DxO Labs Announces Availability of DxO Optics Pro 2.0 and DxO Raw Engine; DxO Raw Engine Available Free of Charge with DxO Optics Pro 2.0 until December 1, 2004.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- DxO Labs, a software company focused on research in image processing image processing Set of computational techniques for analyzing, enhancing, compressing, and reconstructing images. Its main components are importing, in which an image is captured through scanning or digital photography; analysis and manipulation of the image, accomplished to enhance image quality, announced today at PhotoPlus Expo 2004 the immediate availability of DxO Optics Pro version 2.0 and DxO Raw Engine. DxO Optics Pro is the award-winning software application from DxO Labs that automatically improves the quality of images produced by Digital SLR (1) (Scalable Linear Recording) A line of magnetic tape drives from Tandberg Data that evolved from the QIC Data Cartridge format. See QIC. (2) (Single Lens Reflex) A camera that uses the same lens for viewing and shooting. cameras. DxO Raw Engine is a new optional module that works seamlessly within DxO Optics Pro to perform RAW image conversion as well as enabling DxO Optics Pro's image enhancement See image editing. features to be applied on RAW files in full 16-bit mode. "Serious photographers around the world have come to appreciate our award-winning DxO Optics Pro technology. Now for the first time users can apply our technologies to their RAW image files thus producing the highest quality images possible," said Luc Marin, Vice-President of Business Development for Photography at DxO Labs. "And I'm delighted that our revised pricing now makes this software more accessible to more photographers than ever before." Unparalleled automatic RAW image enhancement The combination of DxO Optics Pro 2.0 and DxO Raw Engine offers unique image enhancement capabilities: --A new, unique, RAW conversion solution developed from the ground up by DxO Labs that produces sharp, detailed images and dramatically minimizes conversion artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. . --DxO automatic corrections (patent pending) of distortion(1), vignetting (1) A defect of an optical system in which light at the edges of images is cut off or reduced. It is caused by an obstruction in its original construction; for example, when the elements used in a lens are too small. and image softness (blur). Improved DxO Correction Modules All DxO Lens Correction Modules - critical components of DxO Optics Pro image enhancement - have been updated to provide superior image quality. Features include: --Adjustable, user controllable correction (0-100%) for distortion and vignetting. --Adjustable sharpening to meet specific output requirements. --Fine tuning option available to remedy insufficient EXIF (EXchangeable Image Format) Extensions to image file formats that hold the camera settings used to take the picture. Developed in 1995 by JEIDA for JPEG images, EXIF data was added to TIFF, RAW and other formats later. precision of certain camera and lens combinations. --Reduced image-cropping when correcting distortion. --Updated calibration for performing image enhancement in RAW/16 bit mode. Support for leading Digital SLR cameras RAW support within DxO Raw Engine is immediately available for Nikon D70, Canon EOS-1D The Canon EOS-1D was launched in November, 2001. It uses a 4 megapixel 1.3x crop factor CCD image sensor sourced from Panasonic. Despite being over six years old now, the EOS-1D is still found in many newspapers and print media offices; as well as smaller photographic Mark II and Canon EOS-1Ds The EOS-1Ds is a full-frame digital SLR camera body formerly made by Canon, released in the spring of 2003. Its dimensions are 156 mm in width, 157.6 mm in height, and 79.9 mm in depth. Its mass (without a battery) is 1,265 g. cameras. All DxO Lens Correction Modules for these cameras immediately work in both RAW and JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. mode. --Mid November 2004, DxO Labs intends to release RAW support for the Canon EOS-300D/Rebel and the Canon EOS-20D cameras. --DxO Labs is already working on further releases to support the RAW file formats of the Canon EOS-10D, the Canon EOS-1Ds MKII, and the Nikon D2X The Nikon D2X is a 12.4-megapixel professional digital single-lens reflex camera that Nikon Corporation announced on September 16, 2004. The D2X was the top model in Nikon's line until June 2006 when it was supplanted by the D2Xs. . DxO Labs will announce support for other RAW file formats in the future. DxO Optics Pro currently supports ten camera models in JPEG mode. Revised pricing and free DxO Raw Engine until December 1, 2004 Effective with the release of DxO Optics Pro 2.0 and DxO Raw Engine, users will see an average price reduction of approximately 25%. This price reduction will enable even more users to take advantage of DxO Optics Pro's unique image enhancement capabilities. Complete pricing and discount schedule is available at www.dxo.com . Upgrade from DxO Optics Pro versions 1.0/1.1 to 2.0 is free of charge. Also, DxO Raw Engine - valued at U.S. $119 (Euro 99) - will be included free of charge until December 1, 2004. In addition, a full functioning, 21 day trial version of DxO Optics Pro 2.0 and DxO Raw Engine are available for free download at www.dxo.com . Meet us at PhotoPlus Expo: Both DxO Optics Pro 2.0 and DxO Raw Engine will be showcased at PhotoPlus Expo in New York, USA on October 21-23, 2004. Booth #1418. About DxO Labs and its DxO Technology DxO Labs (formerly "DO Labs") is a software company developing image processing technologies and image quality enhancement solutions. DxO Labs provides reliable, off-the-shelf imaging solutions for serious amateurs and professional photographers, photography journalists and experts as well as companies in the imaging business such as digital camera or cameraphone manufacturers, mobile operators, and printing or photofinishing pho·to·fin·ish·ing n. The act or business of developing camera films and printing photographs for customers. pho professionals. DxO Labs offers customers highly advanced image processing technologies. The company's patented DxO technology is the result of state-of-the-art academic mathematical research. The DxO Foundations comprise a set of software components to correct major imaging device defects: Blur, Contrast, Demozaicing, Distortion, Vignetting, Chromatic aberration chromatic aberration: see aberration, in optics. Fringes of color at the edges of objects in a photograph due to the inability of the camera lens to deal with all wavelengths of light equally. , JPEG artifacts, etc. For more information, visit DxO Labs online at www.dxo.com . Visit DxO Labs during PhotoPlus Expo in New York at booth #1418 DxO, DxO Optics Pro and DxO Raw Engine are registered trademarks of DxO Labs. All other trademarks are acknowledged. (1) Including Lateral Chromatic Aberration |
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