Category: Use

  • Premium repair for Sony

    Sony will soon offer (at the end of October) a Premium service for after-sales and warranty. It will target pros and top-flight amateur photographers. For a period of one, two or three years (at the price of 109, 219 or 329€), the customer will get a warranty extension (directly from Sony Style Georges V or…

  • Theft-protected, an ugly camera

    This is one surprising idea: Make your expensive camera so ugly that nobody will try to steal it. This is the extremist extension of a solution I already use: In order to reduce the risk of theft, you can use gaffer tape and cover all distinctive marks and logos. Your SLR may still look bulky,…

  • Ana Kraš

    Ana Kraš was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in July 1984. I would not describe her work as mostly oriented toward classic beauty. But, she has a real style made of quietness, softness and partly of the hazy atmosphere of her pictures. People are not absent, but play a role similar to the objects around them.…

  • Wildlife photo the easy way

    It is not always easy to shoot rare animals, like a North Chinese leopard (Panthera pardus japonensis). These photographers found the solution at the Hagenbeck zoo in Hamburg (Germany). When wildlife photo meets tabloid-like photography.

  • Going through Customs with a photo bag

    When you’re traveling far in order to satisfy your complementary needs for exoticism and photography, you will have to go through the Customs and/or boarding controls of the airplane. A few things would be good to keep in mind in order to ensure this is a better experience. Here are mine: Pack everything really fragile…

  • Naho Kubota

    A modern view of Japan, with a touch of classic light that could have been taken from the engravings of the old masters, Naho Kubota pictures. Let’s also visit Naho Kubota’s work: Naho Kubota: Japan photos Naho Kubota’s web site

  • All about backups for the photographer

    As a summary for the recent series of posts about options open to the digital photographer willing to protect his/her picture files (i.e. backup all photo files), here is a table of contents that should help you find again all solutions I presented over the last 4 weeks. Local backup options (External hard disk drive)…

  • Backup for the photographer – part 4 & conclusions

    Previously, we just scraped the surface of what can be done to archive and backup large amounts of photographic data. While the local storage (hard disc drives and optical drives) are fine, they are not solid enough to protect against all kinds of accidents that we want to be able to sustain. So, we started…

  • Wildlife Photography Fail