Yes I know, it is no more "Picasa", nowadays man must write "Google+ photos".Yes, but it is still "Picasa" as you need to download it first. Thank you Google, I love you, but your engineering inconsistency is typical of the geeks I know so well! So I will try to clarify the mess due to a somewhat clumsy if not incomplete…
Two critical shifts The two main shifts of this industry look to me so clear I have no doubt the DSLR market will evolve significantly soon, and actually may have already started to: smartphones & mobile device are making many point & shoot cameras obsolete, if not many entry level DSLR. Not because they can challenge them in terms of image…
Whereas its photo services have improved dramatically for the last months, despite a 1 billion dollars acquisition, you should not believe, even a second, than Facebook is the photographer friend. Actually, I like their honesty: they don't want to be cool, they want to become a utility. They don't like photography, they like you spending your life on their website. Users…
You want to follow the herd, you need - with some excellent reasons - a mirrorless. Well, actually there are so many options, I felt it was important to over simplify the landscape just to explain it with simple words. I don't claim having right, I am just giving my basic opinion about main mirrorless cameras. So let's start the show:…
When you want to store and share your pictures, well you really have many options. But social projects are hype if not in a bubble state. I like to review the existing, old or new photo sharing websites. So I had a look at Snap My Life. I jumped quickly to their "10 reasons to love them", and created a profile.…
I am a big fan of open source and of photo sharing. Both together can bring something quite unique on the table but you should ask yourself whether every open source projects works really or not as an open source initiative - useless to write as a useful project by itself. Most of the time, however one should carefully understand the…
I have bought the Canon S100 as a second camera (a Nikon DSLR is my main camera) and I like the idea to protect it to depths of up to 40m with the optional WP-DC43 waterproof case. Indeed, whereas you can find a lot of underwater point-and-shoot cameras, none so far can shoot raw, and their sensors, even for the best…
Photo sharing is hype, we know it. Open source is cool. So a match between both should be fantastic. Open Photo would like to be this great player, able to put together some freedom to what has been so far a proprietary thing. I like very much the idea to split where you are storing your pictures from the presentation itself,…
I know the stuff has not been released recently (released around 2009) but when I was interested in purchasing one, it has been quite challenging to make a decent opinion about it. So let's make a summarize: To make a long story short: it works pretty well for a x2 teleconverter but it is a x2 teleconverter which means: you can…
For the last months, many bloggers and journalists have noticed the raise of 500px, instagram, and other photo sharing websites whereas the old and fading lady of this kind, Flickr, was just doing... nothing. Some were saying, more in a provocative way, that Flickr is dead. First, one should understand why: that's easy, Yahoo! has been into a major restructuring for…