SEATTLE, August 14, 2008 — Digital Railroad, the leading provider of online archiving and marketing services for the professional photography industry, today announced a partnership with Embassy Digital to provide DRR member photographers with the ability to create custom, professional-quality photo books. DRR member photographers save 50% on their first photo-book order with Embassy Pro Books. Embassy Pro Books will also offer DRR members a 10% discount for future book orders.

Research Triangle Park, NC – August 12, 2008: Lenovo today introduced the ThinkPad W700, a 17-inch widescreen mobile workstation engineered with game-changing technologies and innovations to exceed the demands of the most data and graphics-intensive users. Lenovo brings the industry’s first built-in digitizer and color calibrator to a mobile workstation and combines these innovations with first-in-market technologies such as new NVIDIA® Quadro FX mobile graphics and supporting the upcoming Intel® mobile quad core processor. Other features such as optional dual hard drives with RAID configurations, up to 8 GB of high speed DDR3 memory, a range of wireless connectivity options and excellent multimedia capabilities including an optional Blu-ray™ DVD burner/player make the ThinkPad W700 mobile workstation the standard-bearer for power and performance in a mobile workstation.

Elmsford, NY –  August 5, 2008 – Leaf, the developer of the world's most advanced medium-format digital camera solutions, today announced a new 56x36 millimeter, 56 megapixel digital imaging sensor. Together with the new ‘Verto’ internal sensor rotation technology, the new ‘True Wide Frame’ (TWF) sensor can be internally rotated to enable full frame photography in both landscape and portrait orientation, without turning the camera or removing the imaging module. The AFi 10 imaging module with the TWF rotating sensor can also be used with large-format cameras to deliver an unprecedented 56mm of digital capture in both the horizontal and vertical planes.

The Plugin Site (www.thepluginsite.com) is proud to announce the release of ContrastMaster for Windows, a new product in the PhotoWiz series. ContrastMaster is a plugin for effective contrast enhancement as well as creating dramatic contrast looks, photorealistic paintings and HDR-like effects. It can turn low-contrast photos into vivid and detailed images and transforms ordinary photos into interesting and dynamic shots.

SEATTLE, August 6, 2008 - Digital Railroad (www.drr.net), the leading provider of online archiving and marketing services for the professional photography industry, today announced the release of its plug-in for Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 2. The plug-in enables DRR member photographers to quickly export images and metadata directly from Lightroom to their DRR-powered archive.

Austin, TX – August 5, 2008 – PictureCode today released the Noise Ninja plug-in for Aperture 2.1, Apple’s groundbreaking photo editing and management software. The Noise Ninja plug-in allows Aperture users to take advantage of powerful technology to remove noise and grain from digital images without having to leave Aperture.

Olympus Imaging Corporation (Olympus Imaging) and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic) today announced joint development of technologies and devices for the "Micro Four Thirds System standard," a new standard that extends the benefits of the Four Thirds System standard for interchangeable lens type digital camera systems by enabling dramatic reductions in size and weight. Under the terms of an agreement between the two companies, they will work jointly toward commercial production of significantly lighter and more compact interchangeable lens type digital camera systems.

LONG BEACH, Calif.  – Aug. 5, 2008 – Epson’s long-standing relationship with professional photographers has inspired its engineers to create a powerful, new generation of multimedia photo viewers that push the boundaries of screen quality, security and portability. The new P-6000 and P-7000 bring the award-winning line to new heights with impressive hard drive capacities, faster download speeds and an advanced LCD screen with brilliant color precision. Whether on assignment in the tropics or the Arctic, the Epson P-6000 and P-7000 provide photographers with a compact, premium on-location back-up and viewing solution.

July 30, 2008, Saitama City, Japan — Tamron Co., Ltd., under the leadership of Mr. Morio Ono, President, has announced the development of a unique ultra high power zoom lens—the Tamron AF18-270mm F/3.5-6.3 Di II VC LD Aspherical (IF) MACRO (Model B003), the first digital SLR lens in the world that delivers a remarkable zoom ratio of 15X (28-419mm equivalent) and is equipped with a highly effective Vibration Compensation (VC) mechanism. Designed exclusively for digital SLR cameras with APS-C sized image sensors, the new lens delivers outstanding image quality over its entire zoom range and its exclusive VC anti-shake system facilitates sharp handheld photography even at the longest telephoto settings.