Category: Use

  • Several firmware updates

    These last days, plenty of photo camera manufacturers announced updated and corrections to the firmware of their photo cameras. Uncanny… Pentax K-7 : site Pentax UK Canon EOS 7D : Canon web site Canon EOS Rebel XS/1000D : Canon web site And we are told that Canon prépares a big firmware update to bring full…

  • Jared Moossy

    Jared Moossy is a documentary photographer. I was stopped by his series about Afghanistan (Jared spent a large part of 2009 in Kabul) because of the dynamics in his pictures. Far from the standardized war witness with its so-usual documentary view, and far from the normative needs of international press, he puts your mind in…

  • 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)…