Category: Technology

  • Similarity search engine

    Some time ago we had presented the excellent TinEye search engine which is able to do search-by-similarity on images (you give it an image and it will find all similar images: cropped, reframed, slightly modified). Very useful to track pirates, copiers and illegal uses of your photos. Several other products or in-development technologies also exist,…

  • Sony Alpha 380, Alpha 330: LiveView Autofocus

    The new Sony Alpha 330 and Sony Alpha 380 have a nice specificity that is worth mentionning separately: A special autofocus (AF) system designed to maintain maximum performance even in LiveView mode. Usually, the LiveView mode is done merely by moving the reflex mirror up. The image is then projected onto the single image sensor…

  • Calibrate your screen for free

    You’d better use a calibration software with an external sensor, but if you don’t have access to such equipment, it is still possible to do a pretty useful calibration of your screen (and what photographer would not want to improve his computer environment in such a way?) I found two calibration solutions/offers that are easily…

  • DTown TV for Nikon

    Each week, Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski publish a video of tips and tricks for your Nikon SLR camera, its accessories, its software and your digital photography passion.

  • The perfect camera

    Each and every year, digital cameras progress in quality and features. They become more and more able to take pictures of good quality in low light. But did you wonder what would be the perfect camera (the camera that is light-sensitive enough to shoot any kind of picture that you would dream about). In short:…

  • The best SLR

    According to DXO-labs and their DXOmark ranking of the quality of digital sensors, the Nikon D3x is now officially the best digital camera available in the world.

  • SLR technologies for 2009

    The year 2009 is about to begin and here we are asking ourselves what it will be bringing for digital SLR cameras. As a matter of fact, it is possible to predict a few central issues in our prefered manufacturer’s ranges. Here is the list: In-body correction of vignetting. After all, it is enough to…

  • Canon EOS 10D assembly video

    This is quite beautiful: a video sequence made out of the CAD simulation of assembling/disassembling a digital Single Lens reflex camera, the Canon EOS 10D. You thought about opening the guts of your own camera. This is no longer needed. Just let the mechanical parts dazzle you by their dancing motions. Link to YouTube Designed…

  • Canon reacts to black dots

    For a few days already, the launch of the Canon EOS 5D MkII has been troubled by the relatively repeated observation (I say relatively because there are still very few of these cameras available on the market) of an unusual and unpleasant phenomenon: Black dots appearing on the right of every white zones. The origin…