Thursday, May 15, 2008

Precise colors from input to output without new hardware

Precise Color Printing is now possible with SilverFast's Printer Calibration Workflow

LaserSoft Imaging today announced the addition of Printer Calibration with ICC-Profiling to its SilverFast Ai Studio product line. The new Printer Calibration ensures a fully calibrated workflow from input to output.Since the advent of digital imaging, the creation of accurate color profiles for printing has stymied photographers and digital imaging professionals. The normal approach is with specially created, expensive and complicated tools, used to measure printed patches. However, the engineers at LaserSoft Imaging have created a powerful, yet simple to use workflow that creates accurate and precise ICC-color printer profiles, utilizing any existing scanner.

The "1-2-3 Click" SilverFast Printer Calibration uses the existing scanner calibration and any suitable color printer. No other measuring devices are necessary. No more uncertainty about managing colors, and no extra expense for additional hardware and software solutions. A "Zero Error" workflow ensures complete color control from input to output, with the following steps:

First, the scanner is automatically calibrated with SilverFast's patented IT8 Calibration. Second, using SilverFast, a full-gamut color test chart is printed on the printer. Third, the printed test chart is scanned and SilverFast automatically generates an ICC-profile.

The resulting ICC-profile creates a precise ICC managed workflow for accurate color printing with the lowest tolerances, utilizing the full gamut of the printer for the widest reproduction of tones.

This new SilverFast workflow will benefit all serious photographers, from professional to fine art, as well as advanced amateurs and semi-professional users. A major strength of this new approach is that it supports an especially wide range of media, paper types, and inks. One of the limitations of traditional color profiling tools is their sensitivity to many alternative media, which more and more creative users are employing in their work. A so called "closed-loop" color calibration workflow is considered the optimum by experts in color management.

According to Karl-Heinz Zahorsky, President and CEO of LaserSoft Imaging AG, "The new SilverFast Printer Calibration with ICC-Profiler will help our customers to create high quality prints, without requiring to purchase new hardware. We know that demanding users not only need superb quality from their scans and prints, they also need a reliable and easy to manage workflow. We feel that our new printer calibration technology will make that possible.

"LaserSoft Imaging's Printer Calibration with ICC-Profiling is available as an optional SilverFast Ai Studio feature at 99 euros net, both for Mac and Windows platforms. Customers can buy or upgrade via LaserSoft Imaging resellers and LSI's Web shop.

About LaserSoft ImagingLaserSoft Imaging (LSI) was founded in spring 1986 by physicist Karl-Heinz Zahorsky, president and CEO of LSI. Today SilverFast is regarded as the standard software for scanners and digital cameras serving both beginners and professional alike. Only SilverFast is bundled by so many manufacturers world-wide, such as Canon, Epson, HP, Leica, Microtek, Mediax, Pentacon (Praktica), Plustek, Quatographic, Reflecta, SAMSUNG, UMAX and others.

For further informatio, visit www.silverfast.com.

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Wildlife

Seagull waiting for a Ride

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

New Aperture Web themes

Jumsoft has released five new themes designed to be used with Apple's Aperture photography software.
The themes can be used specifically for the Web Gallery and Web Journal layouts that
Aperture features.
Each theme costs US$19.99.

The five themes include Frames Gray, Grid Black, iPhone, Rounded Black and Mental Image. Each theme incorporates artist-designed color schemes and designs to complement galleries of photographs you plan to publish online using Aperture.
System requirements call for a Mac running Aperture 2 or later.

For more Macintosh computing news, visit Macworld.

