Month: May 2010

  • Sony and nVidia: 2 partners, 3 dimensions

    You wanted 3D photography, Sony decided to bring it to you without even modifying your photo camera. To reach this point, Sony decided to partner with nVidia, the PC graphics card specialist, which presents now a solution for post-processing any picture in order to bring a 3rd dimension to it.. The result is still quite…

  • 5 years of lifetime for a DVD archive

    You have been told so repeatedly (I even wrote in 2007 an article about the weaknesses of CD/DVD, a few years ago already), it is mentioned again in an article about backups for the photographers, but there are still some people to believe that the CD or the DVD is a good solution to the…

  • Sony news and predictions

    It’s clear that this time of the year, we are hearing a lot about Sony. But this is only the beginning and I will take some time to come back on the recent events and what is coming in the news for the manufacturer of the Alpha line of SLR photo cameras. After the launch…

  • 5 tips for a great photo

    While sorting and choosing the photographs of my recent trip to Botswana, I quickly remembered a list of criteria I like to use to objectively (more or less) decide which pictures are worth extracting from the huge bunch of files in the memory cards of my photo camera. photo credit: mikebaird As a matter of…

  • Kathryn Obermaier

    American photography generated a wealth of great artists. Some of them are very well known, but it may not be the case for most. Working in documentary photography may make things even tougher. Kathryn Obermaier is a freelance photojournalist currently based in New York. She has been working in many locations, and is currently working…

  • Adobe Camera Raw 6.1 coming with automatic lens correction

    The beta version of Camera Raw v6.1 is now available from Adobe. As usual, we can be pretty sure that this version is looking a lot like the final one. As complete as ever, this software program is more or less the reference in RAW format photo picture handling (the DxO Labs tools still have…

  • IrfanView upgraded

    The excellent images handling software program, IrfanView, has just been upgraded to version 4.27. Command line options to handle images with scripts (actions) or filters. Addition of a border or a frame. Addition of new filters and file formats. The screen copies options now allow to handle larger objects like a full web page (auto-scroll…

  • Robin Ryan

    When you find a good portraitist, you should stop and watch. Robin Ryan is definitely worth your time. Both for this picture and for his web site.

  • Sony Alpha 290

    The next entry-level SLR camera will be named Sony Alpha 290, apparently. It comes from a set of photographs leaked by Vietnamese www.Tinhte.com forum member dt0306. This also gives some clues about the upcoming specification which makes it a major leak (or a major fake or rumour): Sony Alpha 290 Specification: APS-C size 14 mega-pixel…