Category: Digital photography
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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
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No digital noise photography
Guillermo Luijk has a very interesting technique to remove completely all noise from digital photos. We know that this is a difficult task, but his solution is defenitely worth trying. It is relatively simple. The steps are: Shot the scene in a correct exposure according to our usual workflow Repeat the shot now reducing shutter…
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Nikon cannot count
At the launch of the Nikon D300 camera, we learned that it would have an LCD screen of 900,000+ pixels. This seems quite impressive, however, it is a bit misleading. Once again a company decided to count dots on the screen instead of pixels. So, this screen is only a VGA (307,000 pixel LCD). If…