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Monday, November 22, 2010
Sony debuts back-lit CMOS sensors for cell phones
Sony has announced the world's first 1/2.8" 16MP Exmor-R back illuminated sensor for mobile phones. Offering the smallest unit pixel size of 1.12μm, it will also be incorporated into what is claimed to be the smallest and thinnest mobile phone lens module. The sensor is capable of recording full HD 1080p30 videos and offers continuous shooting speed of 15fps. The company has also announced a similar 1/3.2" 8.13Mp sensor with a corresponding 28mm lens module. Both start shipping from 2011.
Press Release:
Also announces industry's smallest and thinnest*1 lens module for mobile phones
October 7, 2010, Tokyo, Japan - Sony Corporation (hereafter, "Sony") today announced the commercialization of two new "Exmor R" back-illuminated CMOS image sensors with dramatically improved photographic performance including significantly high sensitivity and low noise. In addition, Sony will launch two new lens modules equipped with these image sensors, which also include the smallest and thinnest*1 model for mobile phones. This is also the first time that "Exmor R" is commercialized for the use in mobile phones.
"IMX081PQ" is world's first*1 type 1/2.8 back-illuminated CMOS image sensor which realizes 16.41 effective megapixel resolution, and adopts the industry's smallest*1 unit pixel size of 1.12μm. "IMX105PQ" is a type 1/3.2 back-illuminated CMOS image sensor which realizes 8.13 effective megapixel resolutions for higher sensitivity and adopts a unit pixel size of 1.4μm. By embedding these highly sensitive sensors into mobile phones, including those without camera flash, users can capture high quality photos and videos even in low light settings.
Furthermore, Sony will commercialize "IU081F" and "IU105F2" compact auto-focus lens modules which include the two new "Exmor R" back-illuminated CMOS image sensors. These down-sized modules are suitable and efficient for mobile phones with relatively limited space and are equipped with high performance lens which maximize the image sensors' respective performances. "IU081F" is the industry's smallest and thinnest*1auto-focus lens module (W10.5 X D10.5 X H7.9mm) and is equipped with the 16.41 effective megapixel*2 CMOS image sensor.
"IU105F2" adopts the 8.13 effective megapixel*1 CMOS image sensor, and belongs in the industry's smallest and thinnest*3 size class (W8.5 X D8.5 X H5.67mm). Through its proprietary fine pixel fabrication process technology, Sony will proactively continue the development of "Exmor R" which adopts the 1.12μm unit pixel size for mobile phones. Accordingly, Sony aims to address customer demand by providing appropriately small lens modules especially for smartphones with large displays and limited space for components.
About the realization of high resolution
"IMX081PQ" is world's first*1 type 1/2.8 back-illuminated CMOS image sensor which realizes 16.41 effective megapixel resolution, and adopts the industry's smallest*1 unit pixel size of 1.12μm achieved by the fine pixel fabrication process technology. In theory, when a unit pixel size is made smaller, there are also some issues such as color mixture among smaller unit pixels. Sony solved this problem by implementing a unique formation of photo diodes optimally designed for fine pixel structure to realize a CMOS image sensor with high resolution, high sensitivity and low noise.
About manufacturing
Since 2009, Sony has been mass producing "Exmor R" for Digital Still Cameras and Digital Video Camcorders on wafer lines (with diameter of 200mm) at Sony Semiconductor Kyushu Corporation's Nagasaki Technology Center. At the end of 2010, Sony plans to start the mass production of "Exmor R," including those for mobile phones announced today, at Sony Semiconductor Kyushu Corporation's Kumamoto Technology Center, on cutting-edge wafer lines (with diameter of 300mm). Sony already announced (September 1, 2010) the investment of approximately 40 billion yen in Kumamoto Technology Center to increase production capacity for CMOS image sensors.
About Back-illuminated CMOS image sensor "Exmor R"
Sony first announced the development of "Exmor R" on Jun, 2008. "Exmor R" has been incorporated in Sony's digital imaging products since 2009, and its use in other products has continued to expand. "Exmor R" CMOS image sensor features Sony's independently developed back-illuminated structure, realizing significantly higher sensitivity as well as lower noise. In this back-illuminated CMOS image sensor, light is directed onto the silicon substrate from behind, allowing light to be used with a level of efficiency not possible with conventional front-illuminated structures.
Main Features
Sensor
CMOS image sensor with the world's first*1 16.41 effective megapixel resolution for use in mobile phones. ("IMX081PQ") --adopts formation technology used to create industry's smallest*11.12μm unit pixelRealizes high sensitivity and low noise through back-illuminated structure.Adopts Sony's proprietary "Column-Parallel A/D Conversion Technique", providing each column within the sensor with its own A/D converter, achieving high frame rates of 15 frame/sec (in all-pixel scan mode) and Full-HD video taking capability.Lens module
The industry's smallest and thinnest*1 lens module equipped with CMOS image sensor, lens and auto-focus functions in which the pixel structure and lens are optimally designed. ("IU081F")Approximately twice as sensitive as a conventional front-illuminated CMOS image sensor by combining back-illuminated CMOS image sensor and bright lens with small f-number. ("IU105F2") Equipped with 28mm wide-angle lens (35mm conversion) which is convenient for daily shooting.
*1 As of October 7, 2010
*2 Based on the effective pixels of the image sensor
*3 Compared to CMOS image sensor with the same pixel count as of October 7, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
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Memorial Day Indictment
??? We went to war to wipe out the Taliban.? Then, before we could finish the job in Afghanistan, Iraq became more important. What could have been more important than totally vanquishing the government in power in Afghanistan, the one government that we know directly participated on September 11, 2001? Incredibly, the Taliban today controls sign cant portions of Afghanistan.
??? This Administration never told us we were voting for a war in Iraq if we were voted for Bush/Cheney.? Perhaps I missed the code words during the speeches and debates in the run up to the election.? It appears that one needs to be able to divine this Administration's code in order to understand its intentions.? A little like Bill Clinton's verbal linguistics but?far more dangerous and much more personal.? A good example is the code word "Coalition".? What that means to this Administration is mostly US and several other countries with most committing a minimal number of troops.? Watch Bush's lips move and listen for the code.? It happens all the time, now that he is President. I must admit I do not yet fully understand much of the code I hear.?
????We went to war on Iraq based on the Administrations' request, to us, and Congress, to trust their Intelligence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.? Rumsfeld even told us where they were located.? We are now told that since there were no weapons of mass destruction we were nevertheless justified in waging war because Saddam Hussein is a terrible person.? If that is a?justification for going to war, what about all those other really bad guys out there?
??? We were also told that Saddam Hussein was somehow involved in the September 11, 2001 terrorist acts.? Ooops, that was a mistake in Intelligence as well.
???? And the biggest failure of Intelligence lead to the Administration's biggest mistake, next to our entry into Iraq.? Because they thought our troops were going to be greeted by the Iraqis with flowers and candy instead of bullets, they massively underestimated the number of troops we needed to commit if we had any chance of a successful outcome.? Then, when it became clear that we could not provide security in Iraq, the Administration refused to admit?its mistake and thereafter refused to significantly raise the number of troops when they could have done the most good.? There was no backup plan.? If no flowers and candy, maybe we should have had a contingency plan to seal the Iraqi borders.?? Maybe we could have stockpiled armor in the event the flowers and candy turned to IED's.? Maybe we needed to have more troops in reserve, ready to win the war if things did not go as we were lead to believe?? In response to the question, "who could have known?" I spoke to many people in the lead up to the war that made these exact arguments.??
?????Who gained by this war?? Are there fewer deaths in Iraq now than there were in the years before the war?? What about the thousands of soldiers and the tens of thousands of civilians?? Is the typical Iraqi not living in the Green Zone better off today in their personal security, economically, in their freedom of religion and by most other measures?? I think not.? Are Americans any safer?? While there been no terrorist attacks in America since the September 1, 2001 attacks, the war has nevertheless cost the lives of a similar number of Americans as did the airliner attacks.? And the financial cost to our kids and grandchildren?? What about our standing in the world?? ???????So who did benefit from this unjustified war?? The only clear beneficiaries are a few multi-national corporations, like the Kuwaiti firm that is building the massive American embassy in Baghdad and Dick Cheney's old pals at Halliburton.? I make no claim that this result was the aim of the Administration.? It is sad enough to report the results of this Administration's actions.?
?????And when we discover that our Intelligence was faulty, and it is revealed, the Administration retaliates by leaking the name of a CIA agent.? This is the very Administration that complains about leaks and the irresponsibility of the press revealing the governments' actions.
