Here it is! The 39th edition of the Pirelli calendar is out and this is Mario Sorrenti who is celebrating the automobile pneumatics with mostly naked top-models mostly in black and white. It was christened as Swoon and it was shot in Corsica as we had revealed here. The models Guinevere Van Seenus Malgosia Edita…
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The 45 most powerful images of 2011
The year is not done yet, but I believe you’ll easily admit that these photographs assembled by BuzzFeed are worthy of the title. The 45 most powerful images of 2011
The end of Olympus
This is not yet fully certain, but Olympus is today at the core of a maelstrom. So much of it that it is advisable to think about the possible end to the brand itself As a matter of fact, we are witnesses to an almost unbelievable financial chronicle on a background of fraud, creative accounting…
Buy used photo gear, if…
photo credit: EvelynGiggles …if the price difference with New is really large enough (don’t forget that in most countries and in Europe importing photo gear from outside requires to pay VAT and a few % of custom duties): Buy New if the difference is small, you’ll also get a manufacturer warranty. …if the selling web…
Thailand flood update
As you already know, Thailand is suffering major floods observed since last July with considerable rainfall during this long period of time normally watered by the rains of the South-East Asiatic monsoon (albeit much stronger this year). Many parts of the country are invaded by the water which do not stop to rise near (and…
Thailand: Sony impacted products
For the follwing new products, Sony just removed all forecast of availability. NEX-7 NEX-5N NEX-C3 Alpha 65 Source: Steve Huff.
Thailand floods: Drama all over again
We may have been thinking that the drama observed in Japan last March were going to disappear from to landscape of photographic camera manufacturers. The catastrophic floods of Thailand came to bring us back to the sad reality. High waters are rushing through Thailand. The Bangkok county is now seriously preoccupied by the devastation and…
Manufacturing film and cards
In only a few years, we went from analog silver-based film to the Flash memory card. Let’s have some little fun comparing both manufacturing processes, thanks to Kodak, then Lexar. The world is moving. YouTube link YouTube link YouTube link Film or cards; Kodak or Lexar; Years apart, but the same attention to production quality.
A few days off
Don’t worry too much if the posts are rare in the coming days. I’ll be off to Botswana for a photo trip.
War Correspondant in a PC video game
If you always wanted to be a war correpsondant (WarCo in short) type of photographer but did not have the guts to risk your life, there is an Australian company, Defiant, which is trying to get the funds to finish a PC game based on such a scenario. Instead of using a gun to spread…
Nikon F
Not really an electronic brain, the Nikon F still is the preferred camera of many photographers. Or their best memory. YouTube link YouTube link
Pioneer enters photo market
Do you remember reading about it here? I was listing opportunities to see the photo market shaken by new companies and I told you about Pioneer (among others) as a company that could be interested. It appears that I was right: Pioneer just announced that they will start by creating a joint venture (JV) in…
Kenko-Tokina acquires COKIN filters
This is interesting to see how a previous article I wrote about the possible re-structuration of the photo market through some significant acquisitions has a nearly immediate echo. Actually, Kenko-Tokina, one of the companies I was mentioning as possibly interested in moving forward, has officialized its acquisition of COKIN SAS, the French leader of filter…
iPhone/Android: YLovePhoto custom sized
For all of us who are using only a small screen to look at YLovePhoto, I just launched a new ultra-light template. If you see it appear but you prefer to keep the usual wide-size template, you just have to drop to the bottom of the page and change the “Mobile Theme” option .
Google +1 for YLovePhoto
Just in passing, I’ll mention that you can now favor YLovePhoto by pressing on the new Google +1 icon wherever it appears on the web site. It will help promote YLovePhoto for a higher ranking in the Google search engine. And you will also notice that the little logo appears along with a list of…
Ricoh + Pentax: Showing the way of the future? [Updated]
You have certainly heard the announcement that Ricoh just purchased Pentax from Hoya, its previous owner. As a matter of fact, it may have been surprising more than one, but it was already true that Hoya no longer seemed to know what to do with its photo division under the Pentax brand name. Since the…
Google competing with TinEye
Do you remember TinEye? This is the company which has been offering since a few years an image search service where you show a photo (or a picture) and they find copies on the web (useful for the photographers). This can also help you find the original (useful for webmasters). TinEye was always a little…
CompactDrive PD70x / HyperDrive HD80 firmware
Some people still know about the CompactDrive PD70x Flash card reader. During a long time, it has been considered as the fastest portable hard drive to copy your flash cards to a hard disk. Unfortunately, being a relatively bulky product and no longer supported makes it a problem for the owners still wishing to make…
Repair the D300s
Before the D400 comes and replaces the Nikon D300s, let’s see how you can repair the pent bent pin from a CF card connector. A time-lapse video. YouTube link
Clouds: How to do them?
For those who asked how I did the word clouds I presented on YLovePhoto yesterday and today, the trick is simply to go to the www.wordle.net web site and provide the text of a press release, then choose the right parameters for the best show of words. Good luck. Nikon D5100 Canon EOS 600D &…
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…
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…
Russian President Dimitri Medvedev: I love photography
Did you know that the Russian President was also a photography enthusiast? He will tell you it all here. YouTube link
Samyang is back: 35mm f/1.4 & 8mm f/3.5 fish-eye
Apparently, Samyang has solved most of the issues it had with supplying raw glass from Japan for its new lenses. The Samyang 8mm f/3.5 Fish-eye CS VG10 lens, designed for the Sony NEX-VG10 large-sensor, is announced and immediately shipping. Also, the Samyang 35mm f/1.4 AS UMC manual-focus lens is available for both Canon and Nikon.
PMA/CliQ: A new date, without help from Japan
The news event (so we are told) is that the PMA Show (organized by the Photo Marketing Association) has just been moved from September 2011 to January 2012. But is it really because of the pressure put on them by the March events in Japan? I dare say NO. While it’s true to say that…