Lost cameras "phone home" to catch thieves

Alison DeLauzon thought the snapshots and home videos of her infant son were gone for good when she lost her digital camera while on vacation in Florida.

Then a funny thing happened: her camera "phoned home."
Equipped with a special memory card with wireless Internet capability, DeLauzon's camera had not only automatically sent her holiday pictures to her computer, but had even uploaded photos of the miscreants who swiped her equipment bag after she accidentally left it behind at a restaurant.
"I opened up the Eye-Fi manager on the computer and, lo and behold, there are the guys that stole our cameras," said DeLauzon, a native of New York's Long Island suburb. "Not only is it the guy who stole our camera ... but the guy took a picture of (his accomplice) holding our other camera."

Read Franklin Paul's full article at NEW YORK (Reuters)

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Beautiful Scottland

Scottish Highlands in Fog

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Sony Limited-Edition A350

Sony Releases Limited-Edition A350 in Japan

With its yellow-gold body and webbing camera strap, Sony's limited-edition A350 is available in Japan and will cost you the equivalent of $850.

The camera, which came second in Wilson's entry-level DSLR Battlemodo last month, looks pretty spanky in champagne, don't you think?

Check it out in the extensive and gorgeous gallery at gizmodo.com.

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Seasons

Winter in Germany

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Canon Powershot G9: Review

The G-series has been at the pinnacle of Canon's digital compact camera range for almost as long as there has been a Canon digital compact camera range. There have been a few autumns where the latest G-model did not surface, fuelling fears that Canon had decided to leave the pro-grade compact user left out in the cold. Each time, Canon answers this with a bigger and better model. Which is why the Canon PowerShot G9 is the best compact camera Canon currently makes. It also makes a very strong case for being the best compact camera anyone currently makes.
Specs
Megapixels 12.1
Screen 3" LCD (230,000 pixels) + OVF
Zoom 6x optical zoom (35-210mm equivalent), 4x digital zoom
Picture Modes
Auto, Program, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, Manual, Custom user modes (x2), Stitch Assist, Movie mode, 16 scene modes (portrait, landscape, night scene, sports, night snapshot, kids & pets, indoor, foliage, snow, beach, fireworks, aquarium, underwater, ISO3200, colour accent and colour swap)
Stabilisation Yes - lens-based
Sensitivity ISO80-1600
White balance
Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent (x2), Flash, Underwater, Custom (x2)
Storage SD No internal memory
Battery 720mAh Lithium Ion pack NB-2 (CIPA rated 240 shots)
Other / Key features
RAW facilityAuto ISO shift Hot shoe for Canon speedlights and wireless flash systemFace DetectionOptional wide angle and teleconvertersCanon and Pict-Bridge direct printSound memo recording

The full review at thinkcamera.com is a very interesting read.

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Seasons

Hoar Frost covered Blackberries

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Kubota RAW Workflow for Lightroom® Wins Professional Photographer 2008 Hot One Award

