(Saturday, March 6th, 2010)
It’s been quite some time that I wanted to mention the existence of a powerful HDR tool that is available for Mac: HDRtist is free and seems quite able. Unfortunately, it comes from the family of HDR tools which prefer to produce unrealistic images, but it can be tweaked.
The new version of HDRtist, v1.2, is available for free download.
(Thursday, March 4th, 2010)
Today, Canon announced that they will add 24 and 25 fps HD Movie recording to the Canon EOS 5D Mark II photo camera with firmware v2.0.3. It will be available as a free download from the middle of March.
(Friday, February 19th, 2010)
GIMP is an excellent image edition software which could (should?) attract all those who do not want to pay the full price of Photoshop, while they work with Apple, Windows or Linux. the differences are real, but the most obvious one is certainly the interface (and Adobe clearly did a nice work on it). So, why not try to prep up your GIMP to make it look like a near-clone of Photoshop?
Blair Mathis decided to reduce the distance between them by the installation of several plugins on GIMP. And the result is astonishingly interesting. All the more because the process is fully documented step-by-step, which makes it little more than a longer software installation.
But if this is not enough, there are also a few hacked versions of GIMP that have been already prepared for the Photoshop lovers. The most renowned are:
Once again, here is how you can (nearly) download Photoshop for free, while being well on the right side of law.
(Saturday, January 9th, 2010)
The user manual for the Pentax K-x is now available for free download (at Pentax Japan).
(Sunday, December 13th, 2009)
Following our previous article about online backup for the photographer’s files (which ended up with a recommendation of Mozy Backup), it could be noticed that Lifehacker published an article on a similar subject (but in more general terms) and recommends the following 5 tools:
Source: Five Best Online Backup Tools [Hive Five]
(Monday, November 23rd, 2009)
If you want to know everything about the technology included in the Canon 1D Mark IV, you can now download the White Paper published by Canon about this pro photo camera whose possibilities are clearly astonishing (as much as the price, by the way; But, who’s to prohibit dreaming a little?).
Canon White Paper for the EOS-1D Mark IV.
(Sunday, November 22nd, 2009)
EXIF date changer
The EXIF data hold a lot of useful technical information about your photos. One of these is the date and hour of the snapshot. This is quite pleasant, useful and nice up to the moment when your camera internal clock fails or starts lagging. Or when you need very precise synchronization with another device (like a GPS geo-marker, for example). Here, you need to correct precisely the hour (or worse, the date) written in your photos and -generally- you have to do it on dozens of photos at once.
How to do this? Under Windows, ask to EXIF Date Changer from Relik Software. This utility program will allow to correct this information in a matter of seconds.
(Thursday, November 19th, 2009)
We may have to group them since the firmware updates sometimes happen nearly at the same time. The latest ones are:
(Thursday, November 19th, 2009)
RAW file conversion process
Ready to celebrate the arrival of 2009 Beaujolais Nouveau, a new version of the RAW conversion utility from Adobe is here: Camera Raw 5.6. It supports a whole lot of recent cameras:
It also solves an issue in demosaicing of some Raw files on PowerPC Mac.
(Wednesday, November 18th, 2009)
For those of you who appreciate to be able to massage their photos from RAW format files, the excellent RAW conversion utility software, Bibble 5 Pro, goes to version 3, for now as a public preview (so, not officially supported but very near to the final version) bringing us:
Compatible with Linux Fedora Core 6 or later, Ubuntu 6.06 or later , Mac OSX 10.4 or greater, as well as Windows 7, Vista and XP.
(Monday, November 16th, 2009)
And now, Canon has revealed the User Manual for the Canon EOS 1D Mk IV. It is available for download.
It may help you decide whether you want to get it for Christmas.
(Saturday, October 31st, 2009)
Actually, Lightroom 3 is in beta phase and you can get a beta version for free until April 30th 2010. It already seems like a very long time and if you wanted to test it or to discover this good photographic software, it may be time for it.
But, please, remember that even if this is perfectly legal, beta-quality software may contain some bugs and glitches that are not backed up by a manufacturer’s warranty. You’re just helping Adobe make Lightroom 3 into a better Lightroom.
Download Lightroom 3 public beta for free.
Via DownloadSquad.
(Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009)
The Nikon D300s has just been made available that we already offer you the opportunity to see its interest by checking the original/full user manual.
Download the Nikon D300s user manual.
(Monday, September 14th, 2009)
Were you looking for the EOS 5D MkII instruction manual? It is available for free download. You can find it:
(Saturday, September 5th, 2009)
Here it is! The User Manual for the new Canon EOS 7D is available for your download. If you want to read it to decide whether this SLR camera is your next camera, the answer is here:
(Monday, August 3rd, 2009)
The Nikon D700 user manual has always been difficult to find on the web. But here we come with the right opportunity to check the features and operation of the D700.
Download the Nikon D700 user manual:
(Wednesday, July 29th, 2009)
A few news for Pentax. The Pentax K-7 is receiving a new firmware. the most visible change is the introduction of a customizable behavior for the 4-way controller in order to allow people not to use the OK button so often.
At the same time, I can indicate that I identified the availability of the Pentax K-7 user manual (ready for a free download).
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