Category: Digital photography

  • Spyder Pro to calibrate two LCD displays

    I had previously indicated that I successfully calmibrated a Hyundai Q17 LCD display for a better color management. Today, in order to work in the best possible conditions when handling digital photos on my main PC system using a Dell 2407WFP as my primary display and still the same Hyundai Q17 as secondary display, I…

  • GIMP, competition to Photoshop, now in version 2.4

    GIMP, competition to Photoshop, now in version 2.4

    GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. That makes it a quite serious competitor to Adobe Photoshop, even if Adobe is still both much higher-priced and more…

  • Sony upgrade and Canon recall

    Sony upgrade and Canon recall

    Two bits of news today that are quite significant of what happens with most of today’s high-end cameras. First, Sony just announced a firmware upgrade for the just-launched Alpha 700 professional photo camera. Some reviewers (like Chasseur d’Images) had noticed that the excellent sensor was not giving its best with the tested cameras (low-contrast foliage…

  • Baby snow leopards

    Baby snow leopards

    Born in the Berlin zoo. Markus Schreiber

  • 52 photos that warped our collective minds

    52 photos that warped our collective minds

    Year after year, there are a few photo images that wrote History. LukeProg found 52 of them. The choice is always subjective, but most of them really hit the public.

  • Olympus E-3, a pro D-SLR: the tests

    Olympus launches a new digital photo SLR for the 4/3 format. This already produced a small flood of tests, analysis and commentaries on the Internet. Here is my selection: Olympus E-3: assurant et rassurant (DigitLife – Français) Olympus E-3, enfin (DigitLife – Français) DPreview (English) Photography blog (English) PopPhoto (English) Think Camera, commentary (English) Think…

  • Ashera, a domestic cat with leopard blood

    Ashera, a domestic cat with leopard blood

    We know that all cats (wild or tame) come from the same ancestor. You may not know that they can cross-breed more or less easily. This led LifestylePets to create Ashera a new kind of cat that is the result of cross-breeding Asian Leopard, African Serval and domestic cat. Unfortunately, you will have to give…

  • Martin Forget, natural photos

    Martin Forget, natural photos

    Martin Forget has a photographic eye I envy. His animal and natural wildlife photos are simply delicious, vivid, surprising like this one: You will certainnly want to stop by his web site. But if you only have a minute, I invite you to a shortcut to his images on photo.net and you will see that…

  • Super pet

    Super pet