Photo curiosity

  • LeicaShots

    LeicaShots is a new web site sponsored by Leica and showcasing one Leica photographer every day. If you love our portfolios, I’m sure that you will spend a lot of time at LeicaShots, too.

  • A White Paper for the Canon 1D Mark IV

    If you want to know everything about the technology included in the Canon 1D Mark IV, you can now download the White Paper published by Canon about this pro photo camera whose possibilities are clearly astonishing (as much as the price, by the way; But, who’s to prohibit dreaming a little?). Canon White Paper for…

  • Modify the EXIF dates of your pictures

    The EXIF data hold a lot of useful technical information about your photos. One of these is the date and hour of the snapshot. This is quite pleasant, useful and nice up to the moment when your camera internal clock fails or starts lagging. Or when you need very precise synchronization with another device (like…

  • How lenses are made?

    If you don’t know, you may be interested in this video from Canon. YouTube link

  • Several SLR firmware updates

    We may have to group them since the firmware updates sometimes happen nearly at the same time. The latest ones are: Sony Alpha series (A380, A330 & A230): Mac, Windows (Sony Europe) Canon EOS 7D v1.1.0 (to correct an issue where a previous image may partly superimpose itself on the next, in continuous shooting): Instructions…

  • Camera Raw 5.6 is here

    Ready to celebrate the arrival of 2009 Beaujolais Nouveau, a new version of the RAW conversion utility from Adobe is here: Camera Raw 5.6. It supports a whole lot of recent cameras: Canon EOS 7D Canon PowerShot G11 Canon PowerShot S90 Leaf Aptus II 5 Mamiya DM22, DM28, DM33, DM56, M18, M22, M31 Nikon D3s…

  • Bibble 5 Pro version 3

    For those of you who appreciate to be able to massage their photos from RAW format files, the excellent RAW conversion utility software, Bibble 5 Pro, goes to version 3, for now as a public preview (so, not officially supported but very near to the final version) bringing us: Support for 50 new photo cameras…

  • Montier-en-Der 2009 Festival

    Do not forget the next Wildlife Festival in Montier-en-Der, from November 19 to 22, 2009. http://www.festiphoto-montier.org/

  • Phil Bebbington

    Phil Bebbington is a photographer I like because of his mastering of light and his way to render materials. What is specially pleasant is the way he finds a ghost of Man in Nature, like the remnants of Man’s activity in this Missouri field. http://philbebbington.com http://terrorkitten.com/iblog http://www.flickr.com/photos/terrorkitten/