New Digital Book Scanner Released

Konico Minolta has released a revolutionary new digital book scanner to help libraries and businesses to translate their records into the digital age. The PS 7000 Digital Book Scanner is powered by the Image Diva Software program which allows for high resolution, easily readable scanned images.

With Minolta’s technology the scanner is capable of reproducing high quality replicas of detailed work ranging from art to topography, even capturing 3D elements. For law firms and businesses, the scanner will allow high quality reproduction of contracts and records for long term storage. With a large scanning area which covers documents as large as 18×24″ in less than 10 seconds, it is easy to digitize records more quickly.

Designs for ease of use, the scanner has touch screen applications, and connects remotely to printers for direct output. Based upon feedback from the company’s thousands of customers, the model has been field tested for archives, medical records and legal contracts to hone in one ideal quality.

Motion Capture Technology: Live Action to Animation

Animation films have come a long way from the classical cel animation that defined early cartoons. While there is an element of artistic nostalgia surrounding hand crafted classics, today’s 3D animation is made possible with lifelike motion capture software. From animated 3D films to rendering in next generation video games, motion capture technology has fundamentally changed the way that we view movement.

Digital MD: Image Software for Medical Professionals

As technology has advanced rapidly in the medical profession, the ability of digital imaging software packages to physicians in analysis has been expanding. Today, modern hospitals feature an array of high resolution cameras which capture images both externally and internally, ensuring that doctors understand the nature of their patient’s ailments from, literally, every angle.

Editing Toolset: Pinnacle Studio Ultimate

For high end image and video hobbyists, Pinnacle Studio plus is one of the most intuitive software packages on the market. Designed to help you edit your videos, the new version of the software now allows for full High definition images and video editing, as well as providing an improved interface.

For first time users, the product has complete video and image editing tutorials which can help you figure out the intricacies of technical editing more quickly. AS you venture from static image editing to more dynamic media formats, you will appreciate the multi-media tools that the programs come with including Smart Audio, which helps you align audio to your video and Studio Plus which helps optimize your files to limit the amount of hard drive space they take.

You can even professionally finish your image and video products by adding menus and navigation buttons to your final product, as well as more traditional video editing tools such as transition screens. One of the more impressive video editing tools today, Pinnacle Studio 12 comes highly recommended as an alternative to Adobe Premier.

New Creative Suite: Review of Adobe Photoshop CS4

For graphic designers, amateur photographers and design enthusiasts, Adobe has released its fourth edition of its Creative Suite software with a number of enhancements to its digital imaging capabilities.

This is the first version of Creative suite to offer full 64-bit capability, which users of Mac OSX and Windows Visa can take advantage of. While you’ll want to ensure that you have at least 3 GB of RAM in order to run the program smoothly on those operating systems in full 64-bit mode, the benefits in terms of speed are pretty amazing. For users of Adobe CS3, you’ll fondly recall the slow down that occur when zooming in on detailed photos - the improved memory management and caching features in CS4 now limit these programs, so you can readily zoom in and manipulate high resolution photos with relative ease now.

Adobe also upped the ante on artificial intelligence in the new version of Photoshop, introducing a series of features that allow you to resize images with intelligent scale. When scaling images in past versions, you were left with options of maintaining the ratio of the size or just manually doing adjustments at the individual layer level. Although Photoshop CS4 does not do a perfect job of solving this problem, it did quite well for most purposes in our tests. You can even utilize a field depth tool to manipulate digital images after the fact as if you were back on the scene, capturing the original image.

The improvements in both speed and features make Photo Shop CS4 a must buy for serious photographers and digital imaging enthusiasts.

Canon Announces New Digital Imaging Solutions

For medical professionals, having precise imaging to evaluate patients is crucial, and for eye car professionals, maximizing the level of detail is essential. At the recent Academy of Ophthalmology meeting, Canon introduced new higher resolution retinal and Optical Tomography cameras that offer faster shutter speeds and more ergonomic designs.

In addition to providing sate of the art standards, Canon also introduced the new Spoct retinal cross-section imaging camera that captures fields in true 3D to provide a valuable diagnostic for eye car professionals. Unique to Canon, the company has a fully integrated digital imaging software platform that provides retinal cameras, autotonometers, kertometers and complete medical record storage in a unified solution.