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…
Instagram, hipstamatic, flickr, lightbox and much more... Some are more hype or cooler than other but at the end of the day, they may, can or will do the same job: 1. Shoot with your smartphone, 2. Apply a digital filter (with a 70's look), 3. Share it in a way or another. But frankly, it would be very primitive to…
I don't say it is not cool but I am not a great fan of Instagram (I would prefer from far a social service like Path). I don't like its photos style - or rather that it obliges you to have Instagram's style. Apart from the fact is well done and famous, I don't see any rocket-science here. That said, the…
There is a common belief: smartphones will replace cameras and new photosharing websites are making the others obsolete. Since a few month, thanks to a skyrocketting growth, Instagram is the new kid on the block. I cannot disagree about some new trends and I will not say that photosharing is somewhere broken and must be fixed. But I don't think things…
I have listed already quite a few photo sharing websites, actually from far too many, and it looks clear to me some real breakthrough are very much welcomed. So whereas there are too many players, a start-up could be successful. Picture life is another hype start-up, like so many in 2012 as soon as they are dealing with something "social". But…
I have been surprised to see so few wifi-based cameras and, more important, no Android camera or, no real camera provided by Apple. I mean, basically, every smartphone is embedding a camera, but not good enough, and "real" cameras are still working in a so old fashion way when it comes to publishing. That's exactly the reason why smartphones are the…
I am comparing a DSLR and a compact, both modern and famous for their excellent quality images (Nikon D7000, Canon S100), in order to evaluate when we really need to get one or the other, or both together. Sometimes, I am also comparing the pictures with those taken by a smartphone (Samsung Galaxy SII). I am also doing this as I…
We, photographers, don't care about profits and shareholders objectives. We want better cameras. We do understand that is make sense for a company to improve its financial results. But too often, the self-proclaimed leaders can become somewhat arrogant and are forgetting the "golden rule": make good products for your clients, and they are no cash cows. The objective is not, at…
So I am continuing my genuine tests between the best pockable compact (Canon S100) and a good DX DSLR (Nikon D7000). Basically, the idea is to understand much better when to use the tiny camera and when the big guy is really demanded: During the last two episodes, here and here, I have been quite naughty with the great D7000. But…
In the episode 1, I have been surprised to have excellent pictures from a compact camera (Canon S100) compare with an excellent DSLR (Nikon D7000). Of course, I did not push them to their limits, that was not the point. I just wanted to check how a light and small high-end compact could replace efficiently a DSLR either as a second…