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Few days ago iStock (new window) announced a completely new service – Logos.

We’re excited to announce a whole new product coming to the iStock collection. Clients will soon be able to download a unique logo to brand their business or organization right here at iStock. This is a huge opportunity not just for existing iStock contributors, but for our community of designers as well. If you’re a designer, you’ve probably created hundreds of different logos over the course of your career and we’re offering you an outlet to start selling logos to the world’s largest community of creative buyers.

If you’re illustrator and you have some skills with logo design, you should try.

I’m not sure how this will work and how they can know is your logo copy or not… Also I’m very interested to see price the list and terms. Once sold logo should be revoked from their gallery…

Any comments ?

If you are photo editor or photographer, you probably know how hard is to find a good LCD monitor. Actually, it is not hard if you have enough money in your wallet but if you are a student or your payment cannot reach up to $1000, it could be a serious problem. We are all agree that CRT monitors are almost history and if you have CRT monitor on your desk you can use it but only in case you can ignore some problems you may have (size, energy requirements, flickering). (Read the article)

Canon EOS 7D is almost there… At least according to Chinese forum where I found this news. Is it fake or not, the time will tell. Parallel with EOS 7D announcement, Canon will present three new lenses:
EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
EF 100mm f/2.8 L IS USM Macro

I don’t speak Chinese but we can see basic info about EOS 7D
* Dual DIGIC 4 imaging processors, 14-bit A/D signal conversion
* 8 FPS (94 Large/Fine JPEGS or 15 RAW)
* 19 points cross type AF sensors. Eight-directional double cross central AF point
* 18 megapixels APS-C CMOS Sensor
* ISO 100-6400, extends to 12800
* 100% coverage, 1.0x optical viewfinder with intelligent display, with electronic horizon line.
* 3.0″ LCD, 920,000 dot resolution, 160 degree viewing angle
* New iFCL meter system using high contrast and color detection (63-zone)
* Newly-designed streamlined body, metallic shutter sound, shutter lifespan approx. 150,000 times
* HD movie, HDMI out, external mic input
* EOS Integrated Dust Removal system
* Live view with Face-priority AF
* Auto Lighting Optimizer
* Auto correction of lens peripheral illumination (vignetting)
* New switch for Live View/Video mode
* New 24mm wide-angle built-in flash supporting EOS E-TTL II

It looks like the Canon EOS 7D will be based on an APS-C (1.6x crop) CMOS sensor. Will it be fast enough to beat Nikon D300s?

Two weeks ago I spent some time on Durmitor (Montenegro). Absolutely amazing nature…