Taking photographs of children getting their teeth pulled can be a dramatic event anywhere in the world. That’s just one of photographer Bruce Byers’ many discoveries during a 12-day dental mission to Cambodia with a non-profit organization called Healing the Children. Joining a volunteer team of U.S. dental professionals, Byers took over 5,000 photographs of children, dentists and daily life on the flood plains of northwestern Cambodia.

Byers also learned the importance of backing up his thousands of photographs. After the mishap of erasing a memory card before downloading, he needed a better way to safeguard his images in Cambodia. His solution was to bring along the Epson P-4000 Multimedia Storage Viewer for storing, sharing and viewing his work without a laptop.

“The two Epson storage viewers were my peace of mind throughout an amazing trip,” said Byers. “Whether at work, in the field or on vacation, I now wouldn’t travel anywhere without them.” Because each multimedia viewer is equipped with either a 40GB or 80GB hard drive for storing thousands of images, he had no worries about storage limitations. With such high-capacity storage, fast downloads and Epson Photo Fine LCD technology, the viewers gave him the freedom to focus on his work documenting the trip.

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When photographer Mike Colón shows up at a celebrity wedding, he doesn’t have to dodge security guards or stake out a spot in the bushes. As a notable celebrity wedding photographer, he is an important part of the event itself, capturing timeless nuptial images for his famous clients.
 
“If you’re trusted to photograph a $3 million wedding that’s already making entertainment news, everything has to be under control,” said Colón, an international wedding and lifestyle photographer based in Newport Beach, Calif. As one of the first wedding photographers to develop an all-digital workflow, Colón also travels the world teaching other photographers the latest techniques in digital photography. He is a strong believer in a new era of wedding photography in which photographers share their knowledge with each other.

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One of the tools he likes to talk about is the handheld Epson P-5000 multimedia storage viewer. He uses the device onsite at wedding jobs to download, back up, store and display thousands of images without a computer. “No matter what kind of wedding, you’ve got to have a way to back up images on the spot,” he said.

While shooting a wedding, Colón and his assistants have a well-choreographed system of using two photo viewers for multiple back up purposes. After a memory card is full, each photographer quickly downloads it to one of the photo viewers, trades the viewer for the other, and repeats the process. The team is able to download, view and store thousands of JPEG and RAW images on each viewer’s 80GB hard drive. The long rechargeable battery life of the viewer is ideal for maintaining the workflow throughout the wedding and reception, and beyond the last dance.
 
“They say that time flies by at weddings, but so might your images and your reputation if you shortchange your backup system,” said Colón. As a result, he has all wedding images in his safekeeping, with each stored twice on two P-5000 viewers. He later transfers the images via a high-speed USB 2.0 interface from the viewer to the computer at his studio or the laptop in his hotel room. Colón also uploads the images to an online system that archives them for viewing and printing. There are no stacks of memory cards to mix up. When the job is over, his assistants take their own reformatted cards home with them.

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Rock and roll fans were treated to the opening of an iconic photography exhibition at the prestigious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio by famed photographer Lynn Goldsmith.

“This exhibition lets the audience step back in time and re-live moments of rock and roll history,” said Goldsmith. “It captures the feeling of what rock and roll was all about during the 1970s through the late 1990s.”
 
The award-winning photographer has worked with many of the biggest names in music: The Rolling Stones, The Police, Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Joey Ramone, Michael Jackson, Sid Vicious, Robert Plant, James Brown, Joe Strummer, Miles Davis, and on and on. Goldsmith’s exhibition and the accompanying book, Rock & Roll: Lynn Goldsmith highlight her versatility as an artist who is equally skilled working in the studio, at live performances or behind-the-scenes for those moments that truly tell the stories of her legendary subjects.
 
Selecting just 50 images from her vast archive proved challenging. “It’s hard after you have photographed someone over a long period of time to select one or two images that you feel show who that person or group is,” explains Goldsmith.
 
She turned to Epson and Nash Editions, the renowned fine art printmaking studio, to help bring her body of work to life. Goldsmith needed one solution that would enable her to produce larger-than-life images as well as smaller prints in both black-and-white and in color. The answer was Epson’s Stylus Pro 11880 inkjet printer, which can output photographs as large as 64-inches wide with never-before-seen quality at this size. The freedom of size and versatility gave Goldsmith the tools to display her own version of rock and roll history.

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Can Epson technology survive in the midst of extreme sub-zero temperatures, fierce winds, avalanches and oxygen deprivation? Epson’s P-4000® Multimedia Storage Viewer met the challenge with ease as it helped climbers reach the pinnacle on May 18, 2006 during the treacherous 60-day Everest Climb for Peace expedition.
 
Sharing in the success was a group of 10 culturally diverse adventurers and the Epson Multimedia Viewer. Expedition leader Lance Trumbull used the viewer to back up hundreds of photos and sneak glimpses of home during his arduous climb. “The Epson viewer allowed my team to bring their families along the slopes of Mt. Everest, without the danger!” he said. “During our climb, I was worried that the high elevation and harsh conditions would compromise the multimedia viewer. I was happy that it worked perfectly throughout our climb.”

The Everest Peace Project is Trumbull’s brainchild, beginning as a flash of inspiration on a mountaintop in Ladkh, India. “For the next four years, I spent every day of my life putting the expedition together, coming up with a team of people of different faiths and backgrounds to climb 29,035 feet to the top of the world’s tallest mountain,” he said. He wanted to demonstrate that people, no matter what their religious or ethnic differences, could count on each other even when their lives depended on it.
 
As expedition leader, Trumbull climbed with the team on the first leg of their brutal ascent from the north side of the mountain in Tibet. “The climb was like a surreal journey, part desert, part mountain and part like walking on the moon,” he said. The group set up a communications tent at advance base camp, where Trumbull managed all communications with the Peace Climbers and the outside world. The rest of the team, led by climbing director Jamie McGuinness, moved cautiously up the rocky northeast ridge. Charging equipment with solar panels, Trumbull used a laptop and satellite technology to send regular e-mail, photos and streaming videos that ran as updates on http://www.everestpeaceproject.org./

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