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If you missed this limited-time and limited-redemptions coupon promotion last week, fear not! It has returned! If you are looking for a basic portable table-top studio set-up or just want to scavenge and re-purpose its body parts for other purposes, the Merax One Shot portable studio is available for $26 with free shipping from a USA warehouse as one of the Meritline latest specials when you enter coupon code MLCB22SN in the shopping cart. You must be logged on to a Meritline account in order to enter coupons. This is both a limited time offer (I don't know the exact expiration date) and a limited redemptions offer (200 coupon uses). It has 113 customer reviews with an average of 4.32 out of 5. The kit includes (per the product description): + 2 high-output (2700K lamps) table top lights + nylon diffuser screen + reversible, non-reflective background cloth + rugged steel-footed stand fits all digital cameras + non-slip design keeps camera in a fixed position + compact foldable design that turns into a carrying bag + ArcSoft PhotoStudio software + details and more product pictures further down the Meritline product page For the latest camera specials and in-stock alerts, check the Cameras Deals blog. Republication of this RSS feed on any website or blog or app is prohibited and violates the terms of use of this RSS feed. This text comes from the RSS feed of 1001noisycameras.com. This full-text RSS feed is provided as a service to our loyal readers for their personal use. Republication fees start at $1000 per month and will be billed to violating websites.

Improvements to Nvidia's virtualization technology are aimed at turning graphics processors into a more important resource in data centers and could speed deployment of virtual desktops and delivery of data over the cloud. The graphics company Tuesday announced improvements to its VGX technology, which virtualizes the GPU and makes it a resource that can be shared with CPUs and memory in servers. Hardware and software improvements to VGX will allow a graphics board to deliver multiple virtual desktops. Previously, VGX could deliver only one virtual machine per graphics board. Virtualization enables efficient use of server resources in a distributed computing environment and GPUs could help cut electric bills through fast delivery of virtual desktops. GPUs are considered faster than CPUs in some cases and are used in some of the world's fastest computers for complex calculations, as well as by Web browsers for faster graphics rendering. Virtualizing graphics processors could enable servers to deliver games over the cloud and make high-performance resources available to remote users. Nvidia worked with virtualization company Citrix to make improvements at the hypervisor, driver and hardware levels, said Sanford Russell, director of Grid marketing at Nvidia. The VGX improvements will work only with Citrix's Xen products, including XenServer and XenApp. Ultimately, Nvidia hopes to bring the VGX improvements to virtualization technologies from VMware and Microsoft, but Russell could not provide a specific date on when that may happen. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

We are at about that point in the year when Apple holds its ever-popular WWDC (Worldwide Developer’s Conference) in California. The company’s keynote is expected to include the unveiling of iOS 7, and the word on the grapevine indicates the next iteration of the mobile operating system could include deep integration with social networks outside of Twitter and Facebook. Citing unnamed sources, 9to5Mac reports both Flickr and Vimeo will be “integrated deeply” into the operating system. What this means, in essence, is that users will be able to sign on to these social networks via Apple’s Settings menu, which easily allows for posting content right from the operating system’s user interface, as opposed to having to open the Flickr or Vimeo applications. The integration may also allow for instant logging-in to Flickr (for example) via downloaded Apps, preventing users from having to input their usernames and passwords after initially doing so in their device’s settings. Earlier this year, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer held a meeting with Apple, but possible Flickr integration was not an announced talking point, according to the 9to5Mac report. The news comes just days following a complete Flickr overhaul, and signals Yahoo’s intention to make Flickr a powerful on-the-go photo sharing service. (via 9to5Mac via The Verge)

Citrix Systems is making its cloud-based storage service ShareFile more Microsoft-friendly with SharePoint integration and the ability to store data on Azure. Services for storing and sharing content in the cloud started in the consumer sector, but more enterprises are now adopting rather than blocking them. Citrix saw this trend coming and acquired ShareFile back in October 2011; it announced the latest round of updates Wednesday at the Synergy user conference. Two of the updates are related to where and how ShareFile stores data. The service lets enterprises choose between storing user data in their own data centers; in data centers managed by Citrix; or using existing file storage systems, according to Bill Carovano, senior director of product management for Citrix's ShareFile products. Using existing systems is made possible via what Citrix calls StorageZone Connectors. The company has supported traditional network shares, but is now adding integration with SharePoint, according to Carovano. With the ShareFile app users can, for example, find a file on their iPad in the SharePoint document library, open it up, make changes and then check it back in again. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

