Photo curiosity

  • Sanho introduces a 640GB photo viewer

    For the last few years, I have been strongly recommending the Sanho disk-based photo viewers and portable memory, to empty your Flash cards into a big portable disk drive. Visibly, they have a very powerful technology which leads to features like: Extremely fast copying from card to hard disk drive Superb autonomy Compatibility with many…

  • CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5

    Corel just announced an update to its graphics design suite CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X5. The new features of this too-often-forgotten competition to Photoshop: A new engine of color management A Built-in Content Organizer: Corel® CONNECT Compatibility with 100+ graphics file formats The price? 716,40€/£399/$489 for a full version and 357,60€/£179/$189 for an upgrade. It can…

  • Pentax K-5 coming?

    According to a PentaxForums user, Pentax would be preparing a “light” version of the Pentax K-7 to be presented later this year. Its name? Pentax K-5. The user appears to have either a good aptitude to forecast or reliable information sources. So, KR tends to give him some good confidence level.

  • New Canon firmware: HD video on EOS 5D MkII

    Today, Canon announced that they will add 24 and 25 fps HD Movie recording to the Canon EOS 5D Mark II photo camera with firmware v2.0.3. It will be available as a free download from the middle of March.

  • Why you need an expensive camera

    Despite all the positive aspects of cheap photo cameras, many a photographer will outgrow its camera possibilities. For good reasons, some day, you will need/want a more powerful photographic power horse, will you not? Cheap cameras are cheaply built. Though the least expensive cameras are quite sturdy, it’s true that they are not as strong…

  • Why you don’t need an expensive camera

    The question is often asked, even more in the context of YLovePhoto and its information about expert photo cameras: “Do I need an expensive camera?” and the answer is most often that the expensive new features are mostly useless. For example, ISO sensitivity is over-rated. Today’s performance levels are so high that, out of specialty…

  • Testing the Alpha 900 in Antartica

    photo credit: Javier Paredes You have to admit that you would like to know if the first Sony SLR camera supposed to be a pro photo camera, the Sony Alpha 900, is really up to the real-life constraints of a pro camera. Some people would really test it: Michael Reichmann from Luminous Landscape, simply took…

  • Ransom Riggs

    I stopped by the web site of Ransom Riggs because of a picture series coming from the Mojave Desert Airplane Graveyard (probably throwback from the engineer in me, who is sensitive both to the esthetism of time degradation and to the complexity of technology even when it is slightly outdated) where I extracted the following…

  • Sigma SD15 coming… slowly

    We heard already about the successor to the Sigma SD14, under the name of Sigma SD15, in 2008. Then, nothing or near to nothing. But here comes Sigma again with a new announcement about this camera. We will have to see if this will bring Sigma back in the light (the company was already considered…