Update: the price per gigabyte for a HDD has sunk to $0.07/GB in approximately a year and a half. Also see this comparison of HDD vs SSD trade-offs. But the most important trend is a slowdown in SSD drive cost/GB reductions forecast out to 2014. The improvements in cost/GB have already started to slow and [...]
I wondered why was Adobe emphasizing so much the availability of speed boosts for Photoshop CS4 available through a 64bit version and special video drivers associated with various graphics chips ; particularly for the PC version of Photoshop. So I decided to do some quick benchmarks on my Vista and Windows XP laptops using CS3 [...]
I have been checking some of the feature changes between Adobe Photoshop CS3 and CS4 with particular attention to the animation capabilities and performance. In CS3, for example, I have found that a number of Photoshop editing commands are applied to all of the frames and that you have to think differently from Flash and [...]
The price of Digital Cameras, Videos, and other Photo Equipment has dropped dramatically in the past few days. I just got a flier from Henry’s, one of Toronto’s larger dealers - and the prices are marked down by 15-25% on average. Sort of echoing what has happened to many people’s savings in the past few [...]
The Pentax K-m is Pentax’ response to the Canon XSi and the Nikon D60 among other mid to low priced SLRs. And the K-m has some very worthy features like 10MPixel images with a 16 point auto-focus, a 2.7″ TFT LCD viewer, image stabilization and two mode dust clearing system. This camera has borrowed artfully [...]
One can tell that Photokina, the CES of camera shows, is upcoming in Cologne Germany in mid-September. There is a proliferation of new camera announcements - particularly in the ultra competitive digital SLR business. Early this Spring, this site featured a story on the new digital SLRs. Yet already there are new cameras coming [...]
For the past few years I have been arguing that still and videos cameras are converging. Casio’s EX-F1 is currently the best example of that convergence. The Casio EX-F1 delivers 5 modes of still picture taking including auto-bracketing in four modes, multiple exposures from 2 to 60 frames per second, motion sensor triggered [...]
Lenovo has launched the latest and most power packed graphics notebook this August - go to DPReview.com for all the details. What is notable is that this machine acknowledges that graphics processing is now driving PC development.
Look at all the graphics goodies - 17″ Hi-resolution, high gamut WUXA screen, NVidia 3700 with 1GB of [...]
Moore’s Law that see a doubling in capability for the same price in computing and memory chips every 12-18 months has arrived in the SLR camera world. And really that should be no surprise. In 2006, more than half the new cameras sold were digital and that market share has since swept to the [...]
The following is one of dozens of Widgets available at Widgetbox.com:
Its a bit primitive but shows what can be done with new, faster ActionScript 3 animations.
You have to try these out.!
On the margin between bitmap photo editing and vector drawing/illustration, there is a new world of image composition that combines vector+bitmap in new and innovative ways. A lot of vendors have dabbled in this arena including Deneba(now ACDSee) Canvas, Adobe Fireworks and Xara Xtreme Pro - even hints of it in Adobe Photoshop with its [...]
I have been telling readers that Casio EX-F1 is something special and now the appreciation for what the camera can do is really starting to to pour forth. It started probably with David Pogues article in the NewYork Times but notably Wired & DPReview except for blurbs from CES 2008 show, missed this beauty:
Chris Hardwick [...]
Grokking the Gimp by Carey Bunks, O’Reilly Press, Feb 2000 - $45
Anybody who has just read my Portable Gimp posting will know why I also have been perusing around for a “brush up your Gimp” skills book. There is a piece of software call Gimp Photoshop Layout which helps reconfigure the Gimp toolboxes and [...]
Portable Apps has done something very nifty. It makes a lot of Open Source apps portable to any USB Flash Stick - for free. Most notably for Picture That readers, Gimp. This means that I now have a very polished photo editor that I am carrying around on my key chain and can [...]
I have been ranting about the Casio EX-F1 as a cross between a fixed lens SLR and a video camera. The fixed SLR format may have some attractions - fit one lens on with a broad zoom range like the Casio with 36 to 432mm at f2.7 to f4.6 and then take away the [...]
Adobe is beginning to fire more often on the web media front. Most interesting is the new media player. Its really oriented towards movies - but even there the restriction is that that the movies must be one of the following:
.FLV - Flash Video
.F4V - MPEG Flash Video
.MP4 - MP4 Movie
.MP4V - MP4 Video
.M4V [...]
By the standards of timeliness, Ning is late to market. WordPress and Google’s Blogger were among the first wave of social sites. Then Myspace and Facebook arrived - and set new standards for what could be done on a social website. Now Ning has arrived and set a new standard for how easily things [...]
The Best and Fastest Browser for Images
I would like to tell you that the new Firefox 3 web browser is blazingly fast, full of new GUI features yet with great ease of use. And FireFox 3 has one of the best set of add-ons, themes and extensions. It leaves even the upcoming IE8(early next year likely) in the dust. But [...]