Digital Camera News, Reviews and Tips
While posing for a photo shoot in her wedding dress near a river in Montreal, a woman slipped and fell into water about 1-foot deep. The “wedding dress got soaked and became extremely heavy. She started slipping and falling down when the photographer grabbed her but she was too heavy that he couldn’t pull her from the edge,” according to Quebec provincial police Sgt. Ronald McInnis. [Read more…]
Here’s a great video from Joe McNally and Adorama TV. Joe’s working a Nikon D800 with the built-in flash as the commander flash, a Lastolite Ezybox softbox with grid and a red-gelled speedlight for a background light.
If you haven’t checked out Joe’s book, The Hot Shoe Diaries, there’s lots more of great speedlight info like this in there.
[via FStoppers]
Canon Rumors is reporting that it is a lock that Canon will unveil new imagePROGRAF large format printers just prior to Photokina 2012 on September 12. Moreover, the new printers should feature tech borrowed from Canon’s recent PIXMA Pro-1 printer.
Nikon D600 Mockup via Outdoormac
The Nikon D600 is a highly anticipated FX format DSLR and, according to Nikon Rumors, it is coming soon – possibly on or around September 13, 2012. Shortly after the Nikon D800 was announced earlier this year, buzz of a more affordable (rumors are in the $1500-$2000 range) full frame camera started to grow. And, it looks like the official launch is almost upon us. [Read more…]
Hipstamatic’s IncrediBooth is the Free App of the Week on the iTunes App Store. Normally priced at $0.99 Incredibooth is a photo booth for your iPhone that lets you create photo strips from your front-facing camera. You can then share your photo strips on Facebook, Twitter and email or save them to your photo library.
There are four styles included with the app and several more available for purchase from within the app. You can get IncrediBooth here on the iTunes App Store.
Adobe Prelude CS6, which is software for ingesting and logging of file-based footage workflows, is now available as a standalone product. Prelude CS6 was introduced in April 2012 as a part of the CS6 Master Collection, CS6 Production Premium and Creative Cloud.
Prelude CS6 is now available as a standalone product exclusively from Adobe.com for $399 for a perpetual license. As noted, Creative Cloud users get this with their membership.
This is about as good as it gets in terms of leaked images. These are up close press images for the upcoming Sony NEX-5R, which is expect to officially launch next week as a replacement for the excellent Sony NEX-5N. [Read more…]
Datacolor, maker of the Spyder calibration devices, is putting on several webinars over the next few months on color management. These webinars are begin September 12, 2012 and are free for anyone to join.
Topics and specific dates of upcoming webinars are as follows:
Datacolor will also be giving away a free Spyder color management product that coincides with the particular webinar topic. You can register for these free webinars here on Datacolor’s website.
Adobe has updated its cloud photo album app, Revel, to version 1.5. The new version adds the following features:
Adobe Revel operates on a subscription basis – either $5.99/month or $59.99/year. With Revel, you can sync an unlimited number of images across your devices. It is available via the Mac App Store (for Macs) and the iTunes App Store (for iPhone and iPad).
In response to popular demand, Custom SLR is bringing the black C-Loop Camera Strap Mount Solution back through a partnership with PhotoWhoa.com, the daily deal site where the C-Loop will be available in this returning color way exclusively for a discounted price of $35 until September 6, 2012. [Update: Here’s a link to the deal page at PhotoWhoa.com.]
After its initial run with PhotoWhoa, the black C-Loop will be sold through the Custom SLR website for $39.95 (same as the current silver C-Loop). If you’ve never seen the C-Loop before, check out the demo video below.
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