05/30/2000: AppleInsider - Exclusive Look at Venus-In-Furs
OK, what has Steve been smoking? What in the heck is Venus-In-furs? Would you believe that is Adobe's code name for the now-in-beta PhotoShop 6.0? Well, it is. The folks at AppleInsider.com have posted An Exclusive Inside Look at Adobe Photoshop 6 report. This is the much anticipated and major upgrade to the most popular photo editing software in use. I won't spoil your reading but will give you this, it features onscreen text entry with typographic control, improved bitmap font display, improved layer management, next-generation layer masking, shape drawing tools, more PDF support and just more PhotoShop everything. And of course it will include an all new version of Adobe's ImageReady as well....[read more]
CAMPBELL, CA, and TORONTO, ONT. - May 25, 2000 - MGI today announced that Seiko Epson Corp. will ship PhotoSuite III SE and Photovista 1.3 with the new Epson PhotoPC 3000Z digital cameras in Europe and Asia. The Epson PhotoPC 3000Z captures 3.3 megapixel still photos, which optimizes output quality for home printing and photo finishing at photo retailers. The addition of MGI PhotoSuite III will immediately provide photo editing, publishing, and sharing capabilities, while Photovista will allow users to create 360° panoramas from their photos to email or post to the web. The camera will cost US, and will be available in May. Cameras like the Epson PhotoPC 3000Z are among the first to capture in a high enough resolution for consumers to produce superior quality 8"x10" prints as well as rich images for the Web. These third generation cameras, combined with third generation, feature-rich photo software such as...[read more]
05/22/2000: Olympus C-3000 Zoom Review Posted
Seems as if this was my weekend to get a lot of user reviews and first look reports finished. The latest posting is the Olympus C-3000 Zoom user review. The C-3000 Zoom is basically a C-3030 Zoom without the expensive 32MB DRAM buffer or the 3.5fps burst capability. The body is gray but everything else including the image quality is the same, for hundreds less. Check it out....[read more]
05/22/2000: Sony DSC-S70 Preview Posted at GadgetSquad
The folks over at the GadgetSquad.com have posted their Sony DSC-S70 Preview. I am working on Sony to send me one of these but for some reason the biggest digicam company in the world seems to have given their PR folks only 3 cameras for review and evaluation purposes. I'll let you know when I get one. I have probably received 300 email requests for a DSC-S70 review already....[read more]
05/21/2000: Canon PowerShot S100 Digital ELPH First Look Review Posted
After a fun afternoon of using this miniature marvel I have a good start at a sample pictures page and the usual First Look report. The Canon S100 is a perfect example of the saying that "size matters." Out of a camera about the size of a deck of playing cards come 1600 x 1200 images capable of making 8x10" photo prints!...[read more]
05/20/2000: Taking Care of Business
I just posted the finished user reviews for the Toshiba PDR-M70 and the Fuji FinePix 4700 Zoom. I have also posted the Sony Mavica FD-95 First Look and I'm working on the First Look review of the new Canon S100 Digital Elph that came in this morning. Enjoy the reviews but hold off the extraneous emails please, I just don't have time to answer all of your questions and get these reviews done too. Especially when your email is only asking me when I will get a review done, you'll know if you read the News page here ......[read more]
05/16/2000: Short Courses Begins Shipping Nikon Coolpix 990 Book
My good friend Dennis Curtin has just finished his latest book "A Short Course in Nikon Coolpix 990 Photography" and it is now shipping. The .95 book is aimed primarily at amateur photographers, but will also be helpful to anyone trying to get a handle on the Coolpix 990's many, many features. Dennis' Coolpix 950 book was "better than the Nikon manual" according to the many, positive emails that I've received about it. He also has Short Course books for the Canon A5, Epson 850Z, Olympus C-2000, C-2020Z, C-2500 and the new C-3030Z....[read more]
05/08/2000: DP Review Posts Olympus C-3030 Review
Phil has just posted his Olympus C-3030 Zoom review. His conclusion: "Olympus take last years successful C-2020Z and upgrade it. With more pixels, several fixes and the new black case the C-3030Z is a worthy successor. Image quality is excellent, if occasionally marred by chromatic aberrations (don't we love em?). I was a little disappointed that Olympus didn't do more, they had the opportunity to get some added functionality in as well as just increasing resolution (I'm talking about what Nikon have done with the Coolpix 990)..."...[read more]
05/07/2000: megapixel.net May 2000 Issue Online
Our Canadian counterparts at the megapixel.net have just posted their bi-lingual May 2000 issue online. This month's camera reviews include the Casio QV-3000EX, Olympus C-3030 Zoom, Fuji FinePix 1400 and the RCA CDS4100....[read more]
05/06/2000: Imaging-Resource Posts First Review of the New Sony DSC-S70 CyberShot
Our good friends over at the Imaging-Resource just posted their Sony DSC-S70 review and had this to say about it: "Like its 'little brother' the S50, the Sony DSC-S70 offers a compact, portable size and a wide variety of features. It's small enough to fit into a large coat pocket or purse but still hefty enough to provide a good secure hand grip. The S70's lightweight portability and full set of features make for a very user friendly camera we think most consumers will enjoy. The Carl Zeiss lens is of unusually high quality, rendering exceptionally sharp, highly-detailed images, with the highest resolution we've yet found in a digicam. Overall, an excellent 3 megapixel digicam!"...[read more]
05/05/2000: Congrats To Our April DPOTD Winners
The votes have been counted and we now have our top three Digital Photo of the Day pictures for April 2000. Congratulations to the photographers and to our readers for helping us decide the winners. We had another month full of great photos and as usual, I received a lot of email telling me how difficult it is to pick just one favorite photo. To see the winning photos just click here!...[read more]
