Photo curiosity

  • Cloud: Lumix G3 in 50 words

    Cloud: Lumix G3 in 50 words

    The press release from the launch of the Panasonic Lumix G3 as a word cloud:

  • Cloud: Samsung NX-11 in 50 words

    Cloud: Samsung NX-11 in 50 words

    Here is what the press release for the Samsung NX-11 looks like from a word cloud point of view:

  • Jon Cornforth

    Colorful landscapes and vivid wildlife photographs. This is Jon Cornforth’s style of photography. Actually, I selected on mountain scape that shows what comes from time spent watching nature best face. Jon Conforth web site.

  • Canon Image Stabilization

    As seen at the Photokina 2008, the visible operation of the image stabilisization inside a Canon lens. YouTube link YouTube link

  • Vibrations of the photo camera

    Today, technology allows us to minimize camera vibrations (through sensor displacement or lens optical element moves, depending on the brand you use). But there is nothing better than avoid vibrations from the beginning. Camera Technica did a thorough comparative test observing directly the vibration induced by various shutter triggers: Normal: Shutter pressed by the photographer’s…

  • Future avail of Canon tele-lenses

    Future avail of Canon tele-lenses

    We no longer can say that this is a delay. Canon has been announcing so many of these up to now. Recently, they updated the list of availability for the future pro tele-lenses: EF 300mm f/2.8L IS II USM at $6,599, late August 2011 EF 400mm f/2.8L IS II USM at $10,499, late August 2011…

  • Japan crisis: Photo industry update

    After several weeks of very intense activity for all the companies hit by the very serious events of March 2011 in Japan, it is the right time to try and build a more complete image of the situation left by the Japan earthquake in the photo world. Nikon stated that its recent financial year has…

  • Photographer porn

    Here is a Leica M6 indecently stripped. The reality that they are usually content to imagine as naked here is shown in pictures of the compact rangefinder without any clothes, or more precisely without some of the external decorative parts. Source for this little game: PetaPixel. The surprising photographs are by Duncan Meeder – Foto…

  • SD1: Sigma wants to fail

    SD1: Sigma wants to fail

    There is no other possible explanation to today’s announcement by Sigma Corp. The published two critical bits of information about the Sigma SD1: Its availability date: early June Its MSRP price: $9,700 or 7,000€ or £6,199.99 (inc VAT) Even thinking that the SD1 is competing with medium format photo cameras, the 46 MP DSLR will…