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People often ask me how to clean the dust that causes image spots, off their digital camera sensors. There are many more dangerous and or expensive methods, but this usually works for me.

Rocket Air is my recommendation of the week. It’s a hand blower that actually works. Really well! I mean it packs a punch.I just lock my mirror up, and give it some good blasts of air. Unlike canned air this does not run out, and there’s no propellant. Canned air is not recommended for senors, but this thing is great for them.

Aside from cleaning your senors you’ll soon be blowing all kinds of stuff, like the dust out of your keyboard. If your like me you’ll like it so much you’ll start blowing it in your kids face, and shooting air into your mouth to see what different sounds you can make.

It’s all over the net, but you can find Rocket Air here on Amazon for only about twelve bucks. This is one of my favorite handy dandy drawer gadgets.

Click Button To Listen, Pro Photo Show #43 Getting the Action
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Show Notes…
PPS #43 Forum Discussion. Post your action pics here too!
this discussion starts at time index 30:31

Cnets Aperture Poll caused a stir, Polaroid dies, the HDR blog Reviewed Mircosoft HD Photo format & Lightroom 1.4 is available

Kodak 35mm SLR rumors (correction, these are film cameras not digital) Nikon trumps Canon in ISO & Canon 5D MK II is rumored.

Gavin Seim is on Facebook and Twitter, and Power Workflow Lightroom Presets are now RAW & JPEG compatible.

Reviewed… Lensbabies review at time index 20:02 I think it’s not for everything, but cool. We also talked about the Canon Pro 9000

Pick of the week was Braketeer, an easy HDR photo merging software for Mac.

Images by Gavin Seim

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Show Notes… Welcome to the wild episode
Aside from goofing off and having fun on todays show we review Corel Painter X (time index 17:23) DXO Optics Pro (time index 29:33) And compare noise reduction tools Dfine2, Noise Ninja, and Neat Image (time index 40:31)

We also discussed my new Hollywood Effects Actions, and where you can download a free photoshop  action, as well as the PPS article about Adobe Customer Support. The Canon ES2 portable printer was launched, and you can check out a really cool video of a trash the dress shoot.

Pick of the week was PanosFX Photoshop actions. You can enter the contest to win a full version of PainterX (Win or Mac) my sending one entry email to prophotoshow at(@) gmail.com

Lastly you can save 15% on Hollywood Effects actions by using promo code 11504416

Lastly heres a sample of an image made user the Painter X auto paint. Just a quickie, but it shows one example of what you can do.

Have a great week, and don’t forget to join the photography forum… Gav

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Show Notes…
Todays review was the Together books. which takes regular prints and binds them into a book.

One One Soft has some new releases including photo tools pro, and photo tune 2.o.

Embassy Pro Books are coming out with some neat photo books that compete with Asuka, and Collages.net is not doing their own albums as well.

Here the free presets from Gavin, and also check out the histogram video for some histogram tips.

Show listeners You can win a copy of Corel painter X on the up coming show where we review painter, and it’s use to the photographer. We don’t want to list the email here for spam reasons, but you can find the details at time index 20:55 in this weeks show.

Picks of the week. Are photo watermarking software that run independent of Photoshop.
PC…
Photo Watermark Pro

Mac…
Easy Batch Photo
iWatermark

Lastly here is that the blurry wedding picture that I was talking about in the show when we talked about emotional pictures. To see more of my non blurry pictures visit my website at www.seimphotography.com, or my Flickr page.

For you Nikon users out there - here’s some news on the D300.

Everytime I turn around, Nikon seems to unveil a semi-pro camera body that has me wanting to tap into my children’s college fund.

The latest is Nikon’s D300, a 12.3-megapixel monster that is very similar to the D3, but with some new features.

One of the most talked about features is the new monitor - bigger, crisper and more life-like. Ken Rockwell has a nice review here.

While the monitor is nice, I am most interested in getting behind the lens and checking out the new 51-point auto focus system. It’s coupled with Nikon’s new 3D Focus Tracking Feature and, as long rumored, a live preview of the image on the LCD screen.

The Canon 50mm 1.2L lens was released late last year, and it becomes the first Canon L series 50mm lens released since the late 80’s (Canon’s 50mm 1.0L). This lens is also the widest aperture 50mm lens available (at the date of writing this).

When you take this lens out of the box, it screams just one thing: QUALITY. The weight of this lens is something that most people are not used to in a 50mm lens. Weighing in at about 1.2lbs, this lens is no small creature. The polycarbonate lens casing feels extremely sturdy, and looks like it could definitely take a beating. This lens is also physically a lot larger than the other 50mm’s that Canon makes. It’s dimensions are D:3.6″ x L2.6″, as opposed to the D:2.9″ x L:2″ of the 50mm 1.4 lens.

The lens comes with the Canon weather seals, but it is only completely weather sealed when using a UV filter. As the lens focuses, the inner barrel moves in and out and the seam it makes will let water in without the use of a UV filter.

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