Monday, April 11, 2005

Nikon Readies Cheaper Digital SLR to Rival Canon (Reuters): "Reuters - Japan's Nikon Corp. said on Monday it would launch a lower-priced digital single lens reflex camera later this month to challenge rival Canon Inc. in the lucrative market for high-end cameras." (Via Yahoo! News - Digital Photography.) 8:45:43 AM

This weekend, like most this spring, was spent capturing as many wildflowers as possible on film (or pixels) before everything turns brown. Of particular note was Henry Coe State Park. The unusual weather this year (lot of rain) has apparently been good for wildflowers. Here's a random image from the hundreds I shot on Saturday: http://www.virtualparks.org/trips/coegold2.jpg (210KB JPEG) The yellow carpet was mostly a flower called goldfields. The blue flower intermingled in the yellow is some sort of gilia, I think. 8:41:59 AM

Easypano Releases New Version of Stitching Solution:...: "Easypano Releases New Version of Stitching Solution: Panoweaver 4" (Via Graphics.com.) 8:31:33 AM

SMIL Scripting Guide for QuickTime: "SMIL (pronounced ÒsmileÓ) stands for Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language. SMIL is a Web Consortium standard for describing multimedia presentations. QuickTime 4.1 and later can play many kinds of SMIL presentations as if they were QuickTime movies. If you are a content author, webmaster, or QuickTime developer, you can use SMIL to create multimedia presentations that play from the desktop or over the web using the QuickTime plug-in, ActiveX control, or the QuickTime Player application. This document provides a general overview of SMIL and a detailed description of its usage in QuickTime." (Via Studio Log.) 7:02:49 AM

Nikon UK confirms entry-level D-SLRs for end of April: "Nikon News Release: Following recent speculation, Nikon UK is pleased to confirm the launch of two new digital SLR cameras to be launched towards the end of April 2005. Both cameras have been designed to meet the requirements of..." (Via Digital Photography Blog.) 7:01:40 AM

Adobe Camera Raw: Saving Conversion Settings: "When you shoot a raw image in your digital camera, all the relevant settings used get recorded along with the actual image data. If you open that raw image in Nikon Capture or many other raw converters, the choices you set in-camera are used as the defaults for the conversion process. Not so with Adobe Camera Raw: it actually ignores most of the camera settings. Neither does it write any changed settings back to your raw file when you finish editing an image. So just what does ACR do with settings?...." (Via Earthbound Light Photography Tips.) 7:01:34 AM

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