Category: Digital photography
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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…
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The riskier photo sports
You are out of photo ideas. Here is the weidest one I could find. Good results, at your own risks.
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Full frame 24×36 digital sensor
Canon shocked the high-end digital camera world when announcing the Canon EOS 5D with its 12 M-pixel sensor of a full 24*36mm (also known as full frame). You lost the 1.5 conversion factor on the focal lenght of lenses, but the user grabbed some very neat advantages: A larger surface used to easily improve the…
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Steal these stock photos
Design and illustration activities often require the use of images. In that intent, photo agencies come to the rescue with their organized offer of catalogs, stocks, heaps of photographs sold for one or more uses. Unfortunately, not everybody have the financial wealth to purchase agency stock photos to illustrate a web site, a leaflet, or…
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The fastest Flash memory card
This is the wet dream of all serious user of digital photography cameras (or similar mobiel devices for digital music, portable movies, portable video game consoles). But it is very difficult to find a real comparison with real products. Well! This is what the excellent Dyxum.com web site offers in an extensive comparison of Compact…