Time-saving DVD tutorial helps photographers master Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom
Las Vegas, NV - WPPI Booth #723 (March 13, 2008) - Kubota Image Tools is pleased to announce that the new Kubota RAW Workflow for Lightroom tutorial, created by professional photographer and instructor Kevin Kubota, has been awarded a 2008 Hot One Award from Professional Photographer magazine in the educational DVD/CD category.Kubota RAW Workflow for Lightroom is the latest time-saving tutorial from Kevin Kubota-a master of digital photography workflows. This tutorial is available for $99 as an interactive program on DVD at http://www.kubotaimagetools.com/, to help photographers learn how to efficiently use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. As a special bonus, it also includes over 40 Lightroom Presets that Kevin has created to speed up the workflow even more.
Kevin Kubota's comprehensive, easy-to-follow teaching technique streamlines the process of working with RAW files in Lightroom. Kubota RAW Workflow for Lightroom takes the user step-by-step from proper organization, to efficient editing, to quickly adjusting the images, to enhancing, to final presentation. Kevin shares his insider tricks that have made his workflow tutorials and workshops an overwhelming success. More than just another Lightroom "Manual", this interactive instructional is based on a proven workflow system used daily by busy digital studios.
"Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a powerful program, with many great, but less than obvious features. While there are other instructional materials on Lightroom, they don't really focus on how it's best used in a real-world production environment or reveal the time-saving shortcuts," said Kevin Kubota, Idea Man of Kubota Image Tools. "We created this tutorial, derived from our live Lightroom workshops, to help photographers make the most of the features they really need, and to understand the ‘big picture' of the entire workflow system and this Hot One Award confirms that we have accomplished what we set out to do." The Professional Photographer Hot One Awards honor the photography industry's best new products for professional application. The mission of the awards is to provide Professional Photographer magazine's readership with a compendium of the newest, hottest, most innovative products available. Each year, Professional Photographer editors oversee a submission and judging process that calls on companies in all subfields of the photography industry. For the 2008 awards, nearly 150 companies competed in 58 categories. There were more than 220 total products entered in the contest, making this the biggest Hot One Awards ever.
About Kubota Image Tools
Kubota Image Tools grew from the digital experience of Kevin Kubota who began pioneering the field of completely digital wedding photography in the 1990s. As one of the first photographers to master digital imaging, Kevin became inspired to share his experience and natural teaching ability with other photographers by founding the original Digital Photography Bootcamp®, a five-day intensive workshop which consistently sells out. He has successfully trained thousands of photographers to make the digital transition and continuously empowers existing digital photographers with new, effective workflow ideas and outstanding Photoshop® techniques.
Kevin Kubota was recently named one of the "Top 10 Wedding Photographers in the World" by American Photo Magazine. His wedding, portrait and commercial photography website is http://www.kubotaphotodesign.com/.
In addition to Digital Photography Bootcamp, Kevin Kubota teaches one-day and two-day programs for digital photographers on a variety of topics that he presents in different regions of the country. He also teaches fine-art digital photography workshops every year in exotic locations such as Italy. Kevin is also a highly sought after speaker at international, national and regional conventions including Imaging USA, Photo Imaging & Design Expo, and WPPI; and photography schools including MARS, NEIPP, and Imaging Workshops of Colorado.
Kevin is also the author of the book Digital Photography Boot Camp: A Step-by-Step Guide for Professionals published by Amherst Media. Through his website, http://www.kubotaimagetools.com/, Kevin sells training products and Action Paks for Photoshop®, and, through his ever evolving Forum, provides tips and tricks on all things digital.
credits: cameratown.com/

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Recreation and Sports:

Steer Wrestling at the annual Rodeo in Poway, CA

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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

Royalty-free photo of the day:
Ancient Architecture: Anazazi Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde



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160 Megapixel Camera from Seitz

This odd-looking camera that looks like a cross between a vintage and modern version captures odd-sized pictures at an incredible 160 Megapixels.

Don’t look for this one at your local Best Buy. It’s for specialty photography and the prices for a kit can go as high as $40,000. Notice how the grip ergonomics have been worked out to help keep a firm hold on this expensive beast. It’s MUCH bigger than your average point and shoot, at 6 x 17 inches. One full resolution image taken with this camera at 48-bit colour depth will take up 900 MB of storage space!

Obviously it takes some massive memory to use this camera. It can also be operated remotely using a PDA. If you take photography this seriously, you may be forced to sell your home to keep snapping pictures.

With the revolutionary Seitz 6x17 Digital you can:
Create a high-resolution (160 million pixel) 6x17 digital scan in just one second
Capture action thanks to a minimum exposure speed of 1/2000 sec. (per pixel) - images full of speed, motion and life!
Benefit from an outstanding image quality in virtually all light situations:- 16-bit per channel (48-bit RGB) colour depth- anti-blooming- low noise- dynamic range of 1:2,600 (11 f-stops)- Seitz image optimisation algorithms
Use world-class large format Schneider or Rodenstock lenses - or reuse your existing set of lenses
Process a high-definition high dynamic range panorama directly in the RAM of the computer (single-pass, multi-pass)
Use a very user-friendly software with very advanced features
Take advantage of the latest technology in tablet PCs for image control, display and storage
Remove the Seitz D3 digital scan back and use it with the Roundshot D3, the Alpa family of medium format cameras (Alpa 12 SWA, WA, TC, XY) or with other medium or large format cameras (in the future)

credits: Conner Flynn at Slipperybrick.com
and
Check out more details at roundshot.ch
and see D3 sample images at http://www.roundshot.ch/xml_1/internet/de/application/d438/d925/f941.cfm

Photo of the day: Student Living in Vancouver, Canada

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The Digital Photography Experience

Though Apple hasnt' re-introduced a digital camera since it's short lived QuickTake camera back in 1994, this year's Macworld Conference introduced what it calls The Digital Photography Experience, set up for attendees to get "hands-on demonstrations, training, and tips on everything from cameras, to printers, to hosting services, to asset management, and more."
Though of course Macworld is not a photography conference, I think in the coming years, we'll see even more focus on digital photography at Macworld, along with more software and even hardware support from Apple for digital photographers.
See a few highlights from the exhibit floors: at mymac.com

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Credits: Bakari Chavanu

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