???? Our citizens discovered that the NSA was conducting communication intercepts through the press.?? The Secret Court pushed for by the Administration was never consulted.?? While this Secret Court does not sound particularly American, we clearly need to take some secret action to fight terrorism.? Apparently, the Administration did not trust that these intercepts would be found legal by its' Secret Court so it did not try to secure warrants for these intercepts. The President's lawyer who gave the stamp of approval to this program then is promoted to Attorney General.? That is the head of the Agency that, in normal times would investigate the legality of the program.
?????We are continuing to incarcerate suspected terrorists in Cuba so that they can be far from American justice.? They are subjected to what has been described as "coercive" measures to get them to reveal information.? When questioned,?the Administration justified Guantanamo Bay and practices such as water boarding as necessities and legal during war.? If necessary, and lawful why did we have to carry out those practices in Cuba?? Now, many of those "terrorists" have been released after years in custody and more will be freed soon.? Many because they were innocent.? After more than four years of detention and "persuasive interrogation".? A few of these "high security" detainees were just children.? Would that have been allowed if they were jailed in America and subject to the scrutiny of the Courts?? I hope not. And what about those high level terrorists captured over the past four years?? Why are they not brought to the United States?? Why are we hiding them in other countries?? This is America and I did not think that we did things that way.?
???? An American is arrested in the United States.? He is held without access to the Courts or even an attorney for years as an "enemy combatant".? When a challenge to that status is like to be upheld by the Supreme Court the Administration finally charges him with a crime to remove that issue from being decided by the Court.
??? Now we learn that most of our telephone records have been mined by the NSA.? Again, this was revealed by the press.? Again too, the Secret Court was not consulted for fear that the massive spying on Americans would not have been deemed legal.
???? Is this Administration telling us that in this war on terrorism, the American Courts cannot be trusted?
?????The head of the NSA at the time, these determinations were made and carried out, a general, is made head the civilian CIA. ?The first general to head the CIA in over 25 years.
?????The Administration defends some of these actions by the fact that there have been no terrorist incidents since September 11, 2001. Don't tell the American public that avoiding the scrutiny of the Secret Court prevented terrorist acts.? Even though it would not justify the Administration's failure to attempt to secure warrants, I would like to know exactly how many terrorist acts were prevented by the Administration learning what we read and who I call.
???? Some of these actions appear to fly in the face of the law of the land.? The Administrations' response?? The President has the inherent power to order these actions in a time of war.? In other words, this President has a right to defy the law of the land, when he determines it is in our best interest. Trust him.
???? I do not.? This is the same Administration that never told us before the war started what the plan was and what the commitment would be.? Did they do this out of evil intent?? Maybe not.? But they have lost my trust, and hopefully the trust of millions of Americans.
??? That is not all.
???? As unbelievable as it may seem, we are further cutting taxes, in this time of war and deficit.? It is a fact that these cuts benefit mostly the wealthy.? The excuse the Administration gives is that these tax cuts are needed to stimulate the economy.? Yet the Federal Reserve has increased interest rates since June, 2004 in order to control economic growth to control inflation.? The upper class gets major tax cuts while the rest of us get enough to fill our car up, once, if we are lucky.? Our children and grandchildren will finance this Administrations additions to the deficit and the entire war on Iraq. Where is the Republican fiscal conservatism?
??? Enough already.? If there are crimes that were committed by George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and their friends, let us bring them to justice.? If?we cannot do that because of his presidential power, then Bush should be impeached.? If there are no crimes or impeachable offenses, then let the voters, Republican and Democrat alike run these very dangerous rascals out of office.
???? Al-Qaeda wins when, because of fear, we lose our civil liberties.?? This Administration took advantage of the events of September 11, 2001 by stoking our fears to foster its own agenda.? We need to fight terrorism by Determination, Brain Power, Manpower, Funding, Technology and Intelligence and by cherishing and respecting the Constitution and protecting our rights and civil liberties.? We only foster the aims of terrorism when we allow ourselves to forget what a great, strong and potentially united a Nation we are.? We have to fight terror with all our might.? We should never agree to fight it by allowing our leaders to frighten us into submitting to our own form of dictatorship, where our leaders make up the law as they go along.?My email address has changed to duby@bellsouth.net.
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Memorial Day Indictment
Investigate, Then charge or impeach.
And if there are no grounds,
Let the voters throw them out!
If Al-Qaeda intended to change the United States by their inhuman acts on September 11, 2001, they accomplished what they set out to do.? Americans took the bait and President Bush, Vice President Cheney and their cronies took advantage of our fears to begin to reshape America in their own vision.??? We went to war to wipe out the Taliban.? Then, before we could finish the job in Afghanistan, Iraq became more important. What could have been more important than totally vanquishing the government in power in Afghanistan, the one government that we know directly participated on September 11, 2001? Incredibly, the Taliban today controls sign cant portions of Afghanistan.
??? This Administration never told us we were voting for a war in Iraq if we were voted for Bush/Cheney.? Perhaps I missed the code words during the speeches and debates in the run up to the election.? It appears that one needs to be able to divine this Administration's code in order to understand its intentions.? A little like Bill Clinton's verbal linguistics but?far more dangerous and much more personal.? A good example is the code word "Coalition".? What that means to this Administration is mostly US and several other countries with most committing a minimal number of troops.? Watch Bush's lips move and listen for the code.? It happens all the time, now that he is President. I must admit I do not yet fully understand much of the code I hear.?
????We went to war on Iraq based on the Administrations' request, to us, and Congress, to trust their Intelligence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.? Rumsfeld even told us where they were located.? We are now told that since there were no weapons of mass destruction we were nevertheless justified in waging war because Saddam Hussein is a terrible person.? If that is a?justification for going to war, what about all those other really bad guys out there?
??? We were also told that Saddam Hussein was somehow involved in the September 11, 2001 terrorist acts.? Ooops, that was a mistake in Intelligence as well.
???? And the biggest failure of Intelligence lead to the Administration's biggest mistake, next to our entry into Iraq.? Because they thought our troops were going to be greeted by the Iraqis with flowers and candy instead of bullets, they massively underestimated the number of troops we needed to commit if we had any chance of a successful outcome.? Then, when it became clear that we could not provide security in Iraq, the Administration refused to admit?its mistake and thereafter refused to significantly raise the number of troops when they could have done the most good.? There was no backup plan.? If no flowers and candy, maybe we should have had a contingency plan to seal the Iraqi borders.?? Maybe we could have stockpiled armor in the event the flowers and candy turned to IED's.? Maybe we needed to have more troops in reserve, ready to win the war if things did not go as we were lead to believe?? In response to the question, "who could have known?" I spoke to many people in the lead up to the war that made these exact arguments.??
?????Who gained by this war?? Are there fewer deaths in Iraq now than there were in the years before the war?? What about the thousands of soldiers and the tens of thousands of civilians?? Is the typical Iraqi not living in the Green Zone better off today in their personal security, economically, in their freedom of religion and by most other measures?? I think not.? Are Americans any safer?? While there been no terrorist attacks in America since the September 1, 2001 attacks, the war has nevertheless cost the lives of a similar number of Americans as did the airliner attacks.? And the financial cost to our kids and grandchildren?? What about our standing in the world?? ???????So who did benefit from this unjustified war?? The only clear beneficiaries are a few multi-national corporations, like the Kuwaiti firm that is building the massive American embassy in Baghdad and Dick Cheney's old pals at Halliburton.? I make no claim that this result was the aim of the Administration.? It is sad enough to report the results of this Administration's actions.?
?????And when we discover that our Intelligence was faulty, and it is revealed, the Administration retaliates by leaking the name of a CIA agent.? This is the very Administration that complains about leaks and the irresponsibility of the press revealing the governments' actions.
???? Our citizens discovered that the NSA was conducting communication intercepts through the press.?? The Secret Court pushed for by the Administration was never consulted.?? While this Secret Court does not sound particularly American, we clearly need to take some secret action to fight terrorism.? Apparently, the Administration did not trust that these intercepts would be found legal by its' Secret Court so it did not try to secure warrants for these intercepts. The President's lawyer who gave the stamp of approval to this program then is promoted to Attorney General.? That is the head of the Agency that, in normal times would investigate the legality of the program.
?????The Administration refused to grant their own Justice Department attorneys security clearances in order to investigate the Justice Departments' lawyers role in these communication intercepts.? Therefore the investigation was closed by the Administrations' Justice Department.? Is that how our system is set up to work?? Where are the oversight and the balance of powers contemplated by the Constitution?
