Category: Technology
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Canon EOS 5D: Shutter in slow motion
Did you already see an SLR camera operating in slow motion? The video here will show you the steps -normally invisible to the naked eye- that are splitting the shutter operation in individual stages: mirror going up, shutter uncovering the sensor, nearly immediately, shutter covering it again (the image is now “in the box”), mirror…
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Super sensor at Sony
To make it simpler than it really may be, you can expect that the next Sony Alpha 950 (probable name of the successor to the Sony Alpha 900, improved in the beginning of 2010) will have no less than 32 mega-pixels. Even for a Full Frame sensor, this is a lot of pixels. But this…
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Sony Alpha 7 will come with a new AF system
We had no difficult in imagining that the predicted disappearance of the Sony Alpha 700 would lead Sony to offer a true replacement (somewhere between the Sony Alpha 500/550 and the Full Frame cameras like the Alpha 850). But this is an informant of Photo-Rumors who presents what a new auto-focus (AF) system would look…
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Cheap DIY video camera stabilizer
Those interested in video probably already know it, pros often use a stabilization system essentially made out of a heavy suspended mass to limit the camera moves when the operator uses it while walking or running. Unfortunately, as many understood it quickly, those devices are awfully expensive. For us, SLR camera lovers, today attracted to…
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Fuji+Nikon, still going on?
Important update: It has been brought to my attention that Fujitsu is not the mother company of Fuji photo cameras (it would rather be Fujifilm). So, this announcement probably has no influence on the future of Fuji SLR cameras which will stay very dark. After quite some time waiting for announcements from Fuji, we were…
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Sony video SLR cameras
It is now very obvious for everybody that the SLR cameras from Sony do not participate to the general move in direction of the integration of video capture. We thought so, but it has now been confirmed by the senior general manager AMC division of Sony’s Digital Imaging Business group, Toru Katsumoto: The inclusion of…
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130MP, would it be enough for you?
Forget about the Full Frame cameras. The Canon EOS 5D Mk II isn’t enough, the Sony Alpha 900 is too small. A Japanese amateur did re-use a HP scanner sensor to build a 130MP photo camera. See his Flickr page.
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Focal length and photo lenses
Tamron rewrote its web site. This was the occasion to move the Lens Comparison Tool but it is still useful to compare a 400mm with a 500mm (or a 35mm with a 50mm). But you can also find a similar tool at Olympus (and it takes into account the specificities of 4/3 sensor format, of…
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Computer recognizes tiger photos
Image recognition is an impressive mean to analyze images. This software allows the direct exploitation of photos taken of wild tigers or of their skins after poaching, and the identification of the individual animals. Computer recognizes tigers, on YLovePhoto.