Author: Yves Roumazeilles

  • New Sony DSLR: Alpha 290 & Alpha 390

    According to a message on the forums of Dyxum, a Swedish magazine, “Digitalfoto för Alla”, just presented the new SLR photo cameras from Sony. This looks terribly like an error in the publication date (a leak a few days before the official launch). The two photo cameras (A290 et A390) will both be equipped with…

  • Nikon D4?

    According to a reader of Nikon Rumours Forum, here is the upcoming Nikon D4. Possibly a neat Photoshop job, but it looks quite nice. What would be the feature set of such a Nikon D4?

  • Laser reticle for your SLR

    If you are as found of action movies and action video games as you love photography, you may appreciate the looks of this small hot-shoe accessory which will help you align your camera with your subject. Four separate reticles (Point, Circle Point, Circle Cross, Cross), two colors (green, red), and three laser strengths define this…

  • 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…