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Photo Sharing Service Comparison Published–Find the one that’s right for you!

B&H has just published the fairly comprehensive overview I wrote of the major online photosharing services, including Flickr, Picasa, SmugMug, Snapfish, Shutterfly and Phanfare--also featuring the brand new 1-click integration between SmugMug and ProShow-Web.

Finally—A way to hook your iPad to Photoshop!

Ever since I first saw an iPad I thought what a perfect companion it’d be to a desktop version of Photoshop. A convenient input output device with its own processor it may not have the touch resolution of the much more expensive and special purpose Cintiq from Wacom but it is certainly much more command and with multi-touch offers some unique advantages. As of the recent crop of Android tablets the same can be said for the Android platform.

So today Adobe has announced exactly what I’d envisioned.

The CompactFlash Card for the Photographer who has Everything (Else)

Sandisk 128GB 100MB CompactFlash CardSandisk is now shipping the ultra-fast, ultra-high capacity 128GB 100 MB/s (about 600x)—that’s not a typo, it’s really 128 Gigabytes, bigger than many laptop hard drives were just a couple years ago. You can get it from B&H for $1199. If that is too rich for your blood then our new favorite value champion is the Transcend 16GB 600x CompactFlash Extreme Plus UDMA Card—available from B&H for $79.95. We have one and it benchmarks faster than our 400x cards and is only $20 more. A small price to pay if it gets you the final shot in an amazing action sequence.

Think Tank now allows zooming into product images on their site

Zoom FunctionThink Tank Photo has implemented a long overdue feature for photo equipment sites—especially camera bag sites. You can now zoom in on the images on their site to give you a closer look at their bags. I can’t count how many times I’ve squinted at an image of a bag to try to figure out if it had the layout or feature I wanted. For popular bags (or those living near B&H which stocks nearly everything) you can of course go check them out in person, but for niche offerings sometimes that isn’t an option. Now you can see for yourself online! To access this function, go to any product on thinktankphoto.com and scroll your mouse cursor over the main product image.  A close-up view will automatically appear to the right of the main image.  You'll also be able to select a few additional images to zoom into.

Luncheon Talk on "Take Photographs Like a Pro" by David Cardinal Next Wednesday

I'm speaking at the local Princeton Club next week on Wednesday about "Taking Better Photographs." It's open to the public--you just need to pay $15 for lunch in advance. I'll show some photos (of course) and give everyone some tips on better vacation photography as well as always popular kid's sports tips and ideas on photo trips. If you live near Palo Alto, California I hope to see you there! You can read more about the talk as well as sign up online at the PCNC website or with the event information below. Read more »

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