Tag: fun
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Extreme wildlife telephoto
Telephoto tip: If you add enough converters and extenders, you don’t actually need a fancy lens. The original appeared on https://xkcd.com/1855/ (a web site perfectly suited to geeks, photographers or not).
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I have a 1D
YouTube link
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Color calibration? Really?
Take a minute to have fun with this cartoon from XKCD. Thanks Xtian for the pointer!
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Job interview
Source: Tastefully offensive.
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Without the user manual
As if it was still possible to use our cameras without the user manual… YouTube link Thanks to PetaPixel.
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The real anatomy of the Canon 5D MkII
According to Mads Peitersen, inside the body of a Canon 5D MkII, you should not find a magnesium allow structure, but this is what you should see. Mads Peitersen creates paintings of this kind for several objects from our geek life.
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Give a mini-SLR
This is time for Christmas gifts. Why not a camera for your loved one? And one you always can keep with you. You can buy it from Photojojo complete with a set of lenses, but it’s only a model.
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Stages of a photographer
Found at RobertBenson.com, here is probably the best description of how a photographer evolves in time (from larva to beautiful butterfly, one would say). You may be any location on this evolution chart, but it’s good to recognize that you still have the possibility to move forward to the right of the graph. Stages of…
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How Pentax and Samsung got to partner on photo lenses [Fun]
I got this nice little funny text from Lithos in the Pentax Forums. Please, notice that it may (or may not) be what really happened. Here’s how Samsung gets Schneider Kreuznach to make lenses for ’em: SAMSUNG: “We’re making a play, like every other man and his giant-electronics-corporation dog, for the digital camera market. Unfortunately,…