Category: Use your D-SLR
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Nikon wants to help photographers on Flickr
How to meet the amateur photographers? Nowadays, you must go to the Internet. Even better, Nikon decided that the right place was were most amateurs were naturally going: Flickr. Nikon decided to venture into direct information inside Flickr ; They opened a kind of photo club on the web site: This is a quite good…
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One Tera-byte of RAID data storage in a box
RAID storage is a good way to ensure a good security for your data: Two or more discs are used to give some redundancy and be sure that in case of a single drive failure you can still access your files (it will not protect you against deleting the files, though). However, the problem is…
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Universal Flash Storage (UFS): Great idea or 20th Flash format?
A few days ago, it has been released publicly that a new Flash memory card format is arriving. I can see the John “Consumer” Doe thrilled in anticipation of yet another new card format: UFS. I can imagine that it will solve all existing issues with dozens of previously existing -and incompatible- memory cards. This…
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Protect the front lens of your super-tele-lens
A super-tele-lens is a high-end beautiful piece of glass. Consequently, this is both expensive and fragile. LensCoat offers protection hoodies for the front lens of your super-tele from $13 to $25. To visit.
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Pentaxians go to Pentaxian.com
The Pentaxian.com web site just opened and welcomes the Pentax-lovers in a community-based environment.
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No digital noise photography
Guillermo Luijk has a very interesting technique to remove completely all noise from digital photos. We know that this is a difficult task, but his solution is defenitely worth trying. It is relatively simple. The steps are: Shot the scene in a correct exposure according to our usual workflow Repeat the shot now reducing shutter…
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Nikon cannot count
At the launch of the Nikon D300 camera, we learned that it would have an LCD screen of 900,000+ pixels. This seems quite impressive, however, it is a bit misleading. Once again a company decided to count dots on the screen instead of pixels. So, this screen is only a VGA (307,000 pixel LCD). If…
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Supertelephoto at Nikon
The recent launch of the Nikon D300 and Nikon D3 was made long with the announcement of new pro telephoto lenses. Very noticeable for lovers of nature photography (with a deep pocket): the super telephoto lenses. They open at f/2.8 and f/4, they are all stabiliszed (VR) : 400mm f/2.8G ED VR AF-S NIKKOR 500mm…
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Spirals
A few images collected all around the place to celebrate this nice form. by davesag by gadl by Martin Sweeney by whatdavesees by gardawind by s e u s s by Pascal by blue fam by optik by roddh by NeverB4Breakfast by purefinder by tom Q by 0olong by [ Petri ] by fdecomite Collected…