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  • Manufacturing of a Canon 500mm f/4 lens

    Let’s go and see how is manufactured a big tele-lens from Canon. A lot of hot glass and quite a chunk of shiny metal. YouTube link

  • Google competing with TinEye

    Do you remember TinEye? This is the company which has been offering since a few years an image search service where you show a photo (or a picture) and they find copies on the web (useful for the photographers). This can also help you find the original (useful for webmasters). TinEye was always a little…

  • Operation of aperture blades

    Aperture Revealed – 120 fps – HD from Camera Technica on Vimeo. The same at a slower speed: Aperture Revealed – 240 fps – HD from Camera Technica on Vimeo. Thanks to Camera Technica for these videos.

  • Clouds: How to do them?

    For those who asked how I did the word clouds I presented on YLovePhoto yesterday and today, the trick is simply to go to the www.wordle.net web site and provide the text of a press release, then choose the right parameters for the best show of words. Good luck. Nikon D5100 Canon EOS 600D &…

  • Canon Image Stabilization

    As seen at the Photokina 2008, the visible operation of the image stabilisization inside a Canon lens. YouTube link YouTube link

  • NASA Hubble pictures: 2 minutes in Photoshop

    As a matter of fact, NASA prepares in Photoshop its gorgeous pictures from images taken by the Hubble space telescope. And, within two minutes, you can watch exactly how they do it. I would recommend to run it in slow motion if you really want to catch all the details and each and every step,…

  • Nikon D5100 – Night vision

    Nikon D5100 – Night vision

    Let’s come back to the issue of Night Vision around the new Nikon D5100. You certainly noticed that there was some talk about it before the launch and that this has been toned down at the announcement by Nikon. It appears that its an issue of trying to avoid discomfiture for the new or prospective…

  • Slow motion duel at Canon

    Let’s not leave Nikon alone demonstrating the performance of its shutters… Today, here is a face-to-face confrontation of the Canon EOS 5D and the Canon EOS 450D (or Kiss X2 for Japanese buyers). YouTube link

  • Nikon D3 slow motion – Continuous 11 fps

    Nikon D3 slow motion – Continuous 11 fps

    Did you look into a pro camera shooting continuously at its top speed? Here is a Nikon D3 at 11 frames per second. YouTube link