Category: Digital photography
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Exploding batteries kill Sony profits
The last figures have now been published: Sony finished counting the beans after several months of news of exploding laptop PC batteries and of worldwide product recalls. instead of 130 billion yens, they forecast to dive into a loss of about 50 billion yens. It is left to be seen what impact it will have…
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A photo blog down under
Our friends from Australia also have their digital photo blog. It is not often updated, but the reviews are quite documented.
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Black & White profile for color printer
Who was not hurt by the weird colors of a digital print? Often, the solution is to use the right color profile from the printer manufacturer (depending on paper, ink, printer, etc.). But it is not always enough. If you have an old printer, you may not find the color profiles; If you use generic…
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Outdoor photography – web sites
Outdoor photography is a great activity. It associates going outside in the wild (or at least in the free nature) and our passion for photography. But it can be also prepared on the web. This is the reason I collected a few good web addresses for web sites taking seriously the outdoor photographer needs and…
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China attempted to blind U.S. satellites with laser
Yes! They are shooting very high-power laser flashes at the American satellites in the alleged intention to blind the spy satellites (temporarily or permanently). Nothing is really said as to whether they succeeded. Source: DefenseNews.
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Search (free) photos by color
I had already told you about Yotophoto, the image search engine allowing you to choose the kind of copyright or legal rights associated to the image (and, thus, giving you an east way to find free images for your web site, while keeping you in the legal high road). Today, Yotophoto disclose another very interesting…
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Your photo on a pillow
This is the product offering of an American company (TreasureKnit). You can ask them to knit a plaid, or the surface of a pillow or a blanket starting from the photographic image that you would provide. Even better than the large format prints, here comes tailor-made tapestry. I doubt it will always produce fine art…
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No Canon 40D in view at the Photokina
Canon seems to have its hands full with the presentation of the low-end Canon 400D (Rebel XTi) and nothing is seen about any future replacement of the ageing 20D and 30D high-end SLR. Some are now saying that there would be no 40D, but a lower-priced full-frame solution heir to the superb (but too expensive)…