Category: Digital photography
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The boars were bisons
Two Swiss hunters recently killed two bisons in Bealrus. Aged 57 and 63, they were arrested because the bison is an endangered species and is protected in Belarus (as in many other locations). Their excuse: “Sorry Judge. We thought they were boars…” Now, it seems that being dead drunk is becoming a fairly good excuse…
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Photoshop CS3: Tomorrow
The 27th of March should be launch day for the newest Adobe Photoshop graphics product line: Creative Suite 3 or CS3. Be prepared for more details from Adobe, but the products will not be shipping before the second trimester (and Q2 may mean just before Summer). There will be new features and the important support…
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Nearly 2 tera-pixels in USGS Earth Explorer
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Explorer v4.5, is providing a tremendous amount of details with the stated 1m/pixel in the United States (but only 20m/pixel outside of the US). Since the Earth surface is about 510,065,600,000,000 square meters (according to Wikipedia), this leads to a total of around 1,188 giga-pixel world image (plus…
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101 freeware and shareware programs
Software programs to do anything you want with your PC if you are a bit more geeky than most but do not want to pay much. Freeware & shareware.
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Safari and sensor dust – the converter solution
While we are talking about dust and cleaning the sensor of the Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) cameras, I wanted to show a slightly different direction, some sort of think-different solution that can be used in some cases. I intend to leave soon for a safari in South Africa. My Konica-Minolta Dynax/Maxxum 7D will come…
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EU tax on digital photo cameras?
According to Digitimes listening to Taiwan industry sources, Europe would be about to introduce a customs tax of 4.9% specifically for digital cameras including the ability to record videos. A small price increase to expect in June or July this year on imported cameras (Sony, Canon, Nikon, Olympus, etc.) but it would not involve Digital…
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The best sensor cleaning for Digital SLR cameras
Those who are lucky to read Chasseur d’Images, French photo newspaper (on real pulp paper), European leader on this market, will remember that they just read a comparison of the sensor cleaning of Olympus E-series, Sony Alpha-100, Canon 400D, Pentax K10D and K100D. Important conclusion: It’s better than nothing, but there’s only the Olympus able…
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Photoshop supports HD Photo format
HD Photo, this is th new name of the image format from Microsoft that they want to replace JPEG, PNG, Raw and GIF. It was previously known -at launch time- as Windows Media Photo and it is now fully integrated into Windows Vista. Adobe Photoshop will support this format through a plugin to donwload from…
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Canon wants more than 50%
The chariman and CEO of Canon Taiwan (Satoshi Yahata) told yesterday in a press conference that his company had the firm intention to take more than 50% market share for the Taiwan’s digitial SLR market. Everything points to this being also the same for the worldwide market where Canon no longer wants to be perceived…