Datacolor expands Spyder Checkr card system
Datacolor adds standalone grey and white balance cards plus Photo and Video card decks, extending Spyder Checkr’s modular colour workflow.
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Rendering the Inferno at RiseFX: The Lost Bus
128 shots, 15 sequences, and GPUs on the brink: RISE FX’s Oliver Schulz explains how his team built the burning world of The Lost Bus.
ICE.ART 2025.II recordings now live for free
All talks and panel recordings from ICE.ART 2025.II are now live online: set aside a free weekend and dive into environment, historical racing,, city simulation, film nostalgia (including dinosaurs) and Unreal workflows.
Sink or Shoot: Datacolor Webinar on Underwater Photography
Datacolor teams up with Kate Jonker for a free webinar on underwater photography – covering gear, lighting, and techniques for tiny critters and coral giants.
Mustafa Morad’s Datacolor LightColor Meter Adventure
Discover how Datacolor's LightColor Meter can enhance your workflow and save you from unnecessary post-processing in a free webinar on April 3.
DJI Flip: Pocket-Sized Drone
DJI's Flip drone combines folding propellers, 4K video, and obstacle avoidance for vloggers/creators who need a drone as portable as their coffee cup.
Firmware update for Panasonic’s GH6 supports SSD recording via USB!
Ver.2.2 has gone online. This fulfils one of the users' main requests: Recording via SSD with USB connection is supported.
Circle of Life: A Floral Time-Lapse Short by Emilie Grange
Photographer Emilie Grange’s three-minute time-lapse follows flowers from germination and bloom through to decay.
Sun Locator Pro Review: Planning Natural Light on Android
Sun Locator Pro helps photographers plan sun and moon positions, blue and golden hours, shadows and augmented-reality previews; this archive review tests it on Android.
Photokina Suspended Indefinitely After 70 Years
Koelnmesse suspended Photokina indefinitely as imaging-market decline and the COVID-19 pandemic made the established trade-show format unsustainable.
More pixels in your pocket – the Blackmagic Pocket 4K
Many loved the inconspicuous Blackmagic Pocket HD despite all its weaknesses - from short battery life to fragile sockets and a very flat screen.
SpyderX Photo Kit Bundles Calibration Tools
Datacolor’s SpyderX Photo Kit combined monitor, camera and RAW calibration tools in a discounted June 2020 bundle.
Photogrammetry: Unity Delighting Tool
New free tool for the photogrammetry workflow: With this Unity delighting tool, you can remove shading from lighting conditions.
Water Effects with On-Camera Filters
Photographer Rick Berk shares tips on using on-camera filters correctly to create effects in different water scenarios.
Fotolia Advent Calendar
Practical and doesn’t go to your hips: the Fotolia Advent calendar. In December, Fotolia gives you a free stock photo every day on its social-media channels.
Canon EOS C300 Menu Simulator
Anyone who would like to try the menu of a Canon EOS C300 themselves to become familiar with its operation can use a menu simulator that Canon provides online. All menus, including the Picture Profile Manager, can be visited.
Sony World Photography Award – First-Class 3D
Anyone who believes they have a great 3D image should submit it to the Sony World Photography Award. The world championship of image makers is opening up this year with a 3D category.
New Canon High-End Model 1Dx
With its new professional DSLR, the 1D X, Canon could completely clean up the market – almost 7 µ per pixel, 18 MP resolution, 12fps RAW, 61-point autofocus, 1080-line video, and much more. The only thing missing: a handkerchief until the delivery date to catch the sweat of anticipation.
USB 3.0 Pulls 80 Megapixels from the Camera
After a rather slow start, USB 3.0 is now gradually gaining ground - the new 80MP digital back from PhaseOne is one of the first professional devices to fully support and use the standard, which has been public for two years.
dc days Talk: “Virtual Product Photography for High-End Marketing Stills”
Thorsten Jasper Weese, manager and CGI director at Recom GmbH, has been confirmed as a speaker at dc days.
The Evolution of Underwater Photography
The latest underwater-photography techniques at Photokina’s special Underwater Imaging exhibition in Hall 5.1, stand F30
Lichtenberg Exhibition Opens at Museum Lichtenberg im Stadthaus
Under lecturer Peter Thieme, twelve aspiring photographers currently training at the BEST-Sabel vocational school for design created a photographic and topographical project in Berlin’s Lichtenberg district.
Adobe Summer School 2008 – half-day workshop for creative professionals
Your customers are on holiday, but you're not? If this scenario applies to you, you should find out more about the Adobe Summer School. The events are aimed at professional and experienced users from the fields of photography, design, print, web and video who are familiar with the existing versions and now want to learn even more functions and tricks. The event is free of charge.
