Tanya Palta

Camera & Imaging Products Association or the CIPA have released a very interesting camera shipment forecast for the period 2009-2011

Expect a price hike on all Sigma UK products from 1st February onwards.

DxO Labs have published detailed Raw-based image quality data and DxOMark Sensor rankings for the Panasonic Lumix G1, Olympus E-420 and E-510.

The Apple iLife ’09 suite is now shipping and offers major upgrades to iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand

Hydra 2.0 by Creaceed is a HDR photography application for Mac users and can be purchased as a stand-alone application or as a plug-in for Aperture.

WnSoft recently announced the PicturesToExe Deluxe 5.6 application that lets you create slides which can be executed as screensaver (.SCR) files, HD video, DVD video disc or iPhone video.

Submissions for the “Leica Oskar Barnack Award” 2009 are now being accepted and one can send in their photographs till March 1, 2009.

According to a press released by Epson, their stand (C10) at Focus on Imaging 2009 will be 50% larger than 2008 and will also include a presentation theatre seating forty.