February 22, 2007


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In a press release today, Canon announces the coming of the new 10.1 mp EOS 1D MK III
A few of the great new features on the system… (for more details visit the press release above, or see the main MK II page on Canons website)

 

Entirely new 10.1 Megapixel Canon CMOS Sensor (APS-H size, 1.3x lens conversion factor), featuring the EOS Integrated Cleaning System Entirely new 10.1 Megapixel Canon CMOS Sensor (APS-H size, 1.3x lens conversion factor), featuring the EOS Integrated Cleaning System
World's fastest digital SLR: shooting up to 10 fps (frames per second), with a burst rate up to 110 full-resolution JPEG images or 30 RAW images World’s fastest digital SLR: shooting up to 10 fps (frames per second), with a burst rate up to 110 full-resolution JPEG images or 30 RAW images
All new high-precision AF system with 19 user-selectable AF points and 26 additional All new high-precision AF system with 19 user-selectable AF points and 26 additional “assist points”; superior low-light performance and faster operation
New lighter body with enhanced weather resistance and outstanding reliability: featuring a shutter that's durability-tested to 300,000 exposures New lighter body with enhanced weather resistance and outstanding reliability: featuring a shutter that’s durability-tested to 300,000 exposures
Dual DIGIC III Image Processors working in parallel to provide up to 50% less shadow noise and superb image quality; new Highlight Tone Priority option adds control of bright highlights Dual DIGIC III Image Processors working in parallel to provide up to 50% less shadow noise and superb image quality; new Highlight Tone Priority option adds control of bright highlights
Large 3.0-inch LCD monitor, featuring Live View Large 3.0-inch LCD monitor, featuring Live View

Canon also announced upgrades to it’s professional 580EX hot shoe flash to the 580EX II, and also an updated 16-26 L f2.8 II.

On the consumer side Canon announced many new compact models in the Powershot, and Elph lines, as well as some new printers. Many of the new photo products can be found on the overview page of Canon’s website

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February 19, 2007

I have Adobe Lightroom, but I still want to use my precious
presets from Bridge or another raw workflow tool!!

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Lightroom, the new image workflow management tool from Adobe is a really great application for someone who wants to manage the workflow, and correction of lots of images. Though not at all a replacement to Photoshop, it is designed speed process time for color correction, many other adjustments. So far as I have found theres no direct way to convert your Adobe Bridge presets to Lightroom. However there is a back door method that will work well. You’ll need to make sure you have the latest version Camera Raw installed for this to work.

1. Go the Adobe Bridge and make a folder that has Raw images. I found it works best to use a duplicate of all the same image. It’s a good idea to start with a raw image that has been reverted to it’s original state. One way to make sure of this is to simply delete the .XMP metadata file that goes with that image before duplicating it, and adding presets.

2. In Bridge apply each preset you want, to a copy of the raw image, and as you do so rename the image to match the name of the preset applied to it. Once you have the images named, and have the presets applied go into Lightroom and import the folder that has the raw images that you applied the bridge presets to (file/import photos)

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3. Once the photo’s are imported they will retain the settings that have been stored in the .XMP sidecar files when you applied the presets in Bridge, and appear correctly in Lightroom. If the images look natural, and don’t reflect the settings applied in Bridge that you may need to update Camera Raw. Now go to the develop module and select the first image you want to save a preset from.

4. Click on one of the raw images in the develop module, and then click “Create New Preset” (the plus sign at the top of the presets panel) The preset you are creating will use the current settings (the ones that were applied in Bridge) and save them as a preset. Once this is done your ready to go, and can apply presets all day long.

Things to keep in mind
Be careful to watch what the preset saves. You will see when you go to save a preset that check boxes allow you to control what settings will be retained in that preset. Often you can leave nearly everything checked, but with some presets this may not be the case.

For example on a preset that does not define any changes to the white balance you won’t want to have “White Balance” checked. However on a preset that changes the white balance such as a warming preset you will need to retain the custom setting when you save it in Lightroom.

You see this by looking at the develop settings before you save the preset. If for example you see that the where balance is set to “As Shot” you’ll know that nothing has changed and you don’t need the white balance checked when you save the preset. If however you see that the setting is “Custom” or “Auto” then you probably need to maintain that setting in your new preset. Though white balance seems to be the main one to watch, you’ll also want to keep your eyes open just in case theres a preset that needs some settings unchecked to work correctly.

Note that though you will need a raw file to follow this process, and get your presets into Lightroom, you will be able to use the presets on jpeg file once you have the presets saved. You’ll find that once you have your presets moved over into lightroom you’ll be right at home, and really start loving it… Have fun.

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February 18, 2007

Direct MP3 Download – PPS Episode #23

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Show Notes… News & Reviews
Well I got through my engagement successfully, and I’m even here with the show notes.
Adobe Bridge CS3 beta 2 update is available from adobe labs, and is much more stable.
Lightroom should be shipping on 2/19/07 and will be available from the Adobe website
Also I gave a review on a neat product called Picture Rescue from ProSoft

Weekly Tips
A neat article about setting up your images to get noticed by Google image search.

Pick Of The Week
Our weekly site pick this time is Pixel Perfect by Bert Monroy He
has some great tips in the video show, and it’s worthy checking out. You should also check out Berts site

Have a super week… Gavin

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February 10, 2007

Direct MP3 Download – PPS Episode #22

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Show Notes… Scarlett & Gavin
First of all you’ll wanna check out Scarlett’s wedding photography, and portraits website I mentioned the amazing vdeography, and lighting in the 2005 movie Pride & Prejudice Scarlett also told us about her images recently featured a on Blu Domain website template. Heres the link for that.In our discussion of albums we talked about video a little, and Scarlett said she used Final Cut Studio for editing, and Magic Bullet for more special effects. She also mentioned that she uses White Wedding Albums for her wedding albums, and that she tracks her website traffic with statcounter.com

Have a great week… Gavin

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February 9, 2007

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Hey photographers out there.

The link exchange is coming along well. For those of you that signed up, but are not on yet, you should be up in the next day or two. I’m a little behind as I have to keep an active database with all PPSLE members.

Also on thye lat show I talked about Lightroom V1 from Adobe. I said you could go but it now, ans you can. But it is not actually released yet, and will just be a preorder. V1 should start shipping later this month. More updates on this soon.

New show coming this weekend with a fin guest, so stay tuned


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