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Stephen Shankland covers digital photography, science, and open-source.

Microsoft gets a better answer to FlickrYesterday

Microsoft's improved photo-hosting site offers slide shows, but images don't fill the screen.

(Credit: Microsoft/CNET News)

For a company that's trying to take on the online might of Yahoo and Google, Microsoft has had a decidedly inferior photo-sharing site. Now that's changing, though. ...

Attention geotaggers: Nikon GP-1 going on saleDecember 3

Nikon's GP-1, a GPS tracking device that fits into the company's cameras and writes location data into image files, is starting to go on sale for a price of about $210.

The Nikon GP-1 lets people record location data directly in their photos.

(Credit: Nikon USA)

Nikon announced the GP-1 in August along with the D90 SLR, ...

Photo world begins grappling with video SLRsDecember 3

This frame of a woman toasting shows how video from newer digital SLRs lets people blur backgrounds to emphasize a particular subject, something that's harder with conventional video cameras.

(Credit: CC Joi Ito)

The photography world is beginning to adapt to a new phase in the marriage of cameras and computing technology: the arrival of SLRs that can shoot not just still images, but video too.

The change began with the arrival of image sensors, the light-sensitive microchips that replaced film. Now, two new SLRs--Nikon's D90 and Canon's EOS 5D Mark II--are taking another step away from the film paradigm, following in the footsteps of point-and-shoot cameras by recording continuous video and not just still images. Doubtless video will gradually spread to other SLR models and makers.

"This camera is the ultimate 'equalizer'--you no longer need half-million dollars' worth of high-definition video cameras and lenses delivered by a truck with its own driver to shoot a high-definition film in low light--you just need a $2,700 camera and a few lenses," gushed profe

Picasa chief departs Google for FetchDecember 3

Mike Horowitz, product manager for Google's Picasa software for managing photos and the Web site for sharing them, has left the company for Fetch Technologies.

"Mike was a valued member of the Picasa team and Google, and we wish him well in his new endeavors. We have a talented ...

Sony, Olympus SLRs await Adobe camera profilesNovember 25

I'm a big fan of Adobe Systems' camera profiles, which when editing the raw images that higher-end cameras can produce imbues photos with what I find to be more natural hues. So I was glad to hear camera profiles are moving out of Adobe Labs and into Photoshop and Lightroom. ...