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Category Archives: Hardware
What’s Happening
Lot’s of things going on that have potential consequence for photographers on both ends of the workflow. One is the inexorable push toward video. 4K is all the rage. New high-rez monitors and laptop displays are popping up everywhere. Panasonic … Continue reading
Posted in Hardware, Industry trends
Tagged Hasselblad, monitors, Panasonic, Pentax, Phase One, Photokina, Sigma, Sony
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New Mac Pro
Dedicated Mac users and ardent Apple fans will have well and truly noted the announcement last June of a successor to the venerable Mac Pro tower. Now the new (2nd Generation) Mac Pro is available for order, with expected delivery … Continue reading
The Print
Though the vast majority of photographs taken these days are never viewed on other than a small screen, there is still great value in physical prints. Prints can be defended in practical terms (longevity) as well as artistic (pure aesthetics). … Continue reading
USB 3.1
The way work gets saved from active memory to storage memory on computers is through connection pipelines—like USB, FireWire, eSATA, and Thunderbolt. Then there is video, converting bytes to visual information via VGA, DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort, and also Thunderbolt. All … Continue reading
SONY Stirs Things Up, Again
Sony has had a way of creating new paths in the camera business the last few years. While it hasn’t put Canon or Nikon out of business, it has turned more than a few heads and made a lot of … Continue reading
Disk Drives for File Storage
Digital photographers have to process and store image files somewhere, either locally or in the cloud. The demand for space increases with file size, especially when shooting RAW with high-MP sensors, and designing the best array of devices to process, … Continue reading
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Tagged hard drives, Western Digital
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New Backlights for Top-end Monitors
There’s a change underway in the technology for certain high-end color-critical monitors. Until recently, cold-cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFL) were the backlight choice for NEC’s best professional graphics IPS displays, such as the PA271W and PA301W. Just recently they announced their … Continue reading
Monitors for Imaging
The lynchpin of the digital darkroom is the monitor or display used to optimize image files. Without a monitor that accurately shows a wide range of colors precisely the same way session to session, all your visual adjustments are arbitrary … Continue reading
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Tagged calibration, monitors, NEC
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New Canon EOS Body
Yesterday Canon announced the latest evolution to their midrange APS-C EOS DSLR line—the 70D. While it won’t be available until September, by all accounts it looks to be an important upgrade with a host of desirable features. The most significant … Continue reading
New Intel Processors
It’s official—Intel’s 4th Generation Core processors are here. Why does this matter? Because of improvements in graphics capability and power management. And yes, they tend to be a little faster too, which never hurts. Here are some reasons why a … Continue reading
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Tagged Intel, processors
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