Author: Yves Roumazeilles

  • Water splash: The easy way to a great photo

    photo credit: nsaplayer Who did not dream of making such a great photo as the milk or water drop stopped in mid-air? But this seems quite difficult. It may be, but there are a few techniques that can simplify things a little. Gavin Hoey, in the following video, shows a few of them, explaining lighting…

  • Ramin Talaie

    Iran is a country were AIDS is as present as anywhere else, but probably less officially recognized. About 85% of Afghanistan opium production is trafficked through Iran to Turkey and Eastern Europe, but leaves its trace on Iran, too. Persopolis, the only NGO of its kind in Iran, provides food and clothing and distributes clean…

  • Batch-resize your photos

    If you need to resize a bunch of pictures (for example, before publishing them on the web), it is a pain in the neck to collect them all and play with the Photoshop commands. For Windows users, here is a utility program that does exactly this in a nice way: All files of a directory,…

  • Sony 2010 roadmap

    Photo-Rumors reveals what could well be the Sony roadmap for the year 2010. You were expecting a pause, you will be disappointed. Competition will still be intense: 7-10 January 2010 (CES, Las Vegas) : announcement of Sony A950, 32 MP FF, still no video, high ISO). January-April : tele-lens 600mm. 10-15 April (NAB, Las Vegas)…

  • Even more colors for the Pentax K-x

    Not happy with black, white, red and blue colors for your next camera? Pentax Japan decided to go even further and allow you to customize the camera body with a wealth of different colors for the plastic body and the hand grip. Do you like this or not? Source: Rye Clifton, via Engadget.

  • Backup for the photographer – part 1

    Any digital photographer is quickly confronted with the bane of computer memory. At first, you notice that you need a lot of DRAM memory to edit your pictures (using Photoshop for example). The solution is easily found: Add more memory (Here come 4 GB of DRAM!) Then, you discover that all those 20 MP pictures…

  • The Pentax K-X is now official

    And I got the price, too. The PENTAX K-x (in black and white) will ship in October 2009 in three configurations: Pentax K-x single lens kit with an SMC Pentax DA L 18-55 mm lens, for US$649.95 Pentax K-x twin lens kit for US$749.95 (with the SMC Pentax DA L 18-55 mm zoom lens and…

  • Super sensor at Sony

    To make it simpler than it really may be, you can expect that the next Sony Alpha 950 (probable name of the successor to the Sony Alpha 900, improved in the beginning of 2010) will have no less than 32 mega-pixels. Even for a Full Frame sensor, this is a lot of pixels. But this…

  • Pentax K-X, tomorrow?

    According to Photo-rumors, Pentax is going to announce tomorrow a new SLR photo camera named Pentax K-X. Its most prominent features are going to be: 12.4 MP CMOS APS-C sensor (Aspect Ratio 3:2) Sensitivity: ISO 100-6400 (exp. 12800 ISO) Shutter speed: 30s – 1/6000s, Flash Sync at 1/180s Live View mode with options: Contrast Detection…