Photo curiosity

  • Canon EOS 40D Mk II?

    OK. Now, I’m lost. This can’t be! A rumour surfaced this week on DPR about a possible upcoming Canon EOS 40D Mk II. new 12 MP gapless microlens CMOS sensor which employs the 5D markII improved output amplifier, and a more advanced color filter with superior light transmission Digic IV 100-3200 base ISO, expanded L1-…

  • Canon 5D Mk II manual

    Canon made this manual available for download in PDF file format.

  • Disassembled zoom lens

    A broken zoom lens has been the reason for forum user sbv20 to take the lens apart. Down to the smallest part. Source: FredMiranda forum.

  • Nikon D3x, more rumours

    I think that this camera prepared by Nikon to replace the magnificent (but intolerably expensive) Nikon D3 will stay reserved to a technical and financial elite (if there is still one after the current crisis). But rumours are running wild during those days: DPreview told us that it will come in December with the following…

  • User manuals for the Canon EOS 50D

    For a few years now, Canon repeatedly forgot to include some of the critical user manuals in the CD-ROM coming with its cameras. If you want to have them you have to get them from the Internet (when and where they are available). For the Canon EOS 50D, I found the manual and documentation available…

  • Print photos from Linux: Photoprint/Gutenprint

    Astonishingly good-looking, a solution to ever-lasting issues of Linux-printing, Photoprint is a Linux-based application using the Gutenprint driver tools. I just found a good article about these software tools on Linux Photography. I did not test the tool set, but it looks damn interesting for all Linux photo users. A must-try!

  • Share your photos

    You have nice photos and you want to see them on the Internet, to share them with your family, your friends, the rest of the world. The choice is yours and… it is difficult. To host them somewhere on a server, you will first have to use a photo hosting service or you will build…

  • The GIMP moves on

    OK! I still think that The GIMP, this excellent free graphics manipulation tool (available on PC-Windows, Linux, etc.) is only a pale copy of Photoshop CS3. But nonetheless, it is much cheaper (free) and totally able even with its weaknesses. This makes it a good reason to signal the arrival of version 2.5.4 of The…

  • Canon EOS 50D, good reading

    On the Canon USA web site, there are a few interesting articles about the recent Canon EOS 50D reserved for those who cannot really buy a camera as expensive as the Full Frame ones announced by Nikon, Sony and Canon. A good way to evaluate the performance we all can expect from this nice camera…