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Promotions Now Available until 17th September 2010

Hasselblad H4D-40 Body with HCD 35-90mm Zoom Lens for £13,595 ex. VAT (Save £2,995)
H4D-50 Body with HCD 35-90mm Zoom Lens for £18,795 ex. VAT (Save £3,595)
H3DII-31 DSLR Trade-In-Offer: £8,295 ex. VAT. Save £1,700 when trading in any fully operational DSLR camera.

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About Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 3.3
This update extends RAW image format compatibility to Aperture 3 and iPhoto ‘09 for the following cameras:

Canon PowerShot SX1 IS
Olympus E-PL1
Panasonic Lumix DMC-G2
Panasonic Lumix DMC-G10
Samsung NX10
Sony Alpha DSLR-A390
Sony Alpha NEX-3
Sony Alpha NEX-5

Visit the Apple website for more information.

Adobe  announced the immediate availability of Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 3 software for Windows® and Macintosh, the essential digital photography workflow solution that allows photographers to quickly organize, enhance and showcase their images from one application.
Features:

Superior noise reduction
Accelerated performance
Lens correction
Support for DSLR video files
More flexible online publishing
Image watermarking
Easy-to-share slide show videos with music
Easy image importing
Tethered shooting
Perspective correction
Film grain [...]

The camera raw functionality in Adobe® Photoshop® software provides fast and easy access to the raw image formats produced by many leading professional and midrange digital cameras. By working with these “digital negatives,” you can achieve the results you want with greater artistic control and flexibility while still maintaining the original raw files.
This new version [...]

Hasselblad announced the release of Phocus 2.5 for Mac, breaking new ground by adding RAW support for more than 150  third party digital cameras, including cameras from Canon, Nikon, Leica, Sony, Fuji, Olympus, and more, as well as support for the most common file formats such as TIFF, JPEG, DNG, and PNG. This added file [...]