ViewSonic Digital Photo Frames

ViewSonic Expands Digital Photo Frame Line

Many suspected that the digital photo frame market would begin to slow down, but judging from the neat, new models coming to fruition as of late, this certainly isn’t the case. ViewSonic, which just entered the category earlier this year, is debuting a line of digital photo frames, some widescreen, and all boasting interchangeable frame design options for further personalization.
There are 10 interchangeable frame designs in all, starting in price from $139, and available in 7, 8, and 10” sizes, and in wood, black, silver, or black & white designs.

“The digital age has become ubiquitous, but people still want a way to display their content in the ‘old fashioned’ way,” said Colleen Browne, General Manager, ViewSonic Canada.

Most of the new digital frames come with 256 MB of on-board memory (a few models have 128 MB), along with a USB port and memory card slots accommodating the most popular formats. Built-in batteries are a nice touch as well, making wireless operation possible.
At the top of the new line is the widescreen 10” DPX1002, which can support motion JPEG and MPEG1/4 video files, and MP3 music in addition to JPEG and BMP photos. The screen itself boasts 1,024 x 600 pixel resolution, 400 cd/m2 brightness, and 400:1 contrast. Additionally, it can operate as a calendar and alarm clock, and ships with a remote and several language options for operation.

Featuring a 4:3 screen are the 8” DPX802WD, DPX802WD-BW and DPX802BSL-BW, each of which offers 800 x 600 resolution, 250 brightness, and 500:1 contrast. With built-in speakers, these models can also play back MP3 audio files to accompany a slideshow of images.

The widescreen 7” DPX702BSL-BW, DPX702WD-BW and DPX702WD provide 800 x 480 resolution, 220 cd/m2 brightness, and 400:1 contrast. This model excels with various slideshow options, like different speeds, effects, languages, and rotation adjustment.

Entry-level users might appreciate the 7” widescreen DPX704WH, 8” 4:3 DPX804WH, or 10” widescreen DPX1004WH, each of which comes with 128 MB of internal memory, and is compatible with a multitude of video, audio, and photo formats. They also provide alarm, clock, and calendar functions.

ViewSonic’s new line of digital photo frames, each with a unique frame design, range in price from $139 to $179, and each comes backed with a one-year limited warranty.

For more information, visit http://www.viewsonic.com/.

Credits: marketnews.ca/

Picture of the day:

Seasons

Seasons: Frost Covered Leaves at Christmas

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Adobe Releases Lightroom 1.4.1 and Camera Raw 4.4.1 Updates

Adobe has released new updates for their applications Lightroom and Camera Raw. The Lightroom 1.4.1 and Camera Raw 4.4.1 fixes problems found in Lightroom 1.4 and Camera Raw 4.4.

Lightroom

• Lightroom 1.4 incorrectly modified the EXIF time date field of images that had a metadata update applied. This incorrect modification does not appear in Lightroom or Bridge and is only viewable through third party EXIF tools. This error has been corrected in Lightroom 1.4.1 and all files in a Lightroom catalog that have been incorrectly modified will be corrected on their next metadata update. (Metadata can be updated by selecting the files in the Library grid view and choosing Command or Control+S to save and update the metadata.)

• Olympus JPEG files could render incorrectly in Lightroom 1.4, displaying an artifact in the exported file.

• Any conversion to DNG in Lightroom 1.4 (Windows Only) would cause the DNG file to become unreadable by Lightroom's Develop Module or Camera Raw 4.4 in Photoshop. The issue has been corrected and files can be converted to DNG again in order to resolve the issue for existing files. Returning to the original native raw files is not necessary. The affected DNG files can be selected and converted again using the DNG Converter 4.4.1 available at www.adobe.com/dng/. This process is not required but recommended to ensure that a correct validation value is stored within the DNG files.

