Lots of new cameras released today, or at least announced, from Canon and FujiFilm

So, this morning we have no less then 8 Cameras released, 5 from Canon, and 3 from Fuji. So, without further ado, here are the links:

Canon's EOS-1D Mark III DSLR with live LCD
Canon debuts SD750 and SD1000 Digital ELPH cameras
Canon's compact PowerShot TX1 captures 7.1 megapixel stills and HD video
Canon's new PowerShot A570 and A560
Fujifilm's FinePix A820 and A900 for consumers
Fujifilm's FinePix S5700

Of them all, the most imporant one for most photographers will be the EOS 1D Mark III, even though most could not afford it. The specs are interesting. 10 frames a second for up to 110 photos in JPEG or 30 in RAW. thats 11 seconds continous shooting in JPG! it also mentions something called a "Live LCD". From what i have read, it seems to be the same thing you get on a low end digital camera, but better. i can actually see this being handy (Tripod shooting, or if your shooting with your camera heigher then you, but it does sound strange.

Also, the TX1 is very interesting. this is what i want to carry around with me. HD Video, 7MP photos, and its a Canon (not literally a canon that shoots people, but you know what i mean. Sorry, its early, ish, in the morning. my head doesent work correctly at this time...) Sounds interesting. could be handy for the shots where a Full SLR is too big (eg, Pub, Partys, some family outings, etc)

New Nikon Cameras

Well, Nikon has been busy and has released no less then 8 new (non SLR) digital cameras. Ranging from low end consumer, to ProSumer cameras, they look like they could be interesting. Linking to the Engadget articles here, since they have more commentry and photos:

Nikon announces S50, S50c, S200, and S500
Nikon's new L10, L11 and L12 Coolpix take it low-end
Nikon's P5000 10 megapixel prosumer cam

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Adobe PhotoShop LightRoom now available

Adobe has just released PhotoShop LightRoom 1.0. I played with the beta before, and was impressed, but it was still beta. I will try this out tonight and see how things go. [Via TUAW]

howto: Profesional HDR photos

I have seen a few of these "HDR" photos around, but never actually figured out how to take them or make them. Well, hopefully, with the help of this tutorial over at Backing Winds, I will have some HDR photos for you to check out later on. And if not, at least you have the tutorial! :)

rebuilding the photography site with SQS, Serialization and more

[update] removing from my photography site, as it was to be posted on my techy geeky site... :) Original post here.

Some updates to the blog

So, its been a very busy time for the last few weeks, and that's the reason I have had very little posts here, or, for that matter, time to take photos. The last time I took my 350D out to take photos was last week when I got my new phone. Photos are here (WARNING: these are extremely geeky photos!). The other thing is I'm using Flickr a lot more for my photos, and not my own, custom in house built gallery system. this is probably due to the features I can do with Flickr at the moment. I will start adding some of these to my gallery system, but it might be a while.

Now about the photos of the phone. these where taken with a Sigma 10-20MM lens I borrowed from a Co-Worker. Very nice lens. I would have liken to take more out side shots, but with rain, snow, darkness and lack of time, this did not happen. hopefully I will get out at the weekend, and we see what happens!

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Photography Shop now open

Ok, its not perfect, but its a start. The Tiernan OToole Photography shop is live. Not a lot on it at the moment, but we are getting there! :)

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Backing up Aperture with Amazon S3

Micah Walter has a blog post over at Oreilly's Digital Media blog about using Amazon S3 to backup your Aperture Vault. Interesting theory, and would be very cool for working with photos on the move. Mind you, if your on the move, you may need one hell of an internet connection for uploading all your photos... considering I shoot in RAW (which weigh in at anywhere from 4-8mb each) and then what ever changes I do to the photo (if any) plus the preview images, etc, you talking, for an average 6mb RAW image, to have about 10mb of files, total. so, you shoot 100 photos, that's 1gb that needs uploading. you wont want to be doing that on a 56k dialup connection. Actually, that would take over 4 and a half hours to upload on a 512k internet connection! EEK!

[Reposted from the main blog here]
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