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CIPA has today published a draft of their new ‘Specification Guideline for Digital Cameras’. This document is intended to provide guidelines to manufacturers for the publication of specifications and features for digital cameras. It covers a wide range of details such as focal length, effective pixels, sensitivity, signal to noise ratio and even weight, dimensions and volume. Very promising specification is a distinction between mechanical (optical) image stabilization and digital blur reduction, called by some manufacturers digital image stabilization.

Some of CIPA members include Canon, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax, Sigma and Sony.

Related Links:

• Draft of the ‘Specification Guideline for Digital Cameras’ (PDF)

Tom Hogarty gave some more info about Lightroom 1.1 – what there will be, and what there will be not:

 I can’t comment specifically on future feature timing but one of the key updates already provided in the Camera Raw 4.1 release and the next update of Lightroom is improved noise reduction and sharpening technology. A plug-in API for third party software is very important for Lightroom but will not be included in Lightroom 1.1. – TH

About sRAW support:

…the Camera Raw 4.1 readme indicates that we were unfortunately unable to include SRAW support in this release. Lightroom’s next camera support update will be identical. We will address SRAW support in a future release…

Original post, comments, questions, and answers you can read at: http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2007/05/lightroom_and_camera_raw_41_1.html

Adobe Lightroom gives you an ability to organize images in your Library by setting rating to your photographs. You can do it in several ways.

First and most obvious way is to set it using mouse when you are looking at your images Library Loupe view. Just click on the star and you will set corresponding rating to the image.

The other way is by using keyboard shortcuts. Select your image or look at it in Loupe view, then use 1 to 5 keys to set Rating 1 to 5 stars accordingly. After selecting use your arrow keys to move to previous/next image.

Or you can use Shift-1 – Shift 5 to set image rating 1 to 5 stars and move to next image automatically.

There is even better, undocumented way to do it. Turn your Caps Lock on and press 1 to 5 keys. You will set rating and move to next image like if you did this with Shift-1 – Shift-5.

Also you can use same key combinations for setting color labels for images using numbers 6 for red, 7 for yellow, 8 for green, 9 for blue, and 0 for purple.

Summing everything up we have following table:

Please find below list of sites that are included in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Search Engine.

• http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom – official
• http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal – offlcial
• http://www.lightroomkillertips.com
• http://seanmcfoto.com/lightroom
• http://www.lightroominfocus.com
• http://www.photoshopuser.com/lightroom
• http://www.photoshopsupport.com/lightroom
• http://www.golightroom.com

Search will include results from all Internet sites, but results from these sites are emphasized.
Any suggestions are welcome.