Technology opinions and digital photography
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13 dual core CPUs: AMD is loosing it
According to a nice comparison article facing Intel and AMD on dual core CPUs (at XBit Labs), Intel is now the best supplier for processors: at the same price, its CPU are more powerful, except for games where the cheaper AMD ones are leveling the ground. AMD, wake up!
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Boeing 787 Dreamliner – network vulnerability risk
everybody told you about it, Boeing is preparing a new medium range jet airplane that will do everything but coffee: It is nice, it is light, it eats 25% less fuel, it is less noisy. But it has two problems: Boeing was forced to announce a dealy for the first deliveries (EADS-Airbus is not the…
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Snow plowing train video
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Sony & Sigma on long tele zooms
Today’s launches in Las Vegas have the advantage of offering good opportunities to make interesting comparisons. First comes to my mind the opposition of two high-end tele-zooms that should interest the enthusiast photographer looking toward sports, wildlife and even portrait: Sigma APO 120-400mm f/4.5-5.6 DG OS HSM Sony 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G (SAL70300G) Tous les deux…
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Sony Alpha 900: Sony confirms (most of) it
In today’s press conference in Las Vegas, Sony confirmed nearly everything we were saying here yesterday: The Flagship model will be coming in 2008. It will have a Full Frame sensor of 24.6MP (I was off by 0.2MP only). It will be stabilized by Super Steady Shot (the in-body Sony image stabilization). But once again,…
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Snail kite, male
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Snail kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis, Milan des marais). Brazil, 2007.
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Sony Alpha 900: 24.8 mega-pixels in Full Frame in 2008
Ok! Sony did not disclose this in so many words yet, but it’s become quite clear. Let’s review the facts and the rumours: Fact: Last year, Sony showed a mockup of a future Digital SLR camera tagged as “flagship”. Rumour: The enormous size of the pentaprism of the viewfinder shown lets people wonder whether Sony…
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Grey illusion
The central bar is actually fully homogeneous despite the feeling we have that its a gradient (due to the inverse gradient of the background; Hide it and you will see!).
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3 days of Société Générale
As a complement of my previous post about the Stock markets Krach and Société Générale (“Société Générale nearly crashed the world Stock Exchange“), I wanted to provide the exact figures about the very heavy operations forced by the French bank onto the markets (closing the outstanding contracts) during the first 3 days days of last…
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