Sep/090
TG 11 September: Notebook and in the future of AMD's multi -
It is the new online edition of the TG Hardware Upgrade, TGtech, with important news, so as to delay by one day the public to meet embargoes AMD. 1 – Google has a project in mind for a micropayment business model to be applied to reality editorial work on the web 2 – Vision is the name of the new generation AMD mobile platforms, while Eyefinity is the first technology that will characterize future generations of video cards DirectX 11 3 – On October 6, will come the new Microsoft operating system Windows Mobile 6 . 5, but mostly there will come a plethora of new terminals Windows Phone that will shake up the market: HTC, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and LG have already disclosed their cards 4 – Leica 35mm to return to his Leica M9 adopting a full sensor -frame produced in collaboration with Kodak. Arrives on the market the Leica S2 medium format SLR system.
Sep/090
TGtech September 3, 2009: Canon EOS 7D and news in sight for Intel and ATI
It is the new online episode of TGtech, weekly appointment with the most important news appeared in the pages of Hardware Upgrade. In this episode we discussed the blackout for two hours that Gmail has created heavy disruptions on 1 September because of an incorrect estimate of system resources by the same Google. Are also expected next week, important novelties in the field of the CPU by Intel and in the field of video cards from ATI, in the words of Paolo Corsini's what's cooking. It was officially announced the sale of 65% of Skype to venture capital by eBay. A 'transaction cost 1.9 billion dollars by some accounts the total value of Skype and then wanders around $ 2.75 billion, a figure not much higher than $ 2.6 billion paid by the most famous auction service online. RIM retire the trackball, a tool much loved by its users, and with the BlackBerry Curve 8520 is debuting on the touch sensitive trackpad on a smartphone with a clear vocation consumer, even given the presence of direct keys on the management of multimedia resources . Canon sharpen their weapons and return to woo the audience of semi-defined hours Advanced Mid Range.
Sep/090
Canon to work on the new system stabilization Hybrid IS
Appear to refute rumors online about a stabilization system built into the house SLR Canon. The evidence comes from the 'ad you see in Hybrid IS the system that will complement and replace the IS technology, Image Stabilizer, all ' internal lenses Canon. It thus confirms the desire to keep the stabilizer to Canon 'internal lens choice also followed by Nikon, unlike Olympus, Sony and Pentax who prefer a system directly connected to the camera sensor. Hybrid IS (Hybrid Image Stabilizer) is actually more advanced than one optical stabilizer all 'IS present, as with two different sensors. A sensor measures the angular velocity, to measure the extent of angular (as in the current IS Canon and Nikon VR), and a second sensor is actually an accelerometer, designed to record the movements of the camera 'vertical axis. The information is then processed by the software management system integrated into the Hybrid IS, which should improve the already excellent performance of the systems currently in use, especially in difficult shooting situations like macro photography. The first Hybrid lens with IS, according to HotHardware, are expected before the end of 'years, while there are as yet unknown details of the gain in the stop and possible increases in price compared with optical IS.
Sep/090
A new company will develop the firmware Nikon
Last week, Nikon has signed a new commercial contract which sees the birth of Nikon Imaging System, a joint venture formed by the System and Nikon collaboration of Fujitsu Broad Solution & Consulting Inc. The new company will take in hand the development of Nikon's firmware and will Based in Tokyo. Nikon Imaging System will replace from the month of August, the work all 'now carried out by Nikon Systems Inc., among the reasons for this choice there is a need to design high-level firmware that can support better l 'high hardware complexity achieved by the production of cameras. President of the new company is Toshiyuki Tsukiji, the person who will manage the 'company and its 100 employees, founded with a capital investment of 70% for the share allocated by Nikon and 30% for the share allocated Fujitsu, summarized in a total capital of 95,000,000 yen, about $ 1 million.