?????We are continuing to incarcerate suspected terrorists in Cuba so that they can be far from American justice.? They are subjected to what has been described as "coercive" measures to get them to reveal information.? When questioned,?the Administration justified Guantanamo Bay and practices such as water boarding as necessities and legal during war.? If necessary, and lawful why did we have to carry out those practices in Cuba?? Now, many of those "terrorists" have been released after years in custody and more will be freed soon.? Many because they were innocent.? After more than four years of detention and "persuasive interrogation".? A few of these "high security" detainees were just children.? Would that have been allowed if they were jailed in America and subject to the scrutiny of the Courts?? I hope not. And what about those high level terrorists captured over the past four years?? Why are they not brought to the United States?? Why are we hiding them in other countries?? This is America and I did not think that we did things that way.?
???? An American is arrested in the United States.? He is held without access to the Courts or even an attorney for years as an "enemy combatant".? When a challenge to that status is like to be upheld by the Supreme Court the Administration finally charges him with a crime to remove that issue from being decided by the Court.
??? Now we learn that most of our telephone records have been mined by the NSA.? Again, this was revealed by the press.? Again too, the Secret Court was not consulted for fear that the massive spying on Americans would not have been deemed legal.
???? Is this Administration telling us that in this war on terrorism, the American Courts cannot be trusted?
?????The head of the NSA at the time, these determinations were made and carried out, a general, is made head the civilian CIA. ?The first general to head the CIA in over 25 years.
?????The Administration defends some of these actions by the fact that there have been no terrorist incidents since September 11, 2001. Don't tell the American public that avoiding the scrutiny of the Secret Court prevented terrorist acts.? Even though it would not justify the Administration's failure to attempt to secure warrants, I would like to know exactly how many terrorist acts were prevented by the Administration learning what we read and who I call.
???? Some of these actions appear to fly in the face of the law of the land.? The Administrations' response?? The President has the inherent power to order these actions in a time of war.? In other words, this President has a right to defy the law of the land, when he determines it is in our best interest. Trust him.
???? I do not.? This is the same Administration that never told us before the war started what the plan was and what the commitment would be.? Did they do this out of evil intent?? Maybe not.? But they have lost my trust, and hopefully the trust of millions of Americans.
??? That is not all.
???? As unbelievable as it may seem, we are further cutting taxes, in this time of war and deficit.? It is a fact that these cuts benefit mostly the wealthy.? The excuse the Administration gives is that these tax cuts are needed to stimulate the economy.? Yet the Federal Reserve has increased interest rates since June, 2004 in order to control economic growth to control inflation.? The upper class gets major tax cuts while the rest of us get enough to fill our car up, once, if we are lucky.? Our children and grandchildren will finance this Administrations additions to the deficit and the entire war on Iraq. Where is the Republican fiscal conservatism?
??? Enough already.? If there are crimes that were committed by George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and their friends, let us bring them to justice.? If?we cannot do that because of his presidential power, then Bush should be impeached.? If there are no crimes or impeachable offenses, then let the voters, Republican and Democrat alike run these very dangerous rascals out of office.
???? Al-Qaeda wins when, because of fear, we lose our civil liberties.?? This Administration took advantage of the events of September 11, 2001 by stoking our fears to foster its own agenda.? We need to fight terrorism by Determination, Brain Power, Manpower, Funding, Technology and Intelligence and by cherishing and respecting the Constitution and protecting our rights and civil liberties.? We only foster the aims of terrorism when we allow ourselves to forget what a great, strong and potentially united a Nation we are.? We have to fight terror with all our might.? We should never agree to fight it by allowing our leaders to frighten us into submitting to our own form of dictatorship, where our leaders make up the law as they go along.?My email address has changed to duby@bellsouth.net.
(The author, Michael Dubiner is a professional image maker and lawyer who lives in Wellington, Florida. His articles will appear twice monthly on PixiPort. His work can be seen at PixiPort.com and at his web site, duby.com.)
ARCHIVESSend Page To a Friend? copyright ? 2002 Michael Dubiner. All rights reserved.Panasonic to expand Lumix camera brand to phones
Panasonic is set to extend its Lumix digital camera brand to include mobile phones. A teaser campaign on the company's Japanese site indicates that the first Lumix-branded phone will be announced at CEATC electronics trade show in Tokyo on October 5. Its processor has been branded as Mobile VenusEngine and it will offer microSD/SDHC slots.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
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Sony announces NEX-3 in pink
Sony has announced a pink color variant of its NEX-3 interchangeable lens camera that will only be available in the Japanese market. It joins the existing color choices of black, red and silver. The pink version will be available from November 2010 with a variety of optional pink accessories.
Friday, November 19, 2010
Pixiport black and white fine art photography
Supports all colors of my 40 years of discovery, Queen was in black and also. Auguste Renoir
Using Fuji digital camera and digital camera Panasonic's black and white digital photography techniques.
Evoke emotions "black and white photography, and soon not freezing time than other media. In ten years this famous photographers as seen in Steigletz, helped Weston Adams, promoted to a black and white photography, art form. Many of the strong and subtle tones of grey, black, and stressed because of the lack of white soft subject and natural color composition closer to look. Queuesabcdget and emotions always draw the contrast completely and the subject of sharp focus for black and white ". -Bob Snell
"Trying 私通 STB chose the black and white colors lack Viewer easily at home my themes at the same time emotions improves, because they feel support creating mood-Jeff Alu
See photos rather build on the existing style from challenging, that repeatedly coming. Have the courage to develop one's own style, it freely, form and inventively think is important. "-Helyn Davenport
"Point to the camera of my existing world towards the outside of my soul inside.
Since there is the reality of existing photography and his world to create really!
Results from the opposite side of the two approaches are especially different, and in my opinion, is the concept.
Photography is a high-level photo, painting, poetry, music, sculptures of artistic expression form. Adopts the special talent of intuitive vision. Main reflection of answers to questions by converting photos language concept of personal, it is possible: birth, death and life.
Ideas to create a transform reality, is the concept of critical processes.
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"I think sometimes, and have some forms ? objects ? moments ? like silent mind absorbed, petty details of free solutions, Visual guide ? a ', 'many of the area, are provided as a means of penetrating. Frees the mind 'logic' of ' to formal definition ', and can be reasonably overcome world cross-labels and categories. Ships where 'understanding' analysis understanding before. In Singularity away lines, contours, pattern occurs. Anymore ? in requested 'meaning' there is no rational sense. [Begins to appeal to the sense of opacity of the shape ? texture ? tone ? our feeling is clearly expressed form ? 'fit in the category' and 'ideal' recognizable images. Detained in the area of darkness can move free and other associations to form and to form partnerships with other light ? free ". -Subir Chatterjee
"Is like looking for a balance of power of black and white, China yin and Yang, positive and negative. Finding the balance in one if you are lucky, you can describe the world, such as black and white photos. Expectations can be close to the light and truth in this field my attempt, available), is to find a harmonious play "
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Of losing income formation of personal perspective, a nostalgic touch, and universal environment than real black and white photography is one of the image method. Black and white photography can add timeless powerful images, as well as age strongly to life. I almost creating color picture of me, but I resist beauty and charm of black and white-Dubi Rome.
"Before digital, for years I always surface black and white usually add paint takes. Now I converting to black and white and color photos of the! to the benefits of dropping the image under the black and white, its basic form, form and composition of independently now. "-Judy Mandolf
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"My black and white, unique interpretational ability by making images of effecitve communication strength, subscribe. You can read the black and white photography, rather than only one theme "-Bob Evans
"There is fine personalised way to describe my work. But certainly the quality of light and shade is important. Matter of fact, an important element of these designs, consider as part. For me, without visual order of the images, despite the content fails. You must consider all of that. Must be fluent in harmony messages. To it that all together symphonically will need. If there is too much noise at least hear melodies for me is hard. The audience is assumed. I in shooting at East experience. Attempt frame in a Zen "-the David Mendelsohn.
Sony NEX firmware 03 first impressions
Sony's announcement of revised firmware for the NEX mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras was easily missed amongst all of the excitement of Photokina 2010. Version 03 brings extensive revisions, including the ability to set the aperture when recording movies and the enabling of autofocus when using SAM and SSM Alpha-mount lenses via the adapter. But, perhaps most importantly, it addresses some of the major criticisms of the user interface made by reviewers and users alike. We've had a bit of a chance to use the latest firmware so thought we would publish our initial thoughts, ahead of revising the camera review. The review itself is in the process of being updated and will be re-published with updated scoring as soon as firmware 03 becomes publicly available.
