Category: Photo
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Buffalo colourful airstrip
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Ilford Printasia – Test of the Premium Photo Glossy Paper
Choosing a paper for your photo quality inkjet printer is always a difficult task. It’s even worse because tests tend to require a lot of expensive paper, expensive ink and annoying time. Today, I look into an Ilford paper supposed to combine quality and price: Printasia Premium Photo Glossy Paper.
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Comparison of high-end tele zoom lenses
During my recent safari in Kenya, I got the occasion of seeing some of the best tele-zoom lenses in action (I was the one with the smallest photo equipement). This gave me a feeling about the advantages or inconveniences of these, and the idea to dig a little deeper into the issue of comparing. So,…
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How to solve the back-focus problems of a Minolta Maxxum 7D
This is one of the biggest challenges for an amateur photographer. Some Minolta Dynax/Maxxum 7D had (and sometimes still have) problems of imprecise autofocus. Usually, the solution is to send the camera back to the Minolta (now Sony) repair shop. But there is some available data to do it by yourself. If you are not…
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Only f/5.6 for auto-focus
People keep asking a simple question: “why do my expensive camera fail to auto-focus when I plug my tele-lens into a 2x converter?”. Unfortunately, the answer is pretty simple. Most auto-focus cameras (digital or not) have a AF sensor limited to f/5.6 detection. If your lens is not opening more than that, the AF is…
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Inkjet paper has a surface: Is microporous best?
All inkjet papers were not born equal. For example, their surface can be varying a lot from one paper to the next. Maybe, you thought that the only difference was in the weight of the paper, whether it was glossy and its price. Oh boy! Were you wrong… As a matter of fact, paper manufacturers…