Canon Releases EOS E1 Video Plug-In for Apple’s Final Cut Pro

Canon’s EOS E1 video plug-in for Apple’s Final Cut Pro was released today. This new plug-in allows simple and easy transfer of video content from Canon’s EOS DSLR cameras directly into Final Cut Pro.The EOS E1 video plug-in takes advantage of Final Cut Pro’s powerful Log and Transfer feature, which allows users to select and mark the video directly while it is still on the camera, add custom meta data and ingest the clips in the background so the editing can begin immediately.The EOS E1 video plug-in is a free download available at http://www.apple.com/ downloads/macosx/finalcutstudio/. The plug-in is compatible with Final Cut Pro 6 or higher and currently supports Canon EOS 5D Mark II, EOS 7D and EOS 1D Mark IV cameras. To read more on this article click here.

Magnum Photos.

Magnum Photos has sold its archive of more than 185,000 press prints to Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computer, and two other investors for an undisclosed amount, the agency announced today. Under the terms of the sale, the prints were moved in December 2009 from Magnum’s New York office to the Harry Ransom Center, the humanities library at the University of Texas in Austin.The collection includes prints made from the 1930s to the 1990s from images by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Raymond Depardon, Josef Koudelka, Bruce Davidson, Rene Burri and other Magnum members. Before Magnum began digitizing its archive in 1998, the press prints were circulated among magazines as a way to promote licensing of photo stories or single images. The coding and labels on the back of each print trace the sales history of the print and detail usage terms. Many also contain handwritten notes from the photographer to the darkroom printer or the Magnum archivists.  To read more on this article click here.

1D Mark IV Firmware Update.

As a result of further enhancement, Canon is working to release a firmware update for the EOS-1D Mark IV. This firmware update further enhances the AF tracking performance and should be available for download from the Web starting from late January.Firmware Version 1.0.6 enhances the AF tracking performance of the EOS-1D Mark IV for receding subjects and for subjects that are approaching at a low-speed this info is coming from Canon Europe. Hopefully the release of the new firmware will better improve an already amazing camera. If you would like to read more on this click here.