Category: Digital photography
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CAD: Predator
I love Ctrl-Alt-Del comics. Today, we learn something about predation in the savanah.
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Life is an optical illusion
A nice black and white photo from heavenuphere where the eye can fall easily.
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New census sees half the tigers
According to NewScientist, despite the difficulty in counting the big cats, experts estimated that there were more than 3500 tigers in India in 2001 and 2002. Unfortunately, the latest figures are pointing at a figure nearer to 1300-1500. The size of the populations in large parks seems to be still enough to ensure the survival…
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Canon 40D: Sales document and firmware
Latest news about the Canon EOS 40D. Think Camera has a new review of the EOS 40D. Nothing fancy, but the reliable analysis expected from TC. They love the camera, and I can understand from what I could peek at a couple of models recently. Interestingly, the review of the Canon 40D at The-Digital-Picture.com shows…
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Digital photo: HP stops now
More precisely, HP stops developping new camera products. They will sign a license agreement to keep a line of photo cameras, but they will only glue their logo to the body of cameras probably designed and manufactured in South-East Asia. HP is now concentrating onto the printing market.
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Iguazu Falls
Iguazu Falls (Foz do Iguaçu) are, at border between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, the place where the Iguaçu river, draining into Parana, rushes from the top of a volcanic plateau through more than 250 water falls spread over a circus of nearly three kilometers (Wikipedia information). Two days of visit were welcome to get the…
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Two tigers. Two brothers?
Two tigers, actually brothers, bron together on 31st May 2007 in Tianjin zoo, China. But they don’t have the same color. Source: Daily Mail.
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Concert photo at the Gazometro
About a month ago, I was invited by a friend to a music workshop where he is participating in the Cultural center of the Gazometro in Porto Alegre (Brazil). I had brought my digital camera et here are some of the images produced then despite the awfully limited light. Note: Just click on the thumbnails…
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Leonardo’s last supper in high-definition
Italian firm HAL9000 has a neat technology to shoot very high definition images. They apply it to antique art masterworks like Leonardo’s major painting “The last supper” (of recent cinematographic fame): An incredible 16 gigapixel resolution to get down to the finest cracks in the paint. Another previous work from HaltaDefinizione (with only 8.6 billion…