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Entries from August 2007

Convergence Friday

August 31st, 2007 · No Comments · Photography, Technology, Video

DP Review reports today on a new Casio Exilim 12x zoom, 6 megapixel digital all-in-one camera which will shoot bursts at 60 frames-per-second(!) and shoot video at 300 fps (!!!), allowing for high res (HD) slow-motion video, previously the provenance of high-end, professional, video cameras.
I can already see loads of fun shooting for stills at […]

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Photoshop Layer Styles in After Effects CS3, at Creative Cow

August 30th, 2007 · No Comments · Adobe Training, Video

Creative Cow has posted a terrific podcast on bringing Photoshop Layer Styles into Adobe After Effects CS3. Link to the podcast, hosted by Aharon Rabinowitz, here.
Posted by Steve Weinrebe

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Capture One 4 beta, with multiple RAW “Variants”.

August 30th, 2007 · No Comments · Photography

The beta invite from Phase One for their RAW processing software, Capture One 4, includes some intriguing details for photographers using this software to process images from Phase One, or other compatible cameras (e.g. Nikon, Canon).
Besides touting “easy recovery” of blown out details, and a 12-up high res preview in the new Viewer, the most […]

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Summer Garden Party

August 30th, 2007 · No Comments · Photography

The season is ticking down to the Photo Review’s Summer Garden Party on September 8th, in bucolic Downingtown PA; this year’s theme, Into the Woods. If you live or go to school in the Mid-Atlantic region, this event is not to be missed. Always popular with photographers, photography collectors, and photography students (some “starving artist” […]

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Irreverent photo tool of the week.

August 27th, 2007 · No Comments · Irreverent Photo Tool of the Week, Photography, Video

What is this, a high tech Blob? No, it’s another of my essential items of photography gear, a piece of hard black rubber. Ages ago a photographer in a neighboring studio (back when my studio was in an industrial building of cavernous studio spaces filled with photographers, graphic designers, artists and so forth) brought me […]

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