Photo curiosity

  • Olympus is long in 4/3

    At Olympus, the pressure is on micro 4/3 in this second half of 2010. Here come two tele-zooms and some photo cameras. There was a dire need of a respectable tele-zoom in the Olympus lens range. This is now corrected with nothing less than a 75-300 mm f/4,8-6,7 (equivalent to a 150-600mm). If this was…

  • ACR 6.2 and LR 3.2 love Sony

    Yes! Adobe loves Sony. The final releases of DNG Converter 6.2, Adobe Camera Raw 6.2 and Lightroom 3.2 includes RAW file conversion for the Sony Alpha 33, Alpha 55, Alpha 290, Alpha 390, NEX-5 and NEX-3. Those were included in the Release Candidate versions, but they become official/final now. Of course, other cameras are also…

  • Dave Mead

    Sometimes, the work of a photographer attracts my attention for reasons even more personal than usually. This is exactly the case here with the pictures of Dave Mead on facial hair. I loved it. In May of 2009, photographer Dave Mead traveled to Anchorage, Alaska to photograph the contestants of the 2009 World Beard &…

  • Panasonic camera users have more sex

    In the “randomly weird” category, here is a bit of information which I would not dare classify as critically interesting. According to OkCupid (a dating web site willing to be described as more “intelligent” than others), you can draw your own challenging conclusions by cross-checking available data from users profiles. For example, since he users…

  • Short web site downtime

    I have to apologize for a short downtime today. It came when trying to upgrade the WordPress engine powering the web site. Supposedly, this should help in making the web site more stable in the future, but I obviously was unable to maintain this during the transition (the main source of instability was not in…

  • Canon EOS 550D User Manual

    I is often quite difficult to find the user manual of a good SLR camera like the Canon EOS 550D (aka Canon T2i or Kiss X4). This is the reason why I decided to share with you the result of my searches. You will become able to evaluate correctly the features of the this nice…

  • Why Sony uses a semi-transparent mirror in A33/A55

    The most recent SLR photo cameras from Sony, the Sony Alpha 33 and Sony Alpha 55 are presenting a striking feature: a semi-transparent mirror replacing the usual reflex mirror that we knew up to now. This looks very nice in the press releases, what does that mean and why use such a technology? Cross-section view…

  • Operation of the shutter and mirror of Sony A33 & A55

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  • Canon EOS 60D video

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