Category: Digital photography
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Canon follows: Rebel Xti, or 370D
After so many news from the competition (Digital SLR cameras from Sony, Nikon, Pentax), Canon could not leave the field open for them. Without waiting for the upcoming Photokina, Canon starts letting some information flow about its newest digital reflex camera (or the Internet news hunters got wind of some bits before the official announcement…
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Some insecurity in the Maasai Mara Park
It seems to be well under Kenyan authorities control but, on 22th of August 2005, vans of a safari photo tourists has been attacked by Kenyan bandits while returning from a safari in the Masai Mara National Park. Two Japanese tourists were lightly wounded; The others (Japanese, Americans and South-Africans) returned directly to the safety…
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HP Photosmart Pro B9180: Revolution or not?
This is the question I started asking myself after seeing the cover of the July-August 2006 issue of Chasseur d’Images (” HP révolutionnne le A3 “, “HP revolutions A3”) then reading the corresponding article.
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Getting rid of camera wobble: Not yet
Every photographer (amateur, enthusiast or pro) knows that getting rid of blurred images is a major issue for all. Thanks to CNet, I recently learned that the camera wobble is now over! Scientists from the MIT and the University of Toronto worked on the issue and developped a very powerful (as far as it is…
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PD70X: An incident?
As I still advise to buy a CompactDrive PD70X to empty your Flash memory cards, I had to inform you about a weird little series of incidents I have had these recent days with my own device. To my knowledge, the Compact Drive PD70x is only available from MacWay (in France) at a reasonable cost…
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Top 6 features of the new D-SLR cameras
In September, for the Photokina, we will see a wave of new digital cameras rushing onto us (there is already the Alpha A100 de Sony (already here) and the Nikon D80 (just appearing)). What will be the features that will make the success or the failure of these new Digital Single Lens Reflex cameras? I…
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The new 10 Mega-pixel Nikon D80
Nikon did not wait for the opening of the Koeln Photokina (moved to the end of September, later than usual) before announcing the details about its new Digital SLR, the Nikon D80. I would assume that this is because of the rush produced by the Sony Alpha A100. But nobody would dare to confirm this.…
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Images of the day – Visit to the park
Today, I took a few hours to test my new tele-lens Minolta 300mm f/4. Those few images were taken in the Park of the Castle of Grouchy in the middle of the day while I was looking for little birds (I never caught): Finally, here are some very static images from the underbrush.
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Telelens, my new buy
I am quite proud of buying it: To add to my own little collection of photo equipment, I just bought a superb second-hand Minolta APO G High-Speed 300mm f/4 which will be mostly used on my Konica-Minolta Dynax/Maxxum 7D (but presented here on my old Minolta Dynax 9xi). Quite heavy (I don’t know how people…