Author: Yves Roumazeilles

  • National flag design critique

    National flag design critique

    What would happen if a designer team submitted national flags to customer countries? And listened to the ciritiques or comments? Link Via: Information Aesthetics.

  • Sigma lowers SD-14 prices (by $400)

    Sigma recognizing that the current pricing of its SD-14 is setting it a little out of the competitive market for digital SLR cameras, decided to drop it to $1200. Source: Popular photography.

  • Linksys is dead

    Linksys is dead

    John Chambers, CEO of CISCO, the company that bought Linksys in 2003, informed us that the Linksys brand will soon be abandonned in favor of a new line of routers all named CISCO. The Linksys brand had been around since 1988, it had been kept because it had a higher recognition factor in the small…

  • Intel’s E6420 vs. AMD’s 5600+

    Intel’s E6420 vs. AMD’s 5600+

    Competition is tough at this level (sub-$200 dual-core processors). That is the reason why TechWareLabs decided to compare both CPUs: Intel’s E6420 vs. AMD’s 5600+. This is a confirmation that prices are set to make CPUs quite comparable. There is a slight performance advantage to Intel but for a slightly higher price.

  • Canon 40D as seen by Chasseur d’Images

    Again, Chasseur d’Images provided its forecast/rumour collection for the upcoming Canon 40D. Since some people wanted to see the list because it may be difficult to find the magazine out of Western Europe, here is a summary: Same chassis as the 30D Same viewfinder as the 30D No specific weather protection (competitive disadvantage against Nikon…

  • Nikon D300 according to Chasseur d’Images

    Chasseur d’Images, the first European photo magazine published the rumoured/forecasted characteristics of the upcoming Nikon D300 (or would it be Nikon D200x?): Will come end of July Same good viewfinder as D200 Same chassis as D200 Weather protection Sony sensor APS-C of 12/13 Mpixels (possibly improved over the standard Sony version) New chip for better…