Category: Technology
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All Sony SLR with semi-transparent mirrors
QueSabesDe.com obtained an extraordinarily bold statement from Sony: All future Sony SLR cameras will be using the semi-transparent mirror technology (so, very probably with Electronic View Finders) and this applies to: All APS-C SLR cameras All Full Frame SLR cameras Gee! This is going to influence the future of the Sony Alpha line. In a…
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Canon goes electro-optical on IS III
This may be something that many people missed, but when Egami (a Japanese blog) produced a patent from Canon for a 300mm f/4, the important part may not have been the possible upcoming tele-lens but the technology used in the lens to reach a better Image Stabilization (IS). Up to now, Canon and Nikon have…
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How is ink made?
YouTube link Source: Roumazeilles.net
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A new Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge was an English photographer famous for his animated photographs which pioneered the observation of animal movement. This was really a photography marvel in a time when video was not an integrated feature of photo cameras. Cassandra C. Jones did a relatively similar job from horse images collected on the Internet (probably with Google…
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Photoshop CS6: a preview of the alpha version
The future of Photoshop CS6 has been recently shown at MAX2010, the Adobe conference in Los Angeles. YouTube link I believe that the really impressive part of this technical demonstration is the set of automatisms which operate -essentially- by showing the machine an example of the result to reach rather than finding the right settings…
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NASA and ESA best space pictures
The two great space American and European agencies (NASA and ESA) are the most active sources of top-quality space images. Even better, most of their published pictures are available nearly without constraint (at least for non-commercial uses). So, you no longer need to bring your telescope and your photo camera to see the deep end…
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Sony Alpha 33/55: No video
If you want to see a company suffering the worst pain at the worst possible moment, just look at Sony. In 2009, they repeated us that they would not add video to the DSLR photo cameras until it would be perfectly right and the half-baked solutions from Canon and Nikon where indirect justifications to this…
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Bad design for the Sony A77
Sometimes, rumours are really weird but they still have to be listened to and discussed. Recently, SonyAlphaRumors.com reported an “information” they received from an anonymous source that they indicated was new and possibly unreliable. To me, it was so weird that I thought it would not be worth mentioning (it is my role to filter…
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Why not 1 ISO?
photo credit: lrargerich This is some sort of silly question, but when people look at ISO sensitivity, we tend to be impressed by the increasingly higher values (which mean that you can take pictures without much light and without adding a flash). But no manufacturer seems not willing to offer us the low ISO values…