Photo curiosity

  • Hunter Freeman

    The originality of a photo sometimes comes from the art direction or the actor’s direction and this is the case for the “Astronaut” series of Hunter Freeman. Created while Hunter had a space suit available for a few days after an assignment, it answers the question of what astronauts do when they are not working…

  • Official image samples for Pentax K-5

    Pentax Japan now publishes a few test/sample images from the Pentak K-5 to allow IQ evaluation up to ISO 51200 (only ISO 100, for now). Official K-5 samples

  • Nikon D7000 late?

    It is somewhat (and sometimes) funny to see the expectations of some people becoming their certainties with an astonishing speed. I have exactly this feeling when I hear the cries of the most recent days: The Internet is all about this “Why is the Nikon D7000 so late?” As a matter of fact, Nikon was…

  • Leica M9 Titanium – Volkswagen edition

    You take a Leica M9, you bring it to an international designer and you look at the result. This is more or less what Leica did by asking to Walter de’Silva, the head of the Volkswagen style/design team. He had already drawn many industrial objects like Audi, Seat, Alfa Romeo (Did you notice the common…

  • Download Sony A560/A580 user manual

    Download Sony A560/A580 user manual

    Always trying to help the YLovePhoto.com visitors, here are the user/operator manuals I could find on the Internet for the Sony Alpha 560 and the Sony Alpha 580. English: Sony A560/A580 User Manual Français : Manuel utilisateur des Sony A560/A580 (rien encore pour le moment) Deutsch: Sony A560/A580 Benutzerhandbuch (Noch nichts gefunden) If you found…

  • Sony Alpha 33/55: No video

    If you want to see a company suffering the worst pain at the worst possible moment, just look at Sony. In 2009, they repeated us that they would not add video to the DSLR photo cameras until it would be perfectly right and the half-baked solutions from Canon and Nikon where indirect justifications to this…

  • 8 tips to make a better slide show

    Back from your holidays, with about a million photos to show to your family and your friends? You are about to start preparing a digital slide show. You will take risks, like so many other photographers, that may lead to pure chaos in the family if you do not work perfectly on this. Here are…

  • Olympus: no more DSLR!

    In a way, this was expected, but the news are now official. Olympus wants to develop itself totally in the EVIL kind of digital, like the cute little PEN cameras. More precisely, Toshiyuki Terada, Product Manager at the SLR Planning Department of Olympus, said to Fotopolis that this implied both not replacing the current DSLR…

  • Download the Canon EOS 60D user manual

    Download the Canon EOS 60D user manual

    We all know how difficult it can be to find the online versions of the SLR photo cameras operator/user manuals in general, and Canon manuals specifically. For a recent photo camera like the Canon EOS 60D, this is somewhat more difficult, and I decided to specially look around for the YLovePhoto readers. Here are the…