Category: Use

  • Nikon D5 user manual – ready for download

    Nikon D5 user manual – ready for download

    You can get the Nikon D5 user manual (or more precisely “manuals”, since there are several of them on the Nikon web site now): User’s Manual English (for customers in Europe) User’s Manual English (for customers in the Americas) User’s Manual English (for customers in Asia, Oceania, the Middle East, and Africa) Manuel d’utilisation Français…

  • Download the Sony A77II documents

    Download the Sony A77II documents

    Some of the Sony Alpha 77II documents are available to download: International User manual for Sony A77II Sony A77II brochure in English Sony A77II User Manual in English

  • Paris – Saigon, an hyperlapse trip

    Paris – Saigon, an hyperlapse trip

    Two cities in completely different worlds. But they were shot by two photographers-videographers-hyperlapsers. To watch just for the pleasure of it. Paris: Bonjour Paris | A Hyper-Lapse Film – In 4K from Tyler Fairbank on Vimeo. Saigon:

  • Vincent Munier fears no snow

    Vincent Munier fears no snow

    Wildlife photographer Vincent Munier short documentary film, titled “Arctique” is a way to discover how his great pictures are taken, inorder to display the great beauty of the arctic.

  • Autofocusing guides

    Autofocusing guides

    What could be more frustrating that holding a DLSR camera worth thousands of bucks and not being able to focus on the subject in front of you? So, I collected a few excellent guides or tutorials which provide good summaries (I think) of the possibilities of these cameras when it comes to autofocus or AF.…

  • Choose the best monitor for photography

    Choose the best monitor for photography

    Even before your camera, the computer monitor is the tool that the photographer uses most often. With the advent of digital techniques in photography, we spend more and ore time in front of this large screen where we select the best shots, we correct minor errors, improve the overall appearance of our best photos (and…

  • Photograph Northern Lights

    Photograph Northern Lights

    It appears that 2015 and 2016 are the stage for maximum solar activity leading to a peak in number and intensity of polar auroras, these marvellous light exhibits that Nature displays in the night sky under high latitudes. If you travel to Canada, Scandinavia or Russia this Winter (long nights!), you may be tempted to…

  • Best tips to shoot in Winter

    Best tips to shoot in Winter

    Cold weather is coming back real quick now, but this is no reason to stop shooting photos. I’d rather go under the hot sun of Africa, but Winter lights and the low light of high latitudes (Arctic, Antarctica or even Scandinavia) allow so lovely pictures that I would prefer taking some more photos. But cold…

  • Iceberg – Upside down

    Iceberg – Upside down

    Some photos are somewhat more difficult to biuld than others. Alex Cornell succeeded in combining all that is needed: An unusual subject: An iceberg just after it flipped over (the part which is normally deep under water bumps up out of the sea and is not yet worn out by the weather) and shows its…