Technology opinions and digital photography
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Commodore is back with gamer PC
This is a dear old brand name that is back: Commodore would be ready to announce a new line of PC for hard-core gamers. This morning, I’m waking up with 20 years less.
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40D: Surprise features in a forum
Today in a DPReview forum, it was heard a set of features for the yet-unannounced Canon EOS 40D. You’d better be solidly in your seat: Live viewfinder (selectable) In Body IS (adding stabilisation to IS lenses when mounted) Good integrated sensor cleaning More Mega Pixels Better Noise management at higher Iso Weather sealed Can this…
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Combine/synchronize Excel sheets
When several people work simultaneously on one single Excel document, things may become a little difficult if everybody is doing modifications (or trying to do them) on their own. It is usually necessary to bring some tool in, if you want to handle correctly the comparison between all the modified versions and to lead/guide you…
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Fluorescent lamps recycling (UK)
Following (or is it answering to) a discussion thread about the recyclability of low consumption lamps in a previous post in the French part of the site, here are some pointers that may be useful to our UK readers. It is currently agreed that individual householders should dispose of their lamps and fluorescent tubes should…
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Nikon D40x, a better D40
Nikon just announced an improved version of its D40 entry-level digital single lens reflex camera, the D40x. According to Ken Rockwell, it would keep most of the features of the D40, adding a few significant ones: The 10MP sensor from the D200 and D80 Fast mechanics (3 frames/s) 100-1600 ISO (or 3200) All in all,…
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Statistics for the RSS feed
I recently checked the log files for my web site roumazeilles.net and I stopped to look at the share of the different tools used by the users of the RSS feeds of the site: my Yahoo! 3.8% * NetVibes.com 3.8% Google 11.5% BlogLines 3.9% NewsGator 3.5% MoreOver 4.6% * Technorati 6.9% * Firefox 34.6% Opera…
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What is a Blue Ball machine?
That is the right question to ask. But when you’ll see one (thanks to Manufactured Serendipity), the answer will be obvious. Or maybe not… Blue Ball machine
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LCD color calibration
I recently installed on my main Windows-PC computer a (rather old) LCD display from Hyundai: ImageQuest Q17. I wanted to improve significantly the correct color calibration. Fortunately, I could get a Pantone ColorVision SpyderPro for the weekend. It was only a matter of minutes to setup the sensor and run the calibration process. Everything goes…
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Fireworks as art
Rosemarie Fiore is an artist producing abstract art that I like a lot, but she is definitely using a weird technique: Exploding fireworks over the paper, containing them in a way that still leaves space for rich colours pouring over the surface. It must be dangerous art, but it produces some new colours.
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