Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Sony A77 arrives on 7/7
According to an information received by SonyAlphaRumors, the much-awaited Sony Alpha 77 or Sony SLT-A77 (the name has not been clearly confirmed yet) is now really about to arrive. After several non-official delays, July 7, 2011 (or 2011/7/7) has been chosen. OK, the people from Sony Photo are guys nearly prone to pranks, who are…
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Make sure your photo camera is stolen
You have a new photo camera, you go on a photo trip far off, you join a public event, but you want to bring back an imperishable memory: Put all the aces in your hand to ensure that your photo camera will be stolen as soon as possible. It pumps adrenaline up, it helps find…
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Sony A35 (rumor)
Here are the expected features for the Sony A35 (the next photo camera in the Sony Alpha range): 16MP CMOS EXMOR sensor HD video recording (Full HD or 1920×1080 or 1080p) Sensitivity: ISO 100-12800 High-speed shooting mode with continuous AF New picture effects 3D panorama mode Continuous shooting at 7 fps 15-point AF HDR mode Electronic…
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Sony NEX-C3 (rumor)
The feature set of the next Sony NEX camera: 16.2 MP EXMOR sensor HD video recording (1280×720 or 720p) Sensitivity: ISO 200-12800 New picture effects 19 or 25 AF points (with face detection) Shutter speed from 5s to 1/4000s 3″ LCD screen (921k dots) HDR mode New battery Less than $600/600€ The Sony NEX-C3 is still…
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Next Samsung NX lenses
Samsung tells us the story of how they proceed to launch the future lenses (particularly for the products of the hybrid NX family). Presented as several videos from their web site. Videos are in English. YouTube link 1st part YouTube link 2nd part On this occasion, Samsung took some time to produce an illustration picture…
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GIMP links are back
After a long absence when we collected a few GIMP-related links but we did not publish them, here is a new list of useful tutorials and tricks for the users of GIMP the GNU-Linux and Windows-based photo edition software. GIMP still being free, these free resources are all the more welcome: photo credit: andyspictures 60+…