Apr 26

Photosmith Syncs iPad with Lightroom

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Photosmith is like carrying the Lightroom Library Module on your iPad

Got an iPad? Use Adobe Lightroom to organize and mess with your Photos? Then prepare to get excited. Photosmith has launched today, and it’s an iPad app which sits between your camera and Lightroom.

Photosmith lets you tag, rate and otherwise organize all of the photos which you have imported into your iPad, whether using the camera connection kit, an Eye-Fi card or just saved from an e-mail. This means that you really can leave your laptop at home when you go out shooting, or away on vacation.

The app comes in two parts. The iPad app itself, and a plugin for Lightroom. The plugin lets you sync the two, slurping in all photos and metadata over Wi-Fi. You can also import much faster via USB and then just sync the metadata over the air.

The iPad app is where the fun is had, though. Once the app has crunched the data from your photos, you can browse the thumbnails and also view any of the photos full-screen and even at 100% zoom. You can sort the photos into collections (Lightroom speak for folders) and also smart collections (Last Imported, Unmarked, Rejected and so on). You can view and edit metadata, rate images, add colored labels and assign keywords. In short, everything a neat-freak needs to do short of editing the pictures.

Then, when you get home, everything is synced back to Lightroom.

But what if you don’t want to wait until you get to a computer before you share the pictures? Photosmith has you covered. You can export your photos direct to Facebook, Flickr, Dropbox, or via e-mail.

I have been trying to test Photosmith in pre-release form for a while, but my iPad doesn’t like it and the app quits during import. This appears to be an exception, though, as pretty much everyone, everywhere else says that the app is both fast and stable.

Photosmith works with any JPEG, and any RAW file supported by the iPad. If you can import photos from your camera using the camera connection kit, then you’re good to go. Photosmith is available now, for $18.

Photosmith product page [iTunes]

Photosmith – The Grand Tour [Photosmith]

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Apr 24

Olympus still loving E-series DSLRs, but teases new Micro Four Thirds lenses to confuse you

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The Micro Four Thirds form factor may be a compelling choice for those seeking portability with affordable prices and notable quality, but there’s no doubt that many folks are still loyal to the conventional DSLRs. If you’re one such Olympus fan who’s concerned about the fate of the larger E-series lineup, fret not: Akira Watanabe, head of product development, reassured PCPOP that the E-series models are here to stay because of their unique features, though his team’s still pondering over the idea of replacing the budget triple-digit line (like the E-620) with the PEN series, as suggested by his colleague previously. But shifting the focus back to PEN, Watanabe teased that his crew’s developing some MFT lenses to boost the portfolio, though little is revealed other than that these will cater users who have specific photographic needs. Very intriguing indeed — maybe some fisheye and tilt-shift love?

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Apr 23

GigaPan Epic Pro robotic camera mount gets upgraded to firmware version 171

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The GigaPan Epic Pro has been privy to the making of some pretty monumental and highly detailed panoramic images, and now the gigapixel gadget is getting an upgrade. The latest firmware update to the robotic camera mount brings even more exposures per position, a “dedicated mirror lock-up” for bulky lenses, and a time display that tells you how long it will take to work its panoramic magic. Among other things, the update also includes a set of new aspect ratios and the ability to take time lapse panoramas. If you’re already packing a GigaPan Epic Pro, you can download the update at the source link below for free — a brand new rig, on the other hand, will set you back a substantial $900. That ain’t cheap, but there’s a reason it’s called the GigaPan Epic Pro. Full PR after the break.

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Apr 20

Slit-Scan Camera for iPhone [Video]

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Maybe you’ve heard about slit-scan photography, a process in which an image is developed one thin ‘slit’ at a time. Probably you haven’t! But if Photo Booth has taught us anything, it’s that the joy of taking wacky warped pictures is universal. And the Slit-Scan Camera iPhone app is like Photo Booth on acid. More »

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Apr 19

97 Gorgeously Golden Photos [Photography]

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For two hours a day the world is at its most beautiful. These 97 remarkable photos celebrate that time. More »

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Apr 12

10 Stunning Photos of a Piece of Black Paper [Photography]

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You’ve probably taken a photo before where the sunset looked beautiful, but the landscape was too dark. By placing a black card over part of your lens, and taking a slow exposure shot, you can take photos like these: More »

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Apr 07

Ghostly Lightpainting Uses a Cross-Sectioned Video of an Executed Convict’s Body as Light Source [Video]

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Lightpainting requires a certain sort of skill to get the sort of marvellous results we’ve seen previously, but Croix Gagnon and Frank Schott went the whole nine yards and played an animation of a cross-sectioned human body on a laptop, which they then whizzed through the air and took long-exposure photos of. More »

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Apr 06

Nikon Coolpix P500 reviewed, zooms to infinity but not beyond

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It’s been more than a year since the Coolpix P100 hit the review panels, and now it’s time for the new kid on the block to step up. The fine folks over at Photography Blog seem to find that the P500 performs similarly to the P100 — the Achilles heel still being image quality, suffering from the same washy retention of detail. The overall handling and controls haven’t changed much either — a second control wheel, the ability to mount an external flash, as well as dedicated ISO and white balance buttons are all still missing. With rather modest changes, the P500 gives you another dose of what the P100 served up — convenience in a compact package. Besides being able to zoom 10x more with that 22.5-810mm monstrous lens, and take larger pictures due to a 2 megapixel increase, the P100 is still faster (with a f/2.8 lens) and smaller, not to mention $100 cheaper. It’s difficult to say that the P500 is ready to grab the reins from the P100 entirely, but that miniature telescope of a lens sure makes it a contender. Hit up the source for the full analysis.

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Apr 05

57 Spectacular LEGO Scenes [Photography]

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We’d like to think that, one day, the word “LEGO” will by synonymous with “high art.” Even if that day never comes, these LEGO photos are absolutely fantastic all the same. More »

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Mar 31

Adobe demonstrates legitimate Photoshop capabilities on iPad, deems it but a concept (video)

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So, here’s a thought. Why, if you were a dutiful Adobe employee, would you waste countless days and weeks creating what could very well be the next big iPad app, only to deem it a concept and never actually promise a real release? Exactly. During the 2011 edition of Photoshop World, a bigwig from the company took the stage in order to showcase what could soon be possible with Photoshop on-the-go, and if you’ve been wowed by the powers of Photoshop Express, you’ll be utterly floored by what Adobe has been able to do here. The wildest part, in our estimation, is the absence of stuttering when manipulating multiple images and applying filters, but then again, they may be working with a pixel-optimized set of shots (versus a full-size RAW, for example) in this particular demo. As we said, no one’s even confirming that this has any hope of breaching reality, but we’re going ahead and making the outlandish assumption that Adobe’s not just wasting our (and its own) time by showcasing this in public. Video’s below, bub.

[Thanks, Nick]

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