Category: Digital photography
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Peeping at the new Nikon
Everybody already knew that September (with the Photokina) would be seriously animated by the arrival of a lot of new products in the market of digital SLR cameras (DSLR = Digital Single Lense Reflex). Sony already presented its Alpha A100 (available in the best stores online and offline in few days only). Nikon starts to…
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Nature photo, from Norway
Nærfoto (Bjørn Rørslett) is the web site of a nature photographer. You will not find landscapes from Nordic Norway, but colorful images that strike the eye. A cool whiff of air in the middle of Summer.
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Where to buy your Sony Alpha A100?
You don’t need to look anymore. The digital photo reflex camera that brings Sony to the D-SLR market with the new Alpha brand will be available at the end of July (some say that Malaysia would be the first to receive shipments but this rumour lacks any substantiation). If you want to buy it, you…
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Sigma new Macro tele zoom
I have always been interested by the tele zoom lenses and a 70-200mm or 80-200mm seems to me to be the ideal companion. When it opens at f/2.8, it’s really a good solution. If it’s a macro zoom, it becomes even better. Up to now, I was rather looking toward the excellent Konica-Minolta 70-200mm f/2.8…
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7D/A100 – Compared advantages
Seeing the recent launch of the new Sony Alpha A100, some people asked me whether they should buy immediately a Konica-Minolta Dynax/Maxxum 7D or wait a little more for a Sony Alpha A100. So, let’s try to summarize the situation. My motto, seeing the short delay, Wait for image quality. the Alpha A100 will not…
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RawShooter bought by Adobe
Market concentration ahead! While Adobe just announced buying Pixmantec the designer of RawShooter, a very good utilities program to handle RAW files (digital photography images, uncompressed, straigth out of the digital camera sensor). For me, this looks like food for thought. Indeed, while buying a product (partially) in competition with its own, Adobe is actively…
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Alpha A100, clear future
After expressing my concern about the future of the Minolta photographic system (with Konica-Minolta recently leaving the photo market, orphaning KM digital single lens refelx cameras like the Maxxum 7D), it was opportune to come back on this while Sony just presented its first Digital SLR (DSLR), the Sony Alpha A100. I sincerily believe that…
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Canon EOS beginner’s FAQ
It should be titled “SLR beginner’s FAQ” since this document is so good for so many people (not only Canon users). PhotoNotes.org presents a very nice list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for Canon EOS beginners. It has to be recommended to every user new to single lens reflex camera systems. What is nice is…
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Paris by night
If you want to see photos of Paris by night, I have collected some of them on a specific page of my web site. They have been there or quite some time, but some people seems to have difficulty finding them again. So let’s help. Eiffel tower – Tour Eiffel This is the mere symbol…