Ilford is surfing on the retro wave in photography and the serious rebound of film photography as well as black and white photography and launched two analog single use cameras dedicated to black and white. The first one is loaded with a ISO 400 XP2 film that can be processed with basic color C41 chemicals [...]
Wish Santa would bring you a Samsung Galaxy Camera 21x 16MP compact camera with 3G and a smartphone like user interface ? Thought it was too expensive for Santa ? Initially launched in Europe at €549, you were damn right ! But at Samsung’s, they have marketers, product managers and they all want this new [...]
The time lapse of the month is undoubtedly this video of Endeavor’s parade through the city of Los Angeles to celebrate its retirement. In LA, you have a lot of fun things to do, but undoubtedly, THE ultimate attraction these past few weeks, was the venue of the Space Shuttle in Los Angeles. After 25 [...]
Decades after decades the National Geographic magazine has been helping photographers and photography as it was making its world wide audience discovering the world with talented landscape / travel photographers. Today has announced a huge auction sales where it will sell its photographies and other art material fund. The Auction will tale place on 2012 [...]
For the cover of Vanity Fair, Annie Leibovitz offers a glamourous and sexy Daniel craig, 007 agent for the release of Skyfall, the 23th opus of the famous british special agent. In th evideo below you will have a quick look at the photoshoot backstages. The brilliant Annie Leibovitz, who is a recurent photographer for [...]
During the Photokina 2012, Canon announced its new cloud photo service called Project 1709. Nobody really noticed this announcement as Canon had some pretty exciting new cameras as well : the EOS 6D GPS and Wi-Fi compact full frame DSLR, the Powershot G15 with its promising fast lens and S110 with BSI CMOS sensors, or [...]
I have received my Apple MacBook Pro 15″ Retina with 512MB of SSD storage space, 16GB of RAM on Saturday. One could think I did unbox it and start installing my software, transfering my TimeMachine backup and so on right away ! But… no. It has been 4 days now that my new laptop, gorgeous [...]
The Nikon 1 V2 finally brings a new sensor technology in its Nikon CX mount mirrorless camera range with the integration of a new 1″ sensor offering a definition of 14.2 megapixels and that can reach ISO 6400, high defintion 60 fps stills burst shooting with focusing locked or 15 fps with AF-tracking on. Nikon [...]
For the movie Marvel’s The Avengers, the producers have used two Canon EOS DSLR bodies : the EOS 5D Mark II and EOS 7D, which were used for action and stunts scenes. At the time the movie was taped, the EOS 5D Mark III was at the stage of a simple rumor on the net [...]
Ahead of the full review of Sony’s Cyber-shot compact cameras range flagship, AKA the HX20V, 20x zoom lens, 18MP BSI CMOS sensor, 1080p 60p video recording, 10 fps burst rate, GPS… here is a gallery of images shot with the hX20V at various ISO settings. I went on exploring the HDR and bokeh mode of [...]
Just had a phone call from Sony PR this morning. Both HX20 and HX200 are sent to me today. I’ll post the HX20 and HX200 reviews at the same time and will make some images available through my Flickr Page. I have uploaded the Fuji X-Pro1 review sample images as well. You can see them [...]
Here i is ! The Canon EOS 5D mark III most expected DSLR of 2012 (almost a tie with the Nikon D800) is now official. See my presentatin of the 5D Mark III in the article entitled “Meet the Canon EOS 5D Mark III”. I will publish a brief hands-on preview of the EOS 5D [...]
I had the opportunity to get a Panasonic GX1 for one week. As I flew to Las vegas for the CES 2012, I seized the opportunity to spend 2 days in Valley Of Fire and Red Rock Canyon National Parks to test the latest Panasonic Lumix mirrorless camera. To save you time, here are the [...]
In this lens review, I went through a lot of lenses solutions in Canon EF and EF-S mount for Canon DSLRs. I had one and only one constraint while working on this lens for Canon DSLR shopping guide : finding the best zoom lens answering your needs while remaining on a budget. Here are the [...]
Here it finally is ! Let me introduce you to the Nikon D800, a DSLR I ordered yesterday to Thomas, product manager at Nikon France. A lot of rumors had been spinning around for months now as the D800 was to be announced last year… but that was before the floods in Thailand. So now, [...]
Here you go Pentax, you finally announce your mirrorless camera. And for a good surprise, I must say, I am stunned. I got th einformation 3 days ago by email. Barely checked some images of the Pentax K-01, which I found neat and vintage. The follwoing day, received an email with more specs… APS-C sensor…. [...]
Fujifilm France marketing manager told me they had sold almost 100,000 pieces of the X100 in 2011. That is quite a success. They had a lot of requests to get a black version of the premium camera and guess what, Fujifilm today comes with the realization of their which, and with manner : Fujifilm is [...]
Non, not only Leica Camera is building a new factory, a gigantic 27,000 square meters wide covered area building located less than 4 miles away from the current Leica location in Solms. (Leica goes back to Wetzlar, where it all began with Leitz Camera)…. No, the manufacturer of the $7,500 body only full frame rangefinder [...]
After Japan’s Earthquake / Tsunami of last spring, Nikon production is seriously disturbed again by unwelcome water in their production facility. This time, it takes place in Thailand, where Nikon’s Ayutthaya factory is now totally flooded because of last weeks crazy weather. Production has stopped since October 6th and we haven’t had any forecast as [...]
