Intuos3 A3 wide review
For graphics tablet users working on high-end workstations, it’s time to clear your desks of paper, empty coffee cups, picture frames, and novelty gonks – to make way for Wacom’s Intuos3 A3 Wide pen tablet.
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120 LCD Monitor review
There was a time when almost every designer had a LaCie monitor. The move from CRT to LCD hasn’t been kind to the company though, with many creatives ditching LaCie’s sober blue displays for shiny widescreen Apple monitors.
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DualHead2Go review
The DualHead2Go adds multi-display output to laptops – allowing you to connect two monitors to the laptop’s VGA output port.
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UltraSharp 3007WFP review
Dell’s upwardly expanding line of LCD displays has been great for designers. Not only have the products been impressive in their own right and lower in price than the competition, the company’s muscle has forced rivals to slash prices to compete.
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FlexScan S2410W review
For those in the know, this 24-inch wide-screen LCD permits sophisticated screen adjustments for such variables as gamma, gain, hue, and saturation; and for less demanding users, it supplies five screen modes.
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FlexScan S2110W review
Every creative wants a widescreen monitor. Palette-laden applications – DTP tools such as InDesign and QuarkXPress, and editing software such as Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro – are less cluttered and easier to use with a 16:10 aspect ratio, rather than a conventional 4:3 display.
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Intuos3 A5 wide review
To cater for the growing use of widescreen displays, Wacom has released an Intuos3 A5 Wide pen tablet – the company’s first widescreen tablet. With an active area of 11-x-6 inches that provides a 16:10 aspect ratio, the Intuos3 A5 Wide is aimed at professionals working in digital imaging, graphic design, and video editing.
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FP202W review
BenQ’s PF202W is the lowest priced model we’ve seen so far, and while it’s a solid, basic performer, most creatives will need to spend a little extra to get the quality they need.
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VP231wb LCD monitor review
The VP231wb is the first 23-inch widescreen monitor from Viewsonic – and as first stabs go, it’s quite impressive.
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DVD Studio Pro 4 review
Faced with competition from Sonic’s product line in particular, Apple has gone straight for the Hollywood quality authoring studios with its new version of DVD Studio Pro.
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Final Cut Pro 5 review
With this release Apple fixes FCP in high-end markets. While the majority of the new features may appeal only to that market, the support for HD formats future-proofs the application. With multiclip support included, it is...
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ColorEdge CG220 review
Eizo is attempting to tackle death of the CRT with its latest ColorEdge monitor for designers, the CG220. It offers the same focus on colour – being the first LCD monitor capable of displaying the whole gamut of the Adobe RGB colour space – and has an inevitably high price.
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HDR-FX1 review
Sony’s HDR-FX1E is the first HDV camcorder to record in 1080i, the interlaced variant of HDV that records at 1,440-x-1,080 with a 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio. This means that 1080i picture has 70 per cent more pixels than the 1,280-x-720 720p format used by ...
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EFI Designer Edition 4.0 review
EFI’s Designer Edition RIP is popular with many design companies, because it produces accurate colour proofs when used in conjunction with relatively low-cost inkjet printers. Version 4.0 doesn’t represent a major upgrade, however, there are a few updated features.
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HumanEyes 3D review
HumanEyes 3D is an interesting new technology that creates stereoscopic images for print or on-screen viewing. It was originally invented to allow a single digital camera to capture 360-degree panoramas for stereoscopic viewing – this hasn’t previously been possible with one camera. Technically it’s not true 3D, but ‘2.5D’ as the subjects only rotate slightly, but your eyes see a realistic continuous-depth impression.
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Profile Mechanic review
Profile Mechanic consists of two independent programs, sold separately. Profile Mechanic Monitor can calibrate and write ICC correction profiles for CRT and LCD monitors. It provides a small USB colorimeter sensor with interchangeable supports for both types of monitor. Profile Mechanic Scanner creates correction profiles for any flatbed or transparency scanner, as well as digital cameras.
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FinePix F610 Zoom review
The FinePix F610 is the latest incarnation of Fuji’s line of flat, square compact cameras, which manages to combine a minimalist stainless steel look with excellent performance. When you switch it off, the lens retracts completely and there are no protruding parts, so it’s easy to carry in a pocket without worrying about breaking it.
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Edius 2.0 review
When first launched in summer 2003, Edius seemed like a saviour for users of Canopus’s capture and effects hardware. Tied to Adobe’s ailing Premiere 6.5, Edius offered a more professional and efficient editing environment for the discerning editor. However, Edius turned out to be about as well finished as a PoundStretcher tea-set ...
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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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GoLive CS review
If there’s a weak link in Adobe’s plans for world domination, it’s probably GoLive.