Super CoolScan 5000ED review
The Super CoolScan 5000 ED is Nikon’s new top-end film scanner. It usurps the Super CoolScan 4000 ED, introduced in 2001, as the best scanner in its class.
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Nikon Coolpix 3700 review
There’s nothing especially innovative about Nikon’s Coolpix 3700, but for a simple, well-designed point-&-shoot, it’s a decent package. Its long, narrow shape means that the camera fits easily into a pocket, and its silver-metallic case has ...
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Stitcher 4.0 review
RealViz is best known for its professional-quality tools for integrating 3D elements into movies. However, its Stitcher software is a high-grade still-imaging tool for creating panoramas from multiple images. Results can be output as a super-wide print, or put onto a Web page or CD to form immersive QuickTime VR MOV, Shockwave, or ...
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WP-20 Wireless Print Server review
The WP-20 Wireless Print Server is a small silver box that connects to the i990 via a USB port, and then allows everyone on your network to use the printer via ethernet or Wi-Fi networks. The WP-20 works with most recent Canon photo inkjets, though some models ...
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Bubble Jet i990 review
With the power and ease of digital photography winning over even the most ardent film fans, it’s more important than ever that the rest of the process – printing the images you want – produces results as good as the darkroom. Since our last round-up of photo-inkjet printers at the end of 2003, we’ve seen ...
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Director MX 2004 review
Director MX 2004 is finally shipping, and the upgrade to the premier multimedia-authoring tool boasts some improvements that you’ll notice at first glance. The ability to dock Movie in a Window (MIAW) tools alongside the other Director palettes is great, and the Windows version features some interface enhancements.
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iView Multimedia Pro review
For many digital creatives, asset management software stopped being useful when Photoshop 7 introduced the File Browser. However, there’s much more to this application than mere thumbnail browsing.
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Studio Artist 3.0 review
Studio Artist isn’t well known in the UK, but it’s an impressive piece of graphics software. The developers, Synthetik Software, refer to it as a ‘graphics synthesizer’, making comparisons with the way that music synthesizers work. But for people with a design background, it’s probably better to compare it to the artistic cloning tools in graphics programs like Painter.
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Panasonic DVC-30 review
With the DVC-30, Panasonic has done a good job of cramming the DVX100’s main features into a smaller case – and adding a few of its own. However, it hasn’t achieved scaling the body size down to that of a consumer-camcorder – a feat achieved by ...
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TourWeaver 1.1 review
TourWeaver, from Shanghai-based EasyPano, lets you link several immersive spherical images via hotspots to form a guided tour – for instance you could create a tour of your house with hotspots on the doors to take you to the next room. You can link to still images, movies, sound files, and to URLs ...
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ACi Sovereign Pro review
On paper, the Sovereign Pro looks like a powerful bargain laptop. Based around ATI’s powerful Mobile Radeon 9600 graphics chip and a large 15.1-inch screen, this notebook boasts a desktop processor, a large hard drive, FireWire, USB 2.0, and ...
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MediaBank HS-R review
Combining speed and security, the latest-generation MediaBank HS-R offers an impressive external storage solution – especially if you’re a Mac user who’s just bought a G5 or latest-generation PowerBook. However, it will only appeal to the extremely security-conscious.
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HP Scanjet 4670 review
The Scanjet 4670 is a scanner that you can pick up, carry around, and scan any surface within the range of your USB cable. Why risk the wrath of animal lovers by getting a fur coat to scan (and have to cram it into your conventional flatbed) when you can just scan your dog?
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JVC Pro DR-DV5000E review
JVC Pro’s DR-DV5000E is a FireWire hard-drive container (with removable 40GB hard drive) and controller that you can add to your shoulder-mounted JVC Pro DV camcorder, and use alongside or instead of tape. Users of the GY-DV5000E camcorder can just bolt it on between the back of the camcorder and the battery, though it can be attached to the DV500, DV550, or DV700 through an adaptor plate.
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CorelDraw 12 review
The relative success of CorelDraw upgrades is inconsistent to say the least. CorelDraw was already at version 3 before anyone took any notice; version 4 was astonishing; version 8 was a blinder; version 10 was the dog’s bollocks. All the intermediate releases, however, have come across as fillers, as if they were produced by contractual obligation. This is how version 12 feels too.
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Camedia 5060 Wide Zoom review
When Olympus announced the 5.1mp Camedia 5060 Wide Zoom compact digital camera back in September, it seemed like the excellent C-5050Z would just be fitted with a wider-angle lens. Actually it’s a major revision, with a new, fully articulated swivelling monitor, and it’s been tuned for faster start-up and shutter response, too. The lower-cost C-5060Z is still available.
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DVD Workshop 2 review
There seems to be a plethora of mid-range DVD authoring tools on the Windows platform at the moment, including Adobe’s Encore DVD. In terms of ease-of-use however, DVD Workshop 2 actually resembles Apple’s iDVD – offering a similar approach, motion menus, and drag-&-drop functionality.
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Click Away 0.4 review
Minds-Eye-View's Click Away is a utility program for stitching together two circular still images taken back-to-back using a 180+ degree fisheye lens, to produce a seamless fully spherical image. This immersive viewing is useful for things like interactive Web site tours of houses, museums, tourist attractions, and car interiors.
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Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme Pro review
Until this autumn, Matrox’s line of DV-editing hardware looked to be in trouble. Tied to an ailing piece of editing software – Premiere 6.5 – the systems were facing redundancy, made obsolete by software-only NLEs and the power of host machines.
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ScanMaker 6100 review
Too good to be true? Sadly, yes. It’s a reasonably good print scanner, but its film-reading abilities aren’t a patch on a dedicated 35mm or medium format scanner. While the resolution is enough for enlarging 35mm film frames up to A3 size and beyond, there’s more to image quality than resolution.