Category: Digital photography
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How to disassemble your Minolta 50mm/1.7 lens
The 50mm f/1.7 lens from Minolta has the bad reputation of sometimes seeing its diaphragm iris locking itslef open (along with the excellent opticla quality of the glass – even better than for the bigger brother the 50mm f/1.4). Knowing that the repair services are expensive and remembering Minolta’s demise, here comes Internet and one…
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Ira Bordo: images
Once again, I stop by some black and white images. Ira Bordo comes from Russia and brings some very elegant nude images on IraBordo.ru/. Copyright Ira Bordo
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Inkjet impressions will be dead soon
Previous articles about inkjet printing 2005 highlights about inkjet printing (including prints longevity). Canada’s National Archive experts are worried that we don’t have enough knowledge about how inkjet prints age. They fear that most of them will die early because the dried ink is much more exposed to external stresses than the pigments of traditional…
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Nikon D300, Canon 40D – No news!
All is calm on the front of rumors about the future new digital cameras. The beginning of the year 2007 was rich in ideas about the replacement of Nikon D200 and Canon 30D, but there is only now beginning-of-Summer rebates and promotions (rather a classic move for the photo market) to help people’s imaginations. It…
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Natural selection in the act – Life is hard in the bush
If you want to survive, live long and have siblings, you need to eat. This is not going to happen if your food is stolen: Link To be clear, I did not see that when in South Africa two months ago, but I would have loved to be there shooting images… And I can tell…
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Danses from the Center of France (Limousin)
Last weekend was very fruitful in terms of photo opportunities: La Veillée Limousine (the Limousin evening) was having a public show of traditional danses and songs. Danse Limousine Danse Limousine Jeune Limousine Jeune Limousine Limousin (Click on the thumbnails to see the larger image) Thanks to La Veillée Limousine.
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Photographs of photographers
Photographers are a bizarre kind of animals. So, they are themselves a subject for photography. And some of them are more surprising/funny than others. Link: Legko.be (beware, one may be NSfW – Not Safe for Work).
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Panorama of the LHC
The Large Hadron Collider, the next monster from experimental physics in CERN at Geneva, is currently being built. Peter McCready shot a photo of it in a magnificent panorama (or is it the LHC that is really magnificent?). Source: Neatorama.
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Rent your lenses
PopPhoto has a nice short article about renting your lenses in the US.