Category Archives: News
Lightroom 2: what’s missing?
Someone always comes up with what they wanted to see – we want it all! But one thing I think I would have liked to see this time would be more advanced cropping, including some lens correction options. Specifically, being able to correct barrel/pincushion and trapezoid distortion would be most welcome. I was collecting together [...]
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Lightroom 2 beta
A very nice update to Lightroom just landed. I’m already a fan of LR for various reasons – speed, non-destructiveness being the main standouts.
The beta adds a few things I was just thinking the other day would be nice to be able to do without having to open Bridge (not exactly my favourite Adobe product!) [...]
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H.M.P. London
Tangentially related (well not that tangentially) to my last post is this great outdoor work by Dr D:
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Yet more insanity/manipulation/demonisation/*
They’re at it again. The authorities want to make photography a criminal activity, at least as far as I can tell. And they want you to get involved.
This has been reported everywhere, and the web is teeming with responses to it.
One of the most apt responses was this:
Or maybe I just found it interesting because [...]
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Sigma DP1 samples on DPReview
Digital Photography Review has some samples from a beta of Sigma’s upcoming and LONG-awaited large-sensor compact DP1.
From what I can tell having a very quick look at these is that the detail as you’d expect with a Foveon sensor, and the dynamic range looks pretty too. Colour aberrations look pretty controlled in that lens too, [...]
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Mind That Child!
Not a new phenomenon but certainly more and more in the collective consciousness, taking pictures (gasp!) of children (gasp!) even when they’re your children is deemed “inappropriate”.
[photo: from MEN, but I assume by Steve Brook]
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Canon 400D looks maybe interesting…
Engadget: Canon China spills beans on new DSLR. It looks sort of interesting, with its full-frame 10.1 megapixels and ultra-sonic dust removal. Nothing amazing, though, really. (And am I the only one not following these Canon EOS DSLR naming conventions?)
What looks more interesting, though, is the new EF 50mm f/1.2L USM lens also announced, along [...]
Nikon being idiotic, Adobe being hilarious
PhotoshopNews.com has a story about Nikon’s frankly stupid idea to encrypt (yes, encrypt) the white balance data in their NEF file format. No comment, really. What I find really funny is that Adobe is worried about breaking the DMCA to reverse-engineer the format. Send ‘em all to gaol (that’s “jail”, for the non-English readers) for [...]
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Watch out! He’s got a zoom!