Photo curiosity

  • Canon for Obama

    Barrack Obama is the first American president who had his official portrait shot by a digital camera. Pete Souza, the newly-announced official White House photographer, shot the picture with a Canon EOS 5D MkII.

  • Nikon in bed with Apple

    And here comes the Nikon D400:

  • Full Frame SLR comparisons

    With the arrival of all these new digital photo cameras with a large sensor (Full Frame) in 2008, like the Sony Alpha 900 or the Canon EOS 5D MkII, it became difficult to find your own path. The more because their main advantage of these is photo cameras is to offer images of ultra-high quality…

  • Nikon D400 in Russia

    Even if the Nikon D300 is not dead yet (it’s probably the best digital SLR camera of the recent years), many think about giving it a replacement, specifically, because the presence of a video mode on the Nikon D90 nearly calls for an upgrade. Here is a Russian newspaper magazine which tells us all about…

  • PMA 2009 preview

    Latest news from the PMA The PMA fair which will happen in Las Vegas between the 3rd and the 5th of March 2009 will bring us many news and a few surprises. All the signs are there, as confirmed by my informers. There is only a few weeks to be patient, but expect most important…

  • Best HDR software

    There are quite a lot of software programs able to combine several photo images into one HDR (High Dynamix Range) picture. But they are visibly not born equal. Camera Dojo compared several of them: Photoshop CS4 Photomatix Enfuse The first one produces pictures that are quite unimpressive (and rather dark), the last one is rather…

  • Pentax K3D spotted in the wild [fun]

    Finally, that is Kees de Haan who will have spotted the very first Pentax K3D in the wild. He even took a snapshot of it (using his faithful Pentax K20D, of course). But, further than the obvious pun, I start to think that many people (on the Internet) are speaking of the future Full Frame…

  • Adobe Photoshop CS4 cheat sheets & cheat cards

    Photoshop is at the center of a love-hate relationship with its users because of its many features and keyboard shortcuts. So, I am glad to provide a list of best Photoshop CS4 free cheat sheets, keyboard shortcut lists and cheat cards. Source: Trevor MorrisPhotoshop CS4 Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet for Mac, for Windows/PCPossibly the best…

  • Canon fixes 5D Mk II black dot issue with firmware

    As could be expected was annonced here on YLovePhoto, Canon released a new firmware update for the Canon EOS 5D MkII, in order to fix the unpleasant issue of black dots and vertical banding noise that was discussed around the Internet. Firmware Update Version 1.0.7.