Category: Digital photography
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Digital Photo Academy
Digital Photo Academy is a Panasonic-LUMIX initiative for the American users of digital cameras. They will be holding teaching courses and presentations open to all users of those D-SLR and compact cameras. The web site is not yet open, but more news just before May 2007. Atlanta Boston Chicago Cleveland Dallas Denver Detroit Houston Los…
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All about Nikon VR
In our series of reference technical papers, we invite you to go and check “What’s behind vibration reduction“, a very interesting description of the technology Nikon uses to reduce image blur caused by vibrations of the photo camera (or of the photographer). It is quite nicely done (cool desing from Nikon) and deeply documented. Just…
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Earth seen from the Sky: Monster image
Some assemble really big images. Some do it professionally, like NASA. They took a huge number of satellite images and made a 0.5 giga-pixel photo of the Earth (up to 21600×21600), known as the Visible Earth.
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List of Sigma lenses compatible with Nikon D40
Remember it: The Nikon D40 does not include the usual autofocus motor (for obvious cost reasons) and leaves this bruden onto the lens itself. Of course, it means that some lenses are not fully usable with the D40. Some others have no problem with the small Nikon digital camera because they include the needed motor.…
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More details in Microsoft Live Maps
Microsoft Live Maps is a satellite mapping application in direct competition with Google Maps and a few others. Microsoft just added a large amount of photo images taken from planes. It produces 3.8 tera-bytes of additional data. But this mostly means more details and some of the images are taken at a slightly slanted angle…
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Unidentified Flying Raw (UFRaw) for Linux
The Unidentified Flying Raw (UFRaw) is a utility to read and manipulate raw images from digital cameras. It can be used on its own or as a Gimp plug-in. It reads raw images using Dave Coffin’s excellent raw conversion utility – DCRaw. UFRaw supports basic color management using Little CMS, allowing the user to apply…
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Colourful nature of Per Lothe
Per Lothe is a photography artist that really knows how to put colour in landscapes. What is best than waiting for the right light to make his model greater. http://www.lothen.com/
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Extreme macro photography
When you start fighting for the highest possible resolution in digital cameras, you usually count in mega-pixels. METIS Systems goes further: 4 giga-pixels in a single camera. The Digital Macro Camera 1015/C [PDF] is able to photograph 12 square meters at non-interpolated 254 ppi. (100 pixel per square millimeter). This is a tool to make…
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Google Earth: breaking the image size record
When you look into the largest images accessible from the Internet, you MUST check Google maps and Google Earth (the application that allows you to navigate on the surface of the Earth globe from your desktop with the satellite images collected by Digital Globe and Google). From its inception, Google Earth provided images of the…