Digital Photo Academy by Panasonic LUMIX

Digital Photo Academy by Panasonic LUMIX Provides Easy Photography Tips for Capturing Unique Summer Vacation Images and Memories

In anticipation of summer vacation planning, Digital Photo Academy by Panasonic LUMIX is helping travelers find "hidden gem" photo opportunities in some of this year's most popular U.S. hot spot destinations. The expert instructors of the Digital Photo Academy, a nationwide series of digital photography courses, also are sharing their professional photo tips, which are easy enough for beginners, and can assist travelers at any skill level to capture their summer vacation memories with beautiful images worthy of being shared year-round.

Here are the top three summer destinations and digital photography tips. To view all the Digital Photo Academy's summer travel tips and photos and more, please visit www.digitalphotoacademy.com/summertips.
Orlando, FL: Harry P. Leu Gardens
-- Relax and Snap: It may sound basic, but let the environment inspire
your photos. Your meditation and mood when taking photos can be seen in
the final outcome, so in a beautiful garden full of life, relax and
photograph what inspires you.

Las Vegas, NV: Valley of Fire
-- Keep it Simple: Landscape photographs turn out best when taken at
sunrise and sunset because the light is warm in color and allows the
textures and shapes of the subjects to be revealed. Fill your frame with
the primary subjects, keep the background clean and simple, and look in the
corners to make sure there are no distracting elements.

San Francisco, CA: Fisherman's Wharf
-- Be Mindful of the Time of Day: The morning sun provides the best light
for photographing spots along the waterfront, such as the archway near Pier
39 on Fisherman's Wharf. The waterfront faces North and East -- get out
early to take advantage of the great light and snap some fantastic shots of
the city as it comes to life.

The Digital Photo Academy (DPA) is a series of classes for digital camera owners at any level who want to maximize their cameras' features and create more rewarding and enjoyable photo experiences. The DPA courses, which began in June 2007, in 20 cities across the country, are taught by local professional photographers, giving students ongoing access to photo experts and tips in their own community.

Each level course is offered monthly in each city and students are encouraged to bring whatever brand of digital camera they use. To encourage more student and instructor interaction, classes are kept small, limited to 15 people. For more information and to view schedules and locations, please visit: http://www.digitalphotoacademy.com/.
About Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company
Based in Secaucus, N.J., Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company is a Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America, the principal North American subsidiary of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (NYSE: MC) and the hub of Panasonic's U.S. marketing, sales, service and R&D operations. Panasonic develops advanced imaging technologies and its entire 2008 LUMIX digital still camera line includes optical imaging stabilization and Intelligent ISO features. Panasonic is honored to support OUR PLACE - The World's Heritage, a project that will create the world's largest photographic collection of UNESCO World Heritage sites, with acclaimed photographers exclusively using LUMIX digital cameras to capture all images. Information about Panasonic LUMIX digital still cameras and its affiliated programs is available at www.panasonic.com/dsc.
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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/.

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Seasons

Seasons: Frost Covered Leaves at Christmas

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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.

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Photo books show many faces of history

Asbury Park Press
HENRY JACKSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

It is easy to think about the American civil rights movement through the context of the few compelling personalities that history books tend to remember.

There are the heroes — Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks. The controversial icons — Malcolm X. And, of course, your clear-cut villains — former Alabama Gov. George Wallace springs to mind. But the modern civil rights movement was not a monolith. It was not limited to a handful of key players whose faces we can remember vividly. It was a multifaceted, multihued journey that swept across America.

It is this notion that provides the quiet beauty and power of "Mine Eyes Have Seen: Bearing Witness to the Struggle for Civil Rights." Through the compelling photography of Bob Adelman, a legendary civil rights photographer, we see a diverse struggle fought on many fronts — from the flexed bicep of boxer George Foreman and the cocked bat of home run king Hank Aaron to the stoic faces of civil rights marchers and images of King himself.

Augmented with essays from Charles Johnson, "Mine Eyes" strips the civil rights movement to its essence. We see the various people and personalities who fueled the movement removed from the summary of an encyclopedia or history book and put into context. Adelman's black and white photographs testify that, if anything, there were many faces to the civil rights movement. It is a powerful testament indeed.

It is a similar approach, though a decidedly more cynical and tawdry premise, that typifies "The Most Notorious Crimes in American History: Fifty Fascinating Cases From the Files.

"If there is a sweeping theme in "Notorious Crimes," it is that violence knows no unique face, nor one unique victim. There are iconic images of the criminals, murderous and deranged (Charles Manson at trial, for example) and comparably pedestrian (Kenneth Lay of Enron fame.)

And there are the victims, some obvious (the three civil rights workers beaten to death and shot by Klansmen in Mississippi in 1964) and some that, one suspects, went through history mostly unnoticed. (A picture of Lee Harvey Oswald's widow and daughter somberly doing laundry after his death.)

For those who believe that America's crime-obsessed tabloid culture is generational and a sign of decline, this book may offer a stiff rejoinder. The images of Lizzie Borden's ax or, for that matter, the snapshots of Chester Gillette (his slaying his lover in 1906 became the basis for Theodore Dreiser's classic "An American Tragedy") and Grace Brown (his lover) offer more than enough evidence that crime, and the sensationalism that most assuredly follows it, have no unique generation.

This is not to say that "Crimes" is without value. As history, imagery and a bit of guilty intrigue, there is plenty of material and it is presented neatly and informatively. And there is, after all, a reason culture fixates on crimes. They're interesting.

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