Design Art and Photography

Evening walk with the white wine in a super-sized McDonald’s beverage cup. Sun is setting. Colors get faint. The cup gets emptier. The mission was founded in 1786, to evangelize the local tribe of Native American Chumash people. Nowadays: place of worship, gift shop and the museum.
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Sony has informed consumers that some of its Cyber-shot DSC-T20 point-and-shoots are affected by a mechanical problem that causes the camera to vibrate and fail to function when turned on. The affected cameras have pink and silver finishes. Sony will provide free repairs to T20s suffering from the defect until July 9, 2011. Contact Sony customer service for assistance at 800-222-7669 if your T20 is affected.

Stop procrastinating! You know you should turn those sleeves, slide mounts, and shoeboxes full of negatives, transparencies, and prints into digital image files. And if you want complete control, it’s a buy-a-scanner/DIY project. But how much do you have to spend to get high quality? And should you go with a dedicated 35mm film scanner, such as the $550 (street) Nikon Coolscan V ED or a flatbed with transparent media adapters, such as Epson’s $720 (street) Perfection V750-M Pro?
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Kodak has announced the creation of a new medium format 50MP chip, to be used in the newly-unveiled Hasselblad H3DII-50. The KAF-50100 Image Sensor offers a sensitivity range of ISO 50 - 400 and the highest resolution currently available in the 36 x 48mm format. The company spoke to us to explain the chip and the technologies behind it. Editorial: "We were being told two things by our customers," said Kodak: "The first was the need for more resolution, to give increased levels of detail.
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Baby Emi Jewelry’s “Jingle Bells Anklet,” handcrafted in .925 sterling silver; suggested retail price is $40. (877) 7-BABYEMI or www.babyemijewelry.com By Vanessa Geneva Ahern New York—Bejeweled babies are everywhere these days—including the covers of much-read tabloids—and many designers and manufacturers have seen a steady increase in sales of baubles for babies.
(Full post Jewelry for ‘mini-moms’ a profitable little niche…)

Riga, Latvia. Taken by Biljana Klisarova
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Nikon has today announced its new top-of-the-range flashgun - the Speedlight SB-900. The new model features a Multi-step auto zoom covering a 17-200mm zoom range, three illumination patterns (standard, center-weighted and even) and automatically detects if you are using the Nikon FX or DX format. The SB-900 will be available from the 25th of July. Press Release: Lighting the Way.
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Announced two days ago, the Ricoh GX200 is a compact digital camera aimed at all those photographers who want a similar feature-set to their DSLR cameras. The GX200 certainly fits that billing, on paper at least - 24-72mm, 3x optical zoom lens, RAW mode via the Adobe DNG format, 12 megapixel sensor, 2.7-inch screen with 460K pixels, removable electronic viewfinder, optical image stabilisation, all in a well-built body that’s just 25mm thick.
(Full post Ricoh GX200 Review…)

When Nikon’s Capture NX software came out in the summer of 2006, it was a boon to Nikon shooters who wanted to make selective edits to their pictures without the time and trouble of making Photoshop-esque masks and selections. The new version takes selective editing to a new level - allowing you to use NX’s control points to do more than ever before. Now, it’s possible to use the control points to choose which areas you sharpen, reduce noise, add blur, and do just about anything else the program offers.
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