Category: Digital photography

  • Leopard as seen by the photographer

    Leopard as seen by the photographer

    All you readers that mix love for Apple and love for photography will be delighted to know that there is a good article by Henrik Paul about the use of the newest Apple MacOS 10.5 Operating System (codenamed Leopard) by the digital photographer.

  • Leaked images of Canon EOS 5D Mk II

    Leaked images of Canon EOS 5D Mk II

    Since the recent leak of the name of the newest full-frame sensor D-SLR from Canon (Canon EOS 5D Mk II), there was a post on DPreview forums showing what are -allegedly- images of this camera. It seems too good to be true, or the camera is nearly ready for announcement. the back of the camera…

  • Southern Lapwing

    Southern Lapwing

    Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it This bird is also known in South Brazil, where it is very common, as Quero Quero because of its cry (in French Vanneau téro).

  • All images from the Moon

    All images from the Moon

    NASA finally decided to publish high-resolution scans of all the photos taken by the Lunar Apollo expeditions in the 60’s and 70’s. A huge publication work but that is welcome remembering the enormous successes and horrendous claims that accompany them.

  • Canon EOS 5D Mk II

    Canon EOS 5D Mk II

    We don’t know much about the future successor to the excellent digital single-lens reflex camera Canon EOS 5D (the first D-SLR with a nearly affordable full-frame sensor). It is still uncertain that it’s name will really be EOS 5D Mk II, but it’s now definitely possible since Phase One, editor of the high-end photo retouching…

  • Canon EOS 40D: firmware upgraded again

    After going to version 1.0.4, we hear that the firmware for the Canon EOS 40D camera is now in version 1.0.5. I balance between the admiration for a company (Canon) that do not hesitate to quickly correct the bugs of its software and the impatience o seeing the device was obviously not ready for the…

  • Fork-tailed Flycatcher

    Fork-tailed Flycatcher

    Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them Superb small bird whose attitude is a gift for the bird photographer. Fork-tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus savana, Tyran des savanes). Brazil 2007.

  • Earth seen from space

    Earth seen from space

    A web site with many cool images of Earth as seen from space.

  • Yann Arthus Bertrand has a page on Flickr

    Yann Arthus Bertrand has a page on Flickr

    The famous photographer of “Earth seen from the Sky” now has a page on Flickr. What is happening here? While he is still very attentive to the management of his photographer’s rights and of his fame, Yann Arthus Bertrand would have fallen into a liberated open publishing media? Of course, not. This is just an…