The Connected Photographer
Connected Photographer Magazine is a free monthly how-to journal about photography and the Internet. Each issue offers great ideas and helpful techniques designed to photographers of all levels and skills create and share great photographs. Photography enthusiasts are also able to view the latest news about photography, and photo-reated happenings, read product reviews, and interact with other photographers as well as with vendors of photography-related software and hardware products.
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How to See a Photograph
Many people sort of point a camera at something and press the shutter, without thinking about the image. This article discusses the benefits of taking the time to compose the picture before pressing the shutter.
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Hands-On With Lensbaby Fisheye and Soft-Focus Optics
You can now get drop-in optics to replace the standard optics on the Lensbaby Composer. The drop-in fisheye and soft-focus optics offer new effects for your photos. This article shows some sample images.
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Panasonic Adds Touchscreen to New Micro Four Thirds Camera
Panasonic has added a touchscreen interface to its new Lumix G2 camera. The touchscreen can be used for focusing, playback, motion-tracking, and more.
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StudioShare for iPhone: Professional Photo Proofing and Sales App
DigiLabs Pro announced release of StudioShare, an iPhone application giving professional photographers a new marketing outlet. This free application allows clients access to their photos and place orders from their iPhone.
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Winners of the NYIP Centennial Photo Challenge
The top 100 images from the New York Institute of Photography contest are included in a slideshow posted to the NYIP Website, YouTube and Vimeo.
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Olympus Mju 9010 Review
The Olympus mju 9010 (also known as the Olympus Stylus 9010) is a 14-megapixel, 10x zoom lens camera with image stabilization. This article includes technical specifications and sample images.
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Botanical Drawings for the Digital Age
These images from Macoto Murayama appear to be equal parts drawing, photograph, and magic.
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Nikon D300S Review
The Nikon D300S is a digital SLR with a 12.3-megapixel sensor, HD video capture, and more. The D300S offers some improvements over the D300, launched in 2007. This article includes technical specs and sample images.
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Wacom Introduces New Cintiq 21UX Interactive Pen Display
The Cintiq 21UX offers a tilting, rotating stand to make it even easier to work with the pressure sensitive Grip Pen. The new pen display is expected to be available the end of this month.
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NO HASSLE PHOTO PRINTING, SHARING, AND STORAGE -- AS LOW AS $2.54 PER MONTH
Discover an easier way to share, print and manage your photos online! Get your own online photo album site for sharing photos, as well as easy-to-use editing tools to make sure your photos look their very best. You can even order high quality prints directly from your album -- and have them delivered right to your door!
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NO HASSLE PHOTO PRINTING, SHARING, AND STORAGE -- AS LOW AS $2.54 PER MONTH
Discover an easier way to share, print and manage your photos online! Get your own online photo album site for sharing photos, as well as easy-to-use editing tools to make sure your photos look their very best. You can even order high quality prints directly from your album -- and have them delivered right to your door!
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Nikon Coolpix S8000 Review
At 27.3mm thick, the Nikon S8000 isn't large but still manages to encase a 10x optical zoom lens with a focal range of 30-300mm. This review includes technical specs and sample images.
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Zen and the Magic of Photography
This book is aimed toward helping you develop visual awareness, sensitivity, and intuition in your photography. Discover, create, and capture points of intersection to merge the camera with what you see.
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Google Buys Picnik: 6 Unanswered Questions
Picnik, the on-line photo editing site, has been purchased by Google. This article poses six questions - things to keep in mind as Google takes control of the service.
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Get A Mamiya Zoom Lens for Free
Mamiya is offering a "buy one, get one free" deal on selected lenses between now and April 30, 2010. This page has more information.
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New photography books from GMC Distribution
This pages provides short descriptions of the new books and links to buy them on Amazon (U.S., U.K., and European links). The titles include: the Nikon D300s Multimedia Workshop, Creative Nature & Outdoor Photography, and Twentieth Century in Pictures -100 Years of Aviation.
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ8 Review
The DMC-TZ8 (known as the DMC-ZS5 in the USA) from Panasonic features a 12x, 25-300mm lens in a compact body that's small enough to fit in a pocket. This review includes technical specifications and sample images.
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Canon issues a raft of software updates
Canon has released software updates for a number of different cameras. This article includes the list of cameras and links to the software updates.
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Sigma Corporation of America launches new, interactive community Web site
Sigma Corporation has launched their re-designed website. The new site includes a photo sharing gallery, a blog, a Lens Finder Tool, and more.
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Photo Mechanic Selected as Professional Photographer's Hot One Award Winner
Camera Bits, Inc. has named Photo Mechanic version 4.6.2 as Professional Photographer's Hot One Award Winner for Photo Capturing and Processing. Photo Mechanic enables photographers to browse, caption and manage digital images. Version 4.6 includes many new features and improvements.
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LEARN FROM LEADING DIGITAL IMAGING EXPERTS!
Our high quality interactive training programs are project oriented and teach practical and proven Photoshop techniques for Photography and Design.
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Nikon AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm F2.8 VR II review
A fast telezoom, the AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm F2.8 G ED VR II was announced last summer. This article includes some sample shots and technical specifications.
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Ricoh: Two new camera modules for GXR body
Ricoh has announced two new modules for its GXR camera system - a long-zoom, back-illuminated CMOS sensor and a fixed focal length module based on the APS-C CMOS sensor.
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