| Kodak printers get a bad grade
Back in February, Kodak announced at its investors meeting that it is dipping into a new market, photo printers for the home. Those printers have only been available to consumers for a short time and now, News 10NBC has learned that product reviews are not putting Kodak in a good light. The review was done by "Popular Photography and Imaging," a trusted publication in the field and it was not exactly glowing. Retailers say it is not about the review, but instead it is about meeting the target consumer's expectations.
At Best Buy, they cannot keep the new Kodak printers on the shelves. "There was a group of people sitting outside specifically for those printers to come out," says Best Buy Digital Imaging Senior Andrey Hardy.
Kodak is marketing these printers as inexpensive and good quality.
Kodak 10 Cents-a-Pop Printers Tested [Verdict: the Pops are Poop]
Remember Kodak's latest multifunction printers? The ones Kodak was all cocky about, claiming that they crushed the competition with amazing photos at 10 cents? Well, according to Popular Photography, it's all a big pile of steaming bull dung. After testing the Kodak EasyShare 5300 against its HP, Canon and Epson counterparts, it seems that not only does the Kodak comes last in every single aspect, but it has no price advantage whatsoever, not even reaching the 10 cents per print mark. The final price per copy was 11.5 cents and the quality "was so low in color saturation that they could be deemed no better than 'draft' quality by professional or lab-print standards." If you use better-quality paper to get results comparable to the competition, the price soars to 37 cents. Popular Photography has not tested the 100 years life of each copy, but after reading their article, I won't be waiting around to see if it's true or not.
Buzzella's work not always what it seems
James Buzzella uses mirrors in his photographs to show stories within stories. He likes that everything can be seen in a different way. At first, Buzzella might seem like an ordinary family man working full time as a nurse. But behind the scenes, the 36-year-old is an amateur photographer who was recently chosen as a runner-up in Popular Photography & Imaging magazine's national annual photography contest. But just like in his photographs, there's more to the story. Buzzella moved to Gainesville from Miami in the early '90s to pursue music. He and two friends formed Wordsworth, a band that played hardcore punk rock music at local bars and clubs that - like the band - no longer exist. Buzzella supported himself by working at local restaurants, like Leonardo's by the Slice.
Derek Fell Garden Stock Photography
Los Angeles, CA (FV Newswire) - North America's most widely published garden photographer, Derek Fell, has been photographing plants and gardens worldwide for 45 years. The author of more than 100 garden books and garden calendars, his work also appears in magazines and newspapers worldwide. Fell has now converted thousands of his most popular garden scenes to digital images, for instant access from his website www.derekfell.net
A regular contributor of garden features to Architectural
Digest magazine since the 1970¹s and contributor to numerous mail order nursery catalogs since the 1960¹s, Fell has won more awards for outstanding photography from the Garden Writers Association than any other person.
Announcing his decision to convert a vast section of his color slide library to digital format, Fell explained: ³Though many publishers are still dedicated to film for quality reproduction, many more want the speed and convenience of digital delivery, particularly newspapers and advertising agencies.
LIFE magazine ‘killed’ one again
Veteran photography magazine LIFE will now stop appearing in print format after 20 April 2007. Making this announcement early in the week, publisher Time Inc. also revealed plans at an Internet avatar of the much-respected publication. Sceptics may laugh off the news as a case of Wolf, wolf! for over the years, the magazines demise had been declared by the worlds largest magazine publisher on other occasions as well. LIFE had appeared as a weekly for 36 years till 1972. It appeared intermittently over the next six years. Between 1978 and 2000, it was published every month before being killed off. It was re-introduced as a weekly newspaper supplement from October 2004 and given away free in papers across the US. Contrary to popular belief, LIFE was not started by Time Inc.
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