• Lightroom 1.4 provided degraded import performance relative to Lightroom 1.3.Camera Raw

• Camera Raw 4.4 incorrectly modified the EXIF time date field of images that were saved as TIFF or JPEG files from the Camera Raw dialog. This has been corrected in Camera Raw 4.4.1

• Olympus JPEG files could render incorrectly in Camera Raw 4.4, displaying an artifact in the exported file.

Downloads
The Lightroom 1.4.1 and Camera Raw 4.4.1 updates are available at http://www.adobe.com/downloads

Credits: Tanya Palta at digitalcamerainfo.com

Photo of the day:

Domestic Animals and Pets

Border Collies The perfect Babysitter

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Photographers Denied the Freedom To Choose What They Photograph

Elaine Huguenin co-owns Elane Photography with her husband. The bulk of Elane's work is done by Elaine, though she subcontracts some of the work some of the time. Elane refused to photograph Vanessa Willock's same-sex commitment ceremonies, and just today the New Mexico Human Rights Commission held that this violated state antidiscrimination law. Elane has been ordered to pay over $6600 in attorney's fees and costs.

I haven't seen any written statement of reasons, but the order must implicitly rest on two interpretations of state law: (1) This sort of photography company constitutes a "public accommodation," defined by state law "any establishment that provides or offers its services, facilities, accommodations or goods to the public, but does not include a bona fide private club or other place or establishment that is by its nature and use distinctly private." (2) A refusal to photograph a same-sex commitment ceremony constitutes sexual orientation discrimination, which New Mexico law forbids. These may or may not be sensible interpretations of the statutory text. But the result seems to me to likely violate the First Amendment (though there's no precedent precisely on point).

Photography is an art, and Huguenin is an artist. It may not be high art, but it embodies a wide range of artistic choices (especially since she says she takes a "photojournalist" approach, rather than just doing normal staged photos). And though she sells the art to its subjects, that is of course part of a long and continuing tradition in the arts, including painting and sculpture, as well as photography. Certainly many of the works protected by the First Amendment (books, newspapers, movies, and the like) were created for money and distributed for money.

Yet the New Mexico government is now telling Huguenin that she must create art works that she does not choose to create. There's no First Amendment case squarely on point, but this does seem pretty close to the cases in which the Court held that the government may not compel people to express views that they do not endorse (the flag salute case, West Va. Bd. of Ed. v. Barnette, and the license plate slogan case, Wooley v. Maynard).

For whatever it's worth, Huguenin also says she exercises political judgment in deciding what to photograph (for instance, she reports that she refuses to make photographs that put horror films in a positive light, or to take photographs that positively portray abortion, pornography, or nudity, as well as same-sex marriage). I don't think that sort of political selectivity should be required for photographers to be protected as artists, but it seems to me to highlight the scope of the artist's judgment, and the artist's constitutional right to exercise such judgment (just as a bookstore has the right to choose which books to stock).

Consider also a hypothetical analogy: Say that instead of Willock's trying to hire a photographer, Willock was trying to hire a solo freelance writer (or a writer in a two-person freelancing partnership) to write materials for Willock's (hypothetical) same-sex marriage planning company. The writer refused on the grounds that she didn't want to promote such a company.
I take it the law would cover the writer as much as it would cover the photographer (why wouldn't it?). Yet wouldn't requiring writers -- even writers of press releases and Web sites -- to write words that express views they reject violate the First Amendment? And if not, what's the difference between that and requiring photographers to take photographs that implicitly but strongly express views they reject? (Wedding photographs, of course, express views celebrating the event being photographed.)

More about the issue at: volokh.com

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Photo of the day:

Colorado Wildflowers

Blooming Globe Flower

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Review - Canon Digital Ixus 960 IS

This article appeared in the May, 2008 issue of PC Authority.

