Category: Use

  • 158 lenses = 1 photo camera

    Associate professor Yojiro Ishino and his students at the Nagoya Institute of Technology obtained an official recognition of their achievement when the Guinness World Records certified them as holding the world record for a camera with largest number of lenses. Usually, a DSLR has 1 lens attached. Some 3D cameras have two. This piece of…

  • A sharp picture: 12 tips

    The plague of many photographs and photographic hardware devices is of not being able to produce nicely sharp pictures, nearly crunchy images (Nota bene: I do understand that this is not the ultimate goal of a photographer and that many a picture is technically mediocre or fuzzy or foggy and still is a great photograph).…

  • The art of camera tossing

    Camera tossing is all about sending a photo camera up in the air while in long exposure settings to record the whirling moves of the camera into a somewhat different picture. This is an obviously dangerous photo technique (How many times can you strike such a move without letting the camera fall on the floor?)…

  • Johan Bävman

    In some African countries, life can be quite hard because of the difficult economic conditions. For some African people, it can be even worse. That’s the case of the albino people (whose skin lacks most of its pigments and who are often suffering from acute sun sensitivity and eye sicknesses). In several countries of central…

  • Photoshop links

    Once again, let’s check my bag of fine Photoshop-related articles found on the web. For sure, most of them did not need to receive a full article here, but you will admit with me that they are worth reading. Paste Images on Tilted Surfaces in Photoshop Understanding the basics of Sharpening in Photoshop Create Seamless…

  • New HDRtist for HDR photos on Mac

    It’s been quite some time that I wanted to mention the existence of a powerful HDR tool that is available for Mac: HDRtist is free and seems quite able. Unfortunately, it comes from the family of HDR tools which prefer to produce unrealistic images, but it can be tweaked. The new version of HDRtist, v1.2,…

  • Sanho introduces a 640GB photo viewer

    For the last few years, I have been strongly recommending the Sanho disk-based photo viewers and portable memory, to empty your Flash cards into a big portable disk drive. Visibly, they have a very powerful technology which leads to features like: Extremely fast copying from card to hard disk drive Superb autonomy Compatibility with many…

  • CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5

    Corel just announced an update to its graphics design suite CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X5. The new features of this too-often-forgotten competition to Photoshop: A new engine of color management A Built-in Content Organizer: Corel® CONNECT Compatibility with 100+ graphics file formats The price? 716,40€/£399/$489 for a full version and 357,60€/£179/$189 for an upgrade. It can…

  • Why you need an expensive camera

    Despite all the positive aspects of cheap photo cameras, many a photographer will outgrow its camera possibilities. For good reasons, some day, you will need/want a more powerful photographic power horse, will you not? Cheap cameras are cheaply built. Though the least expensive cameras are quite sturdy, it’s true that they are not as strong…