Technology opinions and digital photography
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Long hair has its web site
Rapunzel’s delight.
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Spyder Pro to calibrate two LCD displays
I had previously indicated that I successfully calmibrated a Hyundai Q17 LCD display for a better color management. Today, in order to work in the best possible conditions when handling digital photos on my main PC system using a Dell 2407WFP as my primary display and still the same Hyundai Q17 as secondary display, I…
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GIMP, competition to Photoshop, now in version 2.4
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. That makes it a quite serious competitor to Adobe Photoshop, even if Adobe is still both much higher-priced and more…
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What good is the Crysis demo?
As plenty other people you may have already downloaded the Crysis demo because you wanted to taste the PC game of the end of the year. But some Internet web site went further and stressed the demo to the point that you can get a good feeling of what this video game will be capable…
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Canon EOS 6D
For the time being the exact characteristics of the upcoming replacement of the Canon EOS 5D (the grand-daddy of all Full Frame digital SLRs) are not known. Even the name is not that certain. Expected specification: 16 MP full frame CMOS sensor Up to 6400 ISO Significant mechanical evolution, with the arrival of weather-proofing of…
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Sony upgrade and Canon recall
Two bits of news today that are quite significant of what happens with most of today’s high-end cameras. First, Sony just announced a firmware upgrade for the just-launched Alpha 700 professional photo camera. Some reviewers (like Chasseur d’Images) had noticed that the excellent sensor was not giving its best with the tested cameras (low-contrast foliage…
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Chalk optical illusions
Here is a web site with nice photos of chalk works for optical illusions. From MOI
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Durian
Graphic animation to be seen at least once. link
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Baby snow leopards
Born in the Berlin zoo. Markus Schreiber
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