Credits: PC World

Photo of the day:

Recreation and Sports

Steer Wrestling at the local Rodeo

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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Eye-Fi Explore

Eye-Fi is about to release a very cool new product. Eye-Fi, which makes a little digital camera SD memory card that automatically transfers photos from your camera to your PC (and to the Web if you want) via Wi-Fi has announced a card that will also geo-code your pictures.
That means that you won't have to remember or type in where a photo was taken.
The new card, which will be called Eye-Fi Explore, will look for Wi-Fi networks near where you're taking the picture and, if it finds one, it will make a note of the location and add that to the data that is associated with each picture. It will get the geographic information from Skyhook Wireless (formerly known as Quarterscope), a company that has mapped the location of thousands of Wi-Fi hotspots around the country. Even if the hotspot is encrypted, Skyhook can determine where it is physically located and transfer that location information to the new Eye-Fi card and directly to your photograph.
The new card will also allow you to upload pictures from hotspots even while you're away from home, which will be very handy for travelers who want to share their photos from the road.

Click over to EYE-FI UNVEILS AUTOMATIC GEOTAGGING AND HOTSPOT CONNECTIVITY WITH EYE-FI EXPLORE to read all about it.

Eye-Fi Explore is expected to be available in early June for $129.00.

And also check out MAGID ON TECH: Digital photos easier to share with Web sites
at Burlingame Daily News

Photo of the day:

Amazing Travel Destinations

Chimney Rock, Canyonlands, Utah

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Monday, May 12, 2008

Essentials 2 Imaging Software for iPhoto

onOne Software Announces Availability of Essentials 2 Imaging Software for iPhoto

iPhoto version features four easy-to-use tools for color correction, creative image blurring, frame and border effects and resizing for high quality large prints

Portland, OR - May 12, 2008 - onOne Software, Inc., announces today the availability of Essentials 2 software for iPhoto users. Essentials 2 for iPhoto is a collection of four easy-to-use software tools to help correct color, creatively blur a photo for dramatic visual impact, add creative borders and resize digital images for high quality large prints. The software tools included within Essentials 2 for iPhoto are based on technology used in the professional level onOne Software Photoshop® plug-ins PhotoTune 2.2, FocalPoint 1.0, PhotoFrame 3.1 and Genuine Fractals 5.
The Essentials 2 for iPhoto software suite provides users of the popular iPhoto image editing and organizing software with four important plug-in solutions to solve common digital imaging problems. With Essentials for iPhoto, users can easily correct the color of their photos using technology from PhotoTune, simulate the effect of selective focus or tilt-shift lenses, helping photographers selectively blur and/or vignette an image to focus the viewers attention using technology from FocalPoint 1.0, add unique borders and edges around their photos using technology from PhotoFrame and increase the size and resolution of their photos to get larger print sizes by using technology from Genuine Fractals, the industry standard for resizing digital photos.
"Make it Better! Blur It! Frame It! and Enlarge It! These are the four important tools incorporated in onOne Software's new Essentials 2 for iPhoto," said Craig Keudell, president of onOne Software. "These tools are designed to allow amateur and advanced amateur photographers to quickly and easily correct color, creatively add blur effects to images, add realistic frame and borders and enlarge digital images to transform even ordinary snapshots into extraordinary images without having to spend hours in front of a computer."
Make It Better
With the Make It Better tool, users simply compare color, contrast and brightness adjustments side-by-side and pick the best looking images to adjust an image. This module combines the power of several image adjustment steps that would be found in more expensive image editing applications into a single interface. This allows users to make complex image adjustments without the need to understand complex image controls.
Blur It
The Blur It tool provides photographers with a way to create realistic depth of field control, plane of focus control and selective focus to any digital image after it is photographed allowing for more control and precision. The focus bug control in Blur It has a tangible, hardware feel much like using a lens. Photographer can quickly define the "sweet spot" either in a round shape or a plane and then control how much and what kind of blur they would like to add to the image.
Frame It
The Frame It tool makes it easy to add realistic film and darkroom edge and border effects to images. Users can also add artistic edges like torn paper, brush strokes or even realistic frames and mats. Frame It allows users to stack multiple edges and frames to create unique designs. This tool features more than 500 edges and frames to choose from. The creative possibilities are limitless with the Frame It tool.
Enlarge It
The Enlarge It tool increases the size of an image without the loss of sharpness and detail that would normally be expected. It can resize images up to 400% and still maintain sharp edges and minute details. It's equivalent to taking a 4x6 print and making it as big as a poster size. It is a must have for any photo enthusiast who makes big prints or needs to crop a section out of an image to get just the right composition.