Sep/090
Canon updates EOS 5D Mark firmware
The potential that the video industry is borrowing from SLR cameras are gradually closing the gap that divides the two classes of devices. When Canon launched a preview of the video Reverie Vincent Laforet, everyone was stunned by filming allowed by the full frame white red. A definite added value to a camera body that is already very high performance as a single camera, wanting to be pedantic two things made him feel his absence in the video footage taken with Canon EOS 5D Mark II: the first is l 'absence of AF during recovery, which will probably answer with the future Eos 1D Mark IV, the second l 'inability to manually set the parameters of recovery as aperture or ISO speed. The news that will make happy many is just that a firmware update available for download from 2nd June, which will allow you to manually adjust the shutter speed between 1 / 30 to 1 / 4000 second, aperture and ISO sensitivity Auto, 100-6400 and H1 during the video shoot. Now I just have to wait 'hardware and software implementation of the focusing of course the protagonist of future camera models.
Sep/090
From a PhotoFast 533X CF
The news comes from a Japanese site describing the Compact Flash memory card PhotoFast G-Monster, a memory capable 32GB capacity and a transfer rate of 80MB / s reading and writing. PhotoFast 533X Plus support dual-channel and Ultra DMA 0-6, meets the standard CF Type I It is compatible with all platforms and integrates within it the hardware ECC technology that detects and corrects errors. ATA interface and built according to RoHS standards complement the features of this ultra-fast memory, of course supported only by the latest generation professional SLR.
Sep/090
Photography: a look at the Italian distributors
Distributors who we met at the Photoshow were many and probably not the whole. Among those that we present in the next video we APROMAR, Bogen Imaging, FOWA, Mamiya Trading, and Polyphoto RINOWA. Some are exclusive importers and distributors, others share some products. Discover in a brief text overview what the reserve each of them to leave room for 'video interview and give the floor to the leaders. APROMAR is a company located near Milan Cormano serving a wide assortment of products: From 'purchase ' s image with the Hasselblad camera, all 'lighting systems and portable light studio until hardware support to post-production with Eizo monitors, software and systems Niksoftware Datacolor. Among other distribution lists Crumpler, Moab, Elinchrom, Expodisc, Grafilite, Harman, Piezography, Superior, Photoflex and Xrite. To submit new proposals to Photoshow is Roberto Marini, owner 's company. Over to the distributor: APROMAR In addition to 'commercial activity, APROMAR also encourages the photographic culture as a partner of Photoflex Lighting School Bogen Imaging Italy is perhaps best known as a distributor of Manfrotto and Gitzo, but these are not just the brands that make up the team Bassano del Grappa: Avenger, Kata, National Geographic, IFF, ABC, Lastolite, Quantum, Sekonic, The Pod, Visible Dust, Colorama and Litepanels. The house is divided into two compartments operated by technicians specializing in photos or video. We interviewed Tullio Parrella, comunication manager of field photos. The word on distributors: Bogen Imaging Bogen Imaging is also fully integrated into a course of training and teaching photography in the proposal Bogen Café: a series of workshops and seminars pitches for 'Italy from Milan to Palermo, dedicated to students of schools of photography. Tell us about Emilio Casi, photographer and director. Bogen Café: laboratory photographic culture FOWA l 'We've already seen during the live reports from this PhotoShow as the distribution of the brand new Pentax. In reality, those who follow the photographic world for some time, will know for sure a historic brand that for fifty years in the field training. FOWA is based in Turin and together with Nikon, LTR Service and PMA is one of the leading Italian distributors in photography. The brands are distributed by FOWA: Cokin, Delsey, Hasselblad, Kenko, Metz, Panasonic, Reflective, Tokina, Samsung, Yashica, Zeiss, Apacer, Braun, Pentax and Vanguard. Presents various products Claudio Pelant. Word distributors: FOWA Mamiya Trading takes its name from 'namesake brand of professional cameras, which began distribution in 1985. Since then the products promoted by 'company bunting are gradually increased until the row has today among the different brands are: Anne Geddes, B + W, Ben Braun, Fotonical, Hama, Joby, Keith Haring, Mamiya, Mamy, Rachel Hale, Ricoh, Samsonite, Sandisk, Sigma and Thomson. It speaks to us 's company, the Director General Claudio Bosatra. The word distributors: Mamiya Trading Polyphoto is the official distributor for ' Italy Olympus, Leica, Tamrac and Tamron. We saw during the Photoshow news as the camera Olympus E-450, the compact rugged miu-Tought8000. Also on the front of goals, is through to Polyphoto Tamron 's latest SP AF60 mm Macro F / 2 Di II LD (IF). Olympus Mju Tough 8000: maximum resistance RINOWA Tuscan is the distributor that we have known during the ' last Comparison stands. This too 'it at the Photoshow, offers the public the great innovations of Benro, Cullman and Gimbal. Not only do these houses distributed by RINOWA, which also handles products Rebherg, Nissin, Minox, Optech, Kenro and accessories range. Here l 'interview with Fabio Augugliaro, marketing manager of the group.
