Photo curiosity

  • Richard Mosse

    Richard Mosse

    I first came in contact with Richard Mosse through his “Infra” series of brightly colored pictures of North Kivu (Eastern Congo) people, soldiers and refugee camps. I recommend it, but I was really arrested by the “Nomads” series: Shot in Iraq in March 2009, these photos (including the one displayed here above) are an indirect…

  • Lens reviews, now with Pentax forums

    Lens reviews, now with Pentax forums

    One of the very first resources I created for YLovePhoto is the list of web sites providing lens reviews or comparisons. There, I make sure that there is one location where we can go to find all lens reviews available on the web. Today, I updated it with a major addition. Pentax Forums just made…

  • Premium ideas for premium Linux photographers

    Premium ideas for premium Linux photographers

    If you are simultaneously a digital photographer and a Linux user, you certainly are in search of maximum quality and flexibility, even if this may cost of little more effort. But why not try and make it easier with some ideas and resources I collected for you here? Worth mentioning too: F-Spot, full-featured to handle…

  • A Soviet Photoshop

    A Soviet Photoshop

    A little historical gem: Soviet Russia had found a way to automate the photo image retouching jobs before the invention of Photoshop but with the help of a rotary scanner. YouTube link

  • Nico Baumgarten

    Nico Baumgarten

    Nico Baumgarten has a pretty interesting way to build photography reports. This is always a middle way between a pure documentary journalistic approach and a more personal way to shoot pictures. I believe that you’d like to go and check his “blocking the G8” series about the July 2007, G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany. YLP:…

  • A Canon 400mm f/2.8 prototype stolen

    photo © 2007 Paul Friel | more info(via: Wylio)According to QueSabesDe.com, a photographer of the Reuters press agency who was currently testing the newly announced (but altogether unavailable) Canon 400 mm f2.8 EF L IS II USM saw it stolen from his hotel room. I’m nearly hoping that it will re-appear in the hands of…

  • DxOMark: Now with Nikon D7000

    DxOMark: Now with Nikon D7000

    At DxO Labs, there is one hell of a director of special effects. One after the other, there are news exploding in front of observers. First, there was a Sony Alpha 55 marginally better than the other cameras, then a Pentax K-5 which jumped ahead everybody else with 82 points. Here comes the Nikon D7000…

  • Delay for the Canon tele-lenses

    In August, Canon had announced its newest lines of high-end pro tele-lenses (EF 300mm f/2.8L IS II USM, EF 400mm f/2.8L IS II USM) and a EF 8-15mm f/4L Fisheye USM zoom. Small issues with the manufacturing, with planned process improvements. Nevertheless, it will take us up to March 2011… We will have to be…

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