Month: May 2010

  • Photo scammers: The naked truth

    photo credit: Don Hankins It appears that -at least in some cases- many ads from Google (like the ones I display on my web sites) are presenting fraudulent business proposals. Usually they are recognizable by the fact that they makes too-good-to-be-true offers (half-price photo cameras or basement-sale prices for pro equipment). But it is not…

  • Sony: Photo and video News

    Sony just made a round of announcements that should attract a lot of attention in the photography market (but in relation with video). First and foremost, here are the first samples of the new range of point-and-shoot photo cameras using an APS-C digital sensor. With the NEX3 and the NEX5, they intend to bring a…

  • Nikongrapher

    Do you want to participe in a Nikon community looking towards Nikon? Why not browse toNikongrapher?

  • Miguel Lasa

    Should we present Miguel Lasa? World-class photographer and in love with wildlife, he has a web site (www.miguellasa.com) that anybody should visit. The leopard below was found in Zimbabwe while driving back to the camp. Before arriving to the base camp we spotted this leopard on a tree. After waiting more than one hour he/she…

  • DSLR comparisons

    It is often a little difficult to compare two cameras feature by feature. I’ve come to a web site which does that (and only that), but does it nicely: SnapSort.com. Nice.

  • Gimp links

    I don’t often write about Gimp, the free software image and photo edition software which is avbailabel both for Linux and PC-Windows. But, nevertheless, I keep noticing bits of useful information that I’d like to share with you if you are a user of Gimp. Selective Noise Reduction with GIMP — Repairing Noisy Skies pour…

  • Clean hot pixels from RAW files

    It is sometimes unpleasant to discover a little annoying problem like a defective pixel on the sensor of a digital photo camera. It produces a small colored pixel (often black or white, sometimes of some other color). On a RAW file, it could be worse if it produces a colored streak. It is most visible…

  • Per-Anders Pettersson

    Africa is a place where the world is changing, maybe faster than elsewhere in the world and photographers are trying to document the changes. Per-Anders Pettersson went to South Africa and Congo and his web site has some echoes of the shouts of the people torn in these wide moves. A busy street corner where…

  • Database update

    For those who did not notice it, I updated significantly the list of reviews and tests of the SLR photo cameras appearing in the D-SLR database on YLovePhoto.com. An excellent way to guide yourself in the maze of cameras before buying yours.