Category: Digital photography
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Fighting blur: Two guns at Sony
This is the right combination against blurry images at Sony: With the new DSC-T30, Sony brings both optical stabilisation and a button to press to reach high sensitivity. Two aces to allow Joe Average to take neat snapshots.
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Inkjet paper weight: Hand, weight, etc.
All inkjet papers were not born equal. Not even all papers. Far from the surface quality, one of the characteristics easiest to evaluate and most important to appreciate a good paper is its weight. But quite often you will hear paper industry specialists and printing experts speaking about the paper’s hand. What is this and…
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Sony, it will be alpha
Sony just announced the name of its new/future range of Digital Single Lens Reflex (D-SLR) cameras. This is a minor surprise since they reuse the brand previously used by Minolta and Konica-Minolta in the Japanese market: Alpha. Minolta used Maxxum in the US and Dynax in Europe, but Sony seems to be shooting for one…
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RawDrop – optimal configuration for nice photos
It’s bit quite a bit of time that I repeat I use RawDrop as my prefered tool to convert RAW images produced by my Dynax 7D into TIF files. But some wondered what configuration I use. There are not a zillion options in RawDrop, but to obtain a clean result, it’s easier not to fool…
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Eye of the cat
As all cats, felines from the Masai Mara National Park (Kenya) have fascinating eyes.
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Masai Mara – Hippopotamus
Hippopotamus are large herbivorous from the same family as the horse. they seem quite peaceful but have a lot of available energy (and a considerable mass). Even if it is possible to encounter them out of water during the day, they prefer to avoid sun shine (they risk dying from sun exposure) and only eat…
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Masai Mara – Jackal
The Masai Mara National Park of Kenya does not host only felines. Dogs are also present in the carnivorous fauna of the country. We’ll see some hyenas later on, but here is a jackal encounter. Little fearful dogs, nervous hunters, they are quite difficult to approach. Â Â
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Color and wind
A few images I shot last weekend while the sun was shining in the French Vexin (near Paris). Green hair Before the flight Colors
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Canon EOS 30D
When looking for a digital single lens reflex (D-SLR) photo camera for prosumer (mid- to high-end consumer application for the enthusiast), you necessarily notice the recent Canon offer. The Canon EOS 30D is a nice beast of a camera looking a lot like the EOS 20D, that was already a success and that merely was…