Making a living as a freelance photographer is a tough racket and a bunch of deep-pocket publishers want to make it a lot tougher. The publishers-who count in their ranks The New York Times Company,...
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by John Mello on October 31, 2007
As Michael Fletcher admits at the Photodoto Web site, improving a color photo by converting it to black and white seems counter-intuitive, but his techniques appear to work. What he does is turn a...
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by John Mello on October 31, 2007
When you want to add some pop to a black and white photograph, you can splash some color on it. This technique was rampant in TV commercials awhile ago, but it reached its zenith in the movie Sin...
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Scott Elder at Slate wrote a good piece last week about photo printers. He chose six printers under $150, put them through their paces and ranked them on a scale of zero to 40. Here are some...
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The much-anticipated Wi-Fi-on-a-memory-card for digital cameras was released today by Silicon Valley start-up Eye-Fi. (Ordinarily, I'd put a link here, but this link that the company is...
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When you pay more than four grand for a digital camera, you expect it to work right. That's apparently not the case with the EOS 1D Mark III, touted at its introduction by Canon as the "most...
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by John Mello on October 29, 2007
Today's photography market is broad and varied, but Kodak in its recently released Futures Report says shutterbugs can be pidgeonholed into five distinct categories. Here they are....
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The recent flap at Flickr over the unauthorized use of a person's likeness in a photograph should raise a red flag for all shutterbugs who use the Web as a gallery for their snapshots. "Your...
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by John Mello on October 25, 2007
camera phones have become a hit among 13-to-24-year-olds, according to a study released recently by InfoTrends of Weymouth, Mass. Although finding that a "significant number of those in this...
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by John Mello on October 24, 2007
Since most digital cameras are built with a pathetic amount of internal memory, one of the first purchases by owners of new bytecams is a memory storage card. That shouldn't be necessary with...
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by John Mello on October 23, 2007
From time to time, I get the urge to experiment with artificial lighting, but then I take a gander at the cost of studio lights and retreat back into my world of natural illumination and built-in...
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by John Mello on October 22, 2007
When it comes to moving photos from a digital camera to my computer, I've always embraced the simple approach: take the storage card from the camera, put it in one of the computer's card...
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by John Mello on October 21, 2007
As convenient as smaller digital cameras are to carry, one thing that's always bugged me about them-aside from the tiny controls better suited for fledglings than the fully fledged-is how...
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Solid state storage sultan SanDisk did its best to grab folks attention at the PhotoPlus 2007 International Conference & Expo held this week in New York City by introducing a new high-performance...
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by John Mello on October 19, 2007
Since many of us shoot photos for our own pleasure, we don't have to worry about getting model releases from the subjects in our snapshots, but in today's wired world, even amateurs can find...
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Consumer satisfaction pulse takers J.D. Powers and Associates released the results of its digital camera study today and topping the digital SLR category was was Nikon's D Series of bytecams. On...
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by John Mello on October 18, 2007
Professional and fat-wallet amateur photographers should like the latest version of Color Efex Pro released today by Nik software. This latest edition, release 3.0, incorporates the company's...
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by John Mello on October 17, 2007
Along with its new lime green point-and-shoot camera, Olympus also announced yesterday the latest model in its "E" line of digital SLRs. Olympus claims that its new 10 megapixel E-3 ($1699)...
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by John Mello on October 16, 2007
One product trend that I find irritating these days is the desire of camera makers to liven up their offerings with perky colors. Olympus, in my mind, took this annoying drift to a new level today...
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Many photographers know what happens when they treat a digital photo like a rubber band: its subjects become terribly distorted. But a pair of researchers-Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir-have cooked up...
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There's a hall of fame for just about everything these days-including consumer electronics. And this week, among the 11 new members of the hall will be someone we should all pay homage to: Steve...
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Maybe it's too early to hear sleigh bells, but it's not too early to start thinking about what kind of digital camera you'd like to see on Christmas morning. online retailer Adorama has...
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With the release of "Wallet Pix," could "Keychain Pix" be far behind? The answer is no. Digital Foci has introduced something it's calling the Pocket Album ($39.95) that...
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by John Mello on October 12, 2007
I don't have a very high opinion of the software bundled with most digital cameras, but there are a few standouts. One of them is Kodak's Easyshare application. The program is fun, easy to...
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