Eastman Kodak Company today unveiled the first product in a new generation of color motion picture films, continuing the company's dedication to film technology and setting a higher standard for image quality. KODAK VISION3 500T Color Negative Film, available now in 35mm and 16mm formats, represents a new emulsion platform, incorporating technical breakthroughs that deliver greater efficiencies and expand creative options for filmmakers.

Sophia Antipolis, France (November 29, 2007) - REALVIZ®, a leader in image processing software development, has joined forces with Lugano-based VRWAY® Communication to support the much anticipated re-launch this week of their popular online virtual reality magazine, VRMAG. VRMAG (www.vrmag.org) is an online travel, photography and technology magazine supported with stunning 360-degree virtual reality panoramas from some of the world's top...

Review (Summary): "The 8-megapixel Fujifilm FinePix S8000fd is fronted by a massive 18X zoom and includes a range of useful features, offering digital SLR-like capabilities combined with the ease of use of a point-and-shoot. Its list price of $399.95 (you can get it for less than $325 online) makes this superzoom an attractive deal for experienced photographers. ...

American Greetings Corporation and PhotoWorks, Inc. today announced they have entered into an agreement whereby American Greetings, through a wholly owned subsidiary, will acquire PhotoWorks for approximately $26.5 million. PhotoWorks is a leading online photo sharing and personal publishing company that allows consumers to use their digital images to create quality photo-personalized products like greeting cards, calendars, online photo albums and photo books. PhotoWorks offers consumers new, creative, and refreshing ways to connect and express themselves privately with friends and family, and publicly within communities of similar interest.

Review (Summary): "The Wacom Bamboo is a new range of affordable pen tablets aimed at more casual users who can't justify the relatively high price of the Intous3 range. Available in two editions, the Bamboo and Bamboo Fun, the primary difference between them is the inclusion of a mouse on the latter, and more importantly, the addition of an eraser on the pen. Most serious digital photographers use a graphics tablet for Photoshop and other imaging applications, but does the Wacom Bamboo range offer enough incentives to persuade the rest of us to give up our mice? ...

Canon today released a firmware update (Version 1.1.3) for the EOS-1D Mark III which increases transmission speed when using high-speed SD memory cards, corrects a issue involving not being able to release the shutter, improves autofocus tracking in specific conditions, and corrects errors in the Spanish and Korean menu screens.

Nikon has released a software update for their newly released D3 and D300 Digital SLR's. This software update includes a set of three optional Picture Controls, one for each of the three D2X/D2XS Color mode settings. When these optional Picture Controls are registered with the D300, color reproduction simulating that of images captured with the D2X and D2XS is possible, and custom Picture Controls can also be created based on these optional Picture Controls. For black-and-white images, use the standard Monochrome Nikon Picture Control. Read full story for additional information and links.

Rocky Nook's newest publication, The Nikon D80 Dbook, is the ideal companion for anyone who wants to get the most from their Nikon camera. With 620 digital pages in Acrobat format, you will discover the fundamentals on all aspects of the digital image creation process: digital photography basics, taking pictures, image optimization, lenses, accessories, and much more.

Just in time for the holiday season, Creative Home Software, the number one publisher of greeting card software, today announced the launch of Hallmark Card Studio 2008 and Hallmark Card Studio Deluxe 2008. The new editions include 1,000 new designs and new Hallmark fonts, as well as Spanish language and 3D greeting cards. With the software, consumers can print and e-mail Hallmark greeting cards or create personalized one-of-a-kind projects that include 3-D cards, photo cubes, frames and mini-albums, calendars, gift tags, invitations, scrapbook pages and more. The standard version sells for $29.99 and the deluxe version at $49.99.

FUJIFILM U.S.A., Inc. is pleased to announce that Popular Science has selected the Fujifilm FinePix F50fd digital camera as the recipient of a 2007 Best of What's New award in the Gadget category. The editors of Popular Science singled out the FinePix F50fd as "the first camera that can detect faces - to optimize focus, exposure and color - even if people are turned to the side or looking up or down."