The first thing to be done is to congratulate Sony for being willing to accept that its product could be improved and make such wide-ranging and significant changes (which isn't a simple or common undertaking for a company of Sony's size). Having shot with the latest firmware for over a week, it's apparent that the company has listened closely to what users and reviewers have been saying, and has corrected many of the camera's shortcomings.
The NEX cameras are primarily aimed at users wanting DSLR image quality but point-and-shoot ease-of-use and, for that audience, the latest firmware makes no real difference. The tendency of the cameras to overexpose slightly in iAuto mode remains, as does the limitation of only being able to use up to ISO 1600 along with the inability to use the multi-shot noise reduction and high dynamic range modes. It's a shame to see that the Auto+ mode from the more recent SLT cameras (that automatically uses multi-shot modes if necessary), hasn't been introduced. With all that said, however, it wasn't the iAuto mode we found particularly problematic - it was the more user-controlled PASM modes.
The PASM modes of the NEX could be hugely frustrating to use. Most reviews (and many user comments), highlighted the manifold problems with the user interface when used in the PASM modes - the difference between the final conclusions were often a matter of how willing the reviewer or user was to overlook the flaws. So it's great to be able to say that the majority of drawbacks have been successfully addressed.
The biggest problem previously was that setting anything more involved than exposure compensation (including basic features such as ISO and white balance) required delving into the NEX's heavily partitioned menu system. This has been resolved with the ability to customize two of the soft-buttons on the back of the camera. The difference this makes is remarkable - choose your settings carefully and it's very rare for you to have to enter the menu system, instantly improving the user experience significantly.
The central and lower buttons (known as 'soft' keys because they are not hard-coded with a specific function), can now be customized. The lower button is called soft key B and the central one is soft key C.
Soft key B can be set be set to any of ten functions. This includes key functions such as ISO, White Balance and MF Assist (magnified live view). You can't, however, use it to switch from autofocus to manual or between JPEG and RAW.
Soft key C (the central button) can either be customized or used for its default purpose: jumping to the virtual mode dial. Switching it to 'Custom' has the advantage that the virtual mode dial is always a consistent number of steps away.
Up to three functions from a list of seven can be assigned to the center button. There's also a 'Not Set' option that means you only need to cycle through the options you actually want while shooting.
In use, the chosen settings are quick and easy to access - press the central button then left or right to switch between functions.
When selecting within these settings, the lower button lets you change options (if that setting has them). Again this reduces the amount of time you have to spend navigating menus, reducing distractions from shooting.
There are a couple of omissions - there's no Exposure- or Focus-Lock option, which can cause exposure problems if you focus-and-recompose. There's also no option to switch from RAW to JPEG, so you can still be confronted by error messages if you want to shoot an HDR image.
There are a couple of omissions that may affect some users, depending on their shooting habits (anyone how likes to focus and recompose is likely to be disappointed that they can't lock exposure or focus independently), but for most keen photographers the experience is likely to be a great improvement. Providing easy access to settings such as ISO immediately reduces the need to use the menu system, meaning fewer distractions from the business of shooting.
On the subject of the menus, two small changes have been made that make them slightly more pleasant to use: the first is that they now loop from the last item to the first or vice versa (so it's much quicker to get to options at the bottom of a menu). This in itself is a nice change but it's improved still further by a new setting to remember the last option you used in each section of the menu, and use that as the start point for navigation in that section. Again this small change makes a big difference - it means you don't have to hunt for the settings you change most often.
One small setting change makes the menus behave much more pleasantly - set Menu Start to 'Previous' rather than 'Top' and you'll always find yourself arriving back in a menu where you last left it.The final change to the user interface brought by Firmware 03 is a revision to manual focus assist (magnified live view). It's another change that makes the shooting experience faster and less intrusive. The latest firmware remembers where you'd chosen to zoom in and will revert to that point next time it's engaged. This means, if you're using manual focus lenses on the NEX, you can focus on, for instance, your subject's eye and be sure that you can do the same again a moment later, rather than having to reposition your magnified area first (while your model gets bored).
The camera now remembers where you last chose to magnify in MF Assist mode. This is true regardless of whether you're using an e-mount lens in manual focus mode or a non-native lens via an adapter. It's a small change but one that makes fine focusing much, much faster when trying to focus on an off-center point. For instance it's now much quicker to confirm and fine-tune focus if you want to take more than one portrait shot (you don't have to expect your subject to wait as you re-position the magnified portion).
Throughout our review we tried to make clear how impressed we were with the physical design of the NEX cameras (particularly the NEX-5) and with the image quality, which is very good indeed (and not just 'for a camera of that size'). However, we found the user interface interfered enough when shooting that it became an interruption to the photographic experience to an extent that was inexcusable. However, this update addresses the vast majority of our concerns, to the point that we would now quite happily recommend the NEX cameras to enthusiast users. The update doesn't suddenly make everything perfect but it does leave them no more flawed than their competitors.
We said at the time that we didn't think many changes were required to make the NEX significantly better and this update proves that point perfectly. Firmware 03 changes the status of the PASM modes from feeling like an afterthought to being a well-thought-out and integrated shooting method. This firmware update hasn't just been rushed-out to address criticisms - it's seems very carefully considered. Overall, its fair to say that the update recasts the NEXs from being potentially good cameras let down by bizarre user interface design to being two of the best mirrorless models you can buy (particularly for enthusiast users). The review and scoring will be updated to reflect this as soon as the firmware becomes publicly available.
After extended use by several people in the office, these would be our suggested settings. Obviously the exact option you chose will depend on your shooting style and needs but we believe most enthusiast photographers will find these a good place to start:
Soft Key B (lower button)? MF Assist. Because the lower button reverts back to area selection in AF area selection mode, we'd suggest MF Assist, rather than ISO, since it's impossible to need MF Assist and AF area selection at the same time.Soft Key C (center button)? ISO is pretty much essential, since it gives you direct control over sensitivity and allows easy access to the settings above 1600 that Auto ISO won't use.Beyond that, although there are seven other options, we found ourselves mainly using two of the following three:
? White Balance
? Autofocus Area (for easy switching to an off-center AF point, given the previously mentioned drawbacks of focusing and recomposing)
? DRO/Auto HDR (the full capabilities of these modes are only available when shooting JPEG only, but they're nice features to be able to control and have easy access to).
Because our biggest criticisms of the NEX cameras were based on their user interface, that has been the focus of our time spent with the camera so far. These improvements aren't the only changes that have been made. There's also the ability to preset the aperture for movie shooting - whichever aperture you've selected in M or A mode, or via iAuto mode's defocus control system is maintained during shooting (though can't be adjusted).
Although not technically part of Firmware 03 (it's a separate firmware update for the LA-EA1 Alpha mount lens adapter), Sony has also unlocked the ability of the adapter to autofocus Alpha-mount lenses with built-in autofocus motors (those with the SSM and SAM designation). We'll be writing more about this when we've had a chance to test with a wider range of lenses.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Art photographer news
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Photos hot lights and cold lighting. Hot lights and turn on the always get very hot. Also known as cold lighting Flash equipment and Flash only when it is running. They are subject to easily set up and photographer for more comfortable because the strobe lights often portraits for helping out. If you want to integrate Flash equipment here the following photo project successfully can do it, there are a few tips.
"Sarah Ashley (click to view the image in the add Sarah Ashley) capture self portraits in my Studio" 1) you need to do first is a subject in the photo light all around you do not want to block is set on a light box.Portrait photo use school think of that curtain stand. in the background, or next to the title of the photo that you don't want the light, the result can be changed: so make sure you set your light box when the light from the back and next to the appropriate image is blocked.
2) light box officially is set and the subject is in the right place, you need the following camera once and set the topic your viewfinder.
3) then set maximum Flash equipment. equipment, placing the add definition and in the shadow to the right place to generate posted them.To add the definition of a subject facing towards the texture Flash hard angle must be selected. Another popular way of subject on one side of the light just. This starkly contrasting bright one subject in total are turned on and create a different shadow and mysterious.
4) where I'd like Flash equipment is placed after the Flash camera sync cord and you are ready to run the metering: the camera automatically Flash equipment, you need to adjust the power output.Flash light subject very near placement and adjusting the exposure a bit if you can, therefore, their functionality, you can wash.
5) then you are ready to shoot photos.Check the results on your computer and adjust as you see fit. normally your shot review immediately, and then after the shooting without having to wait for the right reshoot near the computer so that you can be secured, it is highly recommended.
