Month: December 2008

  • What’s left of the D900? A Nikon D800?

    During quite some time it had been rumoured that there would be a Nikon D900 (or a Nikon D800) to replace the Nikon D3. Quite obviously, the simultaneous development of the Nikon D700 and Nikon D3x led many observers to misinterpretation of the inside signals they were getting in the Nikon naming game. Who really…

  • Adobe Photoshop CS3 cheat sheets & cheat cards

    Among the many features of Photoshop is the near impossibility to memorize all of the commands and keyboard short-cuts. This list is reserved for Photoshop CS3 free cheat sheets, keyboard shortcut lists and cheat cards. Source: CreativeTechs.comCS3 keyboard shortcuts for Mac, for Windows/PCPossibly the most complete documents of this list. Source: CreativeTechs.comPen tool cheat sheetApplicable…

  • SLR technologies for 2009

    The year 2009 is about to begin and here we are asking ourselves what it will be bringing for digital SLR cameras. As a matter of fact, it is possible to predict a few central issues in our prefered manufacturer’s ranges. Here is the list: In-body correction of vignetting. After all, it is enough to…

  • Infrared on EOS 450D

    So, you wanted to do some Infrared (IR) photo with your Canon EOS 450D/Rebel XSi? Just have a look at the IR tests done by Wayne J. Cosshall. By the way, traditionnally, since the Foveon technology of sensors does not use infrared filters, the Sigma dSLR cameras are very good candidates for IR photo.

  • Canon EOS 10D assembly video

    This is quite beautiful: a video sequence made out of the CAD simulation of assembling/disassembling a digital Single Lens reflex camera, the Canon EOS 10D. You thought about opening the guts of your own camera. This is no longer needed. Just let the mechanical parts dazzle you by their dancing motions. Link to YouTube Designed…

  • New look for YLovePhoto

    Here it is! I shifted into high gear in terms of user interface and web site look. After the first few months of operation, it became more and more important to make the site really very usable and as comfortable as possible. A few days of calm allowed me to develop and test a new…

  • Monochrome landscapes from Ben Hattenbach

    Ben Hattenbach photographs landscapes with a passion for precision, details and colour that make them shine with a totally new life. And this guy travelled everywhere a great landscape was visible: Iceland Pacific Northwest Hawai Death Valley Alaska

  • Adobe Photoshop CS2 cheat sheets & cheat cards

    Photoshop is so feature-crammed and uses so many individual keyboard shortcuts, that you may appreciate to find some of the best free cheat sheets designed to help people using Photoshop with cheat sheets for the keyboard or the mouse commands. This list is reserved for Photoshop CS2 free cheat sheets, keyboard shortcut lists and cheat…

  • Canon reacts to black dots

    For a few days already, the launch of the Canon EOS 5D MkII has been troubled by the relatively repeated observation (I say relatively because there are still very few of these cameras available on the market) of an unusual and unpleasant phenomenon: Black dots appearing on the right of every white zones. The origin…