New digital camera, photo software, and camera accessory announcements.

Bogen Imaging's "The Language of One Light: Roundtable with Will Crockett" Free Webinar

Events News Photographers Photography Tips Studio & Lighting

Bogen Imaging will be hosting a free webinar on how to create simple lighting to enhance your images, titled “The Language of One Light: Roundtable with Will Crockett”. The webinar will be lead by Will Crockett, one of the photo industry’s most respected pros on Friday, March 13th from 2-3 PM EDT.

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Kodak and Photobucket Team Up For Photo Sharing

2009 PMA Kodak News Printers & Printing

Kodak and Photobucket announced they will team up to allow Photobucket’s millions of users to begin using new and exciting products and print choices from Kodak Gallery. Now Photobucket’s users can create personalized photo gifts and prints using Kodak Gallery products, such as prints and posters, photo mugs, t-shirts, playing cards, coasters, mouse pads and […]

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Unleashed Bluetooth GPS For Nikon DSLRs

2009 PMA Events News Nikon Uncategorized

More and more photographers are getting interested in being able to save GPS information with their digital photos. The geotagging enthusiasts at the German company foolography have introduced a new wireless solution for people who want to collect and save GPS data with their photos. The new Unleashed module connects wirelessly to any Bluetooth GPS […]

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Waterproof Digital Cameras At PMA 2009

2009 PMA Buying Guides Events Featured News Underwater

One of the themes at PMA this year was waterproof point-and-shoot cameras. It seems the camera makers have all decided the time has come for underwater digital cameras. For the past few years, underwater point-and-shoot digital cameras have been the exclusive domain of Olympus and Pentax. Pentax got the ball rolling back in 2005 with […]

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Products that made me go Hmmmm yet again

2009 PMA Featured News Samsung Uncategorized

This time, it’s handling a product that makes me scream WHAT? The Samsung HMX-H106 in this case, the controls on the screen in particular. The more observant among you may have spotted it. But it really shows when you use it.

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Fujifilm / Voigtlander 667 Folding Camera

2009 PMA Events Film Photography Fujifilm Medium Format News Uncategorized

Last year, Fujifilm had a prototype folding medium format camera in their booth that all the film shooters were drooling over (see photo below, taken at PMA 2008 by walterick). I made sure to ask about the camera when I met with the Fujifilm folks at PMA this time. The rep I spoke to said […]

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PMA 2009 Film Report

2009 PMA Featured Film Photography Fujifilm Kodak News Uncategorized

Film shooters will be happy to know that there was film at PMA this year. Although they weren’t exactly showing it off, both Fujifilm and Kodak had film on display at the show. Fujifilm had it stashed in the back of their booth but they had slide film, print film, and their instant film. Kodak […]

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Fuji Real 3D Concept

2009 PMA Events Fujifilm News Uncategorized

With two lenses, two processors, and a 3D LCD display, this camera takes 3D still and video images. It can also use the two lenses independently, one still one video, or one wide angle one telephoto, for traditional 2D imaging. Unfortunately, like showing HD on regular TV, it’s hard to show the 3D effect here.

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Olympus Micro Four Thirds Concept Camera At PMA 2009

2009 PMA Events Featured News Olympus Panasonic Uncategorized

Olympus didn’t introduce their hoped-for Micro Four Thirds camera at PMA this year, although they did have a concept camera behind glass in their booth. This is the same camera they showed behind glass at Photokina, last year. There’s not much to learn from looking at the Olympus Micro Four Thirds concept camera except that […]

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Products that made me go Hmmmm again

2009 PMA Accessory Reviews Events News Uncategorized

Sometimes I come across a product and wonder what it’s for, or why I’d want to use it even knowing what it’s for. Here’s the second, Dust-Aid’s Dust-Shield, a clear film seal for the mirror chamber of your DSLR.

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Panasonic Lumix GH1 – 2009 PMA Show Winner?

2009 PMA Featured News Panasonic Uncategorized

Today, Panasonic made what is likely the biggest announcement at this year’s PMA tradeshow. They introduced the Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1 Micro Four Thirds camera. The GH1 adds high-def video capability to Panasonic’s Micro Four Thirds line. The GH1 captures 1080p HD video at 24 frames-per-second or 720p at 60 frames-per-second. The GH1 has a built-in […]

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Samsung NX Hybrid Digital Camera

2009 PMA News Samsung

Samsung introduced a new family of hybrid digital cameras with the NX Series. The Samsung NX bridges the gap between a DSLR and compact point-and-shoot digital camera by utilizing an APS C sized image sensor providing a much larger surface area to gather light and produce higher-quality images like a DSLR and unlike a DSLR, […]

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Canon Pixma PRO9500 Mark II and Pixma PRO9000 Mark II Professional Photo Printers

2009 PMA Canon News Printers & Printing

Canon announced two new printers for professional and advanced photographers, the Canon Pixma PRO9500 Mark II and Pixma PRO9000 Mark II. The ten-color Canon Pixma PRO9500 Mark II printer features the Canon Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering (FINE) technology and a 7,680 nozzle print-head structure. It uses Canon’s double-encoder system to produce high-quality portfolio pieces or […]

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Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8-4.5 DC OS HSM Lens

2009 PMA Lenses News Sigma

Sigma announced the 18-50mm F2.8-4.5 DC OS HSM lens, which is an upgrade to its predecessor. This lens is dedicated to digital SLR cameras with APS-C size image sensors offering a large aperture and Sigma’s Optical Stabilization.

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Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5 EX DC HSM Lens

2009 PMA Lenses News Sigma

Sigma announced the new super-wide angle lens, the Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5 EX DC HSM. It has a wide angle view from 102.4 degrees and a maximum aperture of F3.5.

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