All in all, a Flash of light only generated a significant amount, in contrast to the hot lights, sharp eyes and correct exposure can get a good photo judgment required. Flash your theme in the beautiful is referred to as the shadow to create a pattern, but a series of Flash quickly occur since the equipment, the perfect one to get shot. other notable-bit information: probably Flash equipment fire lighting fast shutter speed must as soon as the camera 1/1500th seconds.
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From the plane tips for photography
Have you ever airplane looked out the window? Now why this strange question to ask is this wonder. You looked out the window the plane beauty [NULL] is said about. Have you ever wanted to capture the moment ever? Well now you can capture those memories. Here's a picture while the plane ride, there are a few tips.
"Mikel Peterson (click the image to view the Add from Mikel Peterson) capture off" When you take the shot from the camera to the common mistake of the plane window for the lens of the camera to the right place. We typically reflect on it cut down on the should expect that.People also steady shot so for. now, the camera window to reduce the reflection resting on you might help, but it never taking a steady shot. Window when you release the camera in the camera to the plane of oscillation driven more will shake.
Fitted with a fisheye lens, DSLR camera, the lens hood that can be performed, the connection is on the lens.This is really it does not change window will get near.This beautiful picture, the best strategy that allows you to take. now take the free hand lens and use the reflection will be able to help protect your from. now, in the appropriate altitude in an open window, shooting guns in the air the best way to take. But most of us can do it, so the next best to shoot from the plane window.
"In the sunset 35,000 Ft" MSkeet (click to view the image in the Add MSkeet) capture1. airplane window if you want to take pictures in manual focus camera switches focus from auto. through the glass if you shoot the camera gets confused. Switch to manual focus mode, and the main focus point, when you want to lock the focus on the more you can get good results.
2. window of the plane often ice or fly over a long period of time when you are get condensation.Therefore, the initial photography point. your shots much clearer and better.
3. aerial support if you are looking for, you will have less chance when you can do it would be. therefore, the key moment will be ready for. caused these opportunities to visit before or after taking off the plane in the Bank.These shot capture very few will get the chance.Therefore, always have taken the right moment.
4. when to shoot in the plane always turn off the Flash settings the. the reason why Flash of any help.-built-in Flash work only a few meters and reflection are the problem worse.
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Blurb introduces Bookify online book design tool
Print-on-demand book publisher Blurb has introduced the Bookify online book design tool. To create books using Bookify, users need to add images either from Flickr online photo sharing website or from their computer into available templates, and customize the layout to suit their needs. Users can also download the company’s free design software application called BookSmart or submit PDFs directly from their favored software.
Press Release:
SAN FRANCISCO,?Oct. 19?-- Blurb?, the creative publishing and marketing platform, today announced the release of?Blurb Bookify?, an online bookmaking tool designed to streamline the creation of beautiful, high-quality photo books. Within Bookify, users will find a curated collection of the most popular layouts, fonts, and design elements for book creation. Additionally, users will be able to drag and drop images directly onto a page and the page will design itself. Bookify is the latest addition to Blurb's complete suite of bookmaking tools.
"If your goal is to make a knock-em dead photo book,?tonight, Bookify is for you," said?Eileen Gittins, Blurb's founder and CEO. "We have streamlined the whole bookmaking experience by curating our most popular layouts, coupled with the convenience of using your photos stored on Flickr or on your computer. ?And the great news is that all books made with Bookify offer the same professional quality that Blurb is known for. So whether you are a creative professional, or just want to look like one, prepare to amaze your friends with your Bookify Blurb book."
Bookify offers users a streamlined experience by presenting a selection of Blurb's most popular layouts, themes, and fonts in an online bookmaking tool that requires no download. The key features of Bookify include:
Online Ease and Portability
No need to download anythingWork on your book from more than one computerUse images stored on Flickr? or on your computerA Range of the Most Popular Book Styles and Layouts
Pre-designed layouts to edit and personalize – or just drag and drop images onto the page and it will design itselfElegant, fun, or classic themes – you choose the look you likeMultiple background colors and bordersMake books up to 160 pagesCreative Options More than 20 fonts to choose fromAutofit, zoom, crop, or rotate images; supports JPEG images up to 10MBFull-bleed and multi-image layoutsFive trim sizes availableAutoCreate Your Book By selecting the AutoCreate feature, your book will be created automatically from your selected set of images. You can then order as is, or add, move or delete images as you see fit.Professional Quality Superb image quality and highest quality printingThree bindery types available: Softcover, Hardcover with dust jacket, or ImageWrapPremium and Standard papers availableBlurb created Bookify to meet the needs of the rapidly expanding photo book market. With the launch of Bookify, Blurb now offers a complete suite of bookmaking tools that support projects from simple to more involved. All Blurb books feature the same high-quality printing and binding.
BookSmart??is Blurb's award-winning software that's perfect for richer projects. The free, downloadable bookmaking app delivers the ideal mix of pre-designed layouts and text support with the ability to fully customize your book.
Blurb's?PDF to Book?tool gives professional users full creative control over the bookmaking process by enabling them to use Adobe? InDesign? or their preferred design software. Blurb offers blank Adobe? InDesign? templates tailored for use with all of the company's book sizes, papers, and cover types.
All Blurb customers have access to Blurb's free suite of tools to share and sell their books, including Blurb BookShow?, which enables bookmakers to let friends and fans flip through their book on their blog, website, or Facebook page.
To begin a Blurb Bookify project, please visit?http://www.blurb.com/bookify.
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Water Droplet Photography Tips
Love taking photos? Then you should speak to your friends and family that can take great pictures of new and exciting ways! The best part is you can do it at any time, time, and you can do it if you want to place in your home! How drip some right for an amazing photo photograph shows how to!
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Set well and make sure that the same is turned on, and then to Dim the room lights. Set the fast shutter speed.
I eye dropper, the BLOB works best for creating.Drip flashing the manually, and then start all fire occurs in tandem.Until you get the results you want, and then to continue to be a difficult task time!!The best way to track, and error will be. it does take practice.After 12 shots for you to synchronize with your camera and amazing photo evidence will be!
Another way to enable the use of a sound or broken in the falling drop automatically when the ingrate beam will trigger the Flash unit is a device action! they use and affordable seems to be fun!
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Monday, November 15, 2010
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Nik Software ships HDR Efex Pro
HDR Efex Pro, Nik Software's previously-announced HDR processing plug-in for Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom and Apple Aperture is now available for Mac and PC.
Press Release:
San Diego, CA – October 11, 2010 –?Nik Software (www.niksoftware.com) today began shipping HDR Efex Pro, a completely new High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging solution designed to help professional and amateur photographers quickly and easily achieve a full spectrum of HDR enhancements. HDR Efex Pro overcomes limitations in other software products with a revolutionary all-in-one approach and multiple tone mapping algorithms that enable realistic and artistic results to be created start-to-finish within a single tool. Introductory videos, free trial versions, and live online training can be found at www.niksoftware.com/hdrefexpro.
“Our HDR Efex Pro beta group had over 500 photography industry professionals and HDR enthusiasts and the feedback from this group has been both comprehensive and incredibly positive,” said Michael J. Slater, President and CEO of Nik Software. “We have incorporated much of their feedback and I am confident that this product will advance HDR imaging.”
HDR Efex Pro brings innovative and best-in-class technologies to HDR photography. HDR Efex Pro enables a wide variety of options, including single-click visual style presets, as well as global adjustments such as exposure, contrast, structure to fine detail contrast, and a new HDR Method option. This feature makes use of four tone-mapping algorithms, which enable virtually unlimited HDR “looks” that can be adapted to a particular HDR style of photography.
Nik Software’s proprietary U Point? technology is also incorporated into HDR Efex Pro, providing precise selective fine-tuning of images without the need for complicated selections or layer masks. Photographers can precisely control selective adjustments with a single mouse-click providing the ability to quickly create amazing results. Finishing adjustments, such as vignette controls and levels & curves, make it possible to easily accomplish a range of enhancements within HDR Efex Pro.
HDR Efex Pro also enables photographers to create popular and dramatic HDR images from a single exposure. This feature allows photographers to reprocess a single image in which an exposure series was not previously shot or for subject matter that does not lend itself to multiple exposures.
Key Features
HDR Efex Pro is available now for electronic and boxed delivery directly from Nik Software (www.niksoftware.com), through specialty camera retailers, and through online and national resellers. A complete list of Nik Software resellers may be found at www.niksoftware.com/resellers.
