25/07/08
Océ PRISMAaccess logiciel de gestion d' impression
24/07/08
PictoColor Releases CorrectPhoto 3.1
PictoColor announces the release of CorrectPhoto 3.1, its popular easy to use digital photo editor
23/07/08
iF concept award 2009
21/07/08
Panasonic annonce le DMC-FZ28, un bridge a zoom puissant
Un objectif Leica DC grand-angle de 27mm lumineux (f/2,8) et un puissant zoom optique 18X dans un boitier compact
Le DMC-FZ28 est équipé d’un objectif LEICA DC VARIO-ELMARIT grand-angle lumineux (f/2,8-4,4) et d’un puissant zoom optique 18x* ainsi que d’un capteur CCD de 10,1 mégapixels, le tout dans un boitier compact. Grâce à son puissant zoom, le FZ28 s'avère l'appareil photo le mieux adapté pour prendre un large paysage aussi bien qu’un gros plan d'un sujet lointain. Ce zoom puissant fonctionne aussi pendant l'enregistrement de film. De plus, la fonction Extra zoom** utilise la partie centrale du CCD pour donner un grossissement supplémentaire permettant une puissance de zoom jusqu'à 32x.
* équivalent sur un appareil classique 35 mm : 27-486 mm ** en mode de résolution 3 mégapixels
Le FZ28 reprend et enrichit le mode Manuel particulièrement apprécié des passionnés de photographie. Les commandes manuelles du FZ28 sont plus évoluées que celles des modèles précédents et la disposition des commandes a été améliorée pour rendre les réglages et la navigation plus intuitive. La mise au point manuelle est simplifiée par l'utilisation d’un joystick. Il est possible de basculer instantanément entre la mise au point manuelle et l'autofocus grâce au bouton indépendant AF/MF.
- Le stabilisateur optique Mega O.I.S. qui corrige les tremblements de la main
- L’ISO Intelligent Control qui prévient les flous de l’image dus au mouvement du sujet
- Le sélecteur de scène intelligent qui choisit automatiquement le mode « scène » approprié parmi les modes les plus fréquemment utilisés : portrait, paysage, macro, portrait de nuit et paysage de nuit
- Le système de détection des visages peut repérer jusqu'à 15 visages dans le cadre et règle la mise au point et l'exposition pour capturer une image claire avec une mise au point nette même si la personne est de profil.
– Le mode Transformation qui rogne et étire une image pour en transformer virtuellement le sujet en le rendant plus mince ou plus large. Il dispose aussi d'un effet brillant pour accentuer et rendre plus amusante la transformation large.
Notes : * En mode vitesse prioritaire ; 13 ips en enregistrement 2-mégapixels (16:9), 12 ips en enregistrement 2,5mégapixels (3:2), et 11 ips en enregistrement 3 mégapixels (16:9). **Max. 5 images en enregistrement 3-mégapixels (4:3), 2,5 mégapixels (3:2),et 2 mégapixels (16:9). ***La vitesse de prise de vue en continu varie selon la carte mémoire, la taille de l'image et le mode de compression de l'image. Le nombre de prises de vue dépend de la carte mémoire, de la taille de l'image et du mode de compression de l'image. ****Max. de 5 images en mode standard/3 images en mode fin.
Processeur Venus Engine IV : un traitement d'image LSI à réponse rapide
18/07/08
Stylus Pro printer range - Epson releases 16 bit drivers for Apple Macintosh OS X Leopard
17/07/08
Junji Takasago tient un atelier photo avec Transcend
Transcend vient de tenir son premier atelier photographique avec le photographe japonais Junji Takasago le 27 juin au Akihabara convention center de Tokyo. En raison du succès de cet atelier, 75 personnes ont été invitées au lieu des 40 initialement prévues. Takasago est réputé pour la beauté des ses clichés de fonds sous-marins. Durant l’atelier Takasago a partagé son expérience avec les personnes invitées, qui ont également pu lui poser de nombreuses questions sur les techniques qu’il utilise, et sa vision de la photographie naturaliste. Takasago a aussi souligne l’intérêt grandissant que représente le stockage mémoire des photos: “Un des grands avantages de la photographie numérique est de pouvoir immédiatement contrôler les clichés qui viennent d’être pris. Avec une pellicule, le nombre de photos est limité, et il était impossible de changer sous l’eau de lentille ou de film. Auparavant, je devais économiser le nombre de films et ne prendre une photo que lorsque l’opportunité se présentait. Désormais, je peux prendre autant de photos que je souhaite." Junji Takasago est né en 1962 à Miyagi au Japon. Il a notamment travaillé pour le magazine japonais "Diving World". En 1989, Junji Takasago décide de travailler en free-lance et se lance dans une série de projets photographiques ambitieux. Ses séries les plus réputées sont entre autres Free (1993), Aqua (1995), Life (1998), Why Sea Lions Laugh (2000) et Night Rainbow (2003). Takasago est aussi membre de la société de la faune sauvage océanique dont l’objectif est la préservation du milieu naturel marin.
