Category: Digital photography

  • Foggy photos

    Foggy photos

    Source: Shooher.

  • Diffraction and digital photography

    Diffraction and digital photography

    Several times, I talked about the limitation to photo image quality by light diffraction but I failed to go into the details. To the general request of one reader who asked, I will try to give some explanations to better understand why the digital photographer must absolutely take that into account to make better pictures…

  • Cats from Aube Nature

    Cats from Aube Nature

    Aube-Nature.com is a web site I tend to track nearly continuously because Cédric Girard tends to write interesting posts about nature photography. But I also caught a few posts with nice images of cats This goes farther than the usual “nice companion” photos. I recommend heartily to check regularly Aube-Nature.com.

  • Canon EOS 50D

    You loved the Canon EOS 30D, then the EOS 40D. But since you’re hooked to buying always the best technology that money can buy, you are already looking for the next digital SLR camera from Canon. And you’re right. If something can be learned from history, the regular schedule of launches for the mid-range line…

  • Nikon at next PMA

    The expectations for the next PMA fair: Nikon will announce 3 new prime lenses (most certainly high-quality), 2 new zoom lenses (24-120mm VR II, 70-200mm VR II), the Nikon D3x (high-end pro Full Frame camera) and the Nikon D90 (entry-level replacement for the Nikon D80).

  • A lion without travelling to Africa

    A lion without travelling to Africa

    Even better than going to Africa, you can have your own lion pet, cute lion cub at home. Furry and reacting to its environment, this is really a cool robot toy. http://www.gizoo.co.uk/Products/ToysGames/RadioControl/WowweeAliveLion.htm £49.95 (about $100 USD or 75€) in pre-order.

  • Canon EOS 3D – When?

    Currently, there are two groups of rumours running through the Internet forums about the future successor to the Canon EOS 5D digital SLR camera. There will be two cameras at the same time (either Canon EOS 3D and Canon EOS 6D, or Canon EOS 3D and Canon EOS 7D) launched just before the Olympics (to…

  • Sony Alpha 800, why not?

    For sure, we heard a lot of rumours more or less tolerable, but here is one that does not seem to have a lot more ground than the wishes of some Sony customers afraid of discovering too high a price for the upcoming Sony Alpha 900. Guess what? 24 millions pixels could ask for a…

  • Unusual felines

    Some of our pets can become heroes or -at least- be more unusual than we would think. The Pet Blog collected a series of astonishing histories about cats high moments, like: Oscar a.k.a. “Unsinkable Sam” Simon, of the Royal Navy The Alamo Cat Fred, the undercover secret agent Tama, train station master Source: The Pet…