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Rangefinder's online magazine features the work of storm chaser Jim Reed who talks about some of extreme-weather images from his book Storm Chaser: A Photographer's Journey.

Digital camcorder with photo function, HD resolution, SDHC support, 5.0 Mega pixels, 5x optical zoom, 1280x720 video with 30 fps

Canon EOS review : The Canon 450D is Canon's fourth entry-level model, launched right after Canon set the world on fire with the EOS 300D that was responsible for a price breakthrough. And although we talk about a period of 5 years, which may be considered as quite a long period of time in the digital photo world, a lot of things have changed. Not only the camera in itself has changed; the amount of people using a DSLR has also increased hugely. Sometimes it's like you are left out as a photographer if you don't use D-SLR tools. And if someone spots a photographer with a professional EOS, he will proudly proclaim: "I am also shooting with an EOS". Canon truly stirred up the market with the 300D, which developed the amateur market. > Read our full Canon EOS 450D review.

Pentacon announces the Praktica DVC 5.1 HD digital camcorder. The new camera supports NTSC / PAL / HD 720P resolution at 30 frames per second. Furthermore, the DVC 5.1 features a still image function with resolutions of 3264 x 2448 (8 Mp interpolated), 2576 x 1932 (5 Mp) and 2048 x 1536 (3 Mp), and the images can be stored on 32 MB of built-in memory, or SDHC cards. The new compact camcorder measures 130 x 56 x 68 mm and weights only 292grams. It offers USB 2.0, Video out, and HD out connectivity...

Following its 1.01 firmware update of last month, Sigma now releases firmware version 1.02 for the DP1 digital camera. This latest update corrects the phenomenon that the "currently selected file" will be deleted, if the camera is turned off when the camera display remained in Delete Menu...

The new Transcend Extreme Speed 300x CompactFlash cards can achieve read/write speeds of up to 45MB per second.

FocalPoint is now available as a software plug-in for Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.

All of the assets of Realviz, best known for Stitcher panorama software, have been bought by Autodesk.

Kodak has won the 18th Annual EDN Innovation Award in the Sensor Category for the Truesense Color Filter Pattern.

Magnum photographer Jonas Bendiksen’s ‘The Places We Live’ is a unique multimedia exhibition exploring what it means to be a 21st century city dweller.

Sigma have released a new firmware update for the DP1 compact camera.

LetsGoDigital have reviewed the Canon EOS 450D / Digital Rebel XSi, a new 12 megapixel compact DSLR camera.

Imaging Resource have reviewed the new Sony Cyber-shot DSC-S780, 7.2 megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom lens and 2.5 inch LCD screen.

FocalPoint 1.0 – is now available for immediate download. onOne Software’s FocalPoint is a selective focus and vignetting plug-in designed to help photographers easily blur and/or vignette areas of an image.

Hamrick Software, the developer of VueScan, the world's most widely used scanning software, has released VueScan 8.4.71 which now includes support for scanning multi-page documents using inexpensive flatbed scanners

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With Energizer’s new range, charge time takes as little as two hours and the batteries have been proven to last up to four times longer in digital cameras than standard alkaline batteries.

The Viveza plug-in allows Aperture users to selectively control light and color in photographic images without ever having to leave Aperture.

Today we bring you the World’s first online review of the Samsung NV40 compact digital camera. The NV40 is a new addition to Samsung’s innovative New Vision range, with headline specs including a 10 megapixel sensor, 3x zoom lens, 2.5 inch LCD screen, ISO 100-3200 and full manual exposure control. Samsung have been aggressively chasing market share in recent years and are currently ranked as one of the top 3 compact camera manufacturers. Is the NV40 good enough to keep Samsung there? Read Mark Goldstein’s review to find out…