A superbly easy-to-use and feature-laden compact camera that’s well worth the price. Same titanium shell as before, with a lowlight ability.It doesn’t look much different to its illustrious predecessor, but the gorgeous 960 IS, which replaces our former A-List favourite the Ixus 900 is an improvement. It’s just as gorgeous, is clad in the same, super-tough titanium shell and has image stabilisation among its armoury of features, allowing you to take handheld shots in far lower light than you’d normally be able to manage.The playback controls for both stills and video are intuitive and easy to use. Video is superb, giving 30fps at 640 x 480 (with audio). The 960 IS has an enormous 12.1 megapixels, which is pointless but reassuring. You can choose 8-megapixel capture instead, which will still let you enlarge up to A3 prints before you start seeing any pixellation.

“It doesn’t look much different to its illustrious predecessor, but the gorgeous 960 IS, which replaces our former A-List favourite the Ixus 900 is an improvement. It’s just as gorgeous, is clad in the same, super-tough titanium shell and has image stabilisation among its armoury of features, allowing you to take handheld shots in far lower light than you’d normally be able to manage.” - David Fearon

Source and Read More: pcauthority.com.au and at the Canon website.

RRP: $378 (time of review)
Check the latest prices.

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Seasons: Winter

Frozen Dogrose

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photographer Preston Gannaway has won 2008 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography

Concord Monitor photographer Preston Gannaway has won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.
The award, announced this afternoon at Columbia University in New York, honored Gannaway's work on a project called "Remember Me," which chronicled the death of Carolynne St. Pierre of Concord and its impact on her family.
The Pulitzers are the premier awards in American journalism. This is the first Pulitzer Prize ever awarded to the Monitor or any New Hampshire newspaper. The Monitor was, by far, the smallest newspaper to win a Pulitzer Prize this year.
Gannaway was part of a two-person team on the St. Pierre project, which also included reporter Chelsea Conaboy. They were invited by St. Pierre and her husband, Rich, to report on matters both medical and personal, in part to provide their children with a documentary of their mother's final days. "Both the written and multimedia stories will provide information and immeasurable comfort, later on in life, when Melissa, Brian, and Elijah begin to search for answers about their mother, Carolynne," Rich St. Pierre wrote last December.
Together, Gannaway and Conaboy spent two years reporting on St. Pierre's death and its aftermath. Gannaway's winning Pulitzer entry included 19 of the photographs she shot, and the Monitor published, last year.
Monitor editor Mike Pride was co-chairman of the Pulitzer Prize board. But because Gannaway was a finalist, he did not participate in the decision on the feature photography award.
Gannaway spent nearly five years as a Monitor photographer, where her assignments ranged from high school sports to presidential politics. Her work won numerous awards. In 2005, for example, she was named New England Photographer of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association. This year, the St. Pierre project won two awards in the prestigious Pictures of the Year International competition.
Before working for the Monitor, Gannaway was a photo intern at newspapers in New Mexico and Maine. She began her career at the Coalfield Progress in Virginia after earning a bachelor's degree in fine art photography at Virginia Intermont College.
Gannaway left the Monitor last month and - after a celebration in Concord today - starts a new job at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver this week.

Prize-winning entry:Multimedia presentation of the series.
Slideshow of the Pulitzer photos.

PDFs of the photos and stories as they appeared in the Concord Monitor:
Part One: Our history being built (Oct. 5, 2006)
Part Two: A sea of grief is coming (Jan. 13, 2007)
Part Three: In the blue room (Feb. 13, 2007)
Part Four: Now we're four (Dec. 8, 2007)
Part Five: Surviving Together (Dec. 9, 2007)

Online versions of the stories as printed in the Concord Monitor:
Part One: Sick with cancer, a mother fights for time (Oct. 5, 2006)
Part Two: 'The sea of grief is coming' (Jan. 13, 2007)
Part Three: She died as she wished -- surrounded by loved ones (Feb. 13, 2007)
Part Four: 'Now, we're four' (Dec. 8, 2007)
Part Five: Surviving together (Dec. 9, 2007)

Read more at cmonitor.com

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Famous Buildings

24-Karat Gold plated Capitol in Denver, Colorado

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Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera

