Category: Digital photography
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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…
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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…
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Baby snow leopards
Born in the Berlin zoo. Markus Schreiber
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Super pet
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GigaPan: billions of pixels on panoramas
Photographers are avid of more pixels per frame. Most of them are also fond of panoramic photos (they look so cool). Why not join forces and make a contraption able to shoot panoramas with billions of pixels (multi-giga-pixel panoramas)? This is what Charmed Labs and Carnegie Mellon University did when they developed the GigaPan robotic…