Photo curiosity

  • Find the user manual for your SLR camera

    If you are looking for the User Manual of an SLR camera, any SLR camera, things can be difficult. Just remember that you can look at the manufacturer web site but it could be tough since some of them do not show everything for download, or not all in the same download web site. You…

  • New lenses for the Samsung NX-10

    As expected, 2010 will be a great year for lenses to strengthen the range delivered to the Samsung NX-10: Samsung announces no less than 10 glasses for this year. To be released during the first half of 2010: 18-55mm F3.5-5.6, Non OIS To be released during the second half of 2010: 20-50mm F3.5-5.6 20mm F2.8…

  • Sony at PMA 2010

    Finally, Sony told us some about the future of the Alpha line of D-SLR cameras. Unfortunately, it does not mean that we will see new cameras soon. The discontinued Alpha 700 will receive a replacement (who is surprised, really?) and it will come with a wide-angle lens Zeiss Distagon T* 24 mm f/2 ZA SSM…

  • Mr. Pixel and Mrs. Grain

    The nice little story of this couple seeking advice from a counselor: Mr. Pixel and Mrs. Grain. In three parts. YouTube link YouTube link YouTube link A nice story ending for those who love digital photography… Via F/1.0.

  • Transform GIMP into a free Photoshop clone

    GIMP is an excellent image edition software which could (should?) attract all those who do not want to pay the full price of Photoshop, while they work with Apple, Windows or Linux. the differences are real, but the most obvious one is certainly the interface (and Adobe clearly did a nice work on it). So,…

  • RAW for the phones?

    In the recent days, I saw a bit of information reproduced on many different photo-related web sites. Initially, I did not intend to write about it, but I am finally changing my mind to comment not the news, but the way it is reported. The news: OmniVision announced a 1/4″ digital photo sensor with 5…

  • Canon EF Lens Technology

    The video has just been updated (it was removed by the user for some short time). YouTube link

  • Rémi Garcia

    Who said that panoramas can only come from landscape photography? Who said that a panoramic format should be limited to a continuous picture? Rémi Garcia is seeing things differently and his gallery of panorama photos is definitely worth visiting because it is eye-opening to the possibilities available to the photographer merely wishing to fill such…

  • The rule of thirds, soon to be enforced

    In composition, it is often considered that putting objects of interest on the key attention points helps build more powerful images. Daniel Cohen-Or and Lior Wolf at Tel-Aviv University, Israel, with colleagues at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, created a software program that automatically re-organizes photos to make them more powerful, more pleasing. NS link…