Four years ago, thePhotoFinishes ran a story about the Memjet Inkjet Printer that used a unique paper wide printhead and the ability to print at 40 to 100 pages/minute full color with impressive fidelity. Here is our take at the time: As you can see there is still a good deal of suspicion, but as […]
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Cody Willard at Marketwatch is predicting an App-based revolution- where 1)smartphones and tablets displace notebooks and desktops for the bulk of media consumption and a large portion of media creation which is the world of Photoshop, Autocad, Flash and many popular clones, etc. Going in favor Cody’s notion has been 1)the swelling usage of smartphones
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The various underlying technologies shaping today’s cameras are undergoing profound transitions just as market pressures have companies looking for new capabilities to bring to market. It is mostly a match made in heaven for most camera consumers. The result is a continuing and even accelerating stream of innovations in the photo and camera world. We
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Swiffy is a strange program for Google. On one hand it can convert .swf files of 512KB or less into HTML 5 code that runs only in the Webkit browsers – Chrome and Safari on PCs. On the other hand Swiffy is far from complete – as conversions fall short for basic elements such as
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Ye Editor has to blush because the Picthat Blog is under construction much longer than expected. …and its not pretty because a number of new variations in the look are being tried while ICDSoft, our hosting service, cannot provide a simple FTP using the latest versions of Filezilla or CuteFTP. So a simple half
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As usual, the NYTimes is out prospecting for some of the nifty stuff in photography and appears to have uncovered the Next Neato Innovation – the Lytro multi-focus camera and pictures. The Lytro uses an array of micro-lenses to record not one but many images all at the same time but with differing depth of field
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Spring is my favorite time of year because Nature’s colors are a rare delicate and pastel hue. In short it is a season to imbibe and enjoy as a new cycle of vernal sounds, fragrances and colors cover the landscape. And if ye Editor is not mistaken, there is an invigoration in step and mood
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Google has provided a gift for art lovers – the Google Art Project. Think of the Art Project as Google Maps of the World’s Finest Art Galleries from the Inside. Using similar recording technologies to its Google Earth cameras, Google has gotten some of the most prestigious art galleries to allow their gallaeries and content
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