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  • EU tax on digital photo cameras?

    According to Digitimes listening to Taiwan industry sources, Europe would be about to introduce a customs tax of 4.9% specifically for digital cameras including the ability to record videos. A small price increase to expect in June or July this year on imported cameras (Sony, Canon, Nikon, Olympus, etc.) but it would not involve Digital…

  • The best sensor cleaning for Digital SLR cameras

    Those who are lucky to read Chasseur d’Images, French photo newspaper (on real pulp paper), European leader on this market, will remember that they just read a comparison of the sensor cleaning of Olympus E-series, Sony Alpha-100, Canon 400D, Pentax K10D and K100D. Important conclusion: It’s better than nothing, but there’s only the Olympus able…

  • Photoshop supports HD Photo format

    HD Photo, this is th new name of the image format from Microsoft that they want to replace JPEG, PNG, Raw and GIF. It was previously known -at launch time- as Windows Media Photo and it is now fully integrated into Windows Vista. Adobe Photoshop will support this format through a plugin to donwload from…

  • Spring time on Mars

    To celebrate Spring 2007, here is a small video gem: http://www.youtube.com/v/yjiGH9QNiU0

  • STALKER has arrived

    Here it comes! I had told you about it. Now many users on the web are tlking about this FPS game, Stalker – Shadow of Chernobyl. Some examples: PC IGN (English) GamePro (English) GameSpot (English) Bit-Tech.net (English) Inpact virtuel (French) Globaly, the opinions are VERY favorable on most aspects (playability, quality of images, gamer immersion,…

  • Fortran designer dies at 82

    Fortran designer dies at 82

    John W. Backus, designer of the Fortran computer language just died at 82. The software developers from the oldies will remember this language that revolutionized scientific calculus and programming, even if it is now pushed back (not unused, but less used). Some (even more exceptional) will remember his participation to language theory with the Backus-Naur…

  • Sensor cleaning, the simple way

    It seems that despite all my lack of bad experience in this context, many digital photographers (specifically using Digital SLR cameras) have been suffering from dirt sticking to their camera’s sensor. This produces dark blotches on clear zones of the image (like in the light blue sky of your landscapes). Today, I found a nice…

  • Top 10 sexiest actresses, Sci-Fi movie category

    Is there a more explosive combination than a good Science Fiction flick synopsis/scenario and a totally sexy actress? In my opinion, not really. So, it is time to award the Roumazeilles.net top-10 sexiest actresses of the history of Science Fiction (sorted from the less sexy to the most sexy). 10 – Tina Turner (Aunty Entity…

  • Spammers hit by the SEC

    You certainly noticed in the flood of SPAMs that is probably arriving in your mailbox as in mine, that many of them are promoting stock exchange securities -that you usually do not know about. This is generally part of an elaborate (but old) scam known as ‘pump and dump‘. It consists in buying shares of…