New Canon 600EX-RT Speedlite and ST-E3-RT radio Speedlite transmitter.

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Canon today extends its range of acclaimed accessories, unveiling a number of new models designed to offer enhanced flexibility and new creative control to its professional and mid-range EOS Digital SLRs.

The Speedlite 600EX-RT is a high-performance TTL flash unit designed to meet the expanding creative needs of modern professionals. Integrated radio frequency triggering, in addition to standard infra-red wireless flash control, allows photographers to achieve exciting results with complex on-and-off-camera lighting set- ups. Using one master 600EX-RT or the new ST-E3-RT radio-frequency wireless Speedlite transmitter, up to 15x 600EX-RT flash units, positioned up to 30m away, can be remotely triggered – offering great potential to experiment with more creative lighting techniques and effects. EOS cameras with a connected Speedlite 600EX-RT can also be triggered remotely by either model, allowing photographers to explore more extreme shooting angles to produce surprising and inspiring creative results.

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Adobe Lightroom 4 Beta

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Adobe starts the new year with the launch of Lightroom 4 Beta.

Released as a beta on 10th January, this Lightroom version introduces new tools that will let you extract more detail from highlights and shadows, make a wider range of targeted adjustments, and easily share your images and video clips on social media and photo sharing sites.

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Adobe Photoshop Touch App for Android.

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When the first digital tablets where launched, one of the features that most photographers wished for was the ability to process photos while on the move. However, this proved to be difficult. Apple’s iOS closed systems and Android’s inability to attract application developers left photographers waiting for that magic application that will allow them to process their photos while on the move.

A number of applications have been introduced since Apple launched their first iPad in January 2010, however, none of this applications managed to get close to the processing capacity that Adobe Photoshop gives us. All this changed when few weeks ago, in November 2011, Adobe introduced their Photoshop Touch app. Surprisingly, and maybe one of Google’s first win over Apple, Adobe decided to introduce this highly awaited application only as an Android App leaving all the iPad photo users, including me, looking with envy at their Android photographers friends. ( Google 1 – Apple 0 ).
Available at the moment as an Android App only, Photoshop Touch provides some insights into Adobe’s vision of the future of image manipulation on tablets. The new Adobe Photoshop Touch app lets you quickly combine images, apply professional effects, share the results with friends and family through social networking sites like Facebook and more — all from the convenience of your tablet.
A detailed review of this application is provided by Russell Brown
If you are looking for an unbiased review, DPReview is providing a very thorough walk-through of this application here.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from 121FOTO.com. Looking forward to see you all in our photography studio and at our photography workshops organized in Cork in 2012.

Cork County Council

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A photo of the Cork City Council’s building taken with a Nikon P7000.