Photo curiosity
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Alpha 77 & Alpha 65 – Firmware v1.05 released
Sony has just published a new updated firmware for its α77 and α65 SLT cameras. This version 1.05 adds the following important features: Improved response times (no more “processing” message while waiting for display of pictures, faster power-off, faster dial response times) Shading and aberration compensation now available on the following lenses: SAL-24F20Z (Carl Zeiss)…
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In front of the lion
If you are a wildlife photographer, your experiences may vary from one place to another. But what would be your own reaction in the situation that Mattias Klum found himself into? He found a lioness who failed to see him at first, then walked so near that he could no longer focus on his long…
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Ansel Adams documentary
YouTube link Thanks to PBS for this documentary about Ansel Adams, landscape star photographer.
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Photographic drawings
For the antiques-loving photographers and those admiring engraving and drawing, I recommend the near-engravings of Sarah Esteje who only used a cheap ball pen for the following pictures: Her other drawings are also worth a visit, and not only because of the quasi-photographic qualities.
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Nikon D800, the User Manual
It’s always difficult to decide to dump a few thousands dolalrs/euros in a new DSLR camera. If, like me, you would like to check the user manual first, Nikon is making all possible attempts to make this complicated, but here are direct links I could find to these manuals in various languages. Download the Nikon…
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New Sony Alpha: 65 + 55 = 57
When Sony wants to replace a digital photo camera like the Sony Alpha 55, they may want to re-design everything from the ground up ou they can collect all the best from various (recent) sources and create a significant progress. That is the later that the Sony engineers chose when designing the all new Sony…
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International Women’s Day
To celebrate the International Women’s Day (today on March 8th), I wanted to show how, we photographers moved from seeing women as models and crude ones at that. Here is how Bell & Howell was advertising its slide projectors in 1959. And if you think that this was pretty innocuous, think about the lives of…
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Canon EOS 5D MkIII, the quiet revolution
Here it comes! After some promotional teasing, Canon launched its most-expected SLR photo-video camera: the Canon EOS 5D MkIII. Did you say “expected”? Yes, because its predecessor, the Canon EOS 5D MkII is an SLR camera that both impressed the public by becoming the very first SLR camera becoming serious about video recording (it was…
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Canon prepares the 5D MkIII
We were patiently waiting the next camera in the Canon EOS 5D series, with an expected EOS 5D MkIII. But we were not certain of its reality. All is shaken down and certainty is restored with the revelation of a few images which -without revealing anything really- confirm the existence of the product. Seeing the…