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Lightroom 3 Public Beta Available

Andrew Kamin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:11:48 +0000

Lightroom Product Manager, Tom Hogarty has announced the availabilty of Lightroom 3 Beta over at Lightroom Journal. In a similar fashion to Lightroom 1 and 2, Adobe are providing a public preview of the application. In this case it’s much more like the original Beta preview, in that it’s less polished. Hence Adobe warn that it is not to be used as a production tool, but for testing and commenting only.

New features include: Improved Import, Watermarking, better Noise Reduction, Slideshow Video Export, Grain amongst others. Below are listed resources to learn more.

Terry White’s Tech Blog
http://terrywhite.com/techblog/archives/3747

Matt Kloskowski & the NAPP Lightroom 3 learning center
http://www.photoshopuser.com/lightroom3

Julieanne Kost on AdobeTV
http://tv.adobe.com/show/what-s-new-in-lightroom-3-beta/

Firmware To Add More Flex

Andrew Kamin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:13:31 +0000

Canon has announced the development of a firmware update for its EOS 5D Mark II digital SLR. The updated version will enable full frame high definition (1080p) video recording at 24 and 25 frames per second.The new firmware is expected to be made available for download in the first half of 2010.

Art Buy On The Go-Go

Andrew Kamin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:46:25 +0000

The American Society of Media Photographers has released a mobile version of the organizations online photographer database. The free iPhone application makes it possible to locate and review the work of any ASMP member photographer. Searching for “photographer” on the iPhone app store, “Find A Photographer” is currently the top result. Alternatively it can be found on iTunes.

Canon 5D Mark II Firmware 1.1.0

Andrew Kamin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:05 +0000

Canon released today firmware version 1.1.o for the 5D Mark II enabling (finally) manual exposure controls while shooting video. You have waited long enough, get this update now.

2010 Camera Odyssey

Andrew Kamin — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:10:06 +0000

The only I-Phone app to date that has impressed me is called White Noise. It generates just that and is helpful in settling down my eight week old son.

A new app has just been released from OnOne Software though that makes White Noise look like child’s play. DLSR Camera Remote is the new age cable release allowing Canon EOS users (Nikon users out of luck for now) to remotely fire a camera from an I-Phone or I-pod touch. Additionally the cameras shutter speed, aperture, white balance settings and file size can be adjusted remotely.

Pushing this app over the top is image review and live view. The former lets you see the image you just photographed to confirm that you’ve got the shot. The later produces a virtual viewfinder on the I-Phone or I-Pod Touch; producing a preview (in near real-time) of what the camera sees. That is just sick.

More information is available at OnOne Software. Cali Lewis also provides a cool introduction to the app on Geek Brief TV . DSLR Camera Remote is now available on I-Tunes for the introductory price of $9.99.

Fallon Introduces Social Media Aggregator.

Andrew Kamin — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:23:02 +0000

Fallon of Minneapolis sees fit to develop an Adobe Air desktop application called Skimmer. The cleanly designed app aggregates content from Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, YouTube and Blogger. This feed content can be displayed in any number of ways to include Feed View, Inline Media View, Slideshow View, etc. Additionally, the content can be filtered by service, group or keyword. The application seems particulary well suited to handle rich multimedia content which is plentiful now a days. Now, why is an agency building Adobe Air apps? Your guess is as good as mine.

Adobe Releases Lightroom 2.3 + Camera RAW 5.3

Andrew Kamin — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:30:36 +0000

Adobe has released Photoshop Lightroom 2.3 and Camera Raw 5.3. These are final versions of updates which were originally posted as release candidates on the Adobe Labs site, and are now available for immediate download. Both provide additional Raw support for Nikon D3X and Olympus E-30 DSLR’s. Lightroom is also now available in 8 new languages. Several corrections for issues introduced by the Lightroom 2.0 release all also incorporated.

Canon 5D Mark II “Fix It” Firmware Released

Andrew Kamin — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:22:51 +0000

Canon USA has released firmware version 1.0.7 for the 5D Mark II. The new firmware is reported to correct the “Black Dot” phenomenon and the vertical banding noise issues. Thank you Canon for attending to these issues promptly although I can’t say that I have personally been in shooting situations where it had any impact. Get your new firmware here.

Adobe Lightroom 2.2

Andrew Kamin — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:50:18 +0000

Version 2.2 of Adobe Lightroom will be release this coming Tuesday, December 16th. The anticipation in greatest with those lucky souls “gunnin” with the new Canon EOS 5D Mark II. Other cameras supported will include the Canon Powershot G10 and Panasonic’s DMC-LX3 among others. Abode also acknowledges a few fixes of quirks introduced since version 2.0 but I’ve yet to find a list of what those are.

Zero Shopping Days Til Christmas. Adobe CS4 Ships.

Andrew Kamin — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:30:34 +0000

The Adobe CS4 Suite of applications to include the “Photoshop Family” of products is now shipping. Adobe will be releasing the Camera Raw 5.1 update early next week that will complete your upgrade. Read my post of October 9th for a detailed inventory of new Photoshop CS4 features.

Ohh, don’t forget to get the newest Flash Player 10 while over at Adobe.com. The new player will (by the end of the month) enable cool tool panel customization options never before possible via the Configurator.