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  • Just Posted: Sony Alpha SLT-A99 review

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    Just Posted: Our review of the Sony Alpha SLT-A99. The A99 is Sony’s flagship SLT camera – featuring a 24MP full-frame sensor and dual AF system, along with the level of build and direct control you’d expect from a range-topping model. We’ve put the A99 through its paces in a variety of situations, including an investigation of how its AF depth control performs in challenging shooting conditions. We’ve also looked at the advantages the SLT system and articulated screen bring to a camera at this level, as well as looking at their downsides. Click here to find out what we concluded.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Just Posted: Sony Alpha SLT-A99 review

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    Just Posted: Our review of the Sony Alpha SLT-A99. The A99 is Sony’s flagship SLT camera – featuring a 24MP full-frame sensor and dual AF system, along with the level of build and direct control you’d expect from a range-topping model. We’ve put the A99 through its paces in a variety of situations, including an investigation of how its AF depth control performs in challenging shooting conditions. We’ve also looked at the advantages the SLT system and articulated screen bring to a camera at this level, as well as looking at their downsides. Click here to find out what we concluded.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Microsoft releases Camera Codec Pack with RAW support for 34 extra cameras

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    Microsoft has released an updated version of its Camera Codec Pack for Windows Vista, 7, 8 and RT. The latest update allows applications such as Windows Explorer, Windows Photo Viewer, Media Center, and Windows Photo Gallery to deal with Raw files from 34 additional cameras. The cameras include the Canon EOS M, Olympus OM-D E-M5 and Sony NEX-7.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Flickr brings much demanded updates to web interface and iOS app

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    Flickr has updated its web interface and released an updated version of its iOS app as it tries to reassert its relevance in a post-Instagram landscape. The refresh of the web interface sees the navigation bar at the top of the site get slimmer, to devote more page space to photos. The ‘Explore’ page has also been redesigned – taking on the full-width, large tiled design used in the ‘My Contacts’ page. Flickr has also updated its famously poor iOS app, adding processing filters and better discovery tools.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Carl Zeiss announces 2012 photo competition for users of its lenses

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    Carl Zeiss has announced its annual photo contest for images shot with one of its lenses. Any Zeiss lens is considered valid, from Nokia smartphones through Sony compacts, such as the RX100, to the company’s high-end interchangeable lenses. This year’s theme is ‘The moment that knows no limits’ and first prize is one of the company’s manual focus SLR and rangefinder lenses, with a variety of other Zeiss-branded prizes for runners-up. The contest runs on Flickr until January 15th.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Adobe announces updates exclusive to Creative Cloud members

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    Adobe has announced CS6 updates that are exclusive to Creative Cloud subscribers. Adobe Photoshop 13.1 offers among other things, the ability to apply Liquify and Lens Blur effects as Smart Objects and use conditional statements when creating Actions. However, these changes are unavailable to those who’ve bought traditional versions of Photoshop CS6, and Adobe has not said when, or even if, ‘perpetual users’ of CS6 will have access to these features. Retina Display support for Mac, also announced today, is available for all users.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Adobe announces updates exclusive to Creative Cloud members

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    Adobe has announced CS6 updates that are exclusive to Creative Cloud subscribers. Adobe Photoshop 13.1 offers among other things, the ability to apply Liquify and Lens Blur effects as Smart Objects and use conditional statements when creating Actions. However, these changes are unavailable to those who’ve bought traditional versions of Photoshop CS6, and Adobe has not said when, or even if, ‘perpetual users’ of CS6 will have access to these features. Retina Display support for Mac, also announced today, is available for all users.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • DxO Labs announces v1.1 of its ViewPoint distortion correction software

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    DxO Labs has announced version 1.1 of its ViewPoint distortion correction software, promising more accurate tools and faster operation. Viewpoint is designed to correct keystone distortions (converging verticals and horizontals), and restore more natural proportions to objects towards the edge of the frame when using wide-angle lenses. It is available either as a stand-alone tool or as a plugin for Adobe PhotoShop (CS3 or newer) or Lightroom (version 3 or newer), and for both Mac and PC.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Fujifilm X-E1 preview extended

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    Just Posted: an extensive update to our Fujifilm X-E1 preview. With a sensor and imaging pipeline that is identical to the X-Pro1’s the X-E1 promises much of the X-Pro1’s fun in a more compact and affordable package. We’ve been working with a production sample X-E1 for a couple of weeks and we’ve been working towards a full review, which we hope to publish early in the new year. In the meantime we’ve added seven pages to the preview, including our studio test shots and a sample gallery. Click through for a link to the expanded preview, including our 49-image real-world sample gallery. 

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Just Posted: Mobile Photography Gift Guide

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    Your best camera is the one you have on you, and for many of us that’s a smartphone. We’ve just posted our 2012 Mobile Photography Gift Guide, which covers a range of accessories for the mobile photographer, from inexpensive and fun gifts to more serious, useful products like add-on lenses and supports for phones and tablets. Click through to read the full article at connect.dpreview.com

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)