By pascaljappy | Opinion
Digital photography essentially replaced the chemical process in film with a discrete electronic process in sensors. That’s digitizing. The same can be said of scanning a negative or slide. File quality might not be the same, but the end result is a series of 0s and 1s, rather than a slice of processed film. Ditto […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
One thing we can learn from the first round of the French presidential election is a complete rejection of traditional parties. The results have been called an anti-system landslide, much like President Trump’s. Let’s not get bogged down by the irony of calling a ENA / IGF / City-poster-child investment banker and a long-timer member […]
Continue readingBy pascaljappy | News , Opinion
Rumours of a Full-Frame NEX camera to come recently triggered jolly flame wars with (uneducated) comments successively denouncing the technical impossibility of the task and, more interestingly, how pointless the whole endeavour is. Now that comes as no surprise. The photo world is dotted with interest niches and, as self-centeredness often overrides intellect, fanboy antics […]
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Facebook’s spectacular acquisition of Instagram recently prompted a discussion between my friend and tech startup expert Roxanne and myself. Roxanne loves Instagram. Not being much of an iPhone person, I had never tested it and the app simply sounded too much like work (my day job is Web marketing). But with the arrival of Instagram […]
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