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Friday, December 5, 2003

Shutter closing on Yashica brand? (UPDATED)
14:57 EST - A historic name in the camera world may soon be departing, we hear today.

Our good friends at Steve's Digicams have reported that the Yashica brandname - that of a Japanese camera manufacturer which first appeared in late 1954 - will soon be appearing on its last camera. Yashica... (More)



Thursday, December 4, 2003

PhotoJam's logo. Courtesy of Shockwave.com / Simple Star, with modifications by Michael R. Tomkins. PRESS RELEASE: Shockwave.com and Simple Star Partner to Release PhotoJam 4
13:57 EST - New Version of Popular Digital Photography Software Now Available San Francisco, CA (December 3, 2003) -- Shockwave.com, the Web's leading destination for interactive entertainment, and Simple Star, the leading developer of personal media software, announced today that they have partnered together and developed PhotoJam 4, the next generation of Shockwave.com's popular photo entertainment software.... (More)



The Plugin Site's PhotoFreebies logo. Courtesy of The Plugin Site, with modifications by Michael R. Tomkins. PRESS RELEASE: PhotoFreebies 1.0 - Free Photoshop-compatible Plugins For Editing Photos
13:40 EST - December 4, 2003 - The Plugin Site (www.ThePluginSite.com) is pleased to announce Version 1.0 of PhotoFreebies, the third product in its popular PhotoWiz product series. PhotoFreebies is a collection of 10 Photoshop-compatible plugins for performing useful photo manipulations and effects. They can be used with dozens of different image editing applications e.g. Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Photo-Paint,... (More)



PC Magazine's Technical Excellence Award logo. Courtesy of Foveon, with modifications by Michael R. Tomkins. PRESS RELEASE: Foveon X3 image sensor wins PC Magazine Technical Excellence Award
13:33 EST - Foveon technology receives prestigious award for digital input devices Santa Clara, CA (December 3, 2003) - Foveon Inc., a technology leader in high-quality digital photography, announces that the Foveon X3 5M CMOS Direct Image Sensor has won PC Magazine's Technical Excellence Award in the Digital Input Devices category. The PC Magazine announcement was made during the magazine's 20th Annual Awards... (More)



Concord's Eye-Q Go Wireless digital camera. Courtesy of Concord Camera Corp., with modifications by Michael R. Tomkins. PRESS RELEASE: Concord Camera Corp. ships Concord Eye-Q Go Wireless -- Bluetooth™ digital camera
13:23 EST - Transmits Images to Compatible Bluetooth Device or USB Computer in as Little as 5 Seconds No Cables -- No Fuss Hollywood, Florida, December 3, 2003 -- Concord Camera Corp. [NASDAQ: LENS] announced today shipment of the Concord Eye-Q Go Wireless, the first 2 Megapixel Bluetooth enabled digital camera. Designed with convenience in mind, the Concord Eye-Q Go Wireless transmits images to Bluetooth compatible... (More)



Microsoft's logo. Click here to visit the Microsoft website! Microsoft's FAT fees add a little more to digicam costs
11:51 EST - An article on premier Geek site Slashdot notes that Redmond, WA-based Microsoft Corp. is to suddenly begin enforcing patents related to the FAT file system.

According to the article, Microsoft is apparently expecting to receive 25 cents per unit up to US$250,000 per manufacturer of solid state media or numerous consumer electronics devices (including digital... (More)



funtigo.gif PRESS RELEASE: Photo Site Funtigo Decorates for the Holidays
11:13 EST - New generation photo site provides complete Web pages, not just photos SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., December 4, 2003 - Funtigo LLC announced today that its photo sharing website, www.funtigo.com, has added 362 high-quality pieces of clipart from collections of Ultimate Symbol and WebstarWest. An additional collection of 250 GIF animations is soon to follow, according to the company. Although clipart is... (More)



Wednesday, December 3, 2003

stitcher.jpg PRESS RELEASE: RealViz Introduces Stitcher 4.0 With Pre-Launch Offer
12:38 EST - Free up-grade to version 4.0 and a saving of Euros/USD 50.00 on all purchases of Stitcher 3.5 made by Dec 31. Sophia Antipolis, France (December 2, 2003) -- RealViz, a leader in image processing software development, has announced that the latest version of their flagship product, Stitcher® 4.0 is now scheduled for worldwide release in January 2004. Internationally recognized as the "industry-standard... (More)



PRESS RELEASE: Toshiba, SanDisk to Expand NAND Flash Memory Production
12:19 EST - Companies Constructing 300mm Wafer Fabrication Facility at Yokkaichi Operations TOKYO and SUNNYVALE, Calif, Dec. 2, 2003 --Toshiba Corporation and SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) today announced that they intend to cooperate in the construction of a new 300-millimeter (mm) wafer fabrication facility at Toshiba's Yokkaichi operations in order to meet growing demand for NAND flash memory. The move... (More)



