News for week ending 16/12/2012

[ricktas]

From Andrew ( I @ M)


An extremely impressive panorama.

From around the www this week is a link to a rather awe inspiring panorama.
Zoom in to the full detail level showing the tent city at the bottom to get some sense of scale of the area.

http://www.glacierworks.org/the-glaciers/pumori-spring-2012/

[ricktas]

SpinFX : changing the way we lightpaint

The people at SpinFX have been looking at light painting and the results we get and using a series of things like hoops, and the strategic placement of LED's they are getting some really unique results. They hope to kickstart their production and offer programmable light hoops and rods for sale to photographers soon : http://www.spin-fx.com/

Now that could really change the way you Light Paint!

[Kym]

The latest updates are available...


Pentax K-5 II
Pentax K-5 IIs
Pentax Q10
Nikon 1 V2
Nikon D5200
Nikon D600
Canon EOS 6D
Canon PowerShot S110
Canon PowerShot G15
Canon PowerShot SX50 HS
Sony DSC-RX1
Sony NEX-VG30
Sony NEX-VG90
Casio Exilim EX-ZR1000
Casio Exilim EX-FC300S
Leica M-E
Olympus PEN E-PL5
Olympus PEN E-PM2
Olympus STYLUS XZ-2 iHS
Panasonic DMC-GH3


Lightroom update 4.3 Windows :url: (http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5521) and MacOS :url: (http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5520)

For Adobe Camera Raw, use the update mechanism in Photoshop CS6 :D

[Kym]

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=26829

Microsoft has released an updated version of its Camera Codec Pack for Windows Vista, 7, 8 and RT.
The latest update allows applications such as Windows Explorer, Windows Photo Viewer, Media Center, and Windows Photo Gallery to deal with Raw files from 34 additional cameras. The cameras include the Canon EOS M, Olympus OM-D E-M5 and Sony NEX-7.

The cameras include: (32 and 64 bit formats)
Pentax: *ist D, *ist DL, *ist DS, K10D, K20D, K100D, K100D Super, K110D, K200D, K-5, K-7, K-r, K-x
Canon: EOS M, EOS-1D X, PowerShot G1 X, PowerShot G12, PowerShot G15, PowerShot S100, PowerShot S110
Konica Minolta: ALPHA SWEET DIGITAL, ALPHA-5 DIGITAL, DYNAX 5D, Maxxum 5D
Nikon: 1 J1, 1 J2, 1 V1, Coolpix P6000, Coolpix P7000, Coolpix P7100, D1H, D2H, D2Hs, D2X, D2Xs, D3, D3s, D3X, D4, D40, D40x, D50, D60, D70, D70s, D80, D90, D100, D200, D300, D300s, D700, D800, D800E, D3000, D3100, D3200, D5000, D5100, D7000
Olympus: OM-D E-M5, PEN E-PL2, PEN E-PL3, PEN E-PM1, XZ-1
Panasonic: Lumix DMC-FZ150, Lumix DMC-G3, Lumix DMC-GF2, Lumix DMC-GF3, Lumix DMC-GH2
Samsung: NX10, NX20, NX1000
Sony: Alpha NEX-7, Alpha NEX-C3, Alpha SLT-A33, Alpha SLT-A35, Alpha SLT-A57, Alpha SLT-A65V, Alpha SLT-A77V

[Kym]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-08/apple-joins-google-in-500-million-plus-bid-for-kodak-patents.html



Apple-Google Team Up for $500 Million-Plus Kodak Patents Bid

Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google Inc. have joined forces to offer more than $500 million to buy Eastman Kodak Co. (EKDKQ)’s patents out of bankruptcy, said people familiar with the situation.
Enlarge image Kodak Worth More in Breakup With $3 Billion Patents

The two companies, competing for dominance of the smartphone market, have partnered after leading two separate groups this summer to buy some of Kodak’s 1,100 imaging patents, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the process is private.

Unlikely partnerships are typical in patent sales because they allow competitors to neutralize potential infringement litigation. A group including Apple, Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Research in Motion Ltd. bought Nortel Networks Corp.’s more than 6,000 patents for $4.5 billion out of bankruptcy last year. Google lost the auction for those patents after making an initial offer of $900 million.

"Apple and Google learned a lesson from the Nortel’s auction,” said Richard Ehrlickman, former vice president of Intellectual Property at International Business Machines Corp. and president of IP Offerings, a patent brokerage and consulting company in Boca Raton, Florida. “They have decided to come together in this process to reduce the cost of purchasing the Kodak patents, while meeting their business needs.”

More in the link above.

So Microsoft left out in the cold? This potentially could cripple Microsoft's efforts to cacth up in the imaging area of smart devices.