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Manfrotto 468MGRC0 Hydrostatic Ball Head

Despite the claims of some photography pundits, you certainly do need a stable shooting platform for your camera in many situations. OIS, IS and VR can't help you when shutter speeds drop to seconds.

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Canon PowerShot G9 Digital Camera

As good camera designs get better and the market leaders — Canon and Nikon mainly — vie for top spot, consumers, hobbyists, amateurs and professional photographers benefit from the competition. Is there a G9 in your future?

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Canon PowerShot A650 IS Digital Compact Camera

Canon keeps coming up with terrific little cameras which exceed our expectations. Looking for a digital compact camera packed with value, usability and image quality? Consider looking at Canon first.

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TrueGrain v1.1

There is an increasingly steady turn away from film and film effects of all types in favor of a completely digital look and feel. Emulation of classic film grain, a hallmark of so much great film over the years, has some interesting uses.

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The Adobe Photoshop Layers Book

With apologies to veteran Photoshop users who spend lots of time in the Channels palette, the Photoshop Layers features and functions are the most powerful photo editing controls available today. A serious Photoshop layers book is always welcome.

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Nikon Coolpix P50 Digital Camera

Point & Shoot cameras come and go with the seasons. The problem is, some consumers have limited budgets. What's needed is a sturdy little camera that has some staying power in the form of rich, accurate color, a sharp lens, and lots of features.

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Photography & Video Shoulder Bags, Sling Packs, Backpacks, Waist Belt Systems and Rolling Bags - 2008 Product Roundup

We rounded up samples, talked to users, shopped and reviewed models from 30 makers. There are a lot of good designs to choose from. Find the bag that fits your needs.

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Plustek OpticFilm 7300 Film Scanner

It doesn't matter how dedicated you've become to digital photography. There's still a great storehouse of photos on slides and negatives sitting in a closet, calling out to you. Those old photos aren't suddenly unworthy simply because they're not digital.

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom v1.3

Professional photographers and serious amateurs need robust, easy to use software which eases workflow while at the same time providing powerful and intuitively easy to use editing tools, content management and high quality output. Adobe has answered the call.

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Nikon D300 Digital SLR Camera

Great companies stay at or near the top of the mountain by relentlessly and creatively pursuing the improvement of their core products. Focus, focus, focus. Nikon exemplifies this by periodically designing and manufacturing some of the best cameras in the world.

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Manfrotto 190XPROB Tripod

It's great to have the latest SLR camera and lens, but Pro or not, you'd also better have a reliable, versatile tripod

RAW Workflow from Capture to Archives

Digital photographers grappling with huge volumes of RAW files have to get into the habit of using an efficient workflow

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Apple's iPad and a missed opportunity...

Apple announced their newest iPod - OK its a little more than an iPod but not much. The iPad represents Apple's third tier in their iPod line and in many peoples eyes has failed to meet the expectations of many in the Mac world. People were hoping that Apple would release a tablet/slate type computer with some level of support for pen based computing and also one which supported a tablet enhanced Mac-OS.

My colleague Howard Carson over at Kickstartnews summed up many peoples response and assessment of this poor showing by Apple. I use Macs and iPods on a daily basis and what I have been hopinf for is that they would lead the pack. Instead of which we have a big expensive and barely portable iPod Touch. This combined with less than complete support for web standards like Flash and other technologies and you have a recipe for disappointment. Add to this the burden of DRM and other problematic content restrictions like regional licensing and you really have to wonder "what the hell are they thinking?"

Will I buy one ... not likely ... back to the drawing board, Apple.

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