Sony launches two new Touchy Bloggie cameras

Sony launches two new Touchy Bloggie cameras

Device Allows Easy Sharing of HD Video and Photos via Social Networks Making its worldwide debut today, Sony’s new Bloggie™ Touch enhances the pocket video camera category by making it even easier to preserve and upload life’s spontaneous moments. The Bloggie Touch (MHS-TS20 and MHS-TS10) captures full 1920x1080p high definition ...

New 10-inch Sony Photo Frames show HD Video

New 10-inch Sony Photo Frames show HD Video

New S-Frame™ Models Include Video AVCHD Playback, Other Innovative Features Sony this day announced three new S-Frame™ digital pic frames (models DPF-XR100, DPF-VR100 and DPF-D830) that let consumers keep their favorite memories close with innovative, high-quality features, including video playback and battery operated capabilities.

The Digital Female Nude [Book Review]

The Digital Female Nude [Book Review]

Female nude photography has always intrigued me, particularly how a sense of trust is created between photographer and model. What I find even more intriguing is how, as Australian photographer Peter Adams does in the majority of this book’s pictures, is how he convinces a model to pose outdoors in ...

13 Fun Self Portrait Mirror Shots

13 Fun Self Portrait Mirror Shots

It’s perhaps a tiny cliche – but we’ve all done it. A camera, a photographer in front of a mirror. Here’s 10 shots that caught our eye this day with photographers, their cameras in front of mirrors (PS: this is the theme of the next weekly photography challenge – so ...

Olympus E-P2 black kit and two micro 4/3 lenses

Olympus E-P2 black kit and two micro 4/3 lenses

Olympus PEN E-P2: Back In Black Exclusive New Kit Features Black PEN E-P2 Body, Black 17mm M.Zuiko Lens and Black FL-14 Flash In the past year, the Olympus PEN family has won a series of high profile awards, including the CEA CES Innovations Award, the EISA Best European Camera and ...

Pandigital Photo Mail Digital Photo Frame in Europe

Pandigital Photo Mail Digital Photo Frame in Europe

Digital Photo Frame Lets Family and Friends Conveniently Email Photos to It; Sets New Standard in Digital Photo Sharing Pandigital this day debuts the Pandigital Photo Mail Digital Photo Frame for Europe – a next-generation, wirelessly connected digital pic frame that conveniently accepts pics emailed from family and friends.

How to Become a Pro Photographer: Part 1

How to Become a Pro Photographer: Part 1

Image by Romain Guy As lovers of photography – we can all admit to dreaming of chucking in the day job and setting up shop as a professional photographer, but for many of us it can remain just that – a dream. But for those with the talent, support system ...

Canon develops 205x205mm CMOS image sensor

Canon develops 205x205mm CMOS image sensor

Canon succeeds in developing world’s largest CMOS image sensor, with ultra-high sensitivity   Canon Inc. announced this day that it has successfully developed the world’s largest*1 CMOS image sensor, with a chip size measuring 202 x 205 mm. Because its expanded size enables greater light-gathering capability, the sensor is capable ...

10 Quick and Easy Tips to improve your Photography

10 Quick and Easy Tips to improve your Photography

It’s a new week and I’ve got a new set of tips to improve your photography. This week’s tips focus on planning and decision making while taking your shots…. Eventually it will feel like second nature and you won’t even be aware of the process, until then… keep these tips ...

Recovering lost or deleted files – Backing Up & Saving Your Images: Part 4

Recovering lost or deleted files – Backing Up & Saving Your Images: Part 4

This post is the final part in our Backing Up and Saving Your Images series. See previous posts on Backing up and Saving Your Images – External Hard Drives – Online Storage Sites and Software Solutions. That crushing, sickening and agonising feeling of realising your memory card has corrupted or ...

An Interview With Professional Nature Photographer Jon Cornforth

An Interview With Professional Nature Photographer Jon Cornforth

I was blown away the first time I saw Jon Cornforth’s images.  Even more so because many of the images were taken in my native Washington State.  While we have many talented photographers in our fine state, I was also impressed with how personable Jon was on Twitter and when ...

Nikon Coolpix P100 [Review]

Nikon Coolpix P100 [Review]

I fondly remember earlier digicams like the Coolpix 5400 way back in 2003, complete with 5.1 million pixels, a 4x zoom lens and a vari-angle LCD viewfinder. Dirt cheap at AUD1599! In terms of the Coolpix 5400, the new Nikon Coolpix P100 is definitely retro style-wise, with a severe kick ...

New KODAK ESP 9250 All-in-One Inkjet Printer

New KODAK ESP 9250 All-in-One Inkjet Printer

New KODAK ESP 9250 All-in-One Inkjet Printer is the Smart Choice for People Who Demand Printing Excellence Advanced KODAK printing system with proprietary pigmented inks delivers high quality, one-touch simplicity and intelligent features, while maintaining low total running ink costs Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE:EK) this day announced the newest addition ...

5 Cheap and Easy Ways to Re-inspire Your Photographic Creativity

5 Cheap and Easy Ways to Re-inspire Your Photographic Creativity

A Guest Post by Claire Woollam the Digital Iris. Every few months I feel a lack of motivation creeping in and I realise that my daily photographs in particular (I’m doing a 365 project this year) are starting to become a bit dull and lacking in inspiration. Happily I’ve managed ...

Wedding Photography – How I take the ring shot

Wedding Photography – How I take the ring shot

Aah the rings of marriage. As many’a groomsman speech has pointed them out: the engagement ring, the wedding ring and the suffering. Har har. Jewellery is pretty much the main detail of an engagement. As soon as the girlfriends take a breath after a long and high-pitched shriek, they want to see ...