Two New Digital Lenses for Mamiya Medium Format Cameras

Mamiya has announced two new high performance digital (Mamiya Sekor D Series) lenses for the Mamiya 645AFD II and the newly announced 645AFD III camera systems.

Mamiya’s newest lenses
- Mamiya Sekor AF 150mm f2.8 IF D and
- Mamiya Sekor Zoom AF 45-90mm F4.5 D Aspherical
are important additions to Mamiya’s growing line of high performance digital lenses. Consistent with all new lenses being developed for the D Series, these new lenses contain a 16bit CPU allowing easy firmware upgrading, finer lens characteristic correction and faster, more reliable communication between the lens and camera body.

Click over to Mamiya.com to read all about the
Mamiya Sekor AF 150mm F2.8 IF D Lens and the
Mamiya Sekor Zoom AF 45-90mm F4.5 D Aspherical
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Sports and Recreation

Steer Wrestling at the local Roedo

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Kodak’s Image Sensor Solutions Wins EDN Innovation Award in Sensor Category for 2008

On May 07, 2008 Eastman Kodak Company announced that its Image Sensor Solutions (ISS) business has received the 18th Annual EDN Innovation Award in the Sensor Category for the KODAK TRUESENSE Color Filter Pattern. This groundbreaking new technology allows for the development of digital capture devices that take better pictures under low light or reduce motion blur when photographing moving subjects.

“We are honored to receive this award from EDN,” said Herb Erhardt, CIS Business Manager, Image Sensor Solutions, Eastman Kodak Company. “This recognition of the KODAK TRUESENSE Color Filter Pattern acknowledges our continuing advances in digital imaging technology, for both CMOS and CCD products.”

EDN presented the 2008 Innovation Awards in San Jose on April 14, 2008, at the Summit Center. An audience of engineers and engineering managers as well as a panel of EDN magazine editors selected the winning products based on their industry impact, innovation and excellence.

“Every year the difficulty of technical challenges increases, the pressures of schedule, cost, and energy efficiency grow, and the resources available to design teams dwindle. That makes the achievements of this year’s EDN Innovation Award winners all the more impressive,” stated Ron Wilson, executive director of EDN Worldwide. “Selected by their peers in the design community for their outstanding results, these innovators stand in the front rank of the best and brightest electronics engineering has to offer.”

The KODAK TRUESENSE Color Filter Pattern advances an existing KODAK Technology, the Bayer pattern based color filter, that has become a standard in digital imaging. Kodak researchers created the new KODAK TRUESENSE Color Filter Pattern technology as they sought to improve upon the Bayer pattern. The new technology adds panchromatic, “clear” pixels to the red, green and blue elements of the Bayer pattern that form the image sensor array, and enables a 2 times to 4 times increase in sensitivity to light (from one to two photographic stops). This increase provides much better pictures and video in low light conditions than are possible with conventional technology. It also enables faster shutter speeds that reduce motion blur when imaging moving subjects. Low light performance, for both stills and video, is a critical need in mobile phones, which is a major market for the new KODAK KAC-05020 CMOS Image Sensor that utilizes the KODAK TRUESENSE Color Filter Pattern. Kodak CCD products – used today in commercial applications such as Machine Vision and Security – can also benefit from the enhanced sensitivity provided by this new technology.

For additional information regarding this technology, please contact Image Sensor Solutions, Eastman Kodak Company at (585) 722-4385 or by email at imagers@kodak.com, or see the posting describing this technology on Kodak’s technology blog at PluggedIn.kodak.com. For more information on Kodak’s entire image sensor product line, please visit www.kodak.com/go/imagers.

About Eastman Kodak Company
As the world's foremost imaging innovator, Kodak helps consumers, businesses, and creative professionals unleash the power of pictures and printing to enrich their lives.
To learn more, visit http://www.kodak.com/, and our blogs: 1000words.kodak.com, and PluggedIn.kodak.com.

