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Flickr has announced that they have upgraded the user account to 1 terabyte of storage and a redesign of the personal home page. Now one can load high resolution photos on flickr. Presently they are maintaining 2 accounts, the Pro account and the ordinary account. The ordinary account has ads. while the Pro account does not have ads. However, you need to pay USD$50 for the Pro account which is twice what Pro account holders pay.

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A Dao farmer's wife, starting a fire to cook lunch.
Ha Giang is very unlike Sapa. While both in Sapa and Ha Giang the Daos , the Hmongs and other native groups still wear their traditional clothes, in Ha Giang they are still friendly because they have not yet been inundated by tourists. We want to return to Ha Giang later this year to shoot more photos. Lots of villages there which we haven't been yet. But it'll have to be after we return from Tibet, after which we are going to Ethiopia. Anybody wanna come ?? ...

CENTER VALLEY, Pa., May 10, 2013 – Olympus marks the 50th anniversary of the legendary PEN F with the launch of the new Olympus® PEN E-P5, a digital update of a classic film camera designed with breakthrough technology and incredible performance advancements. Designed for photographers looking for superior image quality in a portable body, the PEN E-P5 delivers a stellar shooting experience with 1/8000th of a second shutter speed – a world-first for the Compact System Camera class ...

London, UK, 14 May 2013 – Canon today adds a new category to its range of high-performance super-telephoto lenses, with the introduction of the EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM Extender 1.4x to Canon’s acclaimed L-series. The EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM Extender 1.4x features a flexible 200-400mm focal range with a fixed f/4 aperture, 4-stop optical Image Stabilizer and for the first time in a commercially available lens, a built-in 1.4x extender. These features combine to provide an outstandingly ...

Olympus has launched their latest mirrorless camera offering, the Olympus PEN (E-P5). It has a similar retro design as the Olympus Pen F with interchangeable mount of the 1965 period.
We were invited to the launching of this Olympus PEN model. There was a touch and feel session to get ourselves familiar with the workings of this new offering. What we were told was that this new Olympus PEN has the following features. I have to use their promotion slides as they have not handed out the specifications for this camera.

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Fujifilm has announced the availability of new firmware for its X100S fixed-lens compact camera. Firmware version 1.02 corrects an issue where the frameline brightness in the camera's viewfinder did not automatically adjust at ISO sensitivity settings of 1600 and higher. Fujifilm has also issued firmware updates for its Z2000EXR, HS50EXR, F820EXR and F900EXR compacts, which can be found via the 'download drivers and software' section of Fujifilm's support pages.

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