It is all over the web Microsoft offered 44.6 Billions US dollars to buy Yahoo on Friday!
44.6 Billions US dollars and who is concerned the most? Flickr users!
Yes, It seems that Flickr fans are not happy at all about the news at all and they gather showing their malcontent and frustration doing what they know how to do best, UPLOADING IMAGES!
The just newly created group MICROSOFT: KEEP YOUR EVlL GRUBBY HANDS OFF OF OUR FLICKR already count 951 members 128 photos and 33 posts !
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Although this is fresh news it is already wide spread ! Canon just announced a few hours a go the EOS 400D (or xti) replacement the Canon EOS 450D (or xsi) at a body only price of $800.
Its main new features are
- 12.2MP CMOS DIGIC III sensor: I wonder what a 12.2MP on a APS-C sensor, aren’