"'PhotoShop(TM) in Black & White'
Tuesday, March 28, 2000, 8:30pm ET/ 5:30pm PT
Description: It's more than just selecting Greyscale! Find out how to use PhotoShop to produce magnificent monochromes, the digital with George Schaub. Win a free copy of George's book, 'The Digital Darkroom: Black-and-White Techniques Using PhotoShop.'
Who should attend: PhotoShop users and anyone who prints in a traditional Black & White darkroom.

'Shooting Great Travel Pictures'
Wednesday, April 5, 2000, 8:30pm ET/ 5:30pm PT
Description: Travel photographer Jeff Wignall will be answering your questions on how to take great travel pictures.
Who should attend: Beginners to Intermediate photographers, anyone who travels with a camera and wants to improve their results.

'Dirck Halstead on Photographing the President'
Wednesday, April 12, 2000, 9:00pm ET/6:00pm PT
Description: A special hour with Dirck Halstead, Time Magazine's official White House photographer, as he takes a break from the campaign trail to chat with us.
Who should attend: Open to all skill levels

'Picture-Taking Strategies to Give You Better Photos'
Wednesday, April 19, 2000, 8:30pm ET/ 5:30pm PT
Description: Photo Editor Teri Lupo explains how to apply some basic picture-taking strategies when you take photos that will give you better results.
Who should attend: Beginner to Intermediate photographers

'Digital Cameras: What You Need to Know Before Buying One'
Wednesday, April 26, 2000, Time 8:00pm ET/ 5:00pm PT
Description: Nancy Carr, Kodak VP of Digital and Applied Imaging will be answering your questions about purchasing a digital camera.
Who should attend: Beginners, anyone who is planning on buying a digital camera

'Making Changes to Your Digital Pictures'
Wednesday, May 3, 2000, Time: 8:00pm ET/ 5:00pm PT
Description: Is your image too large? Need to get the red-eye out? Want to know how to crop your photos? Get answers from Drew McManus, Adobe's Group Product Manager for Consumer Imaging. Drew will talk about Adobe PhotoDeluxe(TM), Adobe PhotoShop(TM), and other available image editing solutions.
Who should attend: Beginners to intermediate photographers, anyone wanting to manipulate their digital images."

"We created the Event Photography solution to provide professional photographers with an easy way to increase sales and to enable customers to easily share their event and favorite moments with family and friends. Most people never see the pictures from the event they attended. Now friends, family and guests can view and order their favorite pictures online from anywhere in the world, at any time, with just a few clicks of the mouse."

"The 4700Z was certainly an interesting camera, a design of two opposites.. Great design, build quality and ergonimics. It's great to see digicam manufacturers thinking about how we actually use the cameras rather than just bolting a button here or there, and there's some really nice touches on the 4700Z that make you think. Unfortunately this wasn't matched by the pixel level image quality demanded by the more mature end of the digicam market. Up close images were fuzzy, had odd pixel effects and chromatic abberations towards the corners of the frame. If you're shooting for the web or for email then image quality will be just fine, otherwise you may wish to consider a 3 megapixel digicam."

"A new range of features is being developed for next-generation photo kiosks, which will make them even more attractive. Future kiosks will be able to handle input from digital cameras, connect to the Internet for access to online photo communities and centralized printing services, and connect to on-site minilabs for more versatile, high volume output. These capabilities will strengthen the overall digital imaging infrastructure that has been emerging though digital minilabs, online photofinishing, and online photo communities."

"We are fortunate to have Anshoo on our board. His three decades at Xerox, combined with his profound understanding of the needs of his customers, makes him unique in appreciating the opportunities and challenges of our business"

"Leon has been a key figure in making SanDisk a successful company. He joined the company in our early stage and directed our efforts in establishing key industry storage standards such as CompactFlash and the MultiMediaCard. Leon was largely responsible for generating worldwide demand for our products and demonstrated the leadership skills and efficient management style that propelled SanDisk to its present status as the world's largest supplier of flash data storage products. We shall miss Leon's experience, tenacity and good sense of humor. Leon built a terrific marketing and sales organization which is now managed by Nelson Chan, our senior vice president of worldwide marketing."

"National's technique performs the white balance function on the analog image signal before converting each pixel to a digital signal. Other current digital imaging systems perform the white balance after conversion, when the SNR of the pixels has been fixed. Any subsequent gain thus amplifies both the signal and the noise level of the pixel, which degrades image quality. National's unique offset calibration provides a similar benefit by setting the black reference voltage level at the output of the analog-to-digital converter (ADC). This is more accurate than the conventional method which adjust the reference only at the input to the ADC, making no provision for variations in the offset voltage due to temperature and other factors.

The LM98501 provides a maximum sampling rate of 27 MHz (27 million samples per second) at 10-bit resolution, which is the standard for consumer cameras. It also features low power consumption of 160 mW at 2.7 volts and maximum sampling rate. Lower power usage helps extend battery life."

"Paper Converter is the ultimate efficiency solution for workers in small businesses and corporate workgroups, now the fastest growing segment of Web content creators. Web publishing has never been so easy. Rather than spending valuable time going through multiple steps to reconstruct the look, feel and content of an original document, paper containing text and graphic images can be easily scanned and displayed on a Web site in seconds."

