Category: Digital photography

  • Upgrade your Canon camera to OpenSource nirvana

    If you have a simple Point-n-Shoot digital camera, you may not know it, but you are limited more by the marketing teams than by the real technical constraints of your hardware. But if your camera is from Canon you may find an easy way out. The Canon Hacker’s Development Kit is an open-source software project…

  • Nikon manuals

    I found the user manuals of several Nikon SLR cameras on the web: Nikon D300 Nikon D3

  • Nature best photographs of 2007

    Nature best photographs of 2007

    See them all at http://www.naturesbestphotography.com/ Jürgen FreundOCEANSDwarf Minke WhaleRibbon Reefs, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

  • Peregrine falcons are really fast divers

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  • 2007: 131 million photo cameras

    According to IDC, the sales of photo cameras progressed by 24% in 2007 to 131 million cameras. The global market is in the hands of several companies: Canon: 24.5 millions (18%) Sony: 20.9 millions (16%) Kodak: 12.6 millions (10%) Samsung: 11.7 millions (9%) Nikon: 11.4 mililons (8.4%) Olympus: 11.3 mililons (8.3%) For the SLR market…

  • Sony Alpha 900: First analysis

    Sony Alpha 900: First analysis

    Master Chong, in Malaysia, recently published photos of the future Sony Alpha 900, high-end D-SLR not yet officially announced by Sony, but that should be the pro pilar of the Japanese brand with a Full-Frame (24x36mm) sensor of 20 to 24 millions of pixels.    There are only images to judge, but it leaves some…

  • 12616 objectifs pour un appareil photo

    Alors que vous avez certainement l’habitude de voir votre appareil photo avec un seul objectif (et je ne parle pas de l’interchangeabilité d’un reflex), des chercheurs à Stanford ont développé un appareil avec 12616 objectifs. ils sont exploités simultanément pour percevoir la distance du sujet et ainsi obtenir un modèle 3D du sujet photographié. C’est…

  • Kenya safari video

    Source: http://www.coreybehnke.com/.

  • Canon EOS 5D Mk II as Fool’s day joke?

    Canon EOS 5D Mk II as Fool’s day joke?

    Out of Canon, nobody seems to really have a clue about what will be the successor to the Canon EOS 5D. Most people assume that it will be named either Canon EOS 5D Mk II (the most probable possibility according to several sources), Canon EOS 6D or even Canon EOS 7D. However, this does not…