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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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Occasionally an upgrade ditches the ‘ooh’, ‘aah’ new features for an expansive list of seemingly minor updates that combine to leave a wide smile on your face. One such release is Video Toaster 3, the latest version of NewTek’s live production system that the company now calls VT[3], but which UK reseller Onevideo calls Video Toaster 3.
U&I Software’s ArtMatic Voyager is a keenly priced, dedicated 3D landscape generator for Mac OS 9 and OS X that can produce scenes of stunning realism or worlds of fantastic imagination.
The top models in Fujifilm’s FinePix digital camera series have always set new standards for resolution and features, and the new S7000 is no exception.
The TAB is a curious little animation tool from the maker of Toonz – the previously Softimage-affiliated product that was used in the making of Spirited Away.
MotionBuilder is now available in two versions – standard and professional. The professional version of this real-time character animation suite is aimed squarely at filmmakers, while the standard version is set to take advantage of the desktop director market.
The MVX3i sits at the top of Canon’s range of single-CCD DV camcorders. Though primarily aimed at consumers, it does include some professional-level features, and even works surprisingly well as a still camera.
E-on Software, makers of landscape and environment rendering package Vue d’Esprit, has launched a new version aimed more at the professional 3D market. The prosaically named Vue 4 Professional seems to be an attempt by E-on to make Vue 4 Professional the 3D program everyone wanted Corel’s Bryce to become.
One of the most enticing new features in Combustion 3 is the built-in editing capability. The Edit tool exists as an operator (as Combustion calls its effects nodes) and creating edits is easy). However, as an NLE, the Edit operator offers less functionality than iMovie.
With users barely familiar with the new features in Max 5, Discreet has released yet another upgrade to its popular 3D animation system. There are ...
Fireworks hasn’t had the kind of radical reworking that we’ve seen with Flash MX and Flash MX Professional, but this upgrade is certainly no damp ...
Minolta’s DiMAGE 7 was one of the first cameras to boast five-megapixel resolution back in 2001. We were impressed by its controls, lens and image ...
Professional photographers often complain that the biggest problem with digital cameras is that the results aren’t predictable. There’s no easy way to know how a ...
The Canon PowerShot A70 straddles the line between point-&-shoot and advanced camera, at an astounding estimated street price of only £255 plus VAT. Its small ...