15/07/08
Korean Overseas Adoptees' Photo Exhibition
14/07/08
Moyen-Format Phase One P65+
PHASE ONE - PRESS RELEASE - 14.07.2008
Phase One Announces World’s First Full Frame 645 Medium Format Camera System, based on Breakthrough Sensor Technology
Phase One A/S today announced the P 65+ digital back and the P 65+ camera system based on Sensor+ CCD technology co-developed with DALSA Semiconductor. This patentpending, Sensor+ technology represents a significant advancement in image capture. The chip platform offers the most demanding photographers upgradeable CCD functions, ensuring a longer lifespan for their digital back investments.
“Photographers need real reasons to upgrade past 39 Megapixel digital backs,” said Henrik Håkonsson, CEO of Phase One. “Real value includes higher resolution but also requires new functions, faster operation, higher quality through expanded sensitivity, increased dynamic range, better results in the studio or on location and a better longer-term investment. I believe we are able to achieve this and more with our Sensor+ technology.”
Improvements and upgrades based on Sensor+ technology have been designed to enable:- Scaleable pixel and file size
- Higher sensitivity & dynamic range
- Increased flexibility for operation and capture
- Improved capture rates
13/07/08
Exposition Charles Meynier (1763 - 1832), Musée Magnin, Dijon
10/07/08
Kodak Easyshare M1093 IS
KODAK - COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE - 10.07.2008
Sinar back eMotion75 digital medium format
As of now all Sinar eMotion 75 digital backs ship with updated hardware parts that drastically augment its performance in terms of image quality and handling.
A newly designed circuit board has been implemented which improves image quality considerably. High ISO images are now clearer than ever. The upgraded eMotion75’s are also fitted with a new 2.5’’ TFT display that boasts a resolution of 163 dots per inch.
This 18bit display is not only 15% bigger than its predecessor it is also brighter and has a higher contrast range. This optimizes image viewing in bright light situations.
Using these State of the art components it was possible to keep the price tag as it was.
Contact your local Sinar dealer for information on how to upgrade your Sinarback eMotion75.
Photo (c) Sinar - All rights reserved
09/07/08
Sketches Online Gallery Ed Velandria
08/07/08
Macworld Award pour Quark DPS
07/07/08
Leica ALS60 et Leica RCD105
Leica ALS60 et Leica RCD105 : Une fréquence d’impulsions « Au sol » de 200kHz avec un appareil photo numérique moyen format adapté
La souplesse du Leica ALS60 : Reconfiguration rapide pour le montage en cabine ou dans unecoque à l’extérieur grâce à ses dimensions réduites.
Le Leica RCD105 est un nouvel appareil photo numérique aéroporté de moyen format conçus pécialement pour être utilisé avec les systèmes LIDAR aéroportés de la série ALS de Leica.
06/07/08
Mise a jour du micrologiciel du Casio EXILIM EX-F1
05/07/08
The Gallery, David Zwirner, New York
David Zwirner, New York
July 3 - August 8, 2008
Philip-Lorca diCorcia (b. 1951, United States) joined the gallery in 2007. This is the first time his work has been featured in an exhibition at David Zwirner, and included is a photograph from the Heads series, 2000. A current solo exhibition is on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art through September.
Jockum Nordström (b. 1963, Sweden) joined the gallery in 2000. This exhibition includes a large collage work from Nordström’s 2006 exhibition at David Zwirner.
David Zwirner
519, 525 & 533 West 19th Street New York, NY
www.davidzwirner.com
01/07/08
The Front Room Gallery Summer Sampler Exhibition
The Front Room Gallery (147 Roebling Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York) presents Summer Sampler, a tantalizing treat featuring works by the last season's Front Room artists as well as a preview of the shows to come, and some splendid new selections.
Amanda Alic and Ethan Crenson, film a new installment of their October 3rd videos every year. For Summer Sampler they will offer October 3rd, 2007. The couple set up outside of the New York Public Library and asked passers-by to tell us a joke in any language. Polish, Hebrew, German, Wolof, Spanish, Hungarian, Serbian, Pular, Igbo, Farsi, French, Russian, Norwegian and, of course, English speakers have offered jokes since the project began in 2001. The project seems to suggest the rigor of a conceptual exercise, but the subject has a less austere quality. The jokes may not be universal, but the telling of them has a quality seems so.
