07/30/2002: Minolta DiMAGE 7 Enhancement Upgrade Now Available

Dimâge 7 Optional Enhancement Upgrade Kit is now available for .95 from Minolta. New kit enhances performance and adds features to the award-winning Minolta Dimâge 7 digital camera. Comprised of Minolta's new firmware upgrade and new Dimâge Viewer software, the Upgrade kit transforms the award-winning Minolta Dimâge 7 into an even easier to use and more responsive digital camera. Read our D7 Upgrade mini-review...[read more]

07/28/2002: Sunday Morning Photographer

This Sunday Mike tells us why he loves his new Sony F707, check it out in the latest weekly installment of our Sunday Morning Photographer - "Real Photographers Don't Use Sonys". Want to discuss what you think of Mike's columns, then go over and join our new SMP Discussion Group on our Public Forums....[read more]

07/24/2002: Fred Miranda Releases New Sharpen Actions for Popular dSLRs and Photoshop

Fred Miranda has released his Custom Sharpen (CS) actions for the Canon D30, D60 and EOS 1D. To quote Fred, "They are customized to provide an automated and easy route to Haloless sharpening, Edgesharpening, Highpass sharpening, Mode sharpening, Lab sharpening with only the press of a button." A few weeks ago he posted the actions for the 1D and has now followed that up with versions for the D30 and D60. Fred's D30 CS pro Fred's D60 CS pro Fred's Canon 1D CS pro Fred's custom actions aren't free but they're certainly reasonably priced and very effective. Give them a try, they'll save you time and improve your image quality....[read more]

07/12/2002: Mike Chaney Posts Fuji S2 Pro First Look

Mike Chaney, author of Qimage Pro 2002, has posted what he calls his Fuji S2 Initial Impressions report. Mike gives us a rather brief but detailed look at the ergonomics, image quality and color rendition of Fuji's new dSLR. Hopefully we will get our review S2 Pro soon so we can give you are usual detailed tour of the camera and its physical features. In the meantime give Mike's review a perusal, it makes for interesting reading for sure. 2002 will definitely be the year that digital SLR cameras came into their own, even for us non-pros....[read more]

07/08/2002: Olympus America Announces Affordable Full Featured 4 Megapixel Digital Camera For Under $400

July 8, 2002, Melville, NY?? Olympus America announced today the CAMEDIA C-4000 ZOOM, an affordable, full featured 4-Megapixel, 3x optical zoom digital cameras that offers a world-class Olympus zoom lens, total photographic control and advanced features such as Multi-Point Spot Average Metering, Super Macro focusing, and Histogram in Shooting and Review modes. Click here to read the full Olympus press release....[read more]