Category: Digital photography
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Why trampoline is dangerous
Source: Neatorama.
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A Nikon D300 goes to Antartica
Some field tests are more demanding than others. Jan Vermeer and PhotographyBlog brought a Nikon D300 D-SLR to the South of the world: Antartica. Dry, windy and cold. The article is interesting because it speaks about this very special environment and because it makes a good review of the new Nikon nearly-pro digital camera. There…
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Cinnamon-throated Woodcreeper
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Cinnamon-throated Woodcreeper (Dendrexetastes rufigula, Grimpar à collier). Brazil, 2007.
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Green Caiman, Jacare
Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them This caiman is the most common crocodilian in the Pantanal (Brazil). It eats exclusively fish. It is easy to approach it just by walking to it (it lets rodents, birds and men approach very near). Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it And this one…
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Lithium batteries in planes – Sequel
It’s even more complex than I thought initially. It’s not that you cannot put Lithium batteries in your hand luggage if you fly by plane starting 1st of January, 2008. It’s quite the opposite: They don’t want your spare batteries in checked luggage. “Spare batteries” means batteries that are not attached to a device (camera,…
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Flight of great egrets
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Great egret (Ardea alba, Grande aigrette). Brazil, 2007.
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White-headed Marsh-Tyrant (Brazil)
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it White-headed Marsh-Tyrant (Arundinicola leucocephala, Moucherolle à tête blanche). Shot in Brazil, 2007.
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TSA: batteries are weapons prohibited in planes
Here we are! Transport regulation authorities added the Lithium batteries to the list of banned objects in carry-on luggage in planes. Of course, Lithium batteries can explode. But they took the additional step of prohibiting them when they are out of the device and contain more than 2g of Lithium… Photographers leaving for a long…