Category: Photo
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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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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…
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April 4th, 1968: Death of Martin Luther King Jr.
Today, we celebrate the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., great freedom fighter in favor of Human Rights and against institutionalized racism in the USA. It was nearly 30 years ago that he fell under the bullets of a killer in Memphis, Tennessee. Let’s not forget that only a few years ago,…
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Big with Nikon, small with Nikon
From the universe to the smallest elementary particles, Nikon presents a guided interactive tour of the size scales we find around us in the universe.
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South Africa: Contents of the photo safari bag
Ready to go to South Africa to find leopards during a safari photo trip, I am preparing my photo bag. For those of you interested in its contents and the reasons why I have filled it like that, I invite you to check this list together.