LensFlare 35 is a photography podcast brought to you by Dave Warner. This week, Dave interviews Travis Houlette, one of the Owners of Ghost Bird Software and the lead developer of PhotoForge2 for the iPhone and iPad. Travis was a game developer for nearly 10 years with companies such as Games Cafe and Electronic Arts. Their release of PhotoForge was almost two years ago and a totally new version is going live in the Apple store today. Their preview is in the video below and the podcast is available in the player underneath.
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New product provides photographers with streamlined functionality for creating and working with layers, offering new creative possibilities.
Portland, OR– April 21, 2011 – onOne Software, Inc., a leading developer of innovative, time-saving solutions for professional and advanced amateur photographers, today introduced the Perfect Layers Public Preview. Perfect Layers gives photographers the ability to easily create and work with layered files in their workflow application of choice.
Perfect Layers supports the creation of layered files that can be opened and edited by Adobe® Photoshop® software and can be used directly from within Adobe Photoshop Lightroom® software, Adobe Bridge and, with the shipping version, Apple Aperture.
“The impact Perfect Layers is going to have on photographers using Lightroom makes it a game changer!” said Scott Kelby, Editor-in-Chief of Photoshop User magazine. “This is the must-have plugin for Lightroom.”
“Through our partnership with the National Association of Photoshop Professionals and from invaluable insight gained from Scott Kelby, we’re excited to get the Perfect Layers Public Preview into the hands of digital photographers everywhere,” said Craig Keudell, president of onOne Software.
Popular remote release app now provides photographers with the ability to start and stop video on their Canon and Nikon DSLR cameras from their iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, via a WiFi enabled computer.
Portland, OR – February 21, 2011 – onOne Software, Inc., a leading developer of time-saving software solutions for professional and advanced amateur photographers, announced the immediate availability of the major update to it’s wildly popular application for remotely controlling Canon and Nikon DSLR cameras using Apple iOS devices. Specifically designed for the iPad, the new DSLR Camera Remote HD includes a redesigned interface that takes full advantage of the larger screen on the iPad, improved gesture-based preview functionality and the addition of starting, stopping and monitoring video from supported HD DSLR cameras from Canon and Nikon.
In addition to DSLR Camera Remote HD, onOne Software also updated DSLR Camera Remote 1.3 to version 1.4 by adding support for the Canon 60D and the Nikon D7000. The original DSLR Camera Remote (not the HD version) is designed to run on the iPhone or iPod Touch. Owners of DSLR Camera Remote 1.3 can add video start and stop functionality through an in-app purchase.
“DSLR Camera Remote has been very popular with professional and hobbyist photographers who value the ability to shoot remotely and we are extremely pleased to offer a new and separate version that adds iPad support and the ability to start, stop and monitor video in direct response to their requests,” said Craig Keudell, president of onOne Software. “We look forward to continuing to take advantage of new platforms in the ever evolving digital photography market to provide customers with tools that help them spend more time behind the camera and less behind the computer.” [click to continue…]
Finally, the LONG awaited firmware update for the Canon 5D Mark II is up! Here’s what it does:
Firmware Version 2.0.3 incorporates five enhancements to the movie function and a fix to the manual sensor cleaning function of the EOS 5D Mark II camera.
1. Adds or changes the following movie frame rates
NTSC:
1920×1080:30 fps (changed – actual 29.97fps)
1920×1080:24 fps (added – actual 23.976 fps)
640×480:30 fps (changed – actual 29.97fps)
PAL:
1920×1080:25 fps (added – actual 25.0 fps)
1920×1080:24 fps (added – actual 23.976 fps)
640×480:25 fps (added – actual 25.0 fps)
2. Adds a function for manually adjusting the sound recording level (64 levels).
3. Adds a histogram display (brightness or RGB) for shooting movies in manual exposure.
4. Adds shutter-priority AE mode (Tv) and aperture-priority AE (Av) mode to the exposure modes for shooting movies.
5. Changes the audio sampling frequency from 44.1 KHz to 48 KHz.
6. Fixes a phenomenon where communication between the camera and the attached lens is sometimes interrupted after manual sensor cleaning. (This phenomenon only affects units with Firmware Version 1.2.4.)
Seems like they were pretty secretive about this update and when it would come out! So, for all you Aperture users, here are the details. Maybe Adobe was waiting to see what happened with this product before they released Lightroom 3? New Features Include Faces, Places & Brushes CUPERTINO, California—February 9, 2010—Apple today introduced Aperture [...]
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