Author: Yves Roumazeilles

  • Give your digital photos an old frame

    One special use of the Library of Congress collection of historical photos: Transform your photos into old-looking original pictures from a century ago. For this, essentially, you go hunting for a nice looking frame in the LOC collection on Flickr. You will easily find a photo which has the kind of frame you’d like to…

  • Canon EOS 500D, first comments

    After a second half of 2009 where Nikon has been putting a lot of competitive pressure on Canon, here comes the new Canon dSLR photo camera: Canon EOS 500D (also known as Canon Rebel T1i) and, boy! did they react well. The Canon EOS 500D is definitely a great step forward where Canon is redefining…

  • Pentax goes in color

    The Japanese branch of Pentax has found that adding colors and color options to its cameras could help sell them. So, here come the newest additions to the list of unconventional SLR cameras: Source: PB.

  • Canon Rebel T1i

    It is under the name of Canon Rebel T1i that will be known the new Canon EOS 500D in the United States of America (perpetuating the age-old Canon tradition of giving a different name to SLR cameras depending on the continent where it is sold).

  • Canon EOS 500D, it’s coming

    Here is comes! It is now nearly certain that the Canon EOS 500D is not a hoax, a rumour or an error. The Zoom Danish web site presents one photo of the new camera (see it here on the left) and confirms that the official presentation will happen tomorrow morning. The main features appear on…

  • Pentax joins megapixel truce

    We had seen that Olympus thought stopping the race for pixels taking 12 mega-pixels as the maximum really needed by most photographers. But they had satyed more or less isolated… up to now. FotoMagazin, German monthly photo magazine, tells us the news in its lastest (April) issue: Pentax joins Olympus in the non-race. After Nikon…

  • Nikon D400 vs. Canon 500D

    Even if the Nikon D400 (successor to the Nikon D300) is supposed to be much more expensive than the Canon 500D (successor to the Canon EOS 450D), Google Trends shows that the public’s interest is significantly higher for the Nikon D400.

  • Photoshop brushes for The GIMP

    photo credit: John Flinchbaugh For all of us who would hesitate to use GIMP because of the stock of brushes they collected and use with Photoshop, I like to remind that GIMP supports the Photoshop brushes (in ABR brush file format) from version 2.4. This is limiting the risks and issues to the strict minimum.…

  • 13 photo safari tips

    When you go on a safari tour in order to shoot photos, whatever the organisation, there are a few things that you should always keep in mind, that are very easy to apply and that bring a lot of good results. Here’s my list:   Lion – Copyright 2008 Yves Roumazeilles Be ready. Always keep…