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The Palm Beach Photographic Centre presents its 14th annual FOTOfusion festival of photography and digital imaging, starting Tuesday, January 27 and continuing through Saturday, January 31.  The internationally-known FOTOfusion is one of the largest photography-oriented events of its kind in the United States, welcoming all levels of shutterbugs.

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Ever wonder if that 2nd hand camera you purchased online was stolen? Well, now there is a way to find out before you buy. RegisterYourCamera.com is a free online service for registering your photographic equipment. If someone steals your camera, simply enter the serial number and a description into the online database and your done. When someone searches on stolen serial numbers, your item will then be listed. Sounds simple enough, yet it could be very effective in helping track your missing item.

Registeryourcamera.com is the brainchild of former Intel software engineer who is an avid photographer. In due time and with good word of mouth, this website will become a very good resource for the everyday photographer engaging in online sales and purchases. The site offers secure encrypted transactions for Logging in and membership registration. No personal data is required other than your email and name. The serial number of your item is only required if you want to report the item as stolen. In addition to the basic registry, you can generate and email reports of your registered items. This is a great way of keeping your insurance company up to date on your inventory. Your registered items are private as well. Only items listed as stolen or in the free classifieds section are visible to the public.

www.registeryourcamera.com

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JOBO AG announces the new JOBO PDJ077 digital picture frame. This stylish and modern new digital picture frame features a sleek black frame surrounding the high quality 7-inch TFT display to showcase clear sharp images. In addition, all frame functions can be easily accessed via the frame’s remote control.

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onOne Software announced the immediate availability of Genuine Fractals 6 Professional Edition and Genuine Fractals 6 Standard Edition. Powered by patented resizing technology, Genuine Fractals can resize digital images over 1000% with no loss in sharpness or detail. Genuine Fractals 6 adds new features designed to help photographers get the best enlargements possible, including a new gallery wrap function, batch processing, tiling for smaller printers, and support for Adobe Photoshop CS4, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 and Apple Aperture 2.1. 
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The digital brand of HARMAN technology Limited introduces new ‘everyday’ addition to its range – HARMAN CRYSTALJET RC.

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On Sunday, the 30th of November 2008 the fourteenth WestLicht Photographica Auction was ended successfully. The most recent auction was able to hold the high standards of previous auctions both in total turnover as well as the percentage of sold lots. Over 90 per cent of the total of 917 lots were auctioned for a total of more than one million Euros.

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Although digicams with built-in lenses still outsell D-SLRs by 10 to 1, market research indicates that 20 percent of consumers are planning to upgrade to an interchangeable-lens camera. As a result, most manufacturers are devoting significant R&D efforts to the D-SLR category, and we found some really desirable new cameras at photokina. The trend was toward more of the high-tech...