Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 freed photographers to work in RAW without laboring in Photoshop, but its major drawback was that it limited you to global fixes. Not anymore. The biggest improvement in Lightroom 2 ($299/$199 as an upgrade from 1) is the local adjustment brush for working on one area of your photo at a time. This time, keywording and collecting are easier, a new gradient tool mimics a graduated filter, and sharpening is more useful — now you can sharpen on export, not just when you print. As with Camera RAW, Adobe will no longer be adding new cameras to Lightroom 1, so if you get a new camera, you’ll have to buy this upgrade right away.

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Panasonic HDC-HS100 : The camcorder market is moving swiftly to high definition. Superior image quality is now a must, and many consumers are also demanding higher-level features - such as image-creating capabilities that are a rank above the conventional. For these users Panasonic introduces a new full-HD 3MOS model - the Panasonic HDC-HS100 - with manual functions that give users the power to create dramatic, artistic images. The new Panasonic HS100 also features the world’s first 3MOS system, newly developed by Panasonic based on 3CCD technology that is renowned for excellent colour reproduction. With its expanded light-receiving areas, the MOS sensor is also significantly improves image quality, even in low lighting.

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Tightrope show : A tightrope walker, wearing a yellow jersey, performs during the 143 km twenty-first and last stage of the 2008 Tour de France cycling race run between Etampes and Paris Champs-Elysees. Spain’s Carlos Sastre won the race.

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Kyocera, the pioneer of the Contax and Yashica digital cameras that got out of the digital camera business in 2005, has developed a new fine ceramic with a color that closely resembles 18-karat gold. The new material is a beautiful reflection of development and manufacturing technologies that Kyocera has accumulated in its five decades of Research & Development in fine ceramics. Kyocera is still an active player in the digital camera segment, but has shifted its focus to the Mobile Phone and Automotive digital camera business…

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On the 50th anniversary of NASA’s founding, a small photo tribute to the unsung, furry pioneers who journeyed into orbit, paving the way for human spaceflight.

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The Epson Stylus Photo R2880 is a new professional A3+ photo printer. Replacing the older R2400 model, the R2880 uses advanced UltraChrome K3 with Vivid Magenta pigment inks for a wider colour gamut with vibrant blues and pinks. It also employs a 3 black-ink system which promises true black and white output as well as outstanding grey balance. The Epson R2880 features a new advanced driver mode for true black and white printing and toning, and can print directly onto printable CDs and DVDs. Retailing for £570 / $800, is the Epson R2880 a worth successor to the popular R2400? Read Jon Canfield’s review to find out…

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The Print Advertisements Featuring Ashton Kutcher and Nikon COOLPIX Cameras

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The Television Advertisement Featuring Ashton Kutcher and the Nikon D60

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Panasonic has unveiled a new high-zoom electronic viewfinder (EVF) camera. The 10.1-megapixel Lumix DMC-FZ28 offers an optically stabilized f/2.8-4.4, 27mm-486mm Leica DC Vario-Elmarit 18x zoom lens. The camera incorporates Panasonic’s new Venus Engine IV image processing engine; a 230,000-dot, 2.7-inch LCD; RAW image capture; tracking autofocus; and both manual and advanced automatic controls.

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Samsung i8510 8 Megapixel mobile : Samsung and Symbian announced the Samsung INNOV8. The Samsung i8510 is equipped with high-end features and multimedia including an 8 megapixel camera. This is Samsung’s eighth mobile phone based on Symbian OS, the open mobile operating system for mobile phones. The Samsung i8510 is based on Symbian OS v9.3, bringing the highest level of power efficiency, platform security and phone performance. It includes demand paging, an OS component which enables shorter start-up times for applications and advanced memory management resulting in more responsive applications and phone features. This ensures the Samsung INNOV8 works as quickly as mid-range phones only with better quality features.

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