The suggested U.S. retail price of HDR Efex Pro is $159.95. The software is available as a free update to those who purchased the Nik Software Complete Collection within North America after July 25, 2010. Complete Collection owners who purchased prior to July 25, 2010 may add HDR Efex Pro to their Complete Collection for just $99.95 by calling Customer Service at 888-284-4085 (or 619-725-3150).
HDR Efex Pro installs as a 64-bit plug-in for Adobe? Photoshop? CS4 (Windows only) and CS5 (Windows and Macintosh), and as a 32-bit and 64-bit plug-in for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom? 2.3 or later (Windows and Macintosh) or Apple? Aperture? 2.1 or later (Macintosh). For more information about HDR Efex Pro, including a detailed product video and image gallery, please visit www.niksoftware.com/hdrefexpro.
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Samsung adds iFunction to NX10 and NX5 firmware
Samsung has posted firmware updates for the NX10 and NX5 interchangeable lens cameras adding key features from the recently released NX100. Version 1.20 offers compatibilty with the i-Function feature of the newly introduced 20mm and 20-50mm lenses. It also adds support for the GPS10 GPS module and improves AF performance. There is also a 'distortion compensate' function to correct lens distortion. The updates are available for immediate download from Samsung's website.
Press Release:
London, UK – 7 October, 2010 – Samsung Electronics has released a firmware upgrade for its innovative NX10 camera today. The new version features a number of updates to ensure consumers are kept up to date with the latest technological advances. New features include supporting Samsung’s new i-Function lens which allows users to easily adjust shutter speed, aperture value, ISO, white balance and EV at P,A,S,M mode by simply using focus ring when the i-Function lens is mounted. The upgrade will also support external GPS module which will enable Geotagging of pictures when capturing GPS.
Additional updates include improved performance of Auto-Focus with a new algorithm, providing better AF speed and accuracy. Reduced image distortion due to Supporting LDC (Lens Distortion Compensation) and Enhanced usability for retract lens (20-50mm).
To download the firmware update customers can visit - http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/camera-camcorder/camcorders/firmware/index.html
The file can be simply copied onto the SD card which is then inserted into the camera where menu/settings 3 should be selected – users should see the option firmware update ‘select body firmware’. A screen should then appear displaying Body Upgrade? Ver .01.20, select yes and the update should begin.
The new upgrade also applies to the Samsung NX5.
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Sony NEX firmware v03 now available/review updated
Sony has announced firmware version 03 for its NEX-5 and NEX-3 interchangeable lens cameras is now?available?for?download. The latest version makes major changes to the user interface amongst other enhancements. A separate firmware update for the LA-EA1 A-mount adapter also adds AF support to 14 Sony SAM and SSM lenses. We have now updated our review of both cameras to reflect the changes.
Press Release:
A new firmware upgrade adds further operating refinements to the NEX-5/NEX-3 compact system cameras from Sony.
Available now for download*1 with versions available for Windows and Mac OS*2, the free upgrade adds several performance enhancements. Autofocus is now supported when using the NEX-5/NEX-3 with 14 lenses from the full range of A-mount optics by Sony and Carl Zeiss that includes telephotos, primes and zooms. Aperture settings can be maintained during HD movie recording, and system menu operation has been streamlined alongside other usability improvements. Registered NEX-5/NEX-3 owners will be advised of the free update via email.
Autofocus with A-mount lenses
Single-shot autofocus is supported with 14 optional A-mount SAM and SSM lens models*3 when used with the optional LA-EA1 Mount Adaptor. Single-shot AF is also possible while in movie recording mode by pressing the shutter button halfway down. Support for AF operation with A-mount lenses also requires a separate firmware upgrade for the LA-EA1.
Aperture priority with video recording
HD video can be shot while maintaining constant aperture, either in A (aperture priority) mode or in iAuto mode with background defocus activated. This aids the simple creation of beautiful background defocus effects during movie recording.
Soft key settings
It’s possible to customise functions of two of the three soft keys on the camera’s rear panel. Functions that can be assigned include Shooting Mode, Shooting Tips, Precision Digital Zoom, ISO, White Balance, Metering Mode, Flash Compensation, DRO, Auto HDR, Creative Style, MF Assist and AF Area.
Menu start
When ‘Menu’ is selected, there’s now the option to display either the main menu screen or the last parameter set. This simplifies quick readjustment of recently-selected functions and settings.
MF Assist
An enlarged image portion can be displayed on screen with user-selectable duration while in MF (Manual Focus) Assist mode. MF Assist operation has also been improved. ?The previously-chosen magnified image portion can now be maintained when MF Assist is re-selected, making repeated checks of fine focus quicker and more convenient.
*1 NEX-5/NEX-3 customers can download the firmware upgrade from http://support.sony-europe.com/hub/hub.html
*2 System requirements [PC]: Windows XP SP3 (64-bit and Starter editions not supported); Windows Vista SP2 (Starter edition not supported); Windows 7
System requirements [Macintosh]: OS X (Ver.10.5 and Ver.10.6).
[PC/Mac] Hard disk space: min. 200MB / RAM: min. 512MB.
Upgrade requires USB cable connection between computer and NEX-5/NEX-3.
*3Autofocus function is supported with these A-mount lenses:
SAM lenses
DT 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 SAM [SAL1855]28-75mm F2.8 SAM [SAL2875],DT 55-200mm F4-5.6 SAM [SAL55200-2]DT 30mm F2.8 Macro SAM [SAL30M28]DT 35mm F1.8 SAM [SAL35F18]DT 50mm F1.8 SAM [SAL50F18]85mm F2.8 SAM [SAL85F28]SSM lenses
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Panasonic to ship AG-AF100 from December
Panasonic has announced its AG-AF100 series professional Micro Four Thirds HD camcorder will be available from December 27 at a suggested retail price of $4995. Announced in May 2010, the camcorder is capable of recording full 1080p HD videos at frame rates from 12 to 60 fps. It includes HD SDI and XLR connectors, twin SDXC slots and is compatible with the company's line up of Lumix G lenses, filters and adapters.
Press Release:
Best-in-Class 4/3” Sensor Delivers Depth of Field and Field of View Similar to that of 35mm Movie Camera; Camcorder Uses Low-Cost Still Camera and Film-Style Lenses
SECAUCUS, N.J.—Panasonic Solutions Company today announced that the AG-AF100, the industry’s first professional micro 4/3-inch video camcorder optimized for high-definition video recording, will start shipping on December 27th at a suggested list price of $4,995. Highly anticipated since its introduction at NAB earlier this year, the AF100 is poised to set new benchmarks in digital cinematography.
Targeted at the video and film production communities, the AF100 delivers the shallow depth of field and wider field of view of a large imager, with the flexibility and cost advantages of a growing line of professional quality, industry-standard micro 4/3-inch lenses, filters, and adapters. The full HD 1080 and 720 production camera offers superior video handling, native 1080/24p recording, variable frame rates, professional audio capabilities, and compatibility with SDHC and SDXC media.
“The design of the AF100’s best-in-class 4/3-inch sensor affords depth of field and field of view similar to that of 35mm movie cameras in a more affordable camera body,” said Jan Crittenden Livingston, Product Line Business Manager, Panasonic Solutions Company. “What’s more, Panasonic engineering ingenuity has resolved the aliasing and moiré that has haunted the DSLR shooter. Indeed, the proof of concept of the AF100 was based on what we heard from and saw customers doing: purchasing DSLR cameras because they liked the look of the image, but then agonized over all of the workarounds required to come out with an acceptable high definition recording.”
The AF100 incorporates a large 4/3-inch,16:9 MOS imager that minimizes skew with fast imager scanning, and incorporates low pass filters for elimination of aliasing and moiré. Additionally, it has a built-in optical ND filter. The camcorder records 1080 at 60i, 50i, 30P, 25P (Native) and 24P (Native), and 720 at 60p, 50p, 30p, 25p and 24p native,in AVCHD’s highest-quality PH mode (maximum 24Mbps). The AF100 also records in AVCCAM’s HA (17 Mbps) and HE (6Mbps) modes, 1080i only. Ready for global production standards, the camcorder is 60Hz and 50Hz switchable. Equipped with an interchangeable micro 4/3-inch lens mount, the AF100 can utilize an array of low-cost, widely-available still camera lenses as well as film-style lenses with fixed focal lengths and primes.
