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Some news from the site and from the digital photography world.
Yesterday, 30th June 2008, Nikon announced the second full-frame DSLR: D700, as a mix from previous D3 and D300 with, of course, some improvements.
- Referenced brands in this article: Nikon
Today Canon has announced the new entry-level DSLR: the EOS 1000D (European name) / Digital Rebel XS (USA name).
Pressed by competitors, Canon introduces a model that, with regards to features, is in between 400D and newest 450D, but candidates to become the most popular Canon DSLR.
Here are the differences between the new 1000D and 450D and 400D:
- Referenced brands in this article: Canon
Stellar, a known producer of media recovery software to undelete photos that were accidentally deleted from media cards and digital cameras, has upgraded its solution to recover media files also from drives that work under Windows operating system.
Typical cases where you may want to recover your media: accidental format of the media, extraction of card from camera during writing that has caused file system corruption, shutdown of camera while writing to the media, accidental deletion of photos, and so on.
Nikon has released Capture NX 2, the new version of its image editing and RAW (NEF in Nikon) conversion software.
Some of the main news are:
- Referenced brands in this article: Nikon
Last week Olympus has announced the update of E-510: E-520, that is in a way a minor upgrade to its predecessor.
Some of the main improvements are: AF with a contrast detection mechanism, Face Detection, a larger LCD (2.7" with 230K pixels and up to 10x zoom especially useful for live view focusing).
Also dynamic range is said to be improved and a couple of advanced features are taken from the bigger brother E-3: shadow retouch (Automatic Gradation) and wireless flash. An interesting addon will be a water-proof case (sold separately) that will allow divers (or just normal photographers fond of the sea) to shoot with E-520 up to 40 meters under the sea level.
The E-520 will be available in June 2008.
- Referenced brands in this article: Olympus
Adobe is submitting the DNG (Digital NeGative) format to ISO (the International Standard Organization) in order to make it a standard and spread its adoption.
- Referenced brands in this article: Adobe
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