Photo curiosity

  • Mountain photography from a small plane

    When you are in a plane of a light plane flying near a mountain range, it is quite tempting to shoot a few landscape photos; But the conditions will stay very difficult for the photographer. There are many traps and the results may loose a lot of quality compared to what you expected. For example,…

  • Download Adobe Lightroom 3 for free

    Actually, Lightroom 3 is in beta phase and you can get a beta version for free until April 30th 2010. It already seems like a very long time and if you wanted to test it or to discover this good photographic software, it may be time for it. But, please, remember that even if this…

  • Another leak: Sony Alpha 750

    When we told you that it was going to happen! Here is LetsGoDigital finding a leaked shadow of a future SLR photo camera from Sony, the Sony Alpha 750 which will most certainly will be the successor to the Sony Alpha 700 awaited for the beginning of next year. But we will have to wait…

  • Several firmware updates

    These last days, plenty of photo camera manufacturers announced updated and corrections to the firmware of their photo cameras. Uncanny… Pentax K-7 : site Pentax UK Canon EOS 7D : Canon web site Canon EOS Rebel XS/1000D : Canon web site And we are told that Canon prépares a big firmware update to bring full…

  • Canon EOS 1D Mk IV, “Nocturne”

    Nocturne by Vincent Laforet – YouTube link A movie from the photographer Vincent Laforet with the all new Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, professional digital SLR camera.

  • Jared Moossy

    Jared Moossy is a documentary photographer. I was stopped by his series about Afghanistan (Jared spent a large part of 2009 in Kabul) because of the dynamics in his pictures. Far from the standardized war witness with its so-usual documentary view, and far from the normative needs of international press, he puts your mind in…

  • Premium repair for Sony

    Sony will soon offer (at the end of October) a Premium service for after-sales and warranty. It will target pros and top-flight amateur photographers. For a period of one, two or three years (at the price of 109, 219 or 329€), the customer will get a warranty extension (directly from Sony Style Georges V or…

  • Nikon D3s

    After the official presentation of the Nikon D3s, here are a couple of nice videos used by Nikon in its international promotion at launch time. Vincent Munier testing the Nikon D3s during a two-week assignment in Finland, in Summer 2009.YouTube link Bill Frakes testing the Nikon D3s all over Australia. – YouTube link

  • The ugliest photo camera

    To follow up on a previous post, here are the ugliest photo cameras I could find (with the very active assistance of The Online Photographer, I have to admit):