Wireless capability is being built into some digital cameras today, but here is a device that you can add to an existing camera to make it WiFi-compatible:

The Eye-Fi is a 2 GB SD (Secure Digital) memory card that incorporates built-in WiFi to transmit images wirelessly from your digital camera to your computer. Using their provided software, you can also have those photos automatically submitted to a photo sharing site of your choice (out of the list of available choices).

Photojojo.com says that they will soon offer a CF (Compact Flash) adaptor so that you could use the Eye-Fi card in a DSLR using CF-type memory.

Here’s an interesting development by Canon to try to help photographers protect and enforce the copyrights of their images.

Basically, Canon has filed for a patent on a system that examines the iris of the photographer looking into the viewfinder and embeds information about that photographer into each image that is captured.

I don’t quite understand fully how that helps, even after reading the full article available here, but it’s a story worth following.

I stumbled across an interesting post today about a new product being researched by Adobe. It’s basically a camera lens comprised of 19 smaller lenses that allow a scene to be photographed from multiple angles simultaneously.

With the proper software, one could control the depth of field of the image (captured on a single frame) after the image has been captured and downloaded to the computer! Pretty cool!

The video below, apparently from Photoshop World, shows a glimpse of the amazing possibilities:

A new application was released yesterday by Pangea Software called Bracketeer. This Mac utility allows photographers to combine different exposures of the same image into a new “enfused” image with a much higher range of tones.

At first glance, this looks pretty cool, but I haven’t had a chance to play with it much. I’ll re-post with more information once I’ve tried it. Pangea also has a panorama software available. There are free demos available, but it’s only $20 for both programs, so if it works, I’ll throw down for that.

Adobe Systems has announced today that they plan to discontinue the Adobe Stock Photos service that has shipped as part of Bridge, one of the Creative Suite applications. This royalty-free stock photography service introduced with Adobe Creative Suite 2 Software in May 2005 will be discontinued effective April 1, 2008.

I, personally, have never used this service. It seems like a good idea for Adobe to do away with it and focus on other projects. Many users of Adobe’s programs are photographers anyway and not likely to purchase stock photos. To me, stock photography management seems like a pretty rough market to break into…even for a company like Adobe.

You’ll want to go ahead and remove the Stock Photos Service from your Adobe Creative Suite Applications. The uninstaller program can be found here for Mac and here for Windows.

Click here to view Adobe’s FAQ on Stock Photos.