Variable frame rates are available in 1080p, selectable in 20 steps from 12p to 60p at 60Hz and 20 steps from 12p to 50p at 50Hz. Standard professional interfaces include uncompressed 4:2:2, 8 Bit HD-SDI out; HDMI out; and USB 2.0. It records SMPTE timecode and is able to perform timecode synchronizing via the video output seeing timecode in. It has a built-in stereo microphone and features two mic/line, switchable XLR inputs with +48V Phantom Power capability. The camera can record 48-kHz/16-bit two-channel digital audio recording (in PH mode only) and supports LPCM/Dolby-AC3 in any of the modes.
This newest Panasonic AVCCAM camcorder is the first to enjoy the benefits of advanced SDXC media card compatibility in addition to existing SDHC card support. SDXC is the newest SD memory card specification that supports memory capacities above 32GB and up to 2TB. With two SD slots for continuous recording, the AF100 can record up to 12 hours on two 64GB SDXC cards in PH mode, with automatic clip spanning across the two cards.
Weighing only 3.5 pounds (without lens or battery), the AF100 is packed with high-end features including Dynamic Range Stretch in all modes and frame rates; six built-in, customizable scene files that are exchangeable for quick and easy matching between multiple cameras; seven built-in gamma curves with four selectable color matrices; Syncro-scan shutter; and a high-resolution LCD and viewfinder.
It also offers a focus assist that can be used while recording, which is color-on peaking and a focus bar; two sets of adjustable zebras; two manual black and white balance choices, and preset White Balance at 3200K, 5600K or variable; a waveform monitor and vectorscope for more accurate monitoring of broadcast safe levels. Other essential features include pre-record; an intervalometer function that can be set for up to 24 hours, programmable User Buttons; a Smart Battery interface for recording up to four hours with a 5400mA battery; metadata recording; and a wireless infrared remote controller.
Panasonic will support the AF100 with a three-year limited warranty (one year plus two extra years upon registration).
Friday, November 12, 2010
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Casio updates firmware for EX-Z800, EX-S200 and EX-Z550
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Thursday, November 11, 2010
Just Posted! Canon PowerShot S95 samples gallery
Just posted! Our samples gallery from the Canon PowerShot S95. We have just received a production sample of the S95 and put together a gallery of sample shots to give you an initial impression of the image quality of this premium compact. The gallery includes a mix of shots using various ISOs and apertures, shot under a variety of lighting conditions.
There are 34 images in the samples gallery. Please do not reproduce any of these images on a website or any newsletter / magazine without prior permission (see our copyright page). We make the originals available for private users to download to their own machines for personal examination or printing, we do so in good faith, please don't abuse it.
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Just Posted! Panasonic GH2 14mm F2.5 preview samples gallery
Just posted: Our Panasonic GH2/14mm F2.5 samples gallery. Panasonic's latest video-focused Micro Four Thirds camera features an entirely new 18MP multi-aspect-ratio sensor and has been released alongside a 14mm F2.5 pancake lens. We've got hold of production examples of both and have taken them out shooting to get a flavor of how they perform with a variety of lighting conditions, subject distances and apertures. Rather than shooting the same scene at all ISO settings, we've shot an outdoor scene at ISO 160 to ISO 800 and indoors 1600 to 12,800 to give a more realistic impression of what you can expect in situations you might actually encounter.
There are 30 images in the samples gallery. Please do not reproduce any of these images on a website or any newsletter / magazine without prior permission (see our copyright page). We make the originals available for private users to download to their own machines for personal examination or printing, we do so in good faith, please don't abuse it.
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DxO Labs discusses DxO Optics Pro v6.5
DxO Labs has announced version 6.5 of its DxO Optics Pro Raw conversion software. A few days before the announcement, we got a chance to speak to the company's Sales and Marketing Director for Photography, Cyrille de La Chesnais. He highlighted the new and improved features the latest version has to offer, along with key elements of the company's new HDR plug-in that will be available around the same time as the Raw conversion software.
'Similar to previous versions, users will benefit from 100% improvement in the default or automatic image processing,' says Cyrille de La Chesnais. 'Many users do not attempt to manually fine-tune Raw images. Our goal was to deliver maximum results when users use our automatic processing option. This is how we aim to differ from other solutions in the market. Because we've calibrated the sensor in our labs we are able to set the optimal default position - rather than using the same settings for all sensors and all ISOs. There's an element of taste to this, of course, but our defaults is set to the middle of the gaussian distribution, so we believe it will please most people. In most cases you do not have to move any sliders at all.'
DxO Optics v6.5 - Customize
With respect to the new Single Shot HDR feature he says, 'We have revamped the DxO Lighting technology. DxO lighting corrects for shadows and backlighting automatically. If you push that further you get an HDR-style effect and open up the shadows but this reveals more noise. To allow you to do this, we've improved our raw conversion - removing low frequency (blotchy) color noise and giving more control for noise/detail discrimination, delivering realistic looking HDR effect even in single images.'
One of the key bug-fixes in the latest version is that for support issues with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3. 'The compatibility issues have now been fixed and users will be able to use DxO Optics Pro as an external editor to Lightroom 3, or browse Lightroom catalogs and write back images into Lightroom like before.', he says. 'Several minor bugs have also been fixed based on our user feedback. We've also re-written some of the algorithms to improve speed resulting in around a 25% improvement in user interface responsiveness and 20-25% improvements in processing speed.'
DxO Optics v6.5 - Process
Stressing on the company's efforts to broaden the cameras and lenses support he adds, 'The number one request from customers is support for their specific camera / lens combination. For this, we are continually trying to increase our pace. The goal is to reach 600 modules per quarter and achieve 5000 modules by the end of 2011. We won’t cover 100% of the user base – there will always be esoteric and old lenses but we work on the 20:80 rule [that 20% of all lenses account for 80% of all lens use]. We’ve improved our calibration process and taken on additional staff to help us towards this target.' Version 6.5 extends Raw support to five additional cameras, including the Canon EOS 60D, Pentax K-x and Sony Alpha DSLR-A290, and comes with 150 new DxO optical modules. He also mentions that a minor update will follow to support Nikon D7000, Nikon D3100 and Sony A390 Raw files.
DxO Labs has also announced the DxO HDR plug-in for multiple RAW image processing. Explaining the technology he says, 'The tone mapping technology is based on DxO lighting technology. To give realistic, halo-less results. Combining three images brings less noise and greater tonality. It allows you to go one step further than what’s possible with noise reduction and it’s only the beginning of what’s possible. The great news is that users can edit images for white balance, tone-mapping, noise removal etc within the plug-in for minimum data loss, while leveraging from DxO Optics Pro RAW conversion and automatic optical faults corrections for optimal image quality.'
Commenting on the plug-in's compatibility with third-party image-editing programs he says, 'During launch, the plug-in will be compatible only with DxO Optics Pro v6.5. We may extend support to Photoshop CS5 and other software in future.' He further adds, 'Our original plan was to incorporate the HDR plug-in with the rest of the improvements we have made and call it version 7. But version 7 would be a payable upgrade and much of the multi-shot HDR upgrades may not have been of interest for 100% of our customers. We felt it was fairer to make it optional and provide all the other improvements for free to our existing customer base.'
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DxO Labs introduces HDR plug-in for DxO Optics Pro v6.5
DxO Labs has announced an HDR plug-in for the upcoming version 6.5 of its Optics Pro raw converter. Designed to combine exposure-bracketed RAW files to give a single high dynamic range image, it offers a number of presets and tools for fine-tuning, shadow/highlight recovery, and removal of ghost images arising from objects that move between exposures. According to the company, the plug-in can also be used to stack multiple images shot at higher ISOs to reduce noise beyond the sensor's capability. It will be available for both Windows and Mac OS from late November alongside DxO Optics Pro v6.5, at a price to be confirmed.
Press Release:
DxO HDR plug-in includes automatic alignment to merge images effortlessly and efficient ghost removal technology; leverages unsurpassed DxO Optics Pro RAW conversion and automatic optical faults corrections
October 20, 2010 – DxO Labs today announced that a DxO HDR plug-in for DxO Optics Pro 6.5 will be released in November. The new DxO HDR plug-in will enable photographers to merge several RAW shots effortlessly to either capture a greater dynamic range in the scene or to reduce noise beyond the camera's sensor capability.
High quality HDR to capture a greater dynamic range from multiple RAW shots
Even with high-end digital cameras, the sensor dynamic range limits make the capture of extremely contrasted scenes difficult for photographers who wish to keep both highlight details and opened shadows in their pictures.
With the new DxO HDR plug-in for DxO Optics Pro, photographers can overcome this limitation by merging bracketed RAW images into a single image file capable of handling a wider dynamic range than a regular RAW image. Specially designed multi-shot HDR Presets will let photographers render this new image effortlessly with a broad range of intents from the most natural looking image to extreme creative styles.
