Watsonville, CA (PRWEB) January 26, 2009 — ExpoImaging Inc. (www.ExpoImaging.net), developer and marketer of innovative camera accessories, including the Ray Flash Ring Light Adapter, ExpoDisc Digital White Balance Filter and the ExpoAperture2 Depth-of-Field Guide, today announced that it is now the exclusive U.S. distributor of Honl Photo Professional Products.

Join Scarlett in Vegas for a hot night shoot at WPPI!

From Scarlett:
“I had so much fun last year shooting a sizzlin’ bride and groom session in the glamorous lights of Vegas with Ross of Flosites.com and his bride Leysa, and this year, I want to give you the same opportunity for some rockstar portfolio pieces too!

We really appreciate other blogs linking to our articles here at Camera Dojo and usually they copy the first paragraph so their readers know what the linked article is about. While technically this is a violation of the Digital Millinium Copyright Act, I would never take action since they are only taking a snippet of an article and linking back to the entire article.

Camera Raw 5.3 and Lightroom 2.3 Release Candidates are now available on Adobe Labs.(Camera Raw 5.3, Lightroom 2.3) The release includes new camera support for the following models:

* Nikon D3X
* Olympus E-30

There are several bug fixes in this update

While it may be the middle of winter for some of you, we are going to launch a new photo contest based on an idea from a recent podcast host, Roberto Valenzuela. This contest is going to be about ‘Converging Lines”. Since an image with converging lines adds a nice dimension to your images, it seems like good practice to go out and shoot some images with this as a theme.

D700 Firmware
The following improvements have been made in version 1.01

- When Custom Setting a4 Focus tracking with lock-on was set to Off in Continuous-servo AF, the lens drive moved gradually without achieving focus. This issue has been resolved.
- When the Speedlight SB-800 was mounted on the camera with flash mode set to Distance-priority manual (GN) mode, and then the exposure meters were reactivated or the camera was turned on, the distance information displayed on the SB-800 changed. This issue has been resolved.

Firmware update Version 1.1.1 incorporates the following fixes and improvements.

1. Fixes a malfunction that in rare occurrence causes a low battery indication to be displayed when using the EF 85mm F1.2L II USM lens. Depending on the battery check timing of the camera, the battery level displayed on the camera’s LCD data panel may shows Battery will be exhausted soon or Battery must be recharged, even though the battery capacity is sufficient.

If you have been considering getting into Roberto Valenzuela’s Master Class at WPPI “From Purple Cows to Cash Cows” you had better get over and sign up quickly before all of the seats are gone. This promises to be an educational seminar that will help push your business to the next level.

For Canon 5D Mk II owners, Canon has released a new firmware upgrade to fix the black dot issue and a banding issue that would occur in specific shooting configurations.

From Canon’s website:

Firmware Update Version 1.0.7 improves and mitigates the following two types of image quality phenomena that occur under certain shooting conditions.

2008 was certainly a banner year for photography enthusiasts when it comes to the number and quality of websites that you have to choose from. We certainly appreciate all the visitors here at cameradojo.com and hope we are doing a good job at bringing you good information and we are always thrilled to see our name on lists like this. Now it’s our turn to pay tribute to some of the best sites out there that we read on a regular basis.

We are happy to announce that we are one of the first sites to use the new CommentReactor system for our comments. While we were pretty happy with the previous system, the new CommentReactor system allows you to insert images directly into your comments. If we are talking about a certain technique, you can show off your examples of it right in the comments system. We think this will allow a great degree of interaction with the articles than any other site currently has today. Check out the comments for this article as an example.

Do you have a new years resolution? Capture an image that describes a New Years resolution and enter it into our photo contest and you could win a new R-Strap from BlackRapid. Pay careful attention to the rules so you do not get disqualified.