Photo curiosity
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February 2011: Canon 600D and 1100D
The rumour has it that February will be the month to announce the new SLR cameras for entry-level at Canon. Let’s see what it could be. Canon EOS 600D Replacing the Canon EOS 550D, Canon would be preparing a new camera, the Canon EOS 600D. Seriously small price, but improvement on some of the features:…
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Let’s clean the Pentax K-5 stains
Pentax finally admitted a manufacturing issue (either in the production process or in quality control) on the recent Pentax K-5. Most of the very first users had observed small stains on the digital sensor of their K5. Contrary to dust stains (unfortunately very common on all digital SLR cameras), this defect can not be wiped…
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Daniel Winters
Photographing a show is quite a difficult exercise, but when it is about performing arts or dance, there are many opportunities. So, I appreciated a lot Daniel Winters work with the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. YLovePhoto: What -according to you- makes a good or a bad photographer?Daniel Winters: A good photographer uses a…
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Photoshop links
I know that there are plenty of people using Adobe Photoshop. Here comes the time for your list of links to resources that could be useful to you (and me), this time with a large representation of the excellent tutorials from Digital Photography School (but not only them). Smarter sharpening with the High Pass filter…
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Canon, Nikon are afraid of Sony
OK! Maybe not statue-frozen by fright, but Amateur Photographer gave us today a few interesting data points showing that Sony quickly progresses in the photo market including in the interchangeable lens camera segment. AP tells us that on the Japanese market, where Nikon and Canon together loose about 11% of market share, Sony reaches the…
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Sony NEX in 2011
I heard indirectly that a new NEX camera will be presented by Sony. As always, it will be an ultra-compact photo camera but with an APS-C digital photo sensor installed in it. Apparently, it would hold a 16.7 MP sensor (already seen in the Sony Alpha SLT-A55). I think that it could be named NEX-4.…
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Sony Alpha 77 viewfinder
A small information about the future Sony Alpha 77: If we know that it will include an electronic viewfinder (EVF) since the revelations from the Sony marketing, we were still lacking some technical details. I just learned that this electronic viewfinder should be based on an OLED display with the exceptional contrast of at least…
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What is in the Nikon D400?
One of the most expected SLR photo camera of 2011 will certainly be the Nikon D400. I have to admit that the name is not official yet, and is only the product of a reasonable speculation, but the successor to the Nikon D300s could easily hold this name. The D300s is currently the Nikon flagship…
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3 tips to reduce digital noise in your photos
Even without being a pixel-peeper, an extremist of image quality, if you use a big DSLR or a compact 200€ camera, you will quickly discover that the digital photographer enemy is digital noise. It will bring up little blurry masses, a kind of not-so-fine grain noticeably reducing the quality of our photos. But there are…