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.
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!
Not only has OJ been Jobs’ hitman since 1985 (when Jobs bombed Philadelphia’s Move House that same year with pyrotechnics borrowed from Great White) but he also paid Steve Jobs to clone Dolly the sheep in 1998.
Jobs is also accused of pointing nuclear missiles at Lance Armstrong’s bicycle, the Seattle Space Needle, and the brain of one Jonathan Lee Riches. Riches also states in his complaint , filed September 21st in US District Court in Orlando FL., that Jobs regularly tours his brain with infrared waves.
Read the full complaint here.
I really hope this doesn’t delay Leopard any longer.