Availability & Pricing
onOne Software's Essentials 2 for iPhoto is available direct from onOne Software (http://www.ononesoftware.com/) and from authorized retailers including select Apple Stores. The MSRP for Essentials 2 for iPhoto is $59.95.

About onOne Software
onOne Software develops time-saving software solutions for professional and advanced amateur photographers in the digital photography and graphic design industries. onOne Software solutions have been created to help photographers spend more of their time behind the camera taking pictures instead of the computer workstation. Such solutions include a wide range of easy-to-use plug-in enhancements for Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and QuarkXPress®.

More at
Cameratown.com Digital Imaging News

Image of the day:

Architecture - Saint Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland

Architectural Details

Inside St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland

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Sunday, May 11, 2008

Zeiss ZA Vario-Sonnar T* 24-70mm f/2.8 SSM (Sony SAL-2470Z) Review / Test

The Zeiss ZA Vario-Sonnar T* 24-70mm f/2.8 SSM is a hint of the things to come. It is a full format standard zoom lens that is more or less openly targeting Sony's upcoming professional-grade 24mp FF DSLR but it does naturally work perfectly on the existing lineup of APS-C DSLRs where its field-of-view is equivalent to about 36-105mm in classic terms.

Regarding its weight of nearly 1kg the Zeiss ZA 24-70mm f/2.8 feels like a massive block of glass. However, this is not overly unusual - the Canon and Nikon counterparts are in the same weight- and size-league. Upon closer inspection you may be a bit surprised that the lens is not an all-metal construction. The inner tube as well as the lens hood are made of metal indeed but Sony used plastics for parts of the outer body. Plastics may sound bad but it is a high-quality variant ... although it does still not feel really right regarding the positioning of the lens. Unfortunately the lens does not feature any seals which is also a bit of a faux-pas. The zoom ring operates a bit stiff - surely a side-effect of the heavy weight of the glass. The handling of the focus ring is smoother. Typical for most Sony lenses both control rings have an inevitable tendency to collect dust in no time "thanks" to the fluted rubber design.

Looking at the product shots at photozone.de you may notice that the lens extends when zooming from 24mm towards the long end of the range. The Zeiss uses an internal focusing design so the front element does not rotate during focusing (nor zooming) operations.

One of the interesting features of the lens is the SSM - the SuperSonic AF Motor which is similar to Canon's USM or Nikon's SWM. The SSM is not really a new thing for Sony/Minolta users - Minolta released the first SSM lenses several years ago - but so far Sony was quite shy to take advantage of it for whatever reason. The SSM of the Zeiss is ultra-fast, near silent and very accurate. More of this please! Sony/Zeiss did also incorporate a focus-lock button plus a dedicated AF/MF switch.

Take a look at the Specifications, and read on here

http://www.photozone.de/Reviews/47-sony-alpha-aps-c/380-zeiss_za_2470_28?start=1

and see samples here

http://www.photozone.de/Reviews/47-sony-alpha-aps-c/380-zeiss_za_2470_28?start=2

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Mountain Goat carrying a Baby on her back

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Saturday, May 10, 2008

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
from there you can also Download full size image of Mamiya Sekor AF 150mm f2.8 IF D and Download full size image of 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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Friday, May 09, 2008

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.

