Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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Active maintenance for your PC
Never forget (opposite to my own experience) that your PC needs to be cleaned a little soemtimes. For me, the fan of my Athlon XP 2600+ CPU saw so much dust accumulated during the last months that the CPU temperature had progressively climbed from about 50°C up to more than 74°C. A mere duster, a…
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Bag contents for my photo safari (follow up)
After the first article written just before I left for the Masai Mara photo safari, it was time to check on those comments and to see if they still held after the test of practical experience.
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Sony D-SLR, don’t hold your breath!
The comments reported by PhotoReporter.com are really worrying for the future of the existing Digital Single Lens Reflex (D-SLR) Konica-Minolta line. It appears that Sony thinks that they should move from the existing KM products toward a more Sony RD1-type of cameras. It seems to announce replacement of mechanical parts by electronic solutions (you can…
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A logo for High-Definition TV – This is a mess
The EICTA (European Information and Communications Technology Association) just announced publication of a logo to clearly identify future equipements compatible with High Definition TV (HD TV). But the problem is to know what consumers will really understand. How can they differentiate between HD-ready and HD-TV logos. For example, HD-ready requires the presence of both analog…
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Masai Mara – Birds, too
The Masai Mara park hosts not only felines (I went there specially to watch them) and their preys (all kinds of antelopes), but also a large number of birds of all kinds. Travelling with Alain Saunier, reknowned ornithologist photographer, and with some other bird watchers allowed to stop and contemplate some very colourful (or less…
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Minolta compatibility
For all those who wonder about the compatibility of Minolta lenses and accessories bought before the move to digital technology with the recent Konica-Minolta Digital SLR (Dynax 7D and Dynax 5D), I can give some bits of advice that may be useful before buying a body from Konica-Minolta. First, the Minolta lenses seem to have…
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Masai Mara – high point (female cheetah)
During my recent photo safari to the Masai Mara park, there is a time to be singled out. It allowed me to take the following photo. As a matter of fact, this magnificent female cheetah is less that two meters from me…
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Felines from Mara river – some figures
I’m back from a full week of photo safari in the Masai Mara park (Kenya). Here are a few figures to sum it up (before the photos).
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Masai Mara National Park, Kenya
Some information for the photographer going to Masai Mara. Maps Some maps collected on the Internet to give you minimal directions or some orientation. As you can see, this is really bordering the Tanzanian Serengeti reserve (South to Masai Mara). The safari from Objectif Nature happens in the Western part of the Park, South of…