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Where Does Color Come From?: "Color is all around us. We look at a tree and see green, or we look at a stop sign and see red. The sky looks blue and flowers come in all sorts of different colors. As photographers, most of us shoot in color, but have you ever stopped to consider just what the heck color actually is and where it comes from?...."

(Via Earthbound Light Photography Tips.)

First Thoughts on Nikon's Big Announcement: "The long period of gossip and rumors about a possible Nikon full-frame DSLR came to an end this week with the announcement of the new Nikon D3 featuring the new FX format sensor (24 x 36mm). Nikon also announced the DX format D300 body as a successor to the D200 as well as a crop of great new lenses. Here are a few first thoughts on what these new cameras mean...."

REALVIZ Stitcher Updated for Intel Macs: "REALVIZ announced the immediate availability of Stitcher 5.6 on Thursday. The updated version of the photo stitching and panorama creation application now runs natively on Intel and PowerPC-based Macs"

(Via The Mac Observer.)

I meant to announce this some time ago when it was unveiled. I've gotten quite a few queries regarding aspects of this map, so I'm posting some more info about it. From across the lobby of the San Francisco Business District Hilton, the map looks like it is one giant sheet of glass, twelve feet wide by six feet tall. Diffuse backlighting illuminates the grid of streets and neighborhoods and color coded tourist attractions.

Nikolas Schiller: Schiller barely pauses on the way to his computer, which he fires up to reveal hundreds of his map creations. They are places you know — the Mall, Adams Morgan, Georgetown, plus other U.S. cities and war-torn ones abroad. But the streetscapes — photographed from above at a resolution fine enough to just make out cars and people — have been warped and woven into kaleidoscopic mosaics, arabesques, spheres. "

(Via The Map Room.)

First Look: Photoshop Lightroom: "Adobe's newest addition to the Photoshop family is a workflow manager for professional photogs, Flickr-heads and camera nerds of all stripes. By Scott Gilbertson."

(Via Wired News.)

Nikon launches 8 new Coolpix cameras: "Nikon on Tuesday commemorated both the 10th anniversary of its Coolpix line with launch of eight new cameras just before the upcoming PMA expo: the new 10-megapixel P5000 (pictured) is a bridge between point-and-shoots and entry-level digital SLRs, offering a larger fixed lens through a 3.5X optical zoom and a hotshoe for an external flash and ...

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(Via MacNN.)