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Repair the D300s
Before the D400 comes and replaces the Nikon D300s, let’s see how you can repair the pent bent pin from a CF card connector. A time-lapse video. YouTube link
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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 &…
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Japan crisis: Photo industry update
After several weeks of very intense activity for all the companies hit by the very serious events of March 2011 in Japan, it is the right time to try and build a more complete image of the situation left by the Japan earthquake in the photo world. Nikon stated that its recent financial year has…
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Photographer porn
Here is a Leica M6 indecently stripped. The reality that they are usually content to imagine as naked here is shown in pictures of the compact rangefinder without any clothes, or more precisely without some of the external decorative parts. Source for this little game: PetaPixel. The surprising photographs are by Duncan Meeder – Foto…
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Russian President Dimitri Medvedev: I love photography
Did you know that the Russian President was also a photography enthusiast? He will tell you it all here. YouTube link
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Samyang is back: 35mm f/1.4 & 8mm f/3.5 fish-eye
Apparently, Samyang has solved most of the issues it had with supplying raw glass from Japan for its new lenses. The Samyang 8mm f/3.5 Fish-eye CS VG10 lens, designed for the Sony NEX-VG10 large-sensor, is announced and immediately shipping. Also, the Samyang 35mm f/1.4 AS UMC manual-focus lens is available for both Canon and Nikon.
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PMA/CliQ: A new date, without help from Japan
The news event (so we are told) is that the PMA Show (organized by the Photo Marketing Association) has just been moved from September 2011 to January 2012. But is it really because of the pressure put on them by the March events in Japan? I dare say NO. While it’s true to say that…
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2010: Photographic market shares
photo © 2010 Cliff | more info (via: Wylio) International market research company IDC released its analysis of the 2010 market for digital cameras. Worldwide Digital Camera Market Shares by Vendor (in number of cameras sold) ================================================ Vendor 2010 2009 ———————————————— Canon 19 19 Sony 17.9 16.9 Nikon 12.6 11.1 Samsung 11.1 10.9 Kodak 7.4…
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Sony: Delayed or not delayed?
Since several weeks, at Sony, rumors are running loose about the situation after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan on the 11 March 2011. As a matter of fact, it seems that there were several announcements scheduled this second quarter of 2011 and most of them have been pushed to later dates. photo © 2011…