DxO Optics Pro's best of breed RAW conversion and optics correction, ensures optimal image quality.
"The DxO HDR plug-in also provides automatic image alignment, needed to compensate for camera motion when shooting hand-held, and ghost removal, needed to account for moving objects within the scene." said Cyrille de La Chesnais, Director Sales & Marketing for DxO Labs' Photography business. "Photographers can even decide which instance of the moving object they want to keep in the final image."
Noise reduction beyond sensor capability, from multiple RAW shots
In situations such as handheld telephoto or low light where low shutter speed is not an option, taking a burst of RAW images at the same exposure and merging them together with the DxO HDR plug-in proves to be an extremely powerful way to reduce noise beyond the sensor's intrinsic capability.
"DxO Optics Pro's best of breed noise removal applied on a merged photo, whose noise has already been significantly reduced by the virtue of merging photos, produces an image of outstanding quality," said La Chesnais.
Availability and pricing
DxO HDR plug-in for DxO Optics Pro 6.5 for Windows and Mac is scheduled for release late November 2010 from DxO Labs' e-store. Final pricing is not available.
Engagement photo format and style
Elena Novik (click the image to view the Add Elena from Novik) captured photosWithout engagement with the couple's engagement shoot in the workbook to photo style points always between those "moments" to consider is important so that you can overlook the many camera moment few people something fun they are when you think no one is looking for a couple of exchange between those subtle but intimate glances at his fiancé after whispering in the ear, between quiet for a while after the pose, just to always be prepared.
At the moment and he engaged, regardless of the style that day shooting you always should be a waiting for the moment. Which style to fit your personality, colorful and regardless of the personal candid photos are protected.
These days, photo style figure photojournalistic feel integrate though photojournalistic engagement session usually one where the photographer little or no participation at all. this session is specific and emotional activities or engagement pictures were taken to the desired location in the couple.In most cases, the couple in their business [NULL] goes for they typically photographers work "behind the scenes" while on the outside when the role you are looking for capturing the shot. The couple completely ignore the natural role there, and even the camera lens is associated with.
This format is the best lens for the telephoto lens shoot during this 10-30 yards privacy and intimacy in a few, far from the photographer. candid pictures of a few of each other all around as a distraction very calm, because in this engagement session to ensure easier.
Many couples are not sure what to do because they face the front of the camera lens guide engagement session when a lot of photographers includes input and direction.First, the specific location shooting, shooting through the contract couple to help guide the session start: the poses and tradition, and also before the meeting to check the previously discussed directly collaborate with the couple.
Mandy Austin (click on the Add image view Mandy Austin) captured photos Engagement photo session to familiarize themselves with the nature of absolute reservation: likes, dislikes, and style.That way, when shooting, out poses and a couple of specific personality and tastes you can find the scene: sessions because many of the images and the shot of a traditional nature.Candid shots and also some creative photojournalistic shot mix as well, there are also many photographers capture but generally, poses a more traditional and photos.
Before shooting a few [NULL] is important for a while is also much more about them, you will learn during the shooting. This guide and photojournalistic photography always though because it contains long engagement session is usually required.However, time is more traditional, pose the figure and catch between candids photojournalistic feel capture them through time you few guide photographer.Often, this type of engagement session about some other location, try to book.This shot of them for different looks, closet change and go to a special place at a few more freedom to the couple to them.
Some examples of engagement shoots photos all he asked where she married, or somewhere and they first met, they are their first kiss to a shared location where you want it in the past including couples and more time to their own. and only because of the flexibility of their wedding day, the better a few before, but their engagement pictures when it comes to select options from a bunch of provides the opportunity to will get.
Alyona Arnautova (click to view the image in the Add Alyona Arnautova) captured by "love" in the sunsetAbout the author
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HDR plug-in DxO
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Along with the release of DxO Optics Pro 6. 5, DxO Labs will introduce an HDR plug-in that will allow photographers to combine several exhibitions without effort. This enables them to produce images that accurately reflect the brightness range of a scene, even if it exceeds the dynamic range of your sensor. Specially designed multi-shot HDR presets will no longer render these photographers new images effortlessly with a wide variety of purposes from the image look more natural extremes creative styles. Another use for this plug-in is that it is possible to merge multiple raw files in a burst shot the same exposure in order to obtain a clean (low noise or noise free) image even when having to work in high ISO settings.HDR DxO plug-in for DxO Optics 6.5 Pro for Windows and Mac is scheduled for late November 2009 release from the DxO Labs e-store. final price is not available.
Press release
New DxO HDR plug-in for DxO Optics Pro 6. 5 brings the power of multi-image processing HDR images of high quality or dramatic noise reduction
DxO HDR plug-in includes automatic alignment to merge pictures effortlessly and Ghost efficient removal technology; leverages the DxO Optics Pro RAW conversion unsurpassed optical defects and automatic corrections
Day 20 October 2010 – DxO Labs announced today that an HDR plug-in DxO to DxO Optics Pro 6.5 will be released in November the new plug-in DxO HDR allows photographers merge multiple RAW shots without effort to capture a larger dynamic range or in the scene or to reduce the noise beyond camera sensor feature.
HDR to capture a greater dynamic range of several high-quality RAW shots.
Even with high-end digital cameras, the limits of the dynamic range of sensor make it difficult for photographers who want to keep the highlight detail in shadows and opened his portraits capturing scenes extremely contrastava.com new DxO HDR plug-in for DxO Optics Pro, photographers can overcome this limitation, merging bracketed raw images in a single image file can handle a wider dynamic range than a regular image RAW. specially designed multi-shot HDR presets will let photographers this new image effortlessly with a wide variety of purposes from the image look more natural extremes creative styles.
Best DxO Optics Pro raw conversion race and optical correction ensures optimal image quality.
"The HDR plug-in DxO also offers automatic image alignment, necessary to compensate for the movement of the camera when shooting hand-held and Ghost removal, needed to move objects within the scene." said Cyrille de La Chesnais, Director of sales & marketing for the DxO Labs photography business. "The photographers can still decide which instance of the object in motion want to keep in the final image. "
Noise reduction beyond sensor feature, multiple RAW shots
In situations such as handheld telephoto or low light where the low shutter speed is not an option, having an explosion of raw images in the same exposure and its merger with the HDR plug-in DxO is an extremely powerful way to reduce noise, beyond the inherent capacity of the sensor.
"DxO Optics Pro Best of breed noise removal applied about a photo merged, whose noise has been significantly reduced by virtue of Merge photos, produces an image of exceptional quality," La Chesnais, said.
Availability and pricing
HDR DxO plug-in for DxO Optics 6.5 Pro for Windows and Mac is scheduled for late November 2009 release from the DxO Labs e-store. final price is not available.
System requirements
2 GB of RAM (minimum)
400 MB of available disk space
To process raw images larger than 20 MPixels, a 64-bit operating system with 4 GB of RAM is highly recommended
Windows: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD equivalent (Pentium Dual Core or higher or equivalent recommended)
Microsoft Windows XP 32-bit or 64-bit, Windows Vista 32 or 64 bit, Windows 7 32 bit or 64-bit
Macintosh: Intel-Mac Mac OS x. 5 or 6 X.
About DxO Optics Pro
DxO Optics Pro is a software for automatic image enhancement Award for the enthusiastic amateur photographers and professionals, shooting in JPEG or RAW. worldwide for their unique automated optical corrections (distortion, vignetting, chromatic aberrations, lens softness) and its top-of--raw conversion, which covers the whole range of image quality problems, including the removal of noise exposure optimization, distortion correction, control and dust removing color. its interface, fully customizable and easy to use makes it an unparalleled productivity tool, able to process hundreds of images in just a few mouse clicks.
For more information, visit DxO Labs at http://www.dxo.com.
About DxO Labs
DxO Labs offers products and solutions that deliver excellence in digital imaging to complement its products DxO Optics Pro and DxO FilmPack for Mac and Windows, intended for serious and demanding photographers, the company also licenses patented intellectual property serving the entire digital imaging chain:
Software architectures and Silicon ? embedded video and real-time image processing, yet for consumer electronics OEM/ODM (such as digital camera and camera phone vendors);
? Image assessment and measurement, quality tools for component suppliers (camera module manufacturers, sensor vendors, and processor vendors) imaging, as well as photography journalists and imaging experts.
For more information, visit DxO Labs at http://www.dxo.com
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