Category: Digital photography

  • LightZone, a Linux kind of shareware

    LightZone, a Linux kind of shareware

    Lightzone is a RAW manipulation tool (“Your personal digital darkroom“) that some people like a lot for its specific set of qualities (clean neat interface, support for a lot of RAW file formats, ability to handle batch jobs, end-to-end color management) despite its hefty price tag ($150 for the Basic version and $250 for the…

  • Heat and photographic equipment

    Electronics and optics of our photo (or video) equipment are relatively sensitive to temperature. This leads us to as the question about its protection against heat. There are plenty of rumours and a lot of bad ideas about the best method to protect your photo camera against heat during a photo safari. Example of a…

  • South Africa: I’m back

    As announced earlier here, I went to South Africa for a photo safari. Now, I’m back and I am currently rumaging through the 1500 images I brought back (don’t worry; most of them are just crap that I will not inflict on you). But some will be appearing on the site in the coming days.…

  • David Fokos, photographer

    David Fokos, photographer

    The photographs of David let us fly over a world of dreams where balck and white photography uses wisely the quality of materials surfaces (water, earth, woods, etc.) More specifically I noticed his nice Water gallery where I invite you. Who said that black and white photography would disappear with digital technology?

  • Canon “EF Lens Work III”

    Canon recently published a set of PDF documents collectively titled “EF Lens Work III” that give you all the details about the EF lens system and their application to the digital photographer. It is a very necessary reading for the Canon user, but also a very good information for the others.

  • Canon EOS 1D Mk III: June 20th

    Amazon just opened the pre-orders for the Canon EOS 1D Mk III, high-end digital single lens reflex. Announced availability: 20th June.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.