Category: Digital photography
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Deers in the woods
Again in the Espace Rambouillet (South of Paris), here are a few deers that I shot in the limited sunlight of the woods. They honour the quality of the light exposure of the Dynax 7D. Click on the thumbnails to enlarge them.
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The 8.6 giga-pixel image
In the rush for higher resolution images, HAL9000 Iconos has a significant advance over the competition with its 8600 mega-pixel image. They obtained this enormous image by assembling it from 1145 individual photos of about 12 Mega-Pixel each. The result is on the Italian web site of HaltaDefinizione.com and it is impressive. You can also…
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Marcus Karlsen Minolta lens reviews
Marcus Karlsen is a young photographer who is publishing a lot of nice images from his many travels around the world. But it is not only because of his photos that I want to point you at his web site. He is also hosting very detailed and pro-looking reviews of some of the best tele-lenses…
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Penguins on YouTube
A nice little video about penguins, found on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/v/nBzF8pXSnx0Â The next one, titled “Do penguins fly?“, is a special offer for photo amateurs. Wildlife photo may be difficult in some cases: http://www.youtube.com/v/EnlCz1P95WM
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CyberShot: Sony is shot again
You’d suppose that bad news could end for Sony, but no. They just announced that they found a defect in eight photo cameras of the CyberShot series sold between September 2003 and January 2005. It would be an LCD display problem with camera refusing to shoot pictures (a software problem?) Sony offers a free repair…
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Your DSLR for Christmas
Christmas is coming with the usual rush for techno gifts. Digital cameras are going to be (again) one of the successes for Christmas gifts. Even more, the Digital Single Lens Reflex (D-SLR) cameras are going to be impossible to avoid. Customers seem to be understanding that compact digital cameras are limited and the SLR cameras…
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Spider pictures
Not only for exclusive insect and arhtropod lovers, but also for those who want to see nice photo snapshots, the spiders are a bottomless source of nice pictures. A web site is offering an impressive link collection about these: Arachnology. Not all links are working (far from it), but the choice is impressive and leaves…
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Roe-deers on photo
After a previous post about a photo ballad I made in Rambouillet, I decided to go back to the same location (a little South of Paris, France) and to try by myself again to surprise a few of the large animals that can be found here. Since I was alone, I could take advantage of…
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Why I don’t use the high ISO setting of my camera?
We all noticed that our digital cameras offer a button (or a menu) to choose different sensitivity ISO settings. The casual user would note that the higher this value (let’s say 800 or 1600 ISO), the easier it is to snap a photo in a dimly-lit room or to stop the motion of a fast…