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This time I’m not talking about Photoshop or any photo editing software. I’m referring to useful glass filters that screw on to the front of your lens.
Unlike film, digital photography allows us to add color effects and enhancements in post processing. Therefore, you don’t need too many filters.
Protect the lens - with a UV [...]

Flash drives. USB Thumbdrives. USB Portable Drives. These little storage devices go by a couple of different names. Whatever you call them, they are quite useful and every digital photographer should have one.
One ongoing fallacy about USB drives is that you can download images from the camera directly. No. Can’t be done. These are dumb [...]

Nikon has released updates for their Capture NX and Camera Control Pro software. Both of these add support for the new D60 body along with some minor improvements. Visit the Nikon Tech support website and you’ll find the Capture NX 1.3.2 updates here. The Camera Control Pro 2.1.0 updates are here.
Polaroid is getting out of [...]

Run, don’t walk, to your favorite bookseller and get this new book by Joe McNally. Nikon shooters may be familiar with Mr McNally as he is one of the masters of the Creative Lighting System and appears on the Nikon DVD (The Speed of Light) on that subject.
Amazon.com: The Moment It Clicks
This is not your [...]

Nikon D300 owners who shoot long exposures should update their cameras. And Sigma SD14 users, all of them. need to update their’s.
According to the Nikon site, the new firmware fixes "An issue that, in rare cases, caused vertical bands (lines) to appear in images captured at shutter speeds slower than 8s has been resolved." That’s [...]

Sweet, because it’s their Valentines special and it’s about half price. You can pick up 3 great software tools for just under $70. Hurry though, this deal is only on through Feb 14, 2008. Rush over to the ACDSee website.
ACDSee is an image management tool that supports lots of file formats, including PSD and RAW. [...]