Category: Tech

  • 90+ online photography tools and resources

    Mashable published a list of Internet resources particularyl useful to photographers. The list is organised aroudn the following categories: Online photo Editors – Editeurs de photo en ligne Photo sharing – Partage de photographies Free photo hosting – Hébergement gratuit de photographies en ligne Photography blogs – Blogs photographiques Mashups – Combinaisons Mobile Photo mixing…

  • Canon 40D, Nikon D300, this is heating up thanks to Olympus E-P1

    Canon 40D, Nikon D300, this is heating up thanks to Olympus E-P1

    On the frontline of new cameras for the digital SLR market, the Internet forums are agitated -again- with rumours and news quite surprising. There was the publication of alleged photos of the Canon EOS 40D on a Korean web site (see below). The work of the graphic artist is quite sloppy (the 4 of the…

  • The Ten Most Common Photographic Mistakes

    André Gunther has a very nice article titled “The Ten Most Common Photographic Mistakes” that is a good starting point for novice photographers self-improvement (it is quite common that the best way to become better is to learn what are the errors you’d want to avoid, listening to others).

  • Paper plane flight simulator

    Paper plane flight simulator

    It is clear that Flight Simulator, Microsoft’s PC video game, has become more and more complex and less and less playable with years. What should have been a simple neat little game using efficiently the PC ressources requires today a powerful PC (sometimes more powerful than what is needed for games of a complexity that…

  • The Windows upgrade

    The Windows upgrade

    An upgrade maybe painful: Vista as a fakir chair. Source: Ctrl-Alt-Del.

  • Creepy: How police interrogation works

    Here is a paper about how police interrogation really works. Far from CSI and other TV series stereotypes, but rather creepy. As they say, no surprise that some innocent people claim terrible crimes. Via GeekPress.

  • How to disassemble your Minolta 50mm/1.7 lens

    The 50mm f/1.7 lens from Minolta has the bad reputation of sometimes seeing its diaphragm iris locking itslef open (along with the excellent opticla quality of the glass – even better than for the bigger brother the 50mm f/1.4). Knowing that the repair services are expensive and remembering Minolta’s demise, here comes Internet and one…

  • Roumazeilles.net in your email

    To all the readers that are interested in keeping in touch with us without even the effort to visit us every day, there are two options that you should keep in mind: Using the RSS feed for the web site. You need to have an RSS reader (one is included in recent versions of Safari,…

  • Rent your lenses

    PopPhoto has a nice short article about renting your lenses in the US.