Category Archives: Photo Technology

Technical aspects of photography.

Lighting for photographers

Posted on 4-Sep-10 by pvdhamer

A quick note, partly so that I can find this info again: Strobox is a place for all types of photographers to share how they set up that amazing photo! The easiest way to learn is to look at photos … Continue reading →

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Fotopedia

Posted on 29-Aug-10 by pvdhamer

Fotopedia is a photography-centric encyclopedia founded in 2009. It aims to provide a dynamically growing collection of high-quality photos on topics of general interest. Some examples of topics covered by Fotopedia: Barcelona (travel) FC Barcelona (sports, fans) Antoni Gaudí (Barcelona … Continue reading →

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NAS and Lightroom performance

Posted on 8-Aug-10 by pvdhamer

My digital photos are stored on an inexpensive NAS. This CH3SNAS consists of dual 3.5″ SATA drives of, in my case, 1 TByte each. Each drive contains a copy of each photo (RAID 1) for robustness. Lightroom 3 maintains a … Continue reading →

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DxOMark now reviews lenses

Posted on 7-Jul-10 by pvdhamer

DxO Optics Pro DxO‘s products are interesting – especially considering the modest size of the company. Their best known product, DxO Optics Pro,  is a sophisticated raw converter. It automatically corrects lens errors (distortion, vignetting, chromatic aberration) and provides sensor … Continue reading →

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Lightroom 3 review

Posted on 12-Jun-10 by pvdhamer

Adobe released Lightroom 3.0 on June 8th, after eight months of public beta testing. I simply kept using LR 2.7 during the beta testing period as the beta version didn’t allow you to easily import LR 2.x databases, and I … Continue reading →

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