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  • Lost+Found: Robert Capa’s negative films

    Lost+Found: Robert Capa’s negative films

    Everybody (including Robert Capa himself) thought that they had been lost and destroyed: negative films of photos taken by Robert Capa, the first modern era war photographer, during the Spanish Civil War. The containing three suitcases had been lost when Capa left Paris to flee the Nazis. However, they have been found recently and they…

  • Société Générale nearly crashed the world Stock Exchange

    Société Générale nearly crashed the world Stock Exchange

    Last week was not a quiet river for the world’s Stock Exchange markets. Even if you are not usually in tune with these issues, you could not miss the flow of troubled news: World’s stock markets violently fell in the beginning of last week, leaving most economic and financial observers in very unsure waters. As…

  • Tatoos or not tatoos

    Tatoos or not tatoos

    Is this really a tatoo? It uses no ink, it uses no needles, it is not permanent, but you cannot wash it. It’s a sun tan drawn using a special shirt to make a nice pattern.

  • New year, new style

    As you can see, I enter the new year with a small variation of the style design of Roumazeilles.net. Out are the light reflections on the front of a primary lens (I’m sure that you did recognize this in the circular figure that was ilustrating the top left of this site before, didn’t you?) Here…

  • Brit women prefer Internet to sex

    I always thought that our neighbours of the United Kingdom could be stranger than most aliens (not people from other countries, but beings from outer space, mind you). Now, according to the Sun, Brit women find more relaxing to go surfing the web (18%) than having sex (7%). You’re free to find the reasons why.

  • Sony Alpha 300/900 in PMA next week?

    PhotographyBlog is wondering whether Sony’s promise to add some more new product in PMA next week will bring us a new D-SLR (either the entry-level Alpha 300 or the flasgship high-end Alpha 900). We’ll see.

  • Photo of the Sony A900 (Alpha 900)

    Photo of the Sony A900 (Alpha 900)

    A photo has popped up on the Internet forums allegedly showing the Alpha 900 in Berlin IFA. If it’s a fake, it’s a rather good one. From the look of it, I would draw a few conclusions and comments (only valid if the image is a real scoop). Sony has cleaned up the original design…

  • Latest rumours about Sony Alpha 900

    Latest rumours about Sony Alpha 900

    We all want to see the newest pro camera from Sony (allegedly Sony Alpha 900, previously presented by Sony as the flagship model). But the problem is that we only have rumours to look at. But here is a short summary of a few of the things I could collect here and there. Sensor is…

  • Black-capped Donacobius

    Black-capped Donacobius

     Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them Black-capped Donacobius (Donacobius atricapillus, Troglodyte à miroir). Brazil 2007.