Photo curiosity

  • All goes well for Nikon and Canon

    In the last few days, we heard quite good news from both Nikon and Canon (the obvious leading companies of the Digital SLR camera market). Nikon boasted about its first place in Japan sales of SLR cameras in the first half of 2010 (January to June). What is interesting is that they exchanged positions in…

  • Photokina 2010: Predictions

    I start a series of posts dedicated to prepare the nearing Photokina show in Köln, Germany, on 21-26 September 2010. They are organized by photo brand: Nikon Pentax Canon Sony

  • Win a D300s or a 7D

    Could you use such a photo camera? Have a look at Lexar’s latest photo competition, ‘Take the Next Shot’ sweepstakes competition on their Facebook page. You could win a Nikon D300s with 16-85mm VR zoom lens or a Canon EOS 7D with an EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS zoom lens.

  • Photography, so many failures!

    photo credit: davidgsteadman When buying a photo camera, we often research in order to decide if this is the best camera, if its features will be goo enough, but will it be robust enough? Will it be useful or necessary to purchase a warranty contract extension? Will it fail very soon? When somebody asks me…

  • Emyr Pugh

    Emyr Pugh is both linguist and photographer, an unusual association which visibly gives him a tight link to people he meets, all the more in Mongolia where he lives. His web site, www.dogfen.com (‘dogfen’ is the Welsh word for ‘documentary’) is a window on Peoples and Humanity. Moreover, the great generosity of Emyr leads him…

  • BBC wildlife photo masterclasses, for free

    You could do much worse than learning from the best wildlife photographers. Actually, the BBC Wildlife Magazine is now providing an impressive list of compact training courses for wildlife photography. There are titles like: Wild Places Mammal Portraits Plant Portraits From Dusk to Dawn Underwater Photography Invertebrate Portraits Birds in Flight Animals in their Environment…

  • Microscopy photography

    I had missed it, but you should try and look at this marvelous collection of microscopy pictures found at the Nikon’s annual Small World photomicrography competition in 2009. They honored 20 images of very high-quality. Not something that everyone of us would be able to do, but a very beautiful display: 35 Years of the…

  • Toby Smith

    In his photographies, Toby Smith creates a world of his own. From my very first contact with his work, I have to admit that I was shaken -altogether- by the perfect mastering of lights that seems to be out of our world and a personal sense of space that is most perceptible in the Estranged…

  • Sigma Photo Pro up to SD15

    Sigma just delivered the updated version of its photo edition software Photo Pro. The major changes are: Compatibility with 64-bit Windows (important for all photographers who moved to 64-bit Seven because of the lifted memory constraints); Compatibility with the new Sigma SD15 D-SLR camera It is immediately available for download: Click here to download the…