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The iPad can be a great way to show your work to current and potential clients. Unlike a print portfolio, you can easily keep your iPad portfolio up to date, can revise it at no cost, and tailor it to a very specific audience. But to be effective, you have to make sure that your pictures look their best.

Adobe Labs has released updates for both Lightroom 3 and Camera Raw 6. These updates fix some known problems, provide support for additional cameras, and profiles for additional lenses. The other new feature that is available with these updates is the Adobe Lens Profile Downloader. This is a free application that allows users to search, download, rate and comment on the online lens correction profiles that are created and shared by the user community.

Here at dpBestflow®, one of our primary concerns is helping people keep their data safe. In our own backup and archive setup, we use and recommend eSATA external drive enclosures. These drive enclosures can hold anywhere from one to eight drives, which are mounted in bays. We use a JBOD system with 2 TB drives which are convenient to swop out with identical drives which are stored offsite, and brought in periodically to sync with the onsite backups. We've been using this system for several years now, and all has gone smoothly.

We all know how important accurate white balance is. In order to get it right, some photographers use a gray card, some a white card, some even use a sheet of white paper. But what if your camera is mounted on a satellite? What do you use then? A dry lake bed of course!

Apparently, Canon engineers have been hard at work creating some exciting new sensors. Two Canon press releases, a week apart, have announced the world record breaking achievements of the highgest megapixel count on an APS-H sensor and largest CMOS sensor ever made. Wow.

On this fifth anniversary of Katrina, I’ve been hard at work editing a film Richard Anderson and I are creating about the loss of photographs in the storm. Read More

If you are already familiar with diglloyd.com, you know that it has some of the most comprehensive hardware and software reviews and comparisons available. The newly posted review of the 2010 Mac Pro Westmere 4,6,8, and 12 core models is no exception. If you are in the market for a new workstation, do yourself a favor and check it out.

You can find the review here.

Choosing which computer monitors to use in your digital imaging workflow is tricky territory for most of us. The tech landscape keeps changing rapidly and most of us are budget constrained. We want our monitors to accurately match our image files and for them to be a pleasure to sit in front of since that is where many of us are spending a great deal of our time these days. Finding the best combination of quality and price is key. Understanding the terminology can be very useful in evaluating monitors since there are many terms and acronyms floating around.

New from John Beardsworth, a plug-in that lets you copy the metadata from one file to another one of the same name (From a JPEG to a NEF for instance).  John’s hard at work on Lightroom Plug-ins, which is good for people who want to use the program and need extensions to the file or metadata handling capabilities.

From his blog:

People often ask, "What's more important for computer performance, RAM or the processor?" These two things are extremely important but the component that is often overlooked is hard drive performance. When working with large image files, software makes uses of scratch disks and if your hard drive does not perform well, you will experience a slower workflow regardless of your RAM or processor.