Photo curiosity

  • YLovePhoto news

    I will not be available during the next fifteen days. The posts published on YLovePhoto will have been prepared in advance, will be reduced in frequency and will not be news as such, during this period of time when I will be chasing Botswana’s wild life with my tele-lens.

  • Mark Twain, 100 years later

    “You cannot depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus” – Mark Twain           Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),[3] well-known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884),…

  • Maxim Mayorov

    There is something against trying to cram too many pixels into a camera When Maxim received his Sony Alpha 200, it was in pretty bad shape. Most people would have merely returned it. Maxim Mayorov, as a true photographer would do, took the opportunity for a studio shot with an unusual model. All the shots…

  • Schneider Kreuznach lenses for Samsung NX

    From Sweden (Feber.se), we learn about the planned new lenses that Schneider Kreuznach will be launching for the recent Samsung NX line of Digital SLR photo cameras. 2010 15mm f/2.3 Super-Angulon 21mm f/2 Super-Angulon 35mm f/1.4 Xenon 55mm f/1.4 Xenon 2011 90mm f/1.8 Tele-Xenar 70mm f/2.8 Claron (Macro)

  • Sony and 35mm video

    You thought that Sony was preparing an SLR photo camera with video recording features? (as previously announced for the successor of the Sony Alpha 700, expected later this year) Here is something else entirely: Sony just presented a video camera (not a photo camera) with a 35mm (or Full Frame) sensor. It will probably knock…

  • Micro-focus using an iPhone

    As a matter of fact, this tool is simply able to control a digital SLR camera. The big button on the side is a knob to set the focus and it is de-multiplied enough to warrant the name of micro-focus. Bu the most surprising or the most noticeable is that if you have an iPhone…

  • Best backups (top 5)

    Once again, LifeHacker offers us an interesting list of tools recommended by its visitors (from the comments found in a previous article). This time, it can also interest a photographer (like our previous advice about photographer’s backups) since this is a list of the 5 best off-line backup tools. SyncBack (Windows, Basic: Free/Pro: $50) Windows…

  • Five D-SLR shoot-out

    Barry Fitzgerald decided to offer us a comparison of five of the entry-level D-SLR. I invite you to read to the conclusion which should please some of the admirers of Pentax. The reviewed cameras are: Sony Alpha A230 Sony Alpha A550 Pentax K-x Canon EOS 1000d/Rebel XS Nikon D3000

  • Chloé Thôme

    Contrary to what other photographers have to offer, Chloé Thôme does not show you anything, but she watches the world and let us see what she saw. Exceptionally, I felt the urge to present two pictures at a time from the same photographer, maybe because they are linked by a same eye. the first was…