J. Paul Getty Museum presents 'Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera'

LOS ANGELES, CA - The J. Paul Getty Museum opened the exhibit Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera through August 10. Since the beginning of photography in the 1830s, painters and sculptors took up the new medium as a tool. The theme of the artist and the camera has been an important aspect of the Getty's photographs collection since its inception in 1984 and continues to shape its holdings. This can be seen in the selection for this exhibition of acquisitions made in the last decade, which explores the interconnectedness of art and photography.
The Museum collects photographs to complement strengths of the existing collection, or to fill a gap—an area lacking work from a time period or by a specific maker. We strongly favor collecting many examples by important photographers to enable exhibitions and publications inspired by the collection. We feel a special duty to hold work by the best photographers with roots in California and the West. As part of his Pictures of Junk series, Vik Muniz uses domestic and industrial detritus to reinterpret old master paintings of Greek and Roman mythological subjects. This photograph on the cover is a re-creation of a painting by Goya that depicts the Roman myth of the god Saturn. Fearing his children would overthrow him, Saturn ate each child as it was born.
Muniz collects and arranges "junk" to create these tableaux, enlisting inner-city youth involved in the Centro Espacial to help him. (Muniz created the charity in Rio de Janeiro to bring art projects to life for underprivileged young people.) A warehouse floor serves as his canvas, and he photographs from an elevated height, so that individual objects are reduced to brushstroke-like gestures. Since the beginning of photography in the 1830s, painters and sculptors took up the new medium as a tool. The theme of the artist and the camera has been an important aspect of the Getty's photographs collection since its inception in 1984 and continues to shape its holdings. This can be seen in the selection for this exhibition of acquisitions made in the last decade, which explores the interconnectedness of art and photography.
Visiting the Getty Center: The Getty Center is open Tuesday through Thursday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. It is closed Mondays and major holidays. Admission to the Getty Center is always free. Parking is $8; no reservations required. Reservations are required for event seating and groups of 15 or more. For more information, call 310-440-7300 (English or Spanish); 310-440-7305 (TTY line for the deaf or hearing impaired).
Additional information is available at http://www.getty.edu/
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artknowledgenews.com

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Famous Architecture

Organ in St Giles Cathedral Edinburgh Scotland

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Dream Job Anyone?

Kodak Appoints Chief Blogger

While many corporations have blogs, most of them are run by either passionate employees or the marketing departments trying to score some SEO points.
Kodak on the other hand has decided to place its two blogs (A Thousand Words and A Thousand Nerds) into the hands of Jennifer Cisney, who will be its first “Chief Blogger.”

(Fox
Business) Eastman Kodak Company […] today announced that it has named
Jennifer Cisney as the company’s first Chief Blogger. Cisney will provide daily
oversight and creative guidance for Kodak’s two blogs - “A Thousand Words” and
“A Thousand Nerds” - and will boost the company’s social media presence. In
addition, Cisney will serve as the company’s eyes and ears online, listening to
customer feedback and sharing ideas and tips related to Kodak’s products and
services.
“Just over ten percent of Fortune 500 companies have public blogs.
Fewer still have Chief Bloggers, and Kodak is among the first to name a female
Chief Blogger,” said Jeffrey Hayzlett, Chief Business Development Officer and
Vice President, Eastman Kodak Company. “As Kodak continues to break new ground
in the imaging industry with our innovative products and services, we are
committed to staying on the cutting-edge of social media by utilizing the
talents of our people.”

Before any bloggers go out scouring the net for “Chief Blogger” vacancies, this article does mention that Jennifer was an employee with Kodak for well over a decade before she was recently promoted. She had also very active in posting her thoughts on “A Thousands Words,” which may have aided the blogs success.
Whether or not more jobs in the corporate world will appoint a “Chief Blogger” are yet to be seen, although if one is already blogging part time at a medium sized company, it may not hurt to ask the boss to start a corporate weblog (if they do not have one already) and work your way into the position a few years later.

Credits: Darnell Clayton at blogherald.com

Picture of the day:

Sports and Recreation

Family Winter Fun - Ice-Skating on the Nymphenburg Canal, Munich, Germany

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