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08.9.2009 Mark Wood 1 Comment

Nikon D300s – A worthy upgrade?

Earlier this week, Nikon announced the latest camera in the DX lineup — the Nikon D300s. While the specifications may have changed, the sensor hasn’t. So… what exactly does this new and improved camera bring to the table?

Nikon D300s Announcement

Announced July 30, 2009 the Nikon D300s is touted by Nikon USA as “combining professional-level performance with agility and enhanced D-Movie capabilities to deliver a new benchmark for creative versatility.” This is directly out of the first paragraph of the Nikon Press Release. The press release also states that this new body is supposed to hit dealers later this month for a price of $1799.95. You can already pre-order it from Amazon – Nikon D300s for this advertised price, though they claim it won’t ship until September 13th. I’m guessing these will go fast so if you want yours when it comes out, you’re best to pre-order it now!

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08.9.2009 Mark Wood No Comments

New Theme on Digitalnotions.net

As some of you may have noticed, the theme on Digital Notions has been completely overhauled! While the individual pages might not look too much different, the homepage is completely different as you can see from the image of the old theme below!

I’m still perfecting some of the details, but the new theme offers a much better user interface (I believe) and will hopefully not limit the future growth of this site. I’m trying to focus more on the articles and devote less time to messing around with the code behind ever single post. I’m also hoping that I’ve improved the comment interface so hopefully, it will be easier to leave your thoughts.
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08.6.2009 Mark Wood No Comments

Further ICC Profile Updates for Firefox 3.5

As discussed in the recent post Firefox 3.5 – ICC Profile Support, the latest Firefox supports ICC Color Profiles. However, there appeared to be problems in the implementation of this support — especially for the Windows platform.

Problems with Firefox 3.5

While the implementation of ICC Profile support released in Firefox 3.5 went a long way toward standardizing the way users see online images which utilize ICC Profiles, there were two major problems.

First, as mentioned by an astute commenter on my last post on this topic, the Firefox team decided to only implement Version 2 of the ICC Profile standard. While this is a huge step forward, version 4 of the ICC Standard has been around since 2005 (from what I could find). Therefore, there are many instances where support for Version 2 is simply insufficient.

To see an example of this, see the International Color Consortium (ICC) official page to test browsers for Version 4 compatibility here.

The second problem with Firefox 3.5 was that on many Windows machines, images containing a Version 2 profile were displayed incorrectly. In fact, they appeared much too dark.

One Problem Solved

Just released today was the latest update to Firefox 3.5, version 3.5.2. This update fixes the second problem discussed above. (See release notes – Bug 497363.) In theory, with this release, the images which displayed very dark under the old version now display correctly.

While I really didn’t know how much of a difference it would make, after installing the update on my Windows machine, the images on my last Firefox post appear much better.

Now, if only they could fix the support for Version 4 of the ICC Color Profiles…

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