Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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Screenplay for “The Wall” (Pink Floyd)
We do not often see the sceenplay of a movie we like. Maybe it’s fortunate because they are hardly exhilarating except when they come from Alfred Hitchcock (the man was a maniac of detailed preparation) or when they describe all about animation movies. The Wall, the Alan Parker movie created with the eponymous music album…
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Pentax for students
It is pretty unusual for photographic equipment (to my knowledge) to have an educational discount program (a discount for students and teachers). We have seen this on software and computers. But, now, it’s time for Pentax to start such a discount program. And this is good news because most of the recent Pentax D-SLR cameras…
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2007: 131 million photo cameras
According to IDC, the sales of photo cameras progressed by 24% in 2007 to 131 million cameras. The global market is in the hands of several companies: Canon: 24.5 millions (18%) Sony: 20.9 millions (16%) Kodak: 12.6 millions (10%) Samsung: 11.7 millions (9%) Nikon: 11.4 mililons (8.4%) Olympus: 11.3 mililons (8.3%) For the SLR market…
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VectorMagic vectorizes your bitmaps
Sometimes, you need to change your images from a bitmap (JPEG, TIFF, BMP or raw file) to a vector file that can be stretched and grown seamlessly. This is useful when the image is more or less a drawing (not a photo) with clear drawn borders (a logo, a signature, a technical drawing, etc.) Here…
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Sony Alpha 900: First analysis
Master Chong, in Malaysia, recently published photos of the future Sony Alpha 900, high-end D-SLR not yet officially announced by Sony, but that should be the pro pilar of the Japanese brand with a Full-Frame (24x36mm) sensor of 20 to 24 millions of pixels. There are only images to judge, but it leaves some…
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Pilosity and Co.
For all those respecting the choice of growing a beard or a moustache, there is a reference web site: Moustache and Beard Quarterly.
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Revver.com closed?
Revver.com, the American video sharing web site, seems to have closed its doors on the Internet. We knew that they had some financial difficulties, but we had learned that Brad Greenspan, co-founder of MySpace, founder of LiveUniverse, had just bought the site out. There is still to see if Brad Greenspan will re-launch the site,…
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12616 objectifs pour un appareil photo
Alors que vous avez certainement l’habitude de voir votre appareil photo avec un seul objectif (et je ne parle pas de l’interchangeabilité d’un reflex), des chercheurs à Stanford ont développé un appareil avec 12616 objectifs. ils sont exploités simultanément pour percevoir la distance du sujet et ainsi obtenir un modèle 3D du sujet photographié. C’est…