Kodak corporate news releases are now offered via RSS feeds. To subscribe, visit www.kodak.com/go/RSS and look for the RSS symbol. In addition, Kodak podcasts are viewable at www.kodak.com/go/podcasts. The podcasts may be downloaded for viewing on iTunes, Quicktime, or other PC-based media players. Users may also subscribe to Kodak podcasts via the iTunes application if already installed on your computer. From the iTunes store, type “Kodak podcast” in the search field to view all of their podcast offerings.

Photograph of the day:

Seasons

Winter in Canada
Winter Landscape in Canada

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Thursday, May 08, 2008

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!

Photo of the day:

Scottish Arts and Crafts

Beautifully crafted Gobelin in Stirling Castle, Scotland

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Wednesday, May 07, 2008

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/)

Photo of the day:

Scenery and Sights

A late afternoon in stunning Monument Valley

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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

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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5D vs 20D Wide Angle Shootout
Sigma 14 f2.8 EX
Sigma EX 12-24 f4.5-5.6
Sigma 20 mm f-1.8
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Tokina AT-X 17 mm
Canon 35 mm f2
Canon 90-300 f4.5-5.6
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Fifties duel -- f1.4 vs f1.8
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Wildlife Photography

Rabbit sitting still to be captured

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Monday, May 05, 2008

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.

Full Story: Shutterbug

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Flower Photography

Tricolored Pansy Flower

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Sunday, May 04, 2008

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.

Kodak's ESP 5 Printer

Watch the demo

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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Saturday, May 03, 2008

Scott Kelby's The Digital Photography Book is Best-Selling Digital Photography Book Ever

BERKELEY, Calif.
Peachpit announced that Scott Kelby's The Digital Photography Book has been recognized as the best-selling digital photography book ever by Nielsen Bookscan, with over 250,000 copies currently in print.

The Digital Photography Book includes nearly 200 of the most closely guarded photographic "tricks of the trade," written in Kelby's inimitable friendly, accessible, shooting-buddy voice. This concise guide to digital photography has helped hundreds of thousands of readers shoot dramatically better-looking, sharper, more colorful, more professional-looking photos.

"Scott Kelby's book continues to resonate with readers and photographers of different skill levels," said Nancy Aldrich-Ruenzel, Publisher and Vice President of Peachpit and the Pearson Technology Group. "With his approachable style, Scott's hard-earned practical advice on digital photography has his readers constantly clamoring for more from their beloved author."
The Digital Photography Book is available at Peachpit.com, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Borders, and other retailers nationwide, and as an e-book via Safari.
For more information, please visit
www.peachpit.com/title/032147404X
To view more of Scott Kelby's best-selling work, go to
www.peachpit.com/ScottKelby

About The Author
Kelby is president of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals--a trade organization for Adobe Photoshop users with more than 70,000 members in over 100 countries worldwide. He was recognized in 2007 as the top computer book author for the fourth year in a row, according to Nielsen BookScan data. Editor-in-Chief of both Photoshop User and Layers magazines, Scott serves as training director for the Adobe Photoshop Seminar Tour and is the technical chair of the Photoshop World Conference & Expo. In addition to the Down & Dirty Tricks and Killer Tips book series, Scott is also the author of Scott Kelby's 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3 and The Digital Photography Book. For more information, visit www.scottkelby.com and http://www.kelbytraining.com/.

About Peachpit
Berkeley-based Peachpit has been publishing the industry's best-selling books on the latest in graphic design, desktop publishing, multimedia, Web design and development, digital video, and general Macintosh computing since 1986. Its award-winning books feature step-by-step explanations, time-saving techniques, savvy insider tips, and expert advice for computer users of all sorts. It is the home of the internationally recognized Visual QuickStart Guide series, the design imprint New Riders and its highly popular Voices That Matter series, and is the publishing partner for Adobe Press, lynda.com, Kelby Training/NAPP, Apple Certified, AIGA Design Press and others. Peachpit is part of Pearson (NYSE:PSO), the international media company. Pearson's primary operations also include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group.
Learn more at
http://www.peachpit.com/
and http://www.pearson.com/.

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