Tag: Travel
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Best Canon SLR lenses for wildlife photo
Canon is assuredly the brand most commonly found in the hands of the wildlife photographers (professionals as well as amateurs). Of course, this is a direct product of the strong presence of Canon on the market for digital SLR photography, but the diversity of the offer from the red brand allowed to build solutions perfectly…
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SLR lenses: Best gear for wildlife photo
Some photography specialties are more demanding than others for the hardware equipment (mostly photo lenses). Animal wildlife photography (African safari, photographic hunting in Asia or bird watching in Europe, for example) is the perfect example: Your subject is nearly always too far. Photo Marc Wunderlich – I’m on the left, along with Alain Saunier, our…
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Kuwait: DSLR authorized again
Now, this is good journalism: Kuwait Times has been following on their previous story about a ban imposed onto Digital SLR cameras in Kuwait. Actually, they published a retraction indicating that this was false information. Less surprising, but kudos to them for standing up to good journalism standards: Always check the source information.
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Kuwait: DSLR prohibited
Surprising decision in Kuwait: The use of a DSLR photo camera has just been prohibited by a coordinated decision of three ministries (Ministry of Information, Ministry of Social Affairs and Ministry of Finance) which determined that the Digital SLR cameras could only be used by professional news people. The prohibition seems not to apply to…
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A gun to protect your photo luggage
photo credit: Tanozzo This is the surprising advice given by Bruce Schneier about how you could protect your photo luggage when traveling: Pack a starter gun in your luggage. This is definitely considered as a weapon by the TSA and other flight authorities (but it is not dangerous and you don’t need a license to…
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Wipe tourists out
This is a very simple web application created by FutureLab AG. Tourist Remover is part of the graphics software suite Online Photo Manager SnapMania. It works quite simply: You take several pictures of the same location or the same monument. There is always one or more ugly tourists on the photo, but they are never…
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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…
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Save a drowned camera or lens
You just dropped your photo camera or a lens in water; What can you do now if it was not weather-sealed or water-tight? The first thing to do is to remove all electrical power source. Electricity does ugly things to metal and electronics. So, start by removing the batteries right now. You may be able…
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More about photo travel
photo credit: garryknight It seems that I was not the only one to be worried about traveling as a photographer. I found this interesting article from Photofocus (Traveling? Better Get a UPS Account). Things keep changing but I noticed three interesting advices or comments: If you are flying from outside the USA to the US,…