Sep/090
TIPA Awards 2009: Winners
The Techincal Image Press Association meeting in Budapest all 'beginning of April in judging the winners of the prestigious prize that draws up the list of the best products ' s year. Come now to the nineteenth edition, the TIPA Awards recognize the best products divided into categories, both in terms of technological innovation in terms of general functionality. Many of the winning products we have already encountered in the pages of Hardware Upgrade, reviewed some others mentioned in the news that drive the photographic world. The number is high and create long-winded resume specific to each individual product, then we report on the winners table with links to official web site at TIPA and depth of Hardware Upgrade. The one mentioned in the table is only part of the tools that are screened technicians TIPA, it is with pleasure that we see products that stand out facing a few years in some areas, such as Sony is doing in the DSLR market. Even some companies like Vanguard were honored for l 'innovation brought to their products or even Olympus, which has the wall of the laundry sector mid-market solution to stand with their rugged and entry level. Finally, when it seemed that the world Digital photography was experiencing a lull, were not only big names to promote l 'innovation and the search for new solutions. We can only benefit the users a competitive el 'appearance of new brands in areas that require increasingly sharp prods.
Sep/090
Olympus SP-590UZ, from wide angle to super telephoto 26x in
New range sees among the favorites Bridge SP-590UZ, a camera that jumps all 'an eye for l ' excursion 26x zoom. If you think of Supertele not be fooled, even the wide angle is generous and allows you to cover 26-676 mm equivalent focal length of 35mm format., Thereby surpassing the focal proposed by Kodak Z980 With a focus on their canvases so thrust, vibrations are a constant condition that Olympus has coped with a new stabilization system that combines mechanical stabilization with the tracking pixel digital register. The focus is not the 'only weapon that the SP-590UZ lets you shoot in bursts at 10 fps, the speed plus speed of focus and face recognition function makes it a versatile tool to capture unexpected moments. The sensor that equips this bridge is a 12 MP CCD size 1 / 2, 33 "l 'electronic processing format supports both JPEG and Raw the native format and allows you to record VGA movies with a frame rate of 30 fps . LCD Screen 2.7 ", LED flash and wireless flash controller, complete exterior envelope hardware. A certain level of software solutions seem to be very interesting as the function Beauty: if the camera recognizes in 'shot is a face, and apply locally a gradient and regulation of skin tones to make the best l ' incarnate.
Sep/090
Adobe released versions Release Candidate "Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw
Release Candidate, here's the name that Adobe has given the latest versions of software tested, but not yet validated by the external community to the parent. Lightroom 2.3 and ACR 5.3 are therefore safer in operation and even if Adobe officially postpone the distribution until the feedback from users and community support will not give optimal results in a variety of hardware requirements. Both updates to broaden support Nikon D3x and Olympus E-30, some memory problems found in Lightroom 2. 2 have been solved and support multiple languages has been extended to eight new languages: Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.