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Eyeist serves up portfolio reviews digitally
Posting your images online for critique is a common practice in DPReview forums as well as on Flickr and other sites. But you usually have to go to a photo festival, or travel to have your portfolio reviewed by a professional curator. One of those curators created Eyeist.com, a service to connect photographers with creative professionals who can help them focus their selection for projects of many types, from books to websites to presentations. Click through for our review of Eyeist.
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Best Digital Cameras for Kids
If they’re young enough, your kids have always known a world in which smartphones are the most-popular devices for taking photos. That’s too bad. In this article we’ve rounded up a selection of cameras that will suit aspiring young photographers of all ages from under-10s to teenagers. Click through for a link.
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Wired.com shares tips on photographing the Supermoon
This Sunday, June 23rd, the moon will be closer to earth than at any point during the year. It just so happens that on Sunday the moon will be full, too, creating what is commonly known as a ‘Supermoon’ which if there are no clouds in the way, will appear larger and brighter than normal. A great opportunity for some backyward astrophotography, in other words. Wired.com’s Raw File blog has published a short article containing tips for capturing this Sunday’s Supermoon in all its glory. Click through for extracts and a link to the full article.
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What The Duck #1407
We’ve been fans of Aaron Johnson’s comic strip ‘What the Duck’ for years. ‘WTD’ is one of the best satirical comic strips in the world, and it’s published here every week, as well as being included in our weekly newsletter. Barbed, topical and always amusing, we hope you enjoy WTD as much as we do. Click through for this week’s strip.
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Capture One Pro 7 update extends raw support to multiple new cameras
Phase One has released 7.1.3 of its Capture One Pro software, which includes extended raw support for a number of new cameras, including the Canon EOS-1D C and mirrorless models from Nikon, Panasonic and Sony. It also includes a beta version of a new catalog importer. Click through for a full list of newly supported cameras.
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Instagram adds video functionality with image-stabilization
Kevin Systrom, co-founder of Instagram, announced today that the app has been updated to include video capture, including a digital image-stabilization feature. While video clips are limited to only 15 seconds in total, multiple clips can be captured by pressing and holding the record icon, releasing the icon to pause and then recording additional scenes until the 15 second limit has been reached. Click through for more details on connect.dpreview.com.
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Just Posted: Samsung Galaxy NX hands-on
Just posted: Our Hands-on with the Samsung Galaxy NX. We were given the chance to play with Samsung’s latest phone/camera hybrid – the Android-powered Galaxy NX. It combines a 20MP DSLR-style mirrorless camera body with the vast touchscreen and connectivity of a smartphone, giving a high-IQ camera with 3G, 4G LTE and Wi-Fi connectivity as well as GPS and GLONASS-compatible positioning. What’s it like to use, though? Read our Hands-on article to find out.
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Samsung announces Android-powered Galaxy NX 20MP mirrorless camera
Samsung has announced the Galaxy NX: the world’s first mirrorless interchangeable lens camera running the Android operating system. The Galaxy NX takes a 20.3 megapixel, SLR-style mirrorless camera and adds 3G, 4G LTE and Wi-Fi, connectivity and Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). The camera sports a gigantic 4.8″ HD LCD touchscreen – with which you’ll control nearly all camera functions. The Galaxy NX will be available sometime this summer for an undisclosed price.
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Kickstarter campaign will take your portrait in space for $25
Kickstarter backers contributing $ 25 or more to the launch of a space telescope will get to have their photos taken in space. Planetary Resources, a company devoted to asteroid research, will thank its donors for their support by displaying their images in space and photographing them with the Earth in the background. Once launched, students and researchers will have access to the telescope so they can take their own pictures of the planet from space. Click through for more details.