Michihiro Yamaki dies at 78

By On 28/01/2012

Michihiro Yamaki, founder and CEO of Sigma Corporation, has died at the age of 78. Michihiro Yamaki was a true industry leader, who started the third-party lens industry. I met Mr. Yamaki on several occasions, usually when he was in Germany at Photokina. Our first meeting was in Japan however, when I visited the Sigma [...]

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New Fine Art print supplier

By On 27/01/2012

Some of my photographs have been for sale as fine art prints, on photographic paper, fine art paper or canvas. They are produced by Fine Art America, but that makes it inconvenient for Europeans, who pay rather high shippings costs, especially for framed prints. I’m happy that I now have [...]

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Canon EOS 5D Mark III sighted?

By On 23/01/2012

An interesting series of photos have been published on the web, showing a Japanese man testing the new Canon 200-400mm 1.4x Extender lens and the new Canon 4.0/600mm lens. The photos also show two different cameras. One of the cameras is clearly an EOS 1D series body, probably the new EOS 1D X, [...]

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Corel AfterShot Pro

By On 23/01/2012

Corel has introduced AfterShot Pro, which is basically just a rebranded version of Bibble Pro. Corel bought Bibble some time ago, so this was obviously coming. Bibble has always been a special kind of RAW-converter, because it’s the only one that allows plug-ins into the RAW workflow itself. In programs like Apple Aperture and [...]

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Kodak files for Chapter 11

By On 19/01/2012

Today Kodak filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11. It’s incredible to see how this once so powerful company did everything wrong it possibly could do wrong, while direct competitor Fujifilm managed to do so well facing the same problems. There is an interesting story in the Economist about the difference in approach. The [...]

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 (beta)

By On 17/01/2012

Adobe has released a ‘public beta’ of Photoshop Lightroom 4. New features are an improved raw conversion engine, the possibility to locally adjust white balance and noise, soft proofing, making photo books at Blurb, and ‘mapping’ of photos using GPS-location. All these new features are welcome improvements, but there is an odd limitation in the [...]

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