Category: Digital photography
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One Tera-byte of RAID data storage in a box
RAID storage is a good way to ensure a good security for your data: Two or more discs are used to give some redundancy and be sure that in case of a single drive failure you can still access your files (it will not protect you against deleting the files, though). However, the problem is…
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Wildlife photo trip to Brazil
My job at Johnson Controls (world-class automotive equipment manufacturer) have me travelling quite significantly these days. Currently, it’s leading me often to Brazil (we have a manufacturing plant in Gravatai, RS -near Porto Alegre in the South of Brazil). I’ll take advantage of the next trip there to extend it with some photo tourism. Thanks…
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Iceland stops all whale hunting
Iceland ministry of fisheries, Einar K. Gudfinnsson, decided that whale hunting -who started again in 2003- had no longer any reason to be. The reasons probably lie between the international opposition to whale hunting, lack of internal Iceland market and lack of exports to Japan. Source: Futura-Sciences.
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Universal Flash Storage (UFS): Great idea or 20th Flash format?
A few days ago, it has been released publicly that a new Flash memory card format is arriving. I can see the John “Consumer” Doe thrilled in anticipation of yet another new card format: UFS. I can imagine that it will solve all existing issues with dozens of previously existing -and incompatible- memory cards. This…
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Polaroid photo shots for abstract art
Grant Hamilton has a nice web site of abstract photos taken in Polaroid.
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Protect the front lens of your super-tele-lens
A super-tele-lens is a high-end beautiful piece of glass. Consequently, this is both expensive and fragile. LensCoat offers protection hoodies for the front lens of your super-tele from $13 to $25. To visit.
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Pentaxians go to Pentaxian.com
The Pentaxian.com web site just opened and welcomes the Pentax-lovers in a community-based environment.
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Record camera obscura, record photograph
A photograph of no less than 10 by 30 meters. Made in a plane hangar used as dark chamber and with a swimming pool used to develop the record image. This is a group of photographers collectively known as The Legacy Project that made the mad project possible. Nothing was utterly impossible. Everything was astoundingly…
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Phil Collins won’t like this ad for Cadbury