Rosario Tech

Click here to pre-order Leopard (10.5) from Amazon for $109, with no catches. You can even get free shipping if you can wait a few days.

Check out all the new features inside of Leopard here. It’s quite an impressive list.

From CNet:

Nikon to expand full-frame SLR line

Posted by Stephen Shankland

SAN FRANCISCO–It looks like Nikon, having followed Canon into the market for high-end SLRs with full-frame image sensors, will continue the effort by offering lower-end models as well.

Nikon’s $5,000 D3 camera, announced in August and due to go on sale in November, employs a sensor the size of a full frame of 35mm film. These FX-sized sensors offer higher sensitivity and a broader field of view than the smaller DX sensors Nikon has used in its SLRs until now. Nikon will develop new DX-based cameras, but the company will flesh out its FX line as well, said Steve Heiner, senior technical manager of Nikon SLR marketing.

“I think you’ll see other FX products. It’s a sensor size we’re committed to,” Heiner said at a meeting here with reporters.

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Read the full article here.

All I can say is w00t!!!!!! and it’s about f–king time!

Well, I broke down and got it last Wednesday. It’s past the point of returning and getting a full refund (Apple lets your return it within three days for full refund, including activation fee). So here is my short review as of today:

So far, I like it very much.

Getting it set up was a breeze, although my desktop contact management program is Entourage and it took a little doing to get it to sync to iPhone. It was not that much of a big deal as Entourage can sync with iCal and iCal syncs with iPhone. The syncing is both ways, so if I enter contact or date info on the iPhone, it will eventually show up in Entourage.

I can sync it to two computers; one has my music and podcasts on it and the other has all my contacts and Safari bookmarks. iPhone can easily sync to both machines without an issue.

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Mamiya is bringing out their new 645ZD Digital Camera System for $9,999. It comes with the Mamiya 645AFD II camera body, an 80mm f/2.8 AF lens, and the ZD22 digital back. All in all, it sounds like a great deal to me. They are also throwing in a copy of Adobe’s Lightroom, just to sweeten the deal a bit.

Read the full product release here.

Oh, and I wouldn’t worry about that noise about Mamiya throwing in the towel. Just read this.

This would go well with my favorite black light Bruce Lee poster.

From Photopreneur Blog.

About an hour long. Watch it when you have time.

Epson is creating a fiber-based paper that supposedly has a more photographic feel to it, like good black & white silver gelatin paper. It’ll be available in November, according to their press release (read it after the jump).
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Head on over to the Aperture Users Professional Network for some neat tutorials on Aperture.

Check out the rest of the site while you’re there.

Here’s a page that contains six more sample shots from the new Nikon D3 taken by photographers Dave Black, Mike Corrado and Joe McNally. They are all jpeg images and, so, that means they’ve been processed either by the camera or Nikon’s Capture software. This means we are probably not seeing the full range of the raw image presented to us - for instance, the background in the McNally image is showing some banding. I hope that we won’t see that in the final production camera.

Otherwise, I’m pretty impressed with the overall quality. Noise levels are low enough in the high ISO images to be quite usable, and probably acceptable to places like Getty Images and other stock houses (my benchmark for acceptable imagery).

So you go around boasting to others about your 22 megapixel camera and the stunning images that it can take - unfortunately, that megapixel count pales in comparison to the efforts of big-brained researchers at Carnegie Melon University and NASA Ames’ Research Center, who developed an image that contains more than a billion pixels. They found a method to capture multiple images of a single landscape, combining them into one gigantic panoramic photo that you can view in total or zoom all the way into in perfect clarity. All you need is a standard digital camera and a robotics tripod, and you can begin snapping across the entire landscape while stitching them together later. Neat!