FreeSpace 2 and other space combat classics kept the genre alive, albeit on the back burner, for years Then indie game studio Born Ready Games came along and decided to create a modern space combat simulator: Strike Suit Zero ($20). To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover has sent down a constant stream of images from the Red Planet. Ever since it landed on August 8th, 2012, it’s spent every spare moment snapping selfies, panoramas and surveillance footage, and sending it back home from between 33.9 and 250 million miles away (depending on the relative positions of Mars and Earth). The majority of Curiosity’s photos that get picked up by the press are taken by the Mars Hand Lens Imager and Mastcam, but Curiosity is actually taking pictures each and every day. Equipped with Front Avoidance Hazard Cameras or “Hazcams,” the rover has been snapping black-and-white images ever since it landed, and one YouTuber has decided to stitch all of those images into a time-lapse. YouTube user Karl Sanford recently published a video that takes every RAW photo Curiosity’s front left Hazcam has snapped and sent down between Sol 0 (August 8th, 2012) and Sol 281 (May 21st, 2013) and put them together into a time-lapse that lets you follow Curiosity’s journey across Mars thus far. The images are all black-and-white, but the quality is there and it’s pretty cool getting to watch Curiosity move, dig, sample and otherwise “rove” across the god or war’s planet. If you pay close attention, you can even see when the rover reaches Mount Sharp. You’ll notice that a few parts of the video are choppier than others. Apparently, this is because beaming back photos from Mars isn’t exactly easy: Curiosity sends back raw images for current and prior Sols based on commands sent by the mission team. The rover uses orbiters to relay back a lot of its data, and maximizes each opportunity when they pass by overhead. Curiosity stores any data not transmitted onboard. The rover will send back this data on later Sols This means that as time goes on and more data is sent, we may eventually have a smooth time-lapse that follows Curiosity around Mars — showing us exactly what the rover saw, in the order the rover saw it. Who knows, maybe the general public will be able to find/see something NASA missed … it has happened before. To see more RAW photos from any of the Rover’s cameras or find out if any more photos for any particular Sol have been sent back since the video went up, head over to NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory website here.

The Sigma DP1 Merrill marks a significant upgrade over its predecessor, the DP1x, and delivers some of the most beautiful, detailed images at low ISOs that we've ever seen from a camera in its price range. Paired with a sharp 28mm-equivalent lens, the DP1M's 46-megapixel, three-layered Foveon sensor captures images that demonstrate remarkable per-pixel sharpness and an extra-special dimensionality that has created an almost cult following of Foveon faithful. In addition to its massive sensor upgrade, the Sigma DP1M boasts a faster lens (f/2.8 compared... (read more)

Welcome everyone on this fine Wednesday morning to another roundup of great camera deals. We've got a nice selection of bargains including several Canon DSLRs and lenses, a couple compact system cameras and more. Be sure to check back on the site regularly for more discounts. Refurbished Canon Rebel T3i - $352 (compare to $486 new) - Free Shipping Direct from Canon's Online Store is a great a low price on a factory refurbished Canon EOS Rebel T3i camera body for just $351.99 with free shipping. Act quickly because... (read more)

LockCircle has announced its new LockPort USB, which is designed to help avoid damaging your 5D Mark III and 5D Mark II mini USB camera port. Previously, LockCircle released the LockPort HDMI port savers, which proved successful and led to the logical development of a port saver for USB ports on HDSLRs. LockPort HDMI was eventually developed and released for Nikon D600 and D800 HDSLRs, so I would expect a LockPort USB model to be in the works for those cameras as well. LockPort USB is available for $139 direct from LockCircle. More details here on LockCircle’s website. Copyright/DMCA Notice: The RSS entry was originally published on Photography Bay and is protected by copyright laws. It is unlawful to (a) edit, modify, alter, or create derivative works of the text, content or links supplied by Photography Bay, (b) use any robot, spider, scraper, other device or manual process to monitor or copy any content from the Photography Bay RSS feed, (c) sell, retransmit or commercially exploit the Photography Bay RSS feed, headlines or content in any manner except as expressly permitted in writing by authorized representatives of Photography Bay, (d) incorporate advertising into or the placement of advertising associated with or targeted towards the Photography Bay RSS feed or (e) use the Photography Bay RSS feed for any unlawful purpose or in violation of the rights of others. RSSID#794326 Related posts: LockPort 800 HDMI Port Saver for Nikon D800 LockPort5M3 Protects the 5D Mark III’s HDMI Port LockPort5 Protects Canon 5D Mark II HDMI Port

B&H has the Sony 64GB UHS1 Class 10 High Speed SDHC/SDXC Memory Card available for $37.74 with free shipping. Compare at $49.99. Adorama had the same card on sale for slightly less yesterday, but they're now out of stock.