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Photograph of the day:

Seasons

Winter in Canada
Winter Landscape in Canada

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Kodak's first digicam

Did you know that way back in 1975 -- when Kodachrome color slides and Kodak Instamatics were all the rage -- Kodak researcher Steve Sasson built the first digicam, cobbled together from spare parts and bleeding edge digital technology?

The lens was from a used parts bin on Kodak's Super 8 camera assembly line, it used a futuristic CCD image sensor (now commonplace) and took 23 seconds to record a crude 100 line black and white image onto cassette tape.

Sasson explains, "On the side of our portable contraption, we shoehorned in a portable digital cassette instrumentation recorder. Add to that 16 nickel cadmium batteries, a highly temperamental new type of CCD imaging area array, an a/d converter implementation stolen from a digital voltmeter application, several dozen digital and analog circuits all wired together on approximately half a dozen circuit boards, and you have our interpretation of what a portable all electronic still camera might look like."

The device was semi-portable, and a massive VCR-sized microcomputer was used to display the images on a TV screen using a primitive frame store, but I doubt that the Kodak executives saw digital technology as a credible threat to their existing product line.



The Kodak Apparatus Division Research Laboratory team demonstrated the technology to a number of people within Kodak in 1976 as "Film-less Photography." I can't imagine the title went over well, considering Kodak's position as the world's leading producer of photochemical film. Still, 32 years later it turns out to be prophetic as Kodak struggles to reinvent itself as a digital company.

A patent was issued for the technology, but it was decades ahead of its time. Sasson kept the prototype as he moved around the company, but Kodak didn't publicly acknowledge the creation of the world's first digicam until 2001.

Kodak: A thousand nerds - We had no idea

You have to go over to Retro Thing to read all about Kodak's First Digital Camera and see the pictures. It is hilarious!

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Scottish Arts and Crafts

Beautifully crafted Gobelin in Stirling Castle, Scotland

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Rowling wins privacy case over photo

Reuters UK - Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has won her battle to ban the further publication of a long-lens photograph of her son, in a privacy case her lawyers called a major development in British law.
The initial claim by Rowling and her husband was thrown out by a London court last year, prompting the couple to appeal.
In a written judgment on Wednesday, a panel of judges upheld the appeal, a ruling which Rowling and husband Neil Murray welcomed.

"We understand and accept that with the success of Harry Potter there will be a measure of legitimate media and public interest in Jo's (Rowling's) professional activities and appearances," the couple said in a statement.
"However, we have striven to give our children a normal family life outside the media spotlight.
"We are immensely grateful to the court for giving our children protection from covert, unauthorised photography; this ruling will make an immediate and material difference to their lives."
Anthony Clarke, one of the judges hearing the appeal, said the child of a famous parent should have the same rights as that of "ordinary" parents.
"If a child of parents who are not in the public eye could reasonably expect not to have photographs of him published in the media, so too should the child of a famous parent," he said in the judgment.
The disputed photographs were taken on November 8, 2004 in Edinburgh while David, then aged under two, was being pushed in a buggy by his parents.
They were published in a Sunday Express magazine, prompting Rowling, 42, and her husband to sue Express Newspapers and photo agency Big Pictures and seek to block further publication.
The Express settled the claim, but last August High Court judge Nicholas Patten threw out the case against the agency.
Keith Schilling of Schillings law firm representing Rowling's family predicted the latest ruling could have a "profound effect ... on certain sections of the paparazzi.
"This case establishes a law of privacy for children in those cases where, understandably, the parents wish to protect their children from intrusive photography by the paparazzi," he said.
"I am sure that the overwhelming majority of the media will welcome it."
Big Pictures will have to pay the bulk of the costs of the case, expected to be hundreds of thousands of pounds.
(Reporting by Mike Collett-White)

(To read more about REUTER's entertainment news, visit their blog "Fan Fare" online at http://blogs.reuters.com/fanfare/)

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Scenery and Sights

A late afternoon in stunning Monument Valley

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Petteri Sulonen's Sigma DP1 review

Petteri Sulonen titeled his Sigma DP1 review"A Diamond In The Rough: Sigma DP1". If you're interested in reading more about the Sigma DP1, start here.

