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Olympus: no more DSLR!
In a way, this was expected, but the news are now official. Olympus wants to develop itself totally in the EVIL kind of digital, like the cute little PEN cameras. More precisely, Toshiyuki Terada, Product Manager at the SLR Planning Department of Olympus, said to Fotopolis that this implied both not replacing the current DSLR…
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Will Microsoft buy Adobe?
photo credit: Microsoft Sweden The rumor started yesterday (Friday): Microsoft was on the verge of buying Adobe right off the market. The Adobe stock price shot up by 17% during the day (triggering an automated circuit-breaker to stop pricing), after the announcement of a meeting between Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Steve Ballmer and Adobe…
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Sony & Nikon rush for 1st and 2nd spots
photo credit: Pascal Vuylsteker Canon is still the first photo camera manufacturer in the world (counted in total turnover). this comes firstly from the enviable position on the Digital SLR market, a real cash cow. But competition is here and we could learn some of what they intend to do to improve their relative position.…
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The new face of YLovePhoto
As you can immediately see if you are a returning friend of YLovePhoto, we just changed our face for something more organized and to help visitors navigate easier. After nearly two years of existence, some would say that it was the right time for it. I admit I am happy to see the last weeks…
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Dramatic fire for Philip Plisson
Fortunately, with more destruction than victims, the “Plisson La Trinité” studio-gallery burned to the ground on September 19. Unfortunately, this is a 30-year-long archive which flared up in flames. Those are thousands of pictures, the years of life of a great man who will have to rebuild from nearly nothing, except his eyes, his heart…
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Full titanium Leica M9
Just for the pleasure of the eyes:
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Hasselblad on sale at NASA
It seems that NASA found a steady source of minor income by selling all kinds of equipments to fans. Today, this is an impressive Hasselblad camera in full NASA regalia that is on sale on eBay. Price is currently near US$34000.
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Big Picture iPad app
Do you know the excellent The Big Picture web site? It hosts marvelous sets of pro news photographs. I admit freely that I always keep an eye on this excellent source. Today, I learn that Boston.com (which is hosting The Big Picture) launches a new iTunes application for the iPad. And this is a great…
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Short web site downtime
I have to apologize for a short downtime today. It came when trying to upgrade the WordPress engine powering the web site. Supposedly, this should help in making the web site more stable in the future, but I obviously was unable to maintain this during the transition (the main source of instability was not in…