Saturday, June 4th. Chicago, Illinois.
This all day workshop, sponsored by Canon’s Explorer of Light Program, will provide valuable information to those of all levels of experience in digital imaging. It will feature a format that is taught in English not Ubergeek and will focus on the “Hows” of digital capture, file prep and delivery.

The Macintosh stand alone Bridge 1.0.1 updater is available for download from the Adobe Support Downloads website at the Bridge downloads for Mac.

Direct download link (40.8MB DMG File)

No word yet regarding a stand alone downloadable installer for Windows.

Source: Rob Galbraith

Canon’s May 19, 2005 statement coincided with a separate one from Lexar, in which the flash memory maker revealed that it was developing updated card firmware for certain 80X-series CompactFlash cards. The new firmware is designed to fix an image corruption problem that apparently can occur under rare circumstances with five different models of Canon digital SLR.

Source: DPReview

After years of struggle, the writing could finally be on the wall for AgfaPhoto as it files for insolvency.

Source: Leica Camera AG

Deliveries of the LEICA DIGITAL-MODUL-R will start on June 15 2005.

Source: DPReview

Kodak has today confirmed that the DCS Pro SLR/n and DCS Pro SLR/c digital SLRs have been discontinued and will no longer be manufacturered.

Canon has also released a firmware update for their EOS 350D (Digital Rebel XT) cameras.

Canon has released a firmware update for the Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II cameras, no mention of fix for compact flash card incompatibilites.

Canon has released a firmware update for their EOS-1D Mark II cameras.

Source: PC World
Written By Anush Yegyazarian
From the July 2005 issue of PC World magazine

Ready for the era of dual-core? You now have a choice of dual-core processors; and based on PC World tests, the winner is clearly AMD’s new Athlon 64 X2, which handily outdistanced a dual-core Intel system we tested last month.

Source: Luminous Landscape
Written By Andrew J. Roman
Foreword by Michael Reichman

By now most readers are familiar with what is currently the most important issue facing photographers this decade. That is – the closed, proprietary, and proliferating number of RAW file formats. Even more distressing is that there are now camera makers who are encrypting some of their RAW data.

Source: Mercury News
Written By John Boudreau

To Bruce Chizen, the stylishly bald chief executive of Adobe Systems, a bottle of water is more than a bottle of water. It’s Adobe water.

An action movie is more than a Hollywood hit. It’s an Adobe hit. A magazine fashion spread? An Adobe magazine layout.

This is a short, and admittedly rather late Friday Summary. But here it is. . .

Russell Preston Brown tells us that his web site is now back up!

A Preferred Working Space for Digital Photographers
Source: Luminous Landscape
Written by Michael Reichmann

Most photographers work under the assumption that Adobe RGB 98 is the most suitable working space within Photoshop. Everyone also knows that the sRGB working space is smaller, and therefore less suitable for professional and fine-art printing applications. Sure, sRGB is fine for amateurs and the web, but real men use Adobe RGB – right?

Years ago, Thomas took a liking to hot sauce. As we all know from my previous Widows Club stories, Thomas is obsessive, to the point of being an extremist. So, I’d have to say that Thomas took an extreme liking to hot sauce. At first he would have a bottle of TABASCO® Red Pepper Sauce on the kitchen table or ask for it at a restaurant. Then he discovered TABASCO Green Pepper Sauce. It went on everything. The new flavor was great but it just did not have the zip that TABASCO Red did.

Soon the heat and tingle of the sauce just started to fade – he was up to about a half a small (2 oz.) bottle a week at this point.

An often overlooked digital imaging resource is:
Adobe Studio Exchange.

Well, it’s one you don’t want to overlook because that’s where a lot of new productivity scripts will be released. In fact, there’s a new one posted for Adobe Bridge already.

A new version of Adobe Bridge has been release via Adobe Updater. Bridge 1.01 is a 44.32 MB download. This update includes support for additional languages, improved stability and increased performance, particularly when launching Bridge on systems with large number of fonts.

Source: Macworld UK

Adobe is offering a series of Adobe CS2 seminars throughout the UK in June 2005.

Source: Creative Suite Support Knowledgebase

What’s covered:
Beginning troubleshooting
Intermediate troubleshooting
Advanced troubleshooting

Source: Creative Suite Support Knowledgebase

What’s covered:
Beginning troubleshooting
Intermediate troubleshooting
Advanced troubleshooting

Source: Photoshop Support Knowledgebase

When you start Adobe Bridge, it returns the following error and then quits: “Adobe Bridge cannot be used at this time because of licensing restrictions. You must have installed and launched at least one other Adobe application to use Adobe Bridge.”

Source: Photoshop Support Knowledgebase

How Photoshop allocates RAM

Source: New York Times
Written By David Pogue

Last week, I wrote about some of the changes Microsoft has in store for the next version of Windows, which is slated for the end of 2006. Interestingly, very few of you responded to that column, probably because so much may change in the next 19 months.

But a few of you fired off diatribes about how I’m either a Microsoft “shill” or an Apple “apologist” (or maybe it was the other way around). It’s not just me, either; it’s a running sardonic joke among tech columnists that you can’t even USE the word “Apple” or “Microsoft” without getting hate mail from somebody or other.

Two artists sharing a famous name will be showing in this year’s RA summer exhibition. Stuart Jeffries meets David’s big sister, Margaret

Source: The Guardian