

The League invites IR photographer—film or digital—from around the world to share their photographs with other creative image makers in the League. Best of all, membership is free! All you have to so is send us your best horizontal and vertical infrared image (low res), a head shot of yourself and a bio (complete with your website’s URL so we can link to it) and we will list you as a member on The League of Creative Infrared Photographers’ site. If you have a how-to article that you can contrubute, we may be able to use it on the site as well! Just send it to ricksammon@mac.com in a zip folder (again with low-res images) and we may be able to published it on our How-To page (coming in February 2008.)

That's it. At this point, the League’s goal simply want to draw infrared photographers together and share news about IR photography. Plans are underway for meetings and even workshops at some time in the future.

credits: http://www.shutterbug.net/news/021208league/

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Scenery - Sights: illuminated Stirling Castle, Scotland at night - photographed through a window



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Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III

Canon's 1Ds series of cameras exists in a class of its own. With pixel counts well above anything else offered in a 35mm-format digital SLR, an attention to detail that addresses the needs of high-end professionals, and a price tag that's thousands of dollars more than the nearest competition, it continues to push the limits of digital photography. The 1Ds Mark III, the latest in the series, brings the megapixel count to a whopping 21.1 and is every bit a precision instrument. It offers a high level of control over all aspects of your images, a body design that gives you fast access to these controls, and can be customized to tailor certain buttons and functions to your shooting style. It's been over three years since its predecessor was announced, so there are a fair number of new features in the Mark III, which bring it up to date with the latest trends in dSLRs. With this latest model, Canon has stepped up to a pixel count that, up till now, was solely the realm of medium format digital backs, while maintaining an edge in terms of physical size and sharpness of available lenses.

Visit cnet.com to read the full description and the product summary,
read the full specs,
see Canon 1Ds Mark III Image Samples (Photo Credit: Phil Ryan)
and get all Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III tips

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Start-up lets you fix focus after snapping the shutter

It's one of the oldest, most common problems in photography: that picture you thought would be the prize shot is out of focus.
Refocus Imaging, a Silicon Valley start-up, thinks its technology can be used to make cameras that can fix that problem--after you take the photo.
By fitting a camera's image sensor with a special lens and then processing the resulting data with new methods, Refocus Imaging's technology will let photographers fix their photos and exercise new creative control after the shutter is released, founder and Chief Executive Ren Ng said.
"There's a lot of physical stuff in the camera that is limiting its performance," Ng said. "What we're doing is to capture much more than a two-dimensional photograph inside the camera...By collecting the light, we can process it in software to do what the hardware usually has to do."
And the technology boosts some aspects of camera performance in the process, he said. Ng said he hopes to license it to camera companies, and boasts that Refocus Imaging's patent portfolio is "very, very good."
The technology, which stems from Ng's research at Stanford University, is an example of computational photography, which augments traditional image capture with computers--either in the camera or on a PC--to achieve new possibilities.

See examples of how it works, and read Stephen Shankland's full report at: CNET News.com

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$2 billion deal to take Getty Images private

Getty Images, the photo giant that spent the past 12 years acquiring dozens of smaller companies, has now agreed to be bought by private investors in a $2.1 billion deal.
Faced with declines in its core business and relentless hammering of its stock by Wall Street, the Seattle company said Monday it will revert to private ownership.
Private equity firm Hellman & Friedman has offered to buy Getty for $34 a share in cash, for a total $2.1 billion, and it will assume about $300 million in debt.
Getty's board has approved the merger agreement and is advising shareholders to do the same.
Its management team and Fremont headquarters wouldn't change, and no layoffs are expected, said Chief Executive Jonathan Klein, who founded the company in 1995 with Mark Getty, an heir to the J. Paul Getty fortune.
Klein is staying on as CEO and Getty will remain chairman.
"This probably will be a way for them to pursue a reorganization strategy out of the burning spotlight of Wall Street," said Mike Roarke, an analyst at McAdams Wright Ragen.
Getty's stock has dropped sharply as dramatic shifts in the media environment eroded its traditional market and made its shares less attractive to investors.
As the world's largest distributor of pictures and video, Getty's main business is licensing high-quality images from professional photographers around the world to advertising agencies and media companies.
Its performance is linked to the print media, a sector "in a nuclear winter," said Frederick Searby, advertising and information-services analyst at JP Morgan, which holds at least 1 percent of Getty Images' securities.
At the same time, Getty is challenged by new business models such as micropayments, images for sale at a fraction of the usual professional price, and an explosion of content created by a new generation of photographers armed with digital cameras and Internet connections.
Getty has responded by acquiring micropayment sites such as iStockphoto and citizen media companies like Scoopt.
"I think they're in a transitional period where there's huge uncertainty both about the macro environment and with the new models," Searby said.
Getty's board began last fall "to look at the best way to find additional value for shareholders," Klein said in an interview. "This one couldn't be better."
The offer represents a premium of 55 percent over the closing price Jan. 18, the last trading day before Getty announced it was "exploring strategic alternatives." Until then, Getty's shares had dropped 77 percent from their high of $94 in 2005.
The stock closed Monday at $31.67, up $7.22, or 29.5 percent, on news of the sale.
Considering the tight credit market, some analysts thought financing would be difficult to obtain for such a large buy. But San Francisco-based Hellman Friedman said it has commitments from Barclays Capital, GE Commercial Finance and RBS Greenwich Capital.
While Getty probably would have commanded a higher price a year ago, "it's a pretty decent deal," said Searby.
"We believe in the vision and execution capabilities of Jonathan Klein and his team, and share their commitment to the company's stakeholders and customers," Andy Ballard, managing director of Hellman & Friedman, said in a statement.
"We look forward to working with all of Getty Images' employees to realize the full potential of its traditional businesses while furthering the evolution of Getty Images into a global digital media company," Ballard said.
Klein said the deal would enable the company to make further changes and more aggressive investments "without having to worry about quarterly results. I think parts of the business have terrific long-term potential, but the return is not immediate," he said.
Getty will invest to boost its video capabilities, such as adding storage to upload footage faster, and expand its editorial images beyond English-speaking countries, he said.
Even with the infusion of private cash, Getty will still face the same challenges to its business, Klein added. The investors "will bring to us some expertise. They will bring to us some resources. They are not going to change the dynamics of the industry."
Hellman & Friedman has invested in other rapidly changing digital businesses, including online advertising company Digitas, acquired by Publicis Groupe, and DoubleClick, whose buyout by Google is pending regulatory approval in Europe.
Roarke said he expects Getty could experience job cuts in the future.
"When you have involvement of private equity willing to pay this price, everything over the next year is going to come under the microscope," he said. No layoffs "tends to be one of the things said out of the gate, but with an asterisk that things can change."

