In Part 1 of this article I included 6 video clips from PhotoPlus Expo. In Part 2 included here I have included
an additional 6 video clips. I hope you enjoy them! After watching any or all
of these clips I would love your feedback. Please feel free to send your comments to me.
Everything You Wanted to Know About the DROBO Storage System
The DROBO has become a very popular storage system for photographers. Unlike any other drive storage system or raid system, the
DROBO allows you to slide in any size 3.5" eSATA drive and the system will automatically create redundancy on all drives. What this
means is that if a drive fails you can pull the drive out and replace it - without downtime or data loss. Users can install 2 to 4 drives
of any size, mix and match, or pull out the smallest drive when its time to add more storage capacity and DROBO takes care of all
the setup. Truly Plug and play!
X-Rite Color Munki Demonstration - Calibrate Your Monitor and Printer
X-Rite announced the ColorMunki about six weeks ago, just ahead of the Photokina trade show in Germany. The ColorMunki is a puck-sized all-in-one spectrophotometer
that will calibrate virtually any LCD, CRT, and Projector as well as create profiles for your printer. The software allows for RGB and CMYK printer profiling. Simply
scan one test chart of only 50 patches and ColorMunki calculates an interim profile having learned how your printer behaves with these colors. It then
produces a second chart of 50 patches that perfects your profile once you scan it using ColorMunki.
Sony provided us a brief overview of their new 24.6-megapixel Sony Alpha DSLR-A900 along with two new lenses, the 70-400mm G Lens ($1499) and the new
Carl Zeiss 16-35mm lens ($1799). Both lenses will ship in January 2009.
The new Shape Shifter backpack from Think Tank Photo was designed for the photographer on the go. It's the first and only backpack on the market that
holds all your gear (2 pro bodies, 2 or 3 lenses, and an external flash unit) when traveling, but will compress to a thin 3-4" thin when your gear is
out of the bag. The design of this bag was based on photojournalists who need a backpack to carry their gear to a specific location, but once there they
typically put the camera / lens around their neck and additional lenses on a belt system. By compressing down to 3-4", the backpack can now be worn and
still allow you to comfortably fit in a crowd or in other tight spaces.
Bogen-Imaging Product Manager, David Fisher, provides an overview of the world's first wireless macro ring flash from Metz. The mecablitz 15 MS-1 digital is a
completely redesigned, wireless Metz macro-flash, equipped with two individually-controllable, swivelling reflectors integrated in the housing. The new ring-form
macro-flash thus ensures balanced and precise lighting and also maximises the scope for customising light arrays in the macro area. The remote TTL flash operation
of the mecablitz 15 MS-1 digital can be used for digital cameras of the following makes: Canon, Nikon, Olympus/Panasonic, Pentax/Samsung and Sony-Alpha. In this case,
the camera must either have an integrated flash unit acting as master, or be equipped with add-on flash (e.g. Metz 58 AF-1 digital).
Quick Glimpse (Under Glass) of the Olympus Micro Four-Thirds Digital Camera Prototype
The Micro Four-Thirds system was officially launched at Photokina in Germany in mid September. At launch, Panasonic showed the world's first Micro Four-Thirds camera, dubbed
the LUMIX DMC-G1. What makes the Micro Four-Thirds system different from digital SLR's is that by removing the reflex shutter and pentaprism, the cameras can be reduced in size,
almost to the size of a standard point & shoot - while retaining access to interchangeable lenses. Because this new format does away with the mirror they are not true SLR's, which
is why both Olympus and Panasonic are calling these "interchangeable lens camera's." In this video we give you a quick 30 second glimpse of the Olympus Micro Four-Thirds prototype
that should ship sometime early next year - most likely altered a bit from this early prototype.
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