Publishers are desperate and converging. Books, newspapers, magazines, and a host of printed media are chasing a scarce and seemingly dwindling supply of attention, eyeballs, and readers. Oh and advertisers. All lost to that beast that almost everything is free on the Web including their publications on the Web. May eCash RIP. And what is […]
I have been arguing that the digital SLR cameras and video camcorders are converging. Casio EX-F1 shooting at 60fps-frames per second embodies that trend. Okay the Casio EX-F1 does not have interchangeable lenses – rather users are “stuck with” a 12x zoom lens that performs like 36 to 432mm 35mm equivalent. Not quite as wide
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How quickly things change on the Web. Google has closed Picnik but it has arisen from the ashes as PicMonkey – still very good as one of the best online photo editors. I really did not expect online photo editing to ever happen, but Picnik.com has brought online photo editing to the Web as the
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If anyone had any doubts about the continued success of digital SLRs just take a look at what happened at the recent PMA-Photography Marketing Associations annual show in Las Vegas this year. Yes it was a flood of new digital cameras – marked by the new Sony line-up which we have covered already here. But
You would think that PMA-Photo Marketing Association would be the best source of information for what went on at their annual show, PMA 2008 this year, which shows off in Las Vegas all that is happening in the world of photography. Well, not exactly. For some reason, the PMA puts on a humdinger of a
Recently I was at Downtown Camera looking for a new digital SLR to replace my Canon XTi. I got to chat with the the staff- and they were recommending the Canon Mark III or Nikon D3. We all agreed that Sony’s Alpha had been interesting with built in image stabilization and sensor cleaning; but the
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InDesign CS3 One on One by Deke McClelland – O’Reilly Press – $55 ($35 at Amazon) I am not an absolute neophyte to DeskTop Publishing having used Microsoft’s Picture Publisher, early versions of Quark Express and Adobe Pagemaker from time to time. But for a project I needed to come up to speed in InDesign
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I have been looking for new methods of adding punch to my posts and reviews on this website. The CES2008 story just below uses a YouTube Video. That sort of launched the interest in finding some other rich media that could be used. Here are the results of that search: FlashPaper and Zoho Show. Each