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SanDisk Boosts Capacities in High-Performance SanDisk Ultra II Line with 4GB SDHC Plus and 8GB Memory Stick Pro Duo Cards

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Sep 18th, 2007

Photography Review Online reports: 
“BERLIN, GERMANY, August 31, 2007 – SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) today introduced two new capacities in its high-performance SanDisk Ultra II line: a 4-gigabyte (GB) SDHC Plus card and an 8GB Memory Stick PRO Duo card. The announcement was made at IFA, the world’s largest consumer electronics show, where SanDisk is exhibiting at Booth [...]



Party Photos: ‘Visions of Rock’

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Sep 18th, 2007

Jeffrey Elbies for Pop Photo reports:
“The hottest event of fashion week in New York wasn’t under the tents at Bryant Park. It was at the 401 Projects Gallery in Greenwich Village, where American Photo’s “Visions of Rock” exhibition opened to an overflow crowd that included some authentic rock-and-roll royalty.
A collaboration between American Photo [...]



Gigs: Caesar Lima wins for the second time in a row the Gold Award for the 2007 Create Awards!

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Sep 17th, 2007

- Artist:
Caesar Lima
- Name of the Assignment/Project:
Projection - Gold Create Award 2007
- When the project went live in print/web:
September 2007

- Art director:

Chris Macabitas

- Brief scope of the project:
shot for Marzocchi – Italy

Caesar Lima wins for the second time in a row the Gold Award for the 2007 Create Awards!



The Plustek OpticFilm 7200i 35mm Film Scanner; An Affordable, High-Resolution Scanner

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Sep 17th, 2007

David B. Brooks of Shutterbug reports:
“Some believe film is dead, but I get as many e-mails from photographers as ever asking about film scanning. The reason is that digital cameras have brought more photographers into using a computer for photography so now they want to access [...]



Assignment: Earth Portfolio

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Sep 13th, 2007

By American Photo Staff for PopPhoto.com:
“We the people, the dominant species on planet Earth, are losing the memory of what makes nature natural. Pastures become parking lots. Blue skies choke on molecules they were never meant to hold. Hearts that have beaten in the chests of species for eons go silent. And as the natural [...]



Illustration by Carla Sonheim

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Sep 13th, 2007

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tags: Carla, Sonheim, Illustrations, Colorado Illustrators



Image Trends Announces AutoMatting Software

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Sep 13th, 2007

By Amy Baldridge of PopPhoto.com:
“Software maker Image Trends has announced a new AutoMatting program that automatically creates custom digital mats for photographs, and sizes them to a selected aspect ratio. This creates a consistent look for vertical and horizontal photographs shown together on any kind of display device and eliminates black bars. AutoMatting can process [...]



Long Island Photography Seminar

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Sep 13th, 2007

Received from PR.com:
“Oyster Bay, NY, September 13, 2007 –(PR.com)– Berger Bros hosts Nature Photography Seminar located in Oyster Bay, NY. Seminar to be held on Sunday September 16th between 9:30am – 12:30pm. The digital photo safari will take place at the Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary and Audubon Society.
Berger Bros will show photographers how to take [...]



‘’S’’ is for Speed – Canon Introduces New imagePROGRAF S-series Large Format Printers for Production Environments

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Sep 12th, 2007

From TMCnet.com: 
“CHICAGO –(Business Wire)– Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leading provider of office imaging systems, inkjet technology and digital photography equipment, today announced the new imagePROGRAF S-series large format printers, providing exceptionally rapid print speeds for high-volume production environments. The S-series of imagePROGRAF printers will launch with two models, the imagePROGRAF iPF9000S and iPF8000S printing at [...]



Photog Groups: Getty’s $49 Prices Will Hurt Entire Industry

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Sep 12th, 2007

PDN’s Daryl Lang reports:
“Lines are being drawn in the online pricing battle of 2007.
On one side: Getty Images, which just introduced a pricing plan that makes almost any Getty photograph available for almost any online use for the flat price of $49, drastically less than Getty’s competitors.
On the other side: Trade associations representing photographers, who [...]