June 27, 2003
Digital Asset Management Trends
Digital asset management needs to now be an integral part of putting together a digital workflow for photographers. The tools for DAM are as important, or more so, than the type of digital camera or inkjet printer you buy. The real power of a digital photography workflow is in how those images get stored and delivered.
Digital Asset Management is not a category or an application at all! It is a capability. A capability that we now expect to find in applications within the digital production and broadcast products we buy.
June 17, 2003
Fuji Pictrography Printer
Ink jet prints are great for producing high quality digital photographs. One draw back is that they are slow and not practical for quickly producing a large number of prints.
The Fuji Pictrography system addresses this problem. Instead of using ink jet technology, it uses a silver based laser technology. I've had one on my studio for over three years. It is my solution for delivering prints of corporate digital photographs.
June 10, 2003
Broadband Essential for Photo Delivery
Photographers that switch to digital capture and delivery, soon find they need the speed and ease of a broadband connection. Digital photo delivery is certainly possible with a dial-up connection, just not very practical. It seems that you can never have enough bandwidth.
When a connection to a machine on the Internet runs at almost the same high speed as a connection to a machine on the other side of the office, across the LAN, it starts to completely change the way we interact with the Internet.
Digital Asset Rights Protection
New software from Liquid Machines, a digital-rights management company will help protect access to digital content. It's expected to be widely available by July. The price is steep, starting at $50,000.
