Monday, September 27, 2004

Olympus offers new DSLR, point-and-shoot cameras: "Olympus on Monday introduced the new Evolt E-300 Digital SLR, an 8-megapixel digital Single Lens Reflex (SLR) camera intended for amateur and professional photographers, as well as a new pocket-sized 4-megapixel point-and-shoot camera, the AZ-2 Zoom." (Via MacCentral.) 7:29:40 AM

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II samples gallery: "Yesterday we managed to get our hands on a pre-production Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II, after a short run around Cologne we've mangaged to put together a sixteen image samples gallery from this sixteen megapixel digital SLR. Two things are immediately obvious, firstly that noise levels are impressively low at high sensitivities and secondly that less sharpening appears to be required that the EOS-1D Mark II. Oh, and there are a lot of pixels in a EOS-1Ds Mark II image!" (Via Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com).) 7:06:28 AM

Lexar announces four new card readers: "Lexar has today announced two new CompactFlash card readers, built with similar material to a digital camera, a Multi-Card Reader and single slot Card Reader. The two new Professional CompactFlash readers can be easily stacked and daisy-chained together for concurrent download of images. They offer read and write speeds in excess of 10MB per second, are available in USB 2.0 and FireWire format, and they support Lexar's new ActiveMemory System. The four-slot Multi-Card Reader accepts Reduced-Size..." (Via Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com).) 7:05:00 AM

Interesting stats in this article: one geeky website has Internet Explorer used by only 53% of visitors: Savvy Web Surfers Catch New Wave of Browsers: "Reuters.com" The Browser News page (a valuable resource for designers) says overall Internet Explorer has lost 10% of marketshare recently, down to 84%. 6:38:05 AM

Adobe announces new format for raw files: "Adobe Systems has today announced a new unified public format for raw digital camera files and a free software tool, Adobe DNG Converter, for translating raw photo formats into the new .DNG format, which is compliant with the Digital Negative Specification. There is no standard format for raw files, which vary between manufacturers and cameras. Digital Negative Specification will introduce a single format that can store information from a diverse range of cameras. An updated Adobe RAW File Converter adds..." (Via Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com).) If anyone can make this work, I would think Adobe can. 6:26:17 AM

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