Category: Digital photography
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EOS 40D, the word is out
Online shops start to prepare the launch of the Canon EOS 40D. Some are preparing virtual shelves for the new Canon DSLR. Some are already typing data in their web sites. Full specs at Geheugenkaart (Belgium) Empty space at EFlens (their home page has already a reserved space for the new digital camera (empty space…
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Photo safari: Contents of my camera bag
It’s decided, I go a leopard safari trip in South Africa in April. the big question is -as always- what should I put in the camera bag, what should I bring. But also, what should I leave in Europe? We are not donkeys, but when you want to take the picture of your dreams it’s…
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1.5 giga-pixel for the Machu Pichu
A nice image of an marvellous archeological site (the Machu Pichu in Peru) still full of the echoes of a glorious past, Inca history. Thanks to Scott Howard, you can visit this billion and a half pixels assembled from 400 individual images.
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Deers in Rambouillet
On Sunday, I took advantage of the extraordinarily warm weather and the re-opening of the Espace Rambouillet since 1st of February, to do a little European safari. The park of the Espace Rambouillet is hosting a few fallow deers ; they are speciallly fearful, so I wanted to use the probably limited number of visitors…
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Visit a virtual lens plant
Thanks to Canon, it is possible and easy to discover how a photo optical lens is created. And it is a much more convoluted process than you may think. If you ever wondered why a lens cost so much money to make (and some of the nicest lenses are digging holes in our wallets), take…
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Sony Alpha 10 or Sony Alpha 200
PMA: The new Sony DSLR is official now Sony Alpha-100 After making a successful entry in the market of the digital SLR photo camera with the A100 in July 2006, Sony should be preparing the extension of its product line (still containing one camera only). Most people expect it to take the form of the…
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Canon 40D: Internal information this week
It seems that there would be some internal information spread on 12th/13th February inside Canon to prepare the announcement of the Canon EOS 40D digital SLR camera. Around there, it is said that the AF will be using the 9+6 sensor of the 5D camera. Stock-Photo-blogspot is also very precise in the list of rumoured…
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Designing a 3.2 giga-pixel camera for astronomy
Today, this is not a record image that we show, but the publication of a scientific paper about the design of an camera for astronomy to be installed in a giant telescope (8.4m), probably in Chile. The 3.2 giga-pixel LSST camera will produce approximately half a petabyte of archive images every month. These data need…
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Canon 40D: This is real science fiction
This is official now! The Canon EOS 40D, that some are awaiting with strong impatience as the sequel to the successful Canon EOS 20D and 30D, should be classified as science-fiction more than photography gadgetry. At least this is our opinion when looking at the scoop from Samuele Silva: Rumours are sometimes more than funny.…