Author: Yves Roumazeilles

  • Bars and bars

    Bars and bars

  • Ads in our RSS feed?

    RSS feeds attract a very specific readership (if you don’t understand what I’m speaking about, you’re probably not part of this group): They like to fast read information, they want to avoid being disturbed by clutter from the original web site, they are ready to use different tools (more technical tools: Feed readers) to support…

  • Nikon D4, what’s in a name?

    This is nearly confirmed, the successor to the very nice Nikon D3 will be named Nikon D4 (and not D3x as was imagined before). The (negative) information comes directly from Chasseurs d’Image and seems very reliable. I guess it means that Nikon feels this will be a major step forward and not only an upgrade…

  • Loss of communication

    I have to apologize for a rather lengthy stop of the database services at our server. Unfortunately, this left Roumazeilles.net as a dead web site during a few hours. This is corrected now, but we still have to find exactly what happened (in order to avoid this to hit us again)…

  • Anatomy of an illusion

    All the details about a simple optical illusion and what we can learn from it about the inner workings of the human brain.

  • Quiet time with a Port wine

    Quiet time with a Port wine

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  • Nikon D700, boost continuous shooting

    The new full Frame SLR camera from Nikon is just out and there is already a little hack appearing to give it additional features. The Nikon D700 has the capacity to shoot continuously at 8fps if you use the additonal grip. Nikon Watch found a way to allow this very high frame rate without the…

  • Flash photography

    Flash photography

    Two articles written exactly for photographers willing to improve their flash expertise. I found them on the Internet and wanted to share them with you, photo friends. Natural looking flash. Right! It may be very difficult to get a nice looking lighting without burning everything with lights that cry “flash”. White Seamless Tutorial. A 5-part…

  • Two Sony Alpha cameras

    Tomorrow, Sony will present to a tighly selected audience a few new photo products among which everybody expects to find the flagship camera taht was announced already more than a year ago. This camera will be the first Sony camera using a Full Frame sensor with 24 millions of pixels. Most people think that the…