Asiva.gif PRESS RELEASE: Asiva to Release Selection Plug-In
12:15 EST - Shapiro Consulting Group, Inc., (SCGI), Austin, Texas, has developed a true 16-bit selection plug-in for Adobe Photoshop based on the patented Asiva technology. The plug-in, called Asiva Selection, is currently under final testing and its release is expected in mid-December. The Asiva Selection plug-in allows users to make selections or masks with its patented curve technology. Users are able to make... (More)



PRESS RELEASE: BlueBox Offers Holiday Discounts on Basic, Image Info Toolkit
12:04 EST - BlueBox Christmas special offers unique opportunity for useful christmas presents: BlueBox Basic 1.2 -- the powerful image database software for Mac and Windows, which archives even large collections of digital images without a lack in performance and makes a searchable archive from your already embeded IPTC information with a single mouse click. Christmas special price: 59,00 EURO Image Info Toolkit... (More)



PRESS RELEASE: Scalado, Open Bit to Jointly Develop Mobile Imaging Technology
11:56 EST - The alliance will collaborate to develop and market top-of-the-line camera phone applications combining Open Bit features and Scalado imaging technology Scalado AB (www.scalado.com), a Swedish software technology company, and Open Bit Oy Ltd., a Finnish software application company, both specializing in digital imaging for the mobile industry, enters a strategic alliance, to increase their combined... (More)



CANTO.GIF PRESS RELEASE: Canto Releases Cumulus 6
11:49 EST - New version delivers ease-of-use as a central feature by simplifying creation, management and deployment of Digital Assets December 3, 2003, San Francisco, Berlin. Canto, a global leader in Digital Asset Management (DAM) solutions, today announced the immediate availability of Cumulus 6 (Single User, Workgroup and Enterprise), with ease-of-use being the central feature of its upgraded product line.... (More)



Courtesy of Nikon. PRESS RELEASE: Nikon announces development of D70 Digital SLR camera
01:59 EST - New Nikon D70 Poised to Expand Digital SLR Camera Market by Delivering Excellent Performance and Superb Image Quality at an Attractive Price MELVILLE, NY, DECEMBER 03, 2003 - Nikon (www.nikonusa.com), the world leader in photography, today announced development of the D70, a new interchangeable-lens digital SLR camera designed to deliver superb image quality and hallmark Nikon SLR performance at... (More)



Tuesday, December 2, 2003

leica2.jpg PRESS RELEASE: Leica Digilux 2: The 'Analog' Digital Camera
22:32 EST - The new Leica Digilux 2 camera combines the best of two worlds. In the new Leica Digilux 2, modern digital technology and the proven concepts of traditional analog photography are joined in a harmonious combination: Decisive photographic parameters such as sharpness, aperture, focal length and shutter speeds can be controlled like those on a classic single-lens-reflex camera by means of setting rings... (More)



PRESS RELEASE: PhotoDub Album Creates Talking Picture Albums, Presentations
20:28 EST - DTWSoftware, a division of DTW Associates, Inc., has released PhotoDub Album(tm) (PDA), a Windows application for digital picture management and presentation that allows you to organize your digital pictures into a talking picture album for presentation and sharing. With PDA, you can group your pictures into categories of your choice for easy retrieval and management, edit your pictures with commonly... (More)



bullZeyelogo.jpg PRESS RELEASE: Pictographics, Fong Release BullZeye Color Corrector
20:25 EST - BullZeye High-Speed Color Corrector introduced by world-renowned photographer Gary Fong based on Pictographics' CandelaColor EditLab Technology December 2, 2003, Burnsville, MN, USA, Pictographics International Corporation has partnered with world-renowned photographer Gary Fong to create BullZeye High-Speed Color Corrector. BullZeye is a stand-alone color correction program that inspects, selects,... (More)



gigapixel.jpg The Gigapixel Image
20:15 EST - Dave woke us up from our afternoon nap with his trademark, "Check it out!" He'd just read about Max Lyons gigapixel landscape image made from 196 individual photos taken with a Canon D60 6-Mp digicam. The images were subsequently stitched together into a single file.

"Just saw this on Slashdot -- a gigapixel image!" he shook us. "Mike! Mike! Can you get this up on the news page?" Fortunately, we weren't installing Panther, Apple's latest version of OS X, on our cluster... (More)



Courtesy of Rollei. Rollei brings Premier's long-zoom digicam to market (UPDATED)
11:12 EST - Regular readers of this site will remember we reported on the first long-zoom digital cameras appearing on booths of Taiwanese digicam manufacturers last Spring at the PMA show.

One such camera was Premier Image Technology's DC2A30, a model very much in early development at that time (a woodblock model was shown on Premier's booth as well as that of partner Vivitar). It seemed... (More)



Monday, December 1, 2003

PRESS RELEASE: FotoWare launches new FotoStation PRO with smarter archiving and workflow for digital photographers
11:18 EST - FotoStation PRO solves overflow from digital camera files for stand-alone photographers and workgroups alike. The Norwegian based software company FotoWare a.s, presents a completely rewritten and enhanced version of its renowned and widely used software for acquiring, processing, archiving and distribution of media files. Now FotoStation PRO offers unparalleled flexibility and capability whether utilized... (More)

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