Category: Use your D-SLR
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Digital Artifacts – removing digital noise the easy way
The Luminous Landscape is a great web site with a lot of information on digital photography, excellent photos and nice reviews of related hardware and software. I singled out a nice little article about what they call “the colour gremlins” (More commonly, this is known as digital sensor noise). What is interesting is that they…
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Only f/5.6 for auto-focus
People keep asking a simple question: “why do my expensive camera fail to auto-focus when I plug my tele-lens into a 2x converter?”. Unfortunately, the answer is pretty simple. Most auto-focus cameras (digital or not) have a AF sensor limited to f/5.6 detection. If your lens is not opening more than that, the AF is…
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RawDrop – optimal configuration for nice photos
It’s bit quite a bit of time that I repeat I use RawDrop as my prefered tool to convert RAW images produced by my Dynax 7D into TIF files. But some wondered what configuration I use. There are not a zillion options in RawDrop, but to obtain a clean result, it’s easier not to fool…
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Color and wind
A few images I shot last weekend while the sun was shining in the French Vexin (near Paris). Green hair Before the flight Colors
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Still some back-focus problems on the Dynax/Maxxum 7D?
Some people had encountered focusing problems (usually back focus) at the launch of the Dynax/Maxxum 7D. But it seems that this is not finished as I just received an email from somebody suffering from it on a brand new digital camera.
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Photograph of the week
There are many web sites showing a photograph per week, but I usually do not find a single reason to come back the following week. In general, the quality level is rather poor, when it is not frankly low. But this time, I found a shiny gold nugget (Photo.net). The photograph of the week is…
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NikonCafe.com, a forum for the Nikon lovers
If you own a digital photo camera from the Nikon brand, you will certianly be interested in finding the forums of NiconCafe.com. All subjects are freely discussed (hardware gear is currently more about Nikon D200 and other digital single lens reflex cameras or lenses that would be attached to them than about compact digital cameras…
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All the secrets of digital photo storage
Maybe not all the secrets, but a good number of ideas to keep in mind about the storage and archival of data that is pouring out of our digital cameras. Here is what is proposed by the article “Storing Your Digital Images” (by Vincent Bockaert) seen on dpreview.com. All you have to keep in mind…
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Dimage viewer crashing: one possible explanation
Long ago, I have abandonned Dimage Viewer, the free image viewer coming with the Maxxum/Dynax 5D and 7D. At first, I thought that it was not really compatible with my old Windows 98 configuration. It kept crashing unexplicably and I was really fed up with the thing. As it was mostly uninteresting, I switched to…