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Nic Rossmüller : 2006-08-17 06:02:00
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Nikon Capture NX Software EISA Award : Nikon Europe has taken a top honour at the prestigious EISA 2006-2007 Best Product Awards, with Nikon’s U Point Technology/Capture NX software triumphant in the European Photo Innovation category. The awards, demonstrates Nikon’s commitment to producing a range of best-in-class products that are chosen by professional camera users all over the world for their quality, variety and overall performance. Martina Beckmann, Manager Communications & Marketing Services at Nikon Europe, said: “We are particularly pleased that the Nikon Capture NX software has been recognised by the EISA judges for 2006-07 as it is a product that epitomizes all that Nikon stands for in terms of great technology.
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Nic Rossmüller : 2006-08-17 06:01:00
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Nikon D200 EISA Award : Nikon Europe has taken a top honour at the prestigious EISA 2006-2007 Best Product Awards, with the D200 hailed as Camera of the year triumphant in the European Photo Innovation category. The awards, demonstrates Nikon’s commitment to a range of best-in-class products that are chosen by professional camera users all over the world for their quality, variety and overall performance. Martina Beckmann, Manager Communications & Marketing Services at Nikon Europe, said: “We are particularly pleased that the D200 has been recognised by the EISA judges as Camera of the year for 2006-07 as it is a product that epitomizes all that Nikon stands for in terms of combining great technology with superb craftsmanship.
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Nic Rossmüller : 2006-07-23 09:34:00
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American Photo Editors Choice Award 2006 : American Photo Magazine have announced their eight annual Editor's Choice awards. Photography has always been an art based on science, as advances hurtle us along with startling speed. To produce this special section we turned to Executive Editor Russell Hart and a team of experts, this year including contributing editors Jonathan Barkey and Steve Pollock, Popular Photography & Imaging editors Dan Richards and Debbie Grossman, and writers Aimee Baldridge and Phil Ryan. In addition, Alexis Gerard, president of Future Image Inc., contributed an essay looking into photography's technological future. If the state of the art is this good now, just imagine what's coming down the road.
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Nic Rossmüller : 2006-07-10 19:42:22
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Nokia N93 shot wins Cannes Lions Film Competition : A team from The Netherlands has won the inaugural Cannes Lions Young Creatives' Film Competition for which entries were filmed on the new Nokia N93 mobile video device. Roos de Kok, an art director from Cygnus X-3 agency and Liat Azulay, an art director at EuroRSCG, created a 30 second commercial that encouraged business travelers to return to Cannes with their partners. They beat nine other teams from around the world to scoop the Gold Medal which was presented by Bernard Brochand, Mayor of Cannes, on Saturday 24 June. The teams were amongst the first users of the Nokia N93, a device that offers uncompromised digital camcorder, telephony and rich communication functionalities.
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Ilse Jurriën : 2006-06-28 18:20:47
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Photobook Creator wins American Photo 2006 award : Unibind, the leading binding, laminating, and presentation system company, announced today that it has won the coveted American Photo “Editor’s Choice 2006 Award” for Imaging Essentials for Unibind PhotoBook Creator, the first low-cost do-it-yourself complete photo binding system for consumers. Priced at only $99.99, PhotoBook Creator makes it easy to create instant hard-cover 8 ½” x 11” personalized photo albums in only a few seconds. “We are honored to be selected by such a prestigious magazine as American Photo for our unique PhotoBook Creator binding technology,” said Rusty Redecker, Marketing Director, Unibind.
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Ilse Jurriën : 2006-06-27 22:51:36
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Nokia 8800 wins Red Dot Award : Nokia's iconic 8800 mobile phone has won the "best of the best" prize at the Red Dot design awards, the world's largest design competition. The Nokia 8800 beat off all competition to become the only mobile phone to receive this renowned design quality award. The Nokia 8800 mobile camera phone was singled out for its innovative, high quality design as well as for its smooth deskstand. It is the first mobile phone to use stainless steel and mineral glass in its sleekly sculpted body. Its features include a screen using more than 260,000 different colors to give striking clarity, and ringtones created by Ryuichi Sakamoto one of the world's leading composers. Award winners will be honored today in Germany.
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Ilse Jurriën : 2006-06-27 22:47:26
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International award for Wacom product design : The Cintiq 21UX Interactive Pen Display from Wacom was awarded the coveted “red dot” for high design quality in the product design category by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen. The internationally recognised commendation is awarded annually for superior design quality and innovation. Deciding factors for the independent jury’s decision are for example, the degree of innovation, functionality, form quality, ergonomics, symbolic and emotional content, and self-explanatory quality. The Cintiq 21UX Interactive Pen Display is the perfect instrument for product and fashion designers, graphic designers, illustrators, and digital photographers.
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Ilse Jurriën : 2006-06-21 00:14:00
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Carl Zeiss Research Award for perfect lens materials : Today, Martin Wegener and Kurt Busch are being honored with the Carl Zeiss Research Award 2006. With their work, the two scientists from the University of Karlsruhe have added decisive momentum to the fields of three-dimensional photonic crystals and optical metamaterials. The Carl Zeiss Research Award is seen as one of the most renowned prizes in the field of optics and is worth 25,000 euros. It was presented for the ninth time this year. Kurt Busch’s contributions to the theory of light propagation in structured materials and Martin Wegener’s experimental approaches have considerably enhanced the possibilities for the production of the three-dimensional photonic crystals.
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