Category: Digital photography
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CD-R/DVD-R reliability
The questions Many people are using optical media for their archival needs. They are very affordable and the manufacturers claim a storage life of more than ten years, often a century. However, when such claims are made people are always interested in ensuring that the figures are right and provable (archive management cannot accept to…
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Bones and silk by Natalie Shau
When you see most of the images of Natalie Shau, you will probably think about Tim Burton’s Corpse bride. However, there is something more. We can start from colorful fantasies like “Empty dreams” below, then move to darker images. Then, I invite you to discover her black&white photographic portraits that will lead you into a…
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Best posts of 2006
It is now the time to look back at the year 2006 and to check what you really liked in the Roumazeilles.net web site. So, here are the posts viewed the most in the past year. Is it a surprise? Canon 40D crushes 30D prices, at least, that was the rumour. But the prices went…
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Canon EOS 40D in March 2007
Let’s try a prediction (I was about to say prevision). While the end of 2006 was clearly marked by the lauch of digital cameras to attract some of the less wealthy to digital single lens reflex cameras (or D-SLR) with new products like the Canon 400D (Rebel Xti) or the Nikon D40, I can foresee…
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Slow motion hi-speed movie compilation
Certainly not very original (hi-speed cameras have been able to film very fast phenomenons for years), but they are still very impressive images: http://www.youtube.com/v/MX6aerxQPOs
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Franck Brudieux black and white reptiles
Franck Brudieux recently made an impressive photo work on reptiles. Usually, reptiles are subject for nature photography insisting on placing the animal in its natural context. Here, Franck moved to a studio and decided to favor heavily the skins and surfaces of the animals and went for Black and White images. Something completely out of…
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Hoya absorbs Pentax
Hoya and Pentax just announced that they reached an agreement on a merger between both companies that would result in the absorption of Pentax into the major glass manufacturer. Pentax shares will be exchanged against Hoya shares; Management will be shared between top brass coming from both companies. The good news is that, even if…
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Dodie Legaspi photos
Dodie Legaspi is a photographer I foudn on the Internet (he exposes on Multiply.com) Image courtesy of Dodie Legaspi – all rights reserved I invite you to check specially the following series: Roovin & Maela (marriage shots) Street photo Studio portraits
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Sigma SD14: Late
The brand new slick nice digital SLR camera from Sigma -the SD14- is announced late. Sigma published that the Digital Single Lens Reflex will be available not in November (we knew it), not in December (before the Christmas purchases), but in March 2007. This is very bad news for this good product. After having missed…