"Overall, I recommend the QV-3000EX highly! While it's only the second three megapixel camera we've tested, it's right up there with the PowerShot S20. The camera is full-featured, and everyone loves the Microdrive! Mac users may want to consider something else if the lack of panorama software really bothers you -- perhaps Casio will offer it one of these days."

"Visitors to the Outpost.com website can enter the sweepstakes and pick the team they believe will make the finals of the tournament. Entrants must also indicate whether or not they are an alumnus/student of the school they select. One unique winner will be selected from two separate pools -- 1) those that correctly choose the teams who make it to the Final Four and 2) those who choose teams that don't make the finals. Each of these winners will receive a prize package of two tickets to the games, an Acer laptop computer, a Largan digital camera and other great Outpost.com products.

People can enter every day from now until March 26th to increase their chances of winning.

There are second and third prize packages for each of the final drawing pools and every day Outpost.com will give away a Lexmark deluxe printer package."

"Improvements to a specification which needs them are certainly welcomed. But a draft specification represent only the first step. It takes up to two years from initial silicon to complete hardware debug. Then, it takes another 10 to 12 months, at the minimum, for software development and debug. With the original USB specification, this process required four years. I can not imagine that ramping from 12 Megabits to 120 Megabits is going happen any sooner. Faster speeds will take even longer."

"This new structure will help Sony adapt even faster to our ever-changing technology landscape. CEG provides a single market-oriented focus that will help put the digital devices and interactive services of the future in our customers' hands even faster than before. [The] concentration of sales and marketing with engineering and manufacturing in San Diego creates a supply-chain model that is structured for speed. Our PC and digital imaging businesses now have a single base of operations from where they can create and distribute products better and faster."

"Having Evinter International represent us in Spain and Latin America commits IXLA to continuing its worldwide expansion of products and services. Evinter International has a fluent understanding of the changes and challenges that are evolving in the retail IT marketplace in Spain and Latin America - we are very fortunate to have such an experienced and reputable firm representing IXLA products in these countries."

"We have always maintained the vision that still pictures will eventually lead to moving pictures. We are now bearing the fruits of our strategy. The Cyber-shot digital still cameras include a video burst mode, which captures up to 60 seconds of MPEG video. This makes the combined licensing of PhotoSuite and VideoWave significant - PhotoSuite will let Sony users play with still images, while VideoWave will let them edit their MPEG movies."

"PhotoWorks was one of the first companies to offer photos online. In a little less than a year after its launch, our online consumer photo archive is now past the 85 million image mark, which we believe is far ahead of our nearest competitor. The continued growth of the archive demonstrates our popularity among film and digital camera users. To ensure our continued leadership, we're offering customers more ways to share their photos online, with free processing and printing services for first-time customers. By growing the core of the archive, our customers are also building their personal equity in PhotoWorks as their online image processing company of choice. We expect that the monetary value of the archive will be realized from both film processing services for our film-based customers as well as the expanded use and variety of photo print products offered to all of our customers, including digital camera users seeking the highest quality and most economical print output."

"State Street Direct is the first to ship a 3.34 Megapixel digital camera. While supplies last, State Street Direct now has available the Hot, New Canon Powershot S20 Kit which includes the DK-110 NiMH Charger, AC Adapter and NiMH Battery. We only have 30 units available (as of March 15th) from our first shipment."

"All things considered this is a good camera but for its somewhat dated one megapixel image resolution I think that it has been priced too high at $995 MSRP. I expect to see this camera dramatically reduced in price as it up against the likes of Sony who will undoubtedly be doing some price slashing when their new multimegapixel Mavica models arrive shortly. The overall image quality is good but not great, pictures often lacked color saturation (depth) that is common to other cameras in this resolution class."

"Consumers opting to have their photos scanned to PhotoLoft.com are taking the first step into the digital world. Our B2B product makes it easy for anyone to fully appreciate the benefits of digital imaging and Internet photo-sharing. The next step for most consumers is probably to digital cameras, and PhotoLoft.com's B2C products are custom made to accommodate that transition as well."

"We believe that these numbers validate our approach to online photo finishing. We provide a total approach to Web photo finishing solutions. Whether it's dropping off your film at a retailer, uploading your digital images from a scanner or digital camera and having those images made into prints by professional labs, we offer a complete portfolio of services that is proving more compelling in our industry."

"The Casio QV-3000EX is an excellent camera, the ergonomics and graphical menu system make it a joy to use. Fast camera operations, good battery life and excellent image quality plus manual controls and CF Type II memory slot make this camera a real winner. Bundle it with a 340MB Microdrive and you have a digi-shutterbug's dream machine -- just be sure to buy several sets of NiMH batteries and a good charger as it's the only thing that Casio left out of the box."

"The PowerShot S20 is a great camera, one that I wouldn't hesitate to recommend to anyone seeking a small, point-and-shoot camera. It's fast, well-designed, and really easy to use. That said, someone who desires manual controls (myself included) will probably look elsewhere."