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• New Gear and Great Sales at Calumet
• Use Your Calumet Credit Card and Save
• Get Summer Workshop Scholarships

New Gear and Great Sales at Calumet

Visit our website to check out new products from Hahnemuhle, JVC, Canon video and Nikon. Take advantage of sale prices and save on specialty camera and studio stand kits. Hurry, these offers are good from March 6 through April 30, 2006.

Use Your Calumet Credit Card and Save

Make a purchase on your Calumet Card between March 23 and April 15, 2005, and make no payments, pay no interest until January 2007!

The no interest offer applies at one of our ten retail locations, online or by calling us direct at 800-CALUMET (800-225-8638).

Get Summer Workshop Scholarships

The Santa Fe Workshops (SFW) is pleased to offer a number of scholarships for photography workshops in Santa Fe. The Workshops has many offerings of interest to photographers and photo educators including Alternative Processes with Christopher James, Introduction to Photoshop for Photographers with Josh Withers and Black-and-White Photography for Young Photographers (specially designed for teens 13 to 17 years of age). You can review a selection of more than 50 summer workshops at www.santafeworkshops.com.

Scholarships Available:

A generous scholarship program supports the young photographer (with two full scholarships available), the educator, and the photo enthusiast or emerging professional. The Nikon Spirit Initiative, in recognition of the individual vision that animates all great pictures, awards two $750 scholarships to amateur and professional
photographers to support their personal vision through photography. The Kodak Educator Scholarship of $850 is awarded to a deserving and talented photographic or digital educator for a week-long workshop in Santa Fe between June and December 2006. Educator applicants must be high school, college, or advanced studies teachers of photography or digital imaging. The deadline for all scholarship applications is April 21, 2006.

Go to: Calumet Photographic

At the PMA trade show in Orlando today, Apple unveiled a significant update to their professional photo editing program, Aperture.

Version 1.1, which will ship in March, will bring many user-requested features to the application. The update, which will be free to 1.0 users, will be made available when Apple updates its suite of Pro applications, making them available on the Intel processor Macs. The update for Aperture will work with both PowerPC based Macs (G4, G5) and Intel based Macs (currently Intel based iMac and MacBook Pro).

We’ll have the official press release as soon as it’s available, but in a private hands-on meeting this morning Apple Product Managers showed off the new software to PDN.

Changes to this version revolve first around the issue of raw processing. Thanks to feedback from PDN users, Apple was able to massively enhance their raw processing engine, providing a level of raw quality they feel is equal to or superior to other systems. While they acknowledge that some users might prefer the default conversion of other systems, they’ve gone out of their way to bring new power to raw processing.

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Bill Me Later®: Buy Fast. Feel Secure.®

Bill Me Later® is a convenient and secure new payment method designed for purchasing on the web. As a credit account, Bill Me Later® provides you with the flexibility to purchase without using your credit card. Bill Me Later® is offered through Chase Bank USA, National Association (The Bank) and is only available to US customers who are at least 18 years of age. Subject to credit approval.

To request a Bill Me Later® account, you do not have to complete a lengthy application prior to making a purchase. Simply select Bill Me Later® at checkout to complete your request.
There are no account numbers to enter, just top-of-mind information such as date of birth and the last four digits of your social security number. This information is easy to provide and helps us protect you against fraud.
Bill Me Later® offers “zero fraud liability” protection which means you are not responsible for unauthorized charges.
After you use Bill Me Later®, you will receive a billing statement.
Bill Me Later® offers flexible repayment options: you can choose to pay the entire balance with no additional charges or pay a portion of the balance and regular interest charges apply.

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