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Some news from the site and from the digital photography world.
Nikon has published a service advisory related to a power issue with some samples of DSLR camera D5000. Basically, there is an electronic component which prevents camera to switch on in some conditions (fully charged battery or adapter with power connector). No safety risk involved.
Nikon will publish on its website serials of cameras that can be affected by the problem and is preparing a free repairing program.
The original advisory from Nikon is reachable at this link.
- Referenced brands in this article: Nikon
Olympus has updated the software dedicated to its cameras: Olympus Master updated to version 2.2 and Olympus Studio to version 2.3.
Main enhancements are the following:
- enhanced art filters (as Olympus calls the filters also available in the cameras) and fixes (like the charming "beauty fix"), applicable also on the PC (besides in camera);
- a new-entry Video Editor that supports also HD videos shot with the new Olympus E-P1;
- support of E-P1 (of course...).
For users of previous versions there is an update function in both softwares.
Anyway, the link to download the updates is here
- Referenced brands in this article: Olympus
Nikon has announced a joint company between Nikon Systems and Fujitsu Broad Solutions & Consulting dedicated only to develop firmware for all Nikon digital cameras and DSLR lenses.
The new company will be named "Nikon Imaging Systems Inc." and the start of operations is scheduled for August 1st 2009 in Shinagawa-Ku (Tokyo).
- Referenced brands in this article: Nikon
Adobe has updated its Digital NeGative specification - DNG to version 1.3. Adobe proposes DNG as the interoperable/standard format for RAW images, that we know to be proprietary.
The new version 1.3 adds the possibility of specify some adjustments and enhancements, called opcodes, to the images, like the well-known lens corrections (distorsion and lateral chromatic aberration - corrections done for example in Adobe Camera Raw with Photoshop or in Lightroom).
- Referenced brands in this article: Adobe
Last week Kodak announced it will discontinue production of famous Kodachrome film, an icon for films in the past 74 years.
Sales for this product is said to be so low (less than 1%) that the product has reached end of life.
More details available on Kodak website at this link.
SanDisk has announced the world's fastest 32GB SDHC card compliant to the new specifications for fast SDHC (formely "Class 10"):
- read and write speed up to 30 megabytes per second;
- recording of up to 160 minutes of full HD video (1920x1080 pixels) sustaining an impressive 24 Mb/s data transfer speed.
The new card should be available by next August.