Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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A Soviet Photoshop
A little historical gem: Soviet Russia had found a way to automate the photo image retouching jobs before the invention of Photoshop but with the help of a rotary scanner. YouTube link
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Nico Baumgarten
Nico Baumgarten has a pretty interesting way to build photography reports. This is always a middle way between a pure documentary journalistic approach and a more personal way to shoot pictures. I believe that you’d like to go and check his “blocking the G8” series about the July 2007, G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany. YLP:…
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A Canon 400mm f/2.8 prototype stolen
photo © 2007 Paul Friel | more info(via: Wylio)According to QueSabesDe.com, a photographer of the Reuters press agency who was currently testing the newly announced (but altogether unavailable) Canon 400 mm f2.8 EF L IS II USM saw it stolen from his hotel room. I’m nearly hoping that it will re-appear in the hands of…
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DxOMark: Now with Nikon D7000
At DxO Labs, there is one hell of a director of special effects. One after the other, there are news exploding in front of observers. First, there was a Sony Alpha 55 marginally better than the other cameras, then a Pentax K-5 which jumped ahead everybody else with 82 points. Here comes the Nikon D7000…
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Delay for the Canon tele-lenses
In August, Canon had announced its newest lines of high-end pro tele-lenses (EF 300mm f/2.8L IS II USM, EF 400mm f/2.8L IS II USM) and a EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM zoom. Small issues with the manufacturing, with planned process improvements. Nevertheless, it will take us up to March 2011… We will have to be…
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Sony deals on eBay
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DxOMark: Pentax K-5 now at the top!
It was not even a full day after I indicated that the Sony Alpha 55 was at the top of the competition since it had the best sensor evaluation ranking among the APS-C camera sensors. Here comes a new update from DxO Labs and the DxOMark ranking is revolutionized. Not only is the Pentax K5…
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24MP/FF for Nikon and Sony
photo credit: Edur8 There is currently a Full Frame digital sensor being developed by Sony. Or more precisely, Sony currently works on a 24 mega-pixel technology in the Full Frame form factor (FX in the Nikon local language) and the two applications actually forecast are at Nikon for building the Nikon D800 and at Sony…
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Alpha 55: The best according to DxO
It is clear that Sony has impressed a number of the users with its Alpha 55 (A55-SLT). Despite the very legitimate concerns about the length of video sequences, the camera seems to be appreciated a lot by all the evaluators. The latest and possibly the most impressive (or the most telling) is the recent evaluation…