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Tired of fumbling with cables or worrying about bent pins in your card reader. Beam photos directly from your camera over to your PC using your home WiFi network with Eye-Fi’s wireless SD memory card.
The Eye-Fi card comes with a USB memory card reader to make set-up easy. Included software supports sharing and printing websites, [...]

The 11th issue of PBase magazine has just been released. Anna Pagnacco from Italy is the featured PBase photographer of the month along with a host of other articles on Photoshop actions, composition, travel to Russia and Nambia, and more.
If you are not familiar with PBase magazine, it was launched in April 2005 by [...]

Canon USA has announced the development of two new L-Series telephoto lenses: the EF 200mm f/2L IS USM and the EF 800mm f/5.6L IS USM. Canon will exhibit prototypes of the new lenses at PhotoPlus Expo (booth #318) which will be held at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, October 18 [...]

While my initial capacity tests of Eneloop batteries were very positive, I chose to power my Speedlite flash and power pack with super high-capacity NiMH batteries such as Powerex 2700 or Sanyo 2500 batteries. After more than a year of field experience with these batteries, I am switching to Eneloop batteries.
So what’s up? The self-discharge [...]