Here's what you will read about:

Sigma DP1
Physical design and build
This Is What I Call A Lens!
Let's Pixel-Peep
Available Light
Color Control
The "Foveon-Versus-Bayer" Thing
Performance In The Field
What Is It Good For?
Postscript: Things I Would Change

The article is not a comprehensive review of the Sigma DP1. The camera has a quite a few features that Petteri Sulonen doesn't even mention. Instead, these are "field notes" about the camera's suitability for a particular type of photographer, and particular kind of photography -- Petteri Sulonen, and the kind of pictures he takes. Therefore, please take these thoughts for what they are, and, as always, draw your own conclusions.

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Rabbit sitting still to be captured

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ColorMunki

X-Rite and Pantone Launch ColorMunki Color Products for Photo and Design Markets

X-Rite, Incorporated (NASDAQ: XRIT) along with recently acquired Pantone, Inc. has introduced ColorMunki, said to provide photographers and designers new technological advances that address core issues of color creation, control and communication in easy-to-use, integrated solutions. The ColorMunki portfolio includes ColorMunki Photo, ColorMunki Design and ColorMunki Create, all supported by www.colormunki.com.
Designed for the digital workflow of social, wedding and portrait photographers ˆ or anyone passionate about photography ˆ ColorMunki Photo delivers an easy, quick and affordable solution for matching colors from display to print.
Developed with professional photographer input, ColorMunki Photo is a completely integrated, versatile solution that calibrates displays, projectors and printers, measures ambient light and captures spot colors. The new AppSet automatically sets the printer profile for the user. ColorMunki Photo also includes new, exciting color creation and communication tools, such as automatically extracting colors from images and transporting images with DigitalPouch to ensure ViewSafe environments. ColorMunki Photo is said to give photographers ultimate color control for their images.
The associated web site, www.colormunki.com, is an online portal where designers and photographers can experience key ColorMunki software capabilities such as create, share and view color palettes with peers, search and select colors from images provided by the www.photoshelter.com community, and test their color-viewing ability with an online test. Creatives will also be able to purchase any of the ColorMunki solutions directly through the Web site.
Pricing, Availability and System RequirementsColorMunki Photo and ColorMunki Design will be available in late March 2008 at http://www.colormunki.com/ and other photo, design, major electronics and online retailers for an SRP of USD $499/$429.

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Kodak's ESP 5 Printer

Kodak's ESP 3 Printer + LCD = ESP 5
The ESP 5 is currently available to preorder for $169.99, a $40 premium over the screenless-but-similar ESP3.
Kodak expects orders to ship out on May 5.


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The ESP 5 multifunction printer gets an LCD screen for on-the-fly modifications, cutting out the need for a PC.

Kodak continued to build its extensive all-in-one printer line on Thursday with the release of the ESP 5, another multifunction machine built to use its low-cost inks. Like its predecessor the ESP 3, the ESP 5 rolls a flatbed scanner and printer into an attractive black case, but adds a LCD screen for viewing, editing and printing photos without a computer.

The ESP 5 accepts media cards in a wide range of formats, including SD, MMC, MemoryStick, xD, and CF, plus USB thumb drives. Once inserted, pictures can be pulled up and manipulated on its three-inch color LCD screen before printing. For those who would prefer to do the work on a computer instead, Kodak also bundles the machine with more powerful retouching software.

In terms of print specs, the ESP 5 pushes out about 30 pages per minute (PPM) in both color and black and white modes, when used with the lowest quality print settings. It can handle borderless papers down to 4 x 6 inches, and print a photo-quality picture of that size in about 30 seconds.

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