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Fujifilm’s New Firmware for X-Pro 1 and X-E1

Posted on July 23, 2013July 23, 2013 by Jordan Steele

Today, Fujifilm released versions 2.0 (X-E1) and 3.0 (X-Pro1) of the camera firmware for their X-Mount mirrorless cameras.  This has been a long anticipated firmware update, and it adds some great features: Addition of focus peaking to highlight in-focus areas during manual focus Quick adjustment of viewfinder magnification between 3x and 10x using the rear…

Adobe Goes Cloud Only – They’re right about one thing…

Posted on May 6, 2013May 7, 2013 by Jordan Steele

Adobe announced today that they are moving all Creative Suite applications to the Creative Cloud and the Creative Cloud only.  That is, Adobe Photoshop CS6 (and the other CS6 applications) will be the last stand-alone pieces of software of their kind.  From now on, all future versions will require a monthly subscription to use them….

A Huge Array of Micro 4/3 Announcements…

Posted on September 21, 2012September 21, 2012 by Jordan Steele

Wow.  Photokina kicked off this week, and as one of the biggest (if not THE biggest) photography trade shows, it also sees a ton of announcements.  I wanted to get to these earlier, but it’s been crazy busy around here.  For Micro 4/3 users, Monday saw the announced release of no less than three new…

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Sony announces new NEX-6 camera and new lenses

Posted on September 12, 2012September 12, 2012 by Jordan Steele

Today, Sony made a number of announcements in their imaging division, from a new full-frame SLT camera to a full frame camcorder, to a very expensive full-frame compact camera (I’ll likely follow with some thoughts on that later tonight).  However, for those of us who use predominantly mirrorless cameras, the new NEX-6 and NEX lenses…

Samsung Galaxy Camera – Some thoughts

Posted on August 30, 2012August 30, 2012 by Jordan Steele

Yesterday, Samsung announced their new Galaxy Camera…a full fledged point and shoot with essentially a full fledged smartphone built in (minus the voice calling).  It’s an intriguing idea, and I feel it likely shows functionality that will become more commonplace with cameras going forward.  It’s got a 21x optical zoom lens and a 16.3 MP…

Panasonic announces Lumix G5 and 45-150mm Tele-zoom

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Jordan Steele

Pansonic today announced a bunch of new cameras…a small sensor superzoom with f/2.8 aperture (which is pretty cool, frankly), a new ‘premium’ compact in the LX7, and their latest Micro 4/3 camera, the Lumix DMC-G5. Panasonic Lumix G5 The G5 is the successor to the G3, and uses a similar, but not quite the same,…

Photoshop CS6 Too Pricey? Get GIMP!

Posted on May 8, 2012May 8, 2012 by Jordan Steele

Photoshop CS6 was released yesterday.  It includes several big improvements over CS5 including a new processing engine that speeds up the program significantly, additional video tools and some excellent additions to the content-aware toolset, among other changes. But, what if Photoshop is just too darn expensive?  I bit the bullet years ago and purchased Photoshop…

Lightroom 4.1’s Newest Great Feature

Posted on April 27, 2012April 27, 2012 by Jordan Steele

Lightroom has been getting more and more powerful.  Lightroom 4.0 was just released a few months ago, and Adobe is nearly ready to push out the 4.1 update, which will be free to all Lightroom 4 owners.  Usually these incremental updates contain new camera profiles, some bug fixes and a perhaps a tweak here and…

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