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Tanya Chuang, Director of Worldwide Retail Product Marketing, SanDisk joins host Scott Sheppard to discuss some details about their new SanDisk Extreme® III 30MB/s Edition line of SDHC™ Cards that boost card performance speeds by 50%. Tanya explains how their close relationship with Nikon helped them break the barriers of the current card limits and that the new Nikon D90 is the first camera body to support the advanced performance capabilities of their new cards which are ideal for both photo and video capture. Tanya also discusses some updates on their compact flash cards and what we can expect to see on the horizon for their full line of high performance photo and video cards.

For more information visit: http://www.sandisk.com

The McNamara Report on Inside Digital Photo with Michael J. McNamara
This week’s topic: Nikon and Canon save best DSLRs for last

Photokina is the largest photo-trade show in the world, and it kicks off in Cologne, Germany on Sept.23. Predictably, manufacturers announce their top models just prior to the show, and this year it’s no different. Both Canon and Nikon just made back-to-back announcements of their top advance-amateur DSLRs, and in this radio segment, Scott and Mike take sides in a verbal shootout of the features to see if Canon’s new $1,400 50D is a better deal than Nikon’s new $1,000 D90.

For more new Photokina product announcements visit: http://photokina.en.koelnmesse.info/

Read more insights and analysis from Mike McNamara on: http://www.mcnamarareport.com

Dane Sanders, Author, Trainer, & Wedding Photographer, joins Inside Digital Photo for an update on his new book "Fast Track Photographer", a comprehensive guide on how to build a recession-proof, competition-proof photo business in the 21st Century. Dane explains his unconventional approach that includes a Photographer DNA (pDNA) Assessment Tool designed to help you identify your personal strenghts and personality type that can determine the best approach you can take to differentiate yourself instead of simply copying your competition. Dane shares some tips from his own experiences and is thrilled to have this opportunity to pay it forward to the community via this book designed not as a "how-to" shoot weddings but a tool that will help you build your photography business.

For more information, and to get your own copy visit: http://www.fasttrackphotographer.com/ for information and to see Dane’s work visit: http://danesanders.com/

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Diederik van Heyningan, Manager & Photographer, Lightworkx Studio joins host Scott Sheppard for a lively discussion on their commercial studio work based in Christchurch, New Zealand. Diederik discusses some of the challenges but also some of the amazing opportunities and variety of work they have mastered based in a fairly remote location on the South Island. Diederik explains they were one of the first digital production studios and have won numerous color awards for their work. Lightworkx is a studio and also do their post-production work in-house. Diederik shares some tips about how they were able to use a locally developed color proofing system called "AbsoluteProof" that has, in his opinion, solved their color management and contract/remote proofing problems.

For more information about Lightworkx and their work visit: http://www.lightworkx.com or to check out their proofing solution, AbsoluteProof, visit http://www.absolute-proof.com/

The McNamara Report on Inside Digital Photo with Michael J. McNamara
This week’s topic: Another RAW camera format? How are we going to handle it?

It happened again, just when most photographers had been lulled into thinking we had seen the last new RAW file format. But noooo! Nikon surprised us by giving birth to a new one called .NRW that’s found exclusively in the high-level COOLPIX P6000 (This hot $500 compact boasts a 13.5MP CCD, 28-112mm f/2.7-5.9 stabilized zoom lens, built-in GPS, and up to ISO 6400.)Unfortunately, the Nikon engineers forgot something when they created this new RAW format—and it’s called Mac compatibility! Guess we should have seen that coming with a file extension called .NRW (Nikon Raw Windows).
So while photographers with PC’s running Microsoft Vista (and nothing prior to Vista) will be able to open and adjust .NRW files, the rest of the world is out of luck—unless popular RAW workflow programs like Apple’s Aperture, Adobe RAW converter, and Adobe’s Lightroom come to the rescue as they have in the past.

Read more insights and analysis from Mike McNamara on: http://www.mcnamarareport.com

Oliver Breitenbach, CEO, Boinx Software joins Inside Digital Photo for an update on their latest release of FotoMagico 2.5, the digital storytelling applications built for photographers. Oliver explains that at it’s most basic level is to create slideshows, but in the hands of creatives, wedding photographers, and journalists FotoMagico quickly generates very compelling short clips that incorporate your images, high-end transitions, synchronizes them to audio, and other effects which can be exported in a range of formats from web video to high definition Blu-ray format. Winner of multiple Apple Design Awards, FotoMagico currently runs only on Apple Mac OS leveraging the best development tools available on the platform that deliver an intuitive drag-n-drop interface.

For more information and to download a demo version today visit: http://www.boinx.com/fotomagico/

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