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  • Steady Cam

    This is the title of an article from Scientific American (October 2006 issue, “Working knowledge”) that describes with clear and simple details the various techniques used to stabilize images in today’s photo cameras and video cameras: moving an optical element deforming an optical element moving the sensor digital or software stabilization Source: Scientific American newspaper…

  • Minolta 5600HS (wireless) flash review

    OK! Minolta is out of the market, but it’s still a pretty good flash for Minolta, Konica-Minolta and Sony users. There are some available on the second-hand market and Sony new HVL-F56AM is virtually identical to the original Minolta issue. Read the review from Imaging Resource. It tells you all about using this flash for…

  • Exploding batteries kill Sony profits

    The last figures have now been published: Sony finished counting the beans after several months of news of exploding laptop PC batteries and of worldwide product recalls. instead of 130 billion yens, they forecast to dive into a loss of about 50 billion yens. It is left to be seen what impact it will have…

  • A photo blog down under

    Our friends from Australia also have their digital photo blog. It is not often updated, but the reviews are quite documented.

  • Black & White profile for color printer

    Who was not hurt by the weird colors of a digital print? Often, the solution is to use the right color profile from the printer manufacturer (depending on paper, ink, printer, etc.). But it is not always enough. If you have an old printer, you may not find the color profiles; If you use generic…

  • Spiral pictures

    Spiral pictures

    Spiral is a geometric form of spectacular elegance. Despite its apparent simplicity, it grows into an astounding variety of images. The Spiral Pictures web site is a vibrant hommage to this mathematical form with photographic pictures specially selected for this.

  • 2006 ig-Nobel prizes (From smell of human feet to inaudible telephone ringtones)

    The Annals of Improbable Research (a magazine dedicated to the public celebration of the research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK) have organized the 2006 ig Nobel awards. The categories are less rigid than their equivalent in the more presentable cousin of the family (the Oh! so dull Nobel prizes) since there are established…

  • Flight patterns over North America

    Flight patterns over North America

    It’s been years that I was looking again for images I found and used on September 11, 2001. They were showing flight patterns over the United States of America (the way commercial airline flights criss-cross the country). Here are the animations showing the enourmous density of planes in the US of A skies. Flight Patterns

  • Outdoor photography – web sites

    Outdoor photography is a great activity. It associates going outside in the wild (or at least in the free nature) and our passion for photography. But it can be also prepared on the web. This is the reason I collected a few good web addresses for web sites taking seriously the outdoor photographer needs and…