credits: Kristi Heim - Seattle Times

Information about Hellman & Friedman's other digital investments was reported by The Associated Press.

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Sigma 4.5mm F2.8 EX DC Circular Fisheye Lens

February 25, 2008 — The Sigma Corporation is pleased to announce the launch of the new 4.5mm F2.8 EX DC Circular Fisheye HSM lens. Features include:
• The first 180 degree circular fisheye lens designed specifically for APS-C size digital SLR cameras
• Fast F2.8 maximum aperture making it ideal for low light photography
• Minimum focusing distance of 13.5cm and a maximum magnification of 1:6
• SLD glass minimizes color aberration
• Equipped with HSM with full-time manual focus override
• Equisolid angle projection method is possible for art and scientific use

This autofocus circular fisheye lens has an angle of view of 180 degrees in all directions. It is exclusively designed for digital SLR cameras with the APS-C size image sensor. When used in conjunction with digital SLRs with APS-C size image sensors, it produces a circular image within the frame. The F2.8 large aperture value produces a bright image in the viewfinder and allows photographers to take pictures in low light conditions, making it an ideal lens for Astrophotography and Aurora photography. Due to the quantifiable angle/area relationship it produces, this lens can be used for scientific and arts applications such as solid angle measurements of cloud distribution over the sky or vegetation distribution of the forest. The minimum focusing distance of 13.5cm/5.3inch and maximum magnification of 1:6 make it particularly useful for close-up photography. SLD(Special Low Dispersion)glass provides effective compensation of chromatic aberration. Sigma’s Super Multi-Layer Coating minimizes flare and ghosting. It is equipped with an inner focusing system that creates high definition and good image quality over the whole frame. The HSM(Hyper Sonic Motor)ensures fast and quiet autofocusing and allows full-time manual focus override by rotation of the focus ring.

MSRP: $1400 USD
http://www.sigmaphoto.com/

Thanks to the Shutterbug Staff at shutterbug for the info

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Fujifilm Finepix F100fd Camera Review

The Fujifilm Finepix F100fd is a 12 megapixel digital camera with 5x optical zoom. It is designed to be compact camera packed with advanced features that are normally seen on bigger cameras. The F100fd features wide dynamic range, dual image stabilization, SO settings of up to an unprecedented ISO 12800, automatic red eye removal, and face detection. The FinePix F100fd will debut in March 2008 for about $379.

Fujifilm Finepix F100fd News Release Excerpt:
Fujifilm unleashes latest f-series powerhouse. The Finepix F100fd packs a 12MP Super CCD, ISO equivalency speeds up to 12800, and Face Detection Technology 3.0.

Valhalla, N.Y., January 24, 2008 – Following the long line of award-winning F-Series models, Fujifilm U.S.A., Inc., today announced its latest and greatest, the FinePix F100fd digital camera.

Combining a 12-MegaPixel, 8th Generation Super CCD with a powerful Fujinon 5.0x wide angle optical zoom lens and a 2.7" high-resolution 230,000 pixel wide angle view LCD, the FinePix F100fd is among Fujifilm's finest compact digital cameras. As with previous F-Series models such as the FinePix F31, F40fd and F50fd, the F100fd is a powerful, feature-packed compact digital camera aimed at consumers looking for something well above the average model. It offers the most advanced technologies available, including Wide Dynamic Range, Dual Image Stabilization, Face Detection 3.0 Technology with an Automatic Red Eye Removal function and ISO settings of up to an unprecedented ISO 12800 - so missing great shots is not an option.

"The FinePix F100fd demonstrates how consumers can ultimately benefit from Fujifilm's investment in professional photography," said David Troy, senior product manager, Consumer Digital Cameras, Electronic Imaging Division, FUJIFILM U.S.A., Inc. "The features packed into this camera like ISO ranges and wide dynamic ranges are unprecedented for a compact consumer model - they first appeared in our Professional line. Combine these advances with our new Face Detection 3.0's faster, 360 degree detection range and Dual Image Stabilization and you have the ultimate consumer digital photography experience."

Full review and specs at picturecorrect.com - camera reviews

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