Author: Yves Roumazeilles

  • New Canon firmware: HD video on EOS 5D MkII

    Today, Canon announced that they will add 24 and 25 fps HD Movie recording to the Canon EOS 5D Mark II photo camera with firmware v2.0.3. It will be available as a free download from the middle of March.

  • Why you need an expensive camera

    Despite all the positive aspects of cheap photo cameras, many a photographer will outgrow its camera possibilities. For good reasons, some day, you will need/want a more powerful photographic power horse, will you not? Cheap cameras are cheaply built. Though the least expensive cameras are quite sturdy, it’s true that they are not as strong…

  • Why you don’t need an expensive camera

    The question is often asked, even more in the context of YLovePhoto and its information about expert photo cameras: “Do I need an expensive camera?” and the answer is most often that the expensive new features are mostly useless. For example, ISO sensitivity is over-rated. Today’s performance levels are so high that, out of specialty…

  • Testing the Alpha 900 in Antartica

    photo credit: Javier Paredes You have to admit that you would like to know if the first Sony SLR camera supposed to be a pro photo camera, the Sony Alpha 900, is really up to the real-life constraints of a pro camera. Some people would really test it: Michael Reichmann from Luminous Landscape, simply took…

  • Ransom Riggs

    I stopped by the web site of Ransom Riggs because of a picture series coming from the Mojave Desert Airplane Graveyard (probably throwback from the engineer in me, who is sensitive both to the esthetism of time degradation and to the complexity of technology even when it is slightly outdated) where I extracted the following…

  • Sigma SD15 coming… slowly

    We heard already about the successor to the Sigma SD14, under the name of Sigma SD15, in 2008. Then, nothing or near to nothing. But here comes Sigma again with a new announcement about this camera. We will have to see if this will bring Sigma back in the light (the company was already considered…

  • Find the user manual for your SLR camera

    If you are looking for the User Manual of an SLR camera, any SLR camera, things can be difficult. Just remember that you can look at the manufacturer web site but it could be tough since some of them do not show everything for download, or not all in the same download web site. You…

  • New lenses for the Samsung NX-10

    As expected, 2010 will be a great year for lenses to strengthen the range delivered to the Samsung NX-10: Samsung announces no less than 10 glasses for this year. To be released during the first half of 2010: 18-55mm F3.5-5.6, Non OIS To be released during the second half of 2010: 20-50mm F3.5-5.6 20mm F2.8…

  • Sony at PMA 2010

    Finally, Sony told us some about the future of the Alpha line of D-SLR cameras. Unfortunately, it does not mean that we will see new cameras soon. The discontinued Alpha 700 will receive a replacement (who is surprised, really?) and it will come with a wide-angle lens Zeiss Distagon T* 24 mm f/2 ZA SSM…