Sasha Bezzubov and Jessica Sucher's series The Searchers examines various aspects of Western spiritual tourism in India and features large scale photographs taken at sites including the Osho Meditation Resort in Pune, the Divine Life Society in Rishikesh, and the Mahabodi Temple in Bodh Gaya. Sasha Bezzubov and Jessica Sucher investigate the lure of India's rich religious history in utopian communities, yoga centers, and meditation retreats that cater to Western seekers. Engaging with the visitors of these locations and immersing themselves in the subculture of spiritual experimentation, Bezzubov and Sucher create spatially astounding images that encompass the visual strangeness and cultural collisions of this phenomenon. The Searchers consists of several series of photographs that present these themes through portraiture, landscape and abstraction.
Gregory Curry - In his paintings Greg Curry has invented a new biology. The behavior of the organisms from Curry's world of super day-glow greens and oranges is seemingly put under the microscope and we become privy to the existential struggle they endure. This nebulous environment might shroud their identities, but their purposes are often much clearer than their scale or surroundings. They are refugees, assassins, congregations of similar organisms and menacing loners. In these paintings the body has been expanded, contracted, manufactured, reworked and jettisoned. These paintings utilize familiar modes of representation: rendering, classic spatial relationships and perspective to familiarize these forms in spite of the taxonomic meltdown they are undergoing.
Lisa DiLillo's video and photography series entitled Encounters both focus on similar themes. The photographs depicts situations occurring along the increasingly porous borders between "natural" and human habitats. A cultural cross-contamination occurs as both worlds are altered by the presence of each other.
Erik Guzman - Erik Guzman's artworks consist of a multitude finely cut parts of aluminum, glass and plastics. Each of these material elements converge to create mechanical devices that rotate, point, generate sound, and illuminate without obvious or logical results. A marriage between craft and movement allows for an aesthetic to evolve that is independent of the two.
Sean Hemmerle - In Hemmerle's photographs the political situations are remarkably tangible in the landscape-the often sad and complex stories embodied. In these solitary, forsaken landscapes the streets are often dead ends marked by a cul-de-sac, a massive and improbable wall bisecting the street and blocking our visual lines. Sean Hemmerle's photos show the physical manifestation of ideological differences and the political desperation, that once deemed intractable, are made concrete and expressed through the architecture. By photographing international zones of contention he shows the landscape of discord, and the architecture erected for this specific division.
Melissa Pokorny - By using overtly artificial means to represent space, coupled with uncannily realistic animal figurines and casts, Melissa Pokorny questions our estrangement from, and subsequent longing for connection to the natural world, and the resulting substitution of the real by the fake.
Alan Packer - Alan Packer's extensive and impressive body of work examines elemental and cultural ideas. Packer relates his experiences and travels through large-scale sculptures that revive lesser known cultural ideas. His travels have taken him to the northern regions of the Arctic circle, cultural centers of Paris and New York, the Rocky mountains, the wilderness of Banff and ancestral Wales. During his extended stays in these communities Alan Packer broadened his cultural ideas, incorporating theirs into his own. His elegant constructions combine industrial materials with elements that reference natural world, unifying the mechanical world of industry's focus on rigorous time keeping and the less tangible system of the life cycle in nature.
Sante Scardillo - Through his work with newspaper articles, headlines, and magazine advertisements Sante Scardillo reclaims the public space the media uses for their marketing, and exposes a hidden message of compliance. He questions both their strategies and implied political aims. In his work Scardillo uses found text and images from the media and alters them, completely changing their perceived meanings. Scardillo's work brings the hidden meaning to the forefront, and uses the glossiness against itself, or simply isolates headlines, effectively creating cultural slogans.
Philip Simmons merges contours of American imagery, defining new icons for this century. His elegant silhouetted forms revel in the machismo culture so particularly American with the glorification of the wild west, gunfights between cowboys and indians, soldiers, and ultimately war. These glamorous shapes, of super high-gloss resin take us back to a simpler time of drive in movies and enameled gas station signs with logos of roaring tigers and Pegasus. Their content, however, is not lemonade stands and sock-hops. They are violent and aggressive, their radiant surfaces depicting savage animal attacks, gun fights, and bomb blasts.
Patricia Smith - Patricia Smith's meticulous, quietly subversive works on paper commingle elements of architectural drawings, medical illustrations, and antique maps. Labeled with text captions, these imaginary structures address the anxieties of contemporary life and the coping mechanisms that develop in the collective psyche.
Mark Stilwell uses painted and reclaimed packaging, byproducts of the over-consuming society he portrays, in this scene of terror. Crowds of paper cut-out citizens run screaming from the devastation and hostile creatures that are overtaking the city.
Edie Winograde - Edie Winograde's photographs tap into an American cultural memory, a visual memory created not so much through historical study but by television, movies and Western paintings. Place and Time creates a portrait of the present-day phenomenon of the reenactments as well as an impression of historical and legendary events, blurring the boundaries between now and then, history and imagination.
The Front Room
Summer Sampler
July 11 - August 2, 2008