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New Canon PowerShots, now available in pastel

Come October there will be four new Canon PowerShot cameras to choose from. The new range spans everything from pastel blues and pinks to the more traditional silvers, greys and blacks.

Affordable full-frame dSLR war begins: Nikon D700 vs. Canon EOS 5D

For a few years now, the "affordable" full-frame dSLR market has belonged to Canon. However with today's launch of Nikon's D700, the Canon versus Nikon dSLR war has a new front.

New geotagging method draws on Flickr photos

Adding location information to photos is hard. Carnegie Mellon has found an easier way: compare your photo with similar ones on Flickr that already are geotagged.

Ubuntu for mobile devices to be unveiled

The new version of the Ubuntu Linux operating system for mobile Internet devices and mini-notebooks will be demonstrated for the first time this week.

World Press Photo 08

CNET.com.au has teamed up with Canon to offer a photography master class with Australian World Press Photo winner, Tim Clayton.

Adobe toys with standardising DNG raw photo format

Adobe's Digital Negative format hasn't caught on widely. Standardising might help, and Adobe has given DNG to a major standards group to evaluate.

Sony's 2008 Handycams are flash

Sony's rejigged 2008 camcorder line-up has more cameras than are in attendance for a Paris "oops I've slipped over, how silly of me" Hilton event. We give you a run down of each new model to help you sort the wheat from the chaff.

Canon says camcorder future is flash

With flash memory prices sinking quicker than the Titanic and available capacities ballooning, it's little surprise that at last week's camcorder launch, Canon declared that the future of consumer camcorders is flash.

Adobe releases debugged Lightroom 1.4.1

After a debugging session to fix problems with the flawed 1.4.0, Adobe Systems on Thursday released Photoshop Lightroom 1.4.1.

Canon loses SLR share, as Nikon surges

For 2007, Canon kept its top-dog status in compact and SLR camera shipments. But Nikon gained major ground in the strategic SLR market, IDC said.

Pioneer to outsource plasma, sell LCDs

Pioneer will stop making plasma display panels in an effort to turn around its money-losing business, the Japanese electronics maker has said.

CompactFlash revamp aimed at cameras

A higher-performance revamp of CompactFlash could start arriving in cameras in 2009. But it's not compatible with today's standard, so prepare to toss your old cards.

Apple upgrades Aperture ambitions to 2.0

No, the company wasn't letting its high-end photo-editing tool wither on the vine. With Aperture 2.0, Apple put the ball back in Adobe's court for raw image editing.

Mozilla releases third Firefox 3 bet

Mozilla has released a third beta version of Firefox 3, bringing about 1,300 changes to the widely used open-source Web browser.

Cameras with built-in geotagging on horizon

Geotagging today is a pain, but it won't be too long before ordinary cameras can automatically give your photos location stamps alongside time stamps.

Apple camera support catches partway up to Adobe

Apple's Leopard OS 10.5.2 update supports new Canon, Nikon, and Sony SLRs — months later than Adobe's software. Also included: a Lightroom-related bug fix.

End of the line for Canon's midsize sensor?

It ain't over 'til it's over, but it looks like Canon's intermediate-size APS-H sensor line, found in 1D Mark III SLRs used by photojournalists, may be at the end of its life span.

Canon's smart move to SD memory cards

With the new EOS 450D, Canon wisely moved from Compact Flash to SD memory cards. Maybe it'll help put the xD and Memory Stick formats out of their misery.

Megapixels vs. camera sensitivity

If you squeeze more megapixels onto a sensor of a given size, a camera works worse in dim conditions. So what's better, more megapixels or higher sensitivity?

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