User have reported, and Adobe Bridge engineers have confirmed, an issue where a folder or volume name containing an apostrophe will disable Bridge’s ability to open Raw file formats within the folder or volume when Camera Raw is hosted by Bridge.

Survey of 400 Washington, D.C. Opinion Leaders Finds Need for Increased Protection of Consumer Data and Privacy of Individual Information

Press Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. — June 8, 2005 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today announced it has voluntarily withdrawn and refiled its pre-merger notification and report form under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, relating to its pending acquisition of Macromedia, Inc. (Nasdaq: MACR).

Source: New York Times
Written By Seth Schiesel

DAVID BURNETT spent the dog days of 1963 prowling the drag strips of Salt Lake City with his Yashica-Mat while he waited for his senior year at Olympus High School. He has been taking pictures for money ever since.

At Adobe Studio Exchange, there is a new script written for Adobe Bridge, available for downloading:
Import Camera.

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

Direct Link (36.1MB .exe)

Even Sherman and Mr. Peabody would be impressed!

In this day and age where digital cameras are under $1K and Photoshop is at CS2–version 9, but actually the 11th if you count both 2.5 and 5.5–the year 1994 and Photoshop 2.5 is just so last millennium!

Source: shutterbug

The latest in a series of tests on the impact of airport security equipment on imaging devices and media shows that neither DVDs nor DVD players are damaged by X-ray scanners or metal-detector wands.

Source: New York Times
Written by Ivan Berger

SNAPSHOOTERS don’t bother, but serious photographers like to do things the way professionals do: spurning shiny chrome cameras for black, for instance, or lately, setting their camera’s menus to RAW.