Technology opinions and digital photography
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Upgrade your Canon camera to OpenSource nirvana
If you have a simple Point-n-Shoot digital camera, you may not know it, but you are limited more by the marketing teams than by the real technical constraints of your hardware. But if your camera is from Canon you may find an easy way out. The Canon Hacker’s Development Kit is an open-source software project…
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Nikon manuals
I found the user manuals of several Nikon SLR cameras on the web: Nikon D300 Nikon D3
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Acid3 test – 100% score for Safari and Opera
The age-old Acid3 test is a small (but challenging) test of the compatibility of web browsers. Very few of them are able to even display something remotely similar to the expected result. But things changed a lot recently with a few important news: On March 26, Opera was announced to be the very first browser…
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Nature best photographs of 2007
See them all at http://www.naturesbestphotography.com/ Jürgen FreundOCEANSDwarf Minke WhaleRibbon Reefs, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
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Peregrine falcons are really fast divers
YouTube link
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Screenplay for “The Wall” (Pink Floyd)
We do not often see the sceenplay of a movie we like. Maybe it’s fortunate because they are hardly exhilarating except when they come from Alfred Hitchcock (the man was a maniac of detailed preparation) or when they describe all about animation movies. The Wall, the Alan Parker movie created with the eponymous music album…
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Pentax for students
It is pretty unusual for photographic equipment (to my knowledge) to have an educational discount program (a discount for students and teachers). We have seen this on software and computers. But, now, it’s time for Pentax to start such a discount program. And this is good news because most of the recent Pentax D-SLR cameras…
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2007: 131 million photo cameras
According to IDC, the sales of photo cameras progressed by 24% in 2007 to 131 million cameras. The global market is in the hands of several companies: Canon: 24.5 millions (18%) Sony: 20.9 millions (16%) Kodak: 12.6 millions (10%) Samsung: 11.7 millions (9%) Nikon: 11.4 mililons (8.4%) Olympus: 11.3 mililons (8.3%) For the SLR market…
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VectorMagic vectorizes your bitmaps
Sometimes, you need to change your images from a bitmap (JPEG, TIFF, BMP or raw file) to a vector file that can be stretched and grown seamlessly. This is useful when the image is more or less a drawing (not a photo) with clear drawn borders (a logo, a signature, a technical drawing, etc.) Here…
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