Category: Use

  • New firmware for Sony Alpha 850/900: Tomorrow Now confirmed

    photo © 2010 yellowcloud | more info (via: Wylio) Update: This is now confirmed and the firmware can be downloaded freely. According to SonyAlphaRumors.com, Sony will present tomorrow a new version of the firmware for the Sony Alpha 850 and 900 SLR Full Frame photo cameras. It should bring: Faster Autofocus Maximum exposure compensation range:…

  • Summer variations – Vincent Munier

    Summer variations – Vincent Munier

    Shot with the Nikon D3s, by wildlife photographer Vincent Munier. YouTube link

  • 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…

  • Kuwait: DSLR authorized again

    Now, this is good journalism: Kuwait Times has been following on their previous story about a ban imposed onto Digital SLR cameras in Kuwait. Actually, they published a retraction indicating that this was false information. Less surprising, but kudos to them for standing up to good journalism standards: Always check the source information.

  • New Canon firmware for EOS 7D & EOS 550D (T2i)

    New Canon firmware for EOS 7D & EOS 550D (T2i)

    Canon just announced new firmwares for both cameras. Canon EOS 7D Firmware Update Version 1.2.3 Fixes a phenomenon in which the settings of the Speedlite Transmitter ST-E2 revert to the default settings when both the camera and the ST-E2 are set to auto power off. Fixes a phenomenon in which the Macro Ring Lite (MR-14EX,…

  • Kuwait: DSLR prohibited

    Surprising decision in Kuwait: The use of a DSLR photo camera has just been prohibited by a coordinated decision of three ministries (Ministry of Information, Ministry of Social Affairs and Ministry of Finance) which determined that the Digital SLR cameras could only be used by professional news people. The prohibition seems not to apply to…

  • Michele Roohani

    Michele Roohani

    Now, this is a post I have been wanting to write for a very long time. Michele is a great friend of mine (independently of her photography work) but (I think) this has only a limited impact on my appreciation of her work. I definitely love the way she does small documentary-like photographic reports where…

  • Monitor color calibration for Linux

    Monitor color calibration for Linux

    When they want to use GNU/Linux to manage a photographic work flow, most people are afraid that they would not be able to obtain a good color calibration for their monitor. This has long been an issue, but this is no longer the case thanks to the ArgyllCMS set of open source color calibration tools…

  • Richard Mosse

    Richard Mosse

    I first came in contact with Richard Mosse through his “Infra” series of brightly colored pictures of North Kivu (Eastern Congo) people, soldiers and refugee camps. I recommend it, but I was really arrested by the “Nomads” series: Shot in Iraq in March 2009, these photos (including the one displayed here above) are an indirect…