Category: Digital photography
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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…