Digital Camera News, Reviews and Tips
If you’ve not been keeping up with The Story Beyond The Still contest, the final short chapter launched at Sundance earlier this week. You can see the entire short film above with a total run time that’s a couple ticks under 38 minutes.
Lots more on Vincent Laforet’s site. Also, there’s a great recap of the work on the final chapter from Ryan Booth, one of the chapter directors, here on his blog.
Canon’s official press release is below. [Read more…]
Phase One has announced a new line of medium format digital backs, which is headlined by the 80MP Phase One IQ180. Additionally, the IQ160 and IQ140 digital backs offer 60.5MP and 40MP, respectively.
Prices start at around $22,000 and go up.
More details in the press release below. [Read more…]
The Canon PowerShot G12 is a 10MP point and shoot camera built as a compact camera for the enthusiast photographer. While it’s only a mild upgrade to the Canon PowerShot G11, it does a solid job of improving on an already great design. [Read more…]
The Canon PowerShot A2200 is a new 14.1MP, budget-oriented point and shoot camera with a retail price around $140. The A2200 offers a 4x optical zoom that gives you a 28-112mm equivalent zoom range. The A2200 can also capture 720p HD video and it sports a 2.7-inch LCD.
I had a chance to spend a few minutes with the new compact camera at CES 2011. My initial impressions are below. [Read more…]
DualEyes is a standalone program from the maker of PluralEyes and will sync your audio files for without the need to use another editing program. You may be familiar with PluralEyes, which is an audio-syncing plug-in for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, Media Composer and Vegas Pro.
Singular Software has announced that DualEyes is now available for Mac. The standard price is $149 for the software, while the Mac version is available at a special introductory price of $119. There’s also a free 30-day trial available. Get more details from the Singular Software website.
The winner of the Think Tank Photo Urban Disguise 30 camera bag giveaway is Carol Tuck.
It must have been meant to be because, after notifying her, I learned that today is also Carol’s birthday!
Congratulations and happy birthday Carol. Look for your new Think Tank Photo camera bag to arrive later this week.
A big thanks to everyone who participated and to Think Tank Photo for making this awesome prize available to Photography Bay’s readers.
For everyone who didn’t win this time, I’m putting together an even bigger prize pack soon. So, stay tuned . . .
It’s time for our weekly break from the gear for a few minutes so we can enjoy another round of reader photos from the Photography Bay Flickr Group.
Check out the rest of the photos below. [Read more…]
Viva La Vintage and Pow Wow! are two new Action Paks from Kubota Image Tools. They contain 24 Photoshop Actions each, with Viva La Vintage focusing on classic looks of past decades, while Pow Wow!’s Actions include “popping-fresh enhancements including Black & White, Color, and Creative Effects: BW Museum, Pearly Shells, and FunkTaFi.”
These new Kubota Action Paks run $109 each or can be purchased as a bundle for $179 direct from Kubota Image Tools’ website.
Canon’s video contest, “The Story Beyond the Still,” which has been cooking along for a year now, will culminate in the debut of the short film created by contestants and Vincent Laforet at the Sundance Film Festival this Sunday. The complete short film will be available on the Sundance Channel and Vimeo.com on Monday.
Read up on the history of the film and see the chapters individually on Vimeo.com/groups/beyondthestill.
Bibble Labs has announced Bibble 5.2 in both Pro and Lite versions. The update to version 5.2 adds RAW file support for the following cameras:
This is a free update for all existing Bibble 5 owners. Download the updated version here.
More details in the press release below. [Read more…]