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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…
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Lens repair
You must not be too easily frightened to go and reapir your own photographic lenses. But with some patience, some tidiness and a lot of concentration… This is exactly what Fredy Willette of Alpha-Numérique teaches us in his article Réparation d’un problème d’engrenage sur un objectif non motorisé (Google English translation).
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Japan earthquake, impact on the LCD
For all those who want to understand the kind of impact that the Japan earthquake had on the manufacturing of LCD panels, I invite you to go and check the excellent article in DisplaySearch Blog (Impact of the Japanese Earthquake on the FPD Industry) even though it was written only three days after the earthquake…
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Links for the studio (with videos)
In these times when photography seems easier and more pleasant inside a house, here is a series of web link intended to satisfy those who practice (or would like to practice) in a studio, using a flash and possibly a tripod: Controlling Your Photo’s Background: Part I and Part II How to photograph 7 wine…
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Canon to suffer 27% from earthquake
Bloomberg news agency disclosed their estimate of reduced Operating Profits at Canon, the world’s largest camera maker: They may drop to 400 billion yen – 27% lower than previously estimated. No information about how they computed these figures, but the readers of YLovePhoto know what it is all about the Japan earthquake and its consequences.…
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Shortage at Samyang (lenses)
Samyang stays a South Korea lens manufacturer (and they have a catalog of both excellent quality and low-cost). But the March-11 tsunami hit hard one of their suppliers of special glass lens. Consequently, Samyang has been forced to announce some delays and difficulties to supply their products in the coming months. The list of impacted…
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World Backup Day!
Today is the first World Backup Day as decided by Reddit. And it is a pretty good idea to stress that every digital bit should be regularly backed up. photo credit: Photo Extremist How old is your last backup? Check our articles about the photographer’s backup. Local backup options (External hard disk drive) Local backup…
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Tags in YLovePhoto posts
Always improvements on YLovePhoto. For maximum comfort of our visitors, I just added a small feature that should complement the existing ones: Tags. Posts are no longer only sorted in categories or themes (shown just under the post title); They are also marked with stamps, labels, keywords or Tags which are now shown at the…