Adobe Summer School 2008 – half-day workshop for creative professionals
Your customers are on holiday, but you're not? If this scenario applies to you, you should find out more about the Adobe Summer School. The events are aimed at professional and experienced users from the fields of photography, design, print, web and video who are familiar with the existing versions and now want to learn even more functions and tricks. The event is free of charge.
dc days Talk: “Virtual Product Photography for High-End Marketing Stills”
Thorsten Jasper Weese, Manager and CGI Director at Recom GmbH, has been secured as a speaker for the dc days.
Adobe Summer School 2008 – half-day workshop for creative professionals
Your customers are on holiday, but you're not? If this scenario applies to you, you should find out more about the Adobe Summer School. The events are aimed at professional and experienced users from the fields of photography, design, print, web and video who are familiar with the existing versions and now want to learn even more functions and tricks. The event is free of charge.
Adobe Summer School 2008 – half-day workshop for creative professionals
Your customers are on holiday, but you're not? If this scenario applies to you, you should find out more about the Adobe Summer School. The events are aimed at professional and experienced users from the fields of photography, design, print, web and video who are familiar with the existing versions and now want to learn even more functions and tricks. The event is free of charge.
iStockphoto Becomes Exclusive Sponsor of Megapixelig
As part of the partnership, iStockphoto provides Megapixelig's authors with credits they can use to illustrate their articles.
Book Review: Photoshop – Down & Dirty Tricks
Adobe Photoshop is packed with possibilities. Even long-standing, experienced users discover new techniques every day. Well-known Photoshop guru Scott Kelby once again reveals his methods and shares a wealth of new tricks for striking images.
Book Review: Photographic Landscapes: A Textbook for Image Composition
Anyone can take photographs—framing and image composition, not only in landscapes, are subjects that require practice, knowledge and experience.
Photo Gallery from the DPIntensiv Seminar in Cologne
Last weekend, July 5 and 6, participants successfully learned about on-air design and production workflows in C4D
Fotoespresso Workshops at Photokina 2008
Dpunkt Verlag will organize workshops with its book authors and respected photographers at the photography trade show in September.
Small US Town Bans Google Camera Teams
Street View Photos of Private Roads Had to Be Removed.
iStockphoto Introduces a More Flexible Payment Model
Subscription plans are now available alongside standard pay-as-you-go payment
Photo Gallery: 10 Years of MedienCampus Bayern
MedienCampus Bayern celebrated its tenth anniversary yesterday. We have the best photos from the event.
TIPA Award 2008 for the Cintiq 12WX
Twenty-seven leading photography and imaging magazines honor Europe’s best photography and imaging product in the Digital Accessory category
Book Review: Better Photography
“Better Photography” raises high expectations, reinforced further by its subtitle, “The Advanced Art of Creative Photography.”
Videos of Maike Jarsetz’s Photoshop Workshop
Galileo Design Presents Video Recordings of a Photoshop Workshop with Maike Jarsetz
Book Review: The Photographer’s Eye
Books on operating a camera and on the technical aspects of photography appear every day. Image composition and design, by comparison, remain topics for more advanced photographers, though they have increasingly found their way onto bookshelves in recent years.
Fraunhofer SIT: Photopatrol Goes Online
Copyright Research Instead of Image Theft on the Internet.
Canon Sponsors Getty Images Gallery
Canon assumes principal sponsorship of Getty Images Gallery in London.
Public Beta Version of Adobe Photoshop Express Now Supports Flickr
New “Save As” function and embedded player added in response to community feedback.
Image Gallery: Photos from fmx 2008
fmx continues in Stuttgart until Thursday. DP is there and has taken a few impressions of the exhibition for everyone who stayed at home.
Book Review: HDR Photography
Megapixels were yesterday; today quality is what matters. HDR photography has been gaining ground for years, and Jürgen Held reveals many secrets of DRI, HDR and HDR panoramas in foundations and practical workshops.
DP Interview with Kelly Thompson of iStockphoto
Kelly Thompson is Vice President of iStockphoto. Having established itself in the online photo market, the company is now moving into the video market. Thompson spoke with DP Editor-in-Chief Matthias J. Lange about future plans.
Image Gallery for the Animated Short Film “Entering Rockspring”
Sebastian Krieg, Mathias Herbster, Timo Käsinger and Alexander Schäferle created a short film in the fourth semester of Macromedia's Computer Animation programme.
Image Gallery for the “Online Bolzplatz” Project
Project by Macromedia student Andreas Küffner, Sports and Event Management, second semester, on the subject of "Web 2.0 in the World of Football".
Image Gallery for the Short Film “Blinder Musiker”
Project by Miriam Glück, Anna-Julia Geyer and Franziska Kutschenreuter, second-semester Media Management students at Macromedia University of Applied Sciences.
Image Gallery for the Communication Concept for BeTV
Ulrike Bauer, Elisabeth Schöning and Katharina Schwarz, fourth-semester students of PR and Communication Management at Macromedia University of Applied Sciences for Media, presented their a practice-oriented communication concept.
Image Gallery for The Eye
Sydney Wells (Jessica Alba) is a violinist who has been blind since a tragic accident in her childhood. Her last chance is a corneal transplant that restores her sight. But her joy is short-lived: inexplicable, shadowy and frightening images haunt her. All just imagination, or a horrifying reality after all?
Image Gallery for the Short Film “Munich – a Football Metropolis
Andreas Küffner and Philipp Perrey, fourth-semester Media Management students at Macromedia, presented their view of Munich and football.
Image Gallery for the Communication Concept for Sport1.de
Photo series on the project by Daniel Schuster, a fourth-semester Macromedia student in PR and Communication Management.
RTT: Image Gallery from the Opening
The 9th. RTT Conference began on Thursday with over 350 spectators. The photos showed the opening at the Hofburg and a visualisation by Lamborghini.
Pictures: Exhibitors at the RTT Conference
Even before RTT's two managing directors, Ludwig Fuchs and Christoph Karrasch, have opened the RTT conference, the exhibitors are attracting large crowds
Pictures: Lamborghini Murciélago Roadster at the RTT Conference in Vienna
Here Are the Photos of the White Sports Car from Italy
Video: An Eye-Catcher Outside the RTT Conference in Vienna
A snow-white Lamborghini is the first visual highlight of the RTT conference in Vienna. The vehicle was delivered from Italy especially for this event.
Image Gallery for the Short Film Paranoir
Stefan Marquart, studying PR and Communication Management, presented his short film Paranoir as part of the semester opening.
A New Old Name for Wim Wenders’ Production Company
Wenders Images GmbH adopts a new name and becomes Neue Road Movies GmbH as of 31 March 2008.
Pictures: Media Design Students Greatly Expand Their Study Project and Earn Recognition
The fourth-semester Media Design students at Macromedia University of Applied Sciences were actually supposed to create a modern website. But that was not enough for the ladies and gentlemen. They expanded the assignment on their own initiative and succeeded.
Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac Available
New Version of the Photo-Editing Software Aims to Combine Power and Ease of Use
Toshiba Camileo Pro HD: An Affordable All-Rounder
Toshiba upgrades the Camileo Pro line with the compact Camileo Pro HD multifunction camcorder.
Pictures: Keynote at the Macromedia Semester Opening
Michael Valentin Delivered the Keynote at the Semester Opening of Macromedia University of Applied Sciences for Media. Pictures of the Event Can Be Found in the Galllery
Adobe Releases Beta Version of Photoshop Lightroom 2.0
Adobe Systems Today Released the Beta Version of Photoshop Lightroom 2.0. It Offers a Preview of New and Improved Features That Will Form Part of the Upcoming Version.
Red Box 2008 Published
Red Box 2008, the advertising and communications-industry handbook, has been published with 824 pages of German industry contacts.
T-Systems Media & Broadcast Becomes Media Broadcast
MEDIA BROADCAST, formerly part of T-Systems and now owned by France's TDF Group, is positioning itself as a German broadcast-services brand.
heise online Launches Photography Channel
Heise Zeitschriften Verlag has expanded its online service with heise Foto, an online magazine covering digital imaging.
Aperture 2.1 adds open plug-in architecture
Apple’s Aperture 2.1 introduces direct access to third-party image-processing plug-ins.
Adobe Releases Public Beta Version of Photoshop Express
Free online software offers Photoshop technology for anyone who takes digital photographs
New Smart Books for Apple Users
Two new books cover Apple's iWork '08 office package and iLife '08 multimedia suite.
Mobile DVD Players Receive Poor Marks
Testers conclude that a notebook is the better option.
CyberLink Introduces MediaShow 4
CyberLink MediaShow 4 manages, optimises, authors, burns and publishes videos and photographs.
Braun DigiFrame 1150 Digital Picture Frame
The new digital picture frame has an 11.3-inch TFT LCD display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels and supports the display of high-resolution images of up to 16 megapixels. In addition to digital pictures, the DigiFrame 1150 can also play video clips and MP3 music files.
Canon Expands LFP Range with imagePROGRAF iPF6100
Canon's new 24-inch imagePROGRAF iPF6100 large-format printer is aimed primarily at graphics professionals.
Samsung Develops Eight-Megapixel Phone Camera
Samsung introduces a miniature eight-megapixel camera module intended for future mobile phones.
Mannheim Workshops Cover HDRI and Monochrome
Foto Media Academy Mannheim and dpunkt.verlag offer full-day workshops for photographers.
iStockphoto expands its range of free images
iStockphoto, the world's leading provider of royalty-free images, is expanding its programme of free low-resolution images and illustrations that Microsoft Office users can access through Microsoft Office Online.
Updates for Photoshop Lightroom and Camera Raw now available
Adobe is now offering free downloadable updates to Photoshop Lightroom version 1.4 and the Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in version 4.4.
Image Gallery for Vfx Spectacle 10,000 BC
With the new Emmerich film 10,000 BC posting good box-office results, we have put a series of stills and posters online.
Photos from the Apple roadshow “Pro Series Event”
The Apple roadshow “Pro Series Event” stopped in Munich yesterday. DP was a media partner and has posted pictures of the event online.
Additional event: Apple Pro Series
Due to its great success, Apple is offering two more free events in Hamburg and Munich. At lectures and masterclasses on the new Aperture 2, Final Cut Studio and podcasting, experience live the tools you need to hold your own in today's multifaceted media landscape.
Programme:
13:00: Registration
13:30: Lecture
15:00 Break
15:30 Masterclass Photo
16:30 Masterclass Video
17:30 Masterclass Podcasting
Canon Digital IXUS 85 IS and 90 IS: Ten-Megapixel Designer Cameras
Canon is expanding its IXUS series with two new 10-megapixel models: the IXUS 85 IS and IXUS 90 IS.
High Transfer Speed Enables Real-Time Recording
Verbatim has introduced a new 16 GB Class 6 SDHC flash card with a guaranteed minimum write speed of 6 MB/s and transfer rates of up to 20 MB/s, enabling real-time recording directly to the card.
Pentagon bans Google from filming military bases
The US Department of Defense has banned search-engine operator Google from filming on US military bases.
Pictures from the Hobnox party
Hobnox is an online entertainment and publishing platform that recently held a major event at Berlin's Tresor. DP was a jury member and has posted the hottest party pictures online.
Datacolor Expands Spyder3 Color Management
Datacolor’s Spyder3 range provides monitor, printer, television, and projector calibration for professional and enthusiast workflows.
Pinnacle presents video editing software for photography enthusiasts
Create photo slideshows with expressive film effects using Pinnacle Studio Plus “Extreme Photo Edition”
Quatographic: new Intelli Proof 240 LE
At this year's CeBIT, Quatographic is presenting the new Intelli Proof 240 LE, specifically for photographers and designers with colour-critical requirements, in Hall 23, B18 (at the ADF joint stand).
Art Karlsruhe continues until Sunday, March 2
Right at the start of the art fair, Cologne's ART GALERIE 7 in Hall 2/Stand A 22 reports an excellent record of success.
Call for entries to the Gesellschafter ART.AWARD 08
The submission period for the Gesellschafter ART.AWARD 08 begins on March 1. With its launch, all artists nationwide are asked: “What kind of society do we want to live in?”. The competition, launched by Aktion Mensch's Gesellschafter initiative and ART.FAIR 21, explores ideas and visions on sociopolitical issues in art.
Apple Introduces Aperture 2
Apple has introduced Aperture 2 with a redesigned interface, new RAW processing, faster library handling and more than 100 new features.
Photos from IMAGINA 2008
IMAGINA in Monaco has ended. As a souvenir, we have put a few photos from the event on the web.
Identity and idea: “ID08”
Design students present their diploma projects: opening on February 8, 2008
Digital facial recognition using just one photo
Researcher Hung-Son Le at Sweden’s Umeå University http://www.umu.se has developed a set of algorithms that enables facial recognition from photos.
reflecta Introduces the Cosmos Projection Screen
reflecta has introduced the Cosmos range of permanently mounted large-format motorised projection screens for conference rooms and home cinema.
MW: Pictures from Steve Jobs’ Macworld Expo 2008 keynote
DIGITAL PRODUCTION documented Apple chief Steve Jobs’ keynote and is putting the pictures online.
Sony launches an attractive promotion
Sny projectors now offer two reasons to smile. Every end customer who buys a portable VPL-EX4 or VPL-CX21 business projector receives a digital camera free of charge. Sony Professional Solutions Europe’s new end-customer promotion runs from January through March 31, 2008. Customers buying the VPL-EX4 LCD projector receive a Cyber-shot DSC-S500. The premium VPL-CX21 model comes with the brand-new Cyber-shot DSC-S730
DP 01:08: Interview with Christoph Gamper of datacolor AG
ColorVision presented the new Spyder3 calibration system in Zurich on October 11, 2007, and announced that ColorVision would be integrated into parent company datacolor. DP editor Michael Krimmer spoke with Christoph Gamper, General Manager EMEA of the Consumer Business Unit at datacolor.