Digital kamera guide

Nikon has announced that they have received reddot design awards for their COOLPIX S1000pj and the D5000 cameras.

Topaz has reworked its Photoshop plugin, version 4. The new version features a redesigned interface and a better performance.

Topaz Adjust enables you to improve your images with "creative exposure, powerful detail enhancement and unique color manipulation tools."

SanDisk last week announced that it has begun to ship its latest flash card SanDisk Ultra® SDXC™.

The Class 4 card has a read speed of 15 MB/s and a capacity of 64 Gigabyte. It uses the new SDXC format which can easily deal with High Definition videos.

Phase One has released an update on its Capture One 5 (Pro and Basic version).

It supports additional cameras (amongst others the Nikon D3s) and has some new functionalities. Those are shown intuitively on the Phase One homepage.

The update is free for all owners of Capture One 5.x.

Apple has released an update for its new Aperture 3 software. according to Apple: it "improves overall stability and addresses a number of issues", especially with importing images from older versions of Aperture, iPhone and cameras.

The new Face Recognition functionality was also improved.

A complete list of the eliminated issues and a link for the free update are available at the Apple webpage

Nikonians Media Communications representative Hendric Schneider has been visiting with some of our Nikonians corporate partners at PMA 2010 in Los Angeles and he tells us Think Tank Photo's president and lead designer Douch Murdoch has been highlighting two new additions to the Think Tank Photo products line.

Monday marks the 6th Birthday of the popular Lensbaby line of lens products.
To celebrate, our friends at Lensbaby are throwing a big social media birthday bash.
Check out the Lensbaby Turns 6 - Birthday Giveaway announcement to join in on the fun.

Nikon has released firmware update 1.01 for the D3S digital SLR. Notable fixes include inadvertent movie playback stalls and memory card "CHA" errors.

Two highly anticipated FX-format lenses were officially confirmed by Nikon today; bringing VR to a popular zoom range and updating a wide-angle classic.

Nikon has updated the Coolpix product line with seven new models spanning the Performance, Life and Style classes, including a superzoom with a new CMOS backlit sensor and the slimmest in-class 10x pocket camera.