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Canon Software Update

By DSLRBlog Editors | Published March 23, 2006

Canon have put up some new software updates that you might find useful

  • Digital Photo Professional (DPP) 2.1
  • EOS Utility 1.0
  • CameraWindow DSLR 5.3R2 (Windows)
  • ZoomBrowser EX 5.6.0 (Windows)
  • ImageBrowser 5.6.1a (Mac).

Grab them while they are hot

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Memory Card Data Recovery Tool

By DSLRBlog Editors | Published March 22, 2006

Download Squad points to a tool that allows you to recover lost photographs from dodgy memory cards, CD-ROMs or your hard drive

PhotoRec is an open source multi-platform app intended to help you recover photos from corrupted media like memory cards

Luckily for me I have yet to experience this problem, I’m glad I heard about this software now rather than when I really need it!

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Online Photo Editing

By DSLRBlog Editors | Published March 8, 2006

Wow this PXN8 is pretty neat. While it won’t compete with Photoshop, or even Picassa for that matter, if you are out on the road or in a cyber cafe and need a quick little bit of photo editing this is the perfect tool. It is all web based so completely online and allows crop, zoom, resize, redeye etc. You can even send the results directly to Flickr if you don’t want to save to your disk.

PXN8 is an online image editor with a user interface developed with standard web technologies (HTML, CSS and JavaScript) which are available by default on all modern web browsers.

See it at pxn8.com

Until Flickr incorporates the functionality in the main site, as they inevitably will, this is quite a cool partner to Flickrs features!

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Cool Bird’s Eye Photographs

By DSLRBlog Editors | Published March 3, 2006

There is something oddly compelling about aerial and satellite photographs. The view from above I suppose is our rarest of experiences but also there is something vaguely voyeuristic about it. This new blog aims to collect the best sites from Microsoft’s new service.

First Google brought us Google Local and Google Earth. Then Microsoft followed suit with Windows Live Local, featuring stunning new imagery. Bird’s Eye images provide a high-resolution, low-angle aerial view of a small area. This website is the definitive guide and repository for the coolest Windows Live Local locations.
– Bird’s Eye Tourist

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Photography Video Tutorials

By DSLRBlog Editors | Published March 3, 2006

Scoble points to a new video-tutorial based photography tips site. Be warned though, unlike 99.9% of photography sites the content is not free.

Just Show Me How is a cool new site with tips for digital photographers and there’s a blog along with it too. Done by award-winning photographers. Pulitzer-prize winners and all that. Lots of fun, and has videos and such too.

The tutorials have tiny previews and the video quality looks pretty good, longer samples jump a bit due to the streaming. I presume if you purchase you get to download it in full. Right now the tips are very much at beginner level and I have to agree with what some commentors say, there are the same topics covered for free all over the web. They do have a weekly free video (this week is sunsets).

For some odd reason Robert gets some heat for recommending it. What’s the problem people? If you don’t like it just don’t use it, give the guy a break. Sheesh, anyone would think he was putting a gun to their heads.

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Digital Technology Advances

By DSLRBlog Editors | Published March 1, 2006

Digital Camera technology is moving ahead and it looks like it’s not just the hardware that will be the important element in future. Most interesting part of the news for me is the creation of new lense configurations that are as much about the intelligence as they are the optics.

The first thing it achieves, he said, is taking pictures in very low light (3-4 lux). A wider aperture can be used without introducing more lens elements.

The second trick is getting rid of the autofocus actuator, mimicking autofocus in software. Even with no moving parts, the lens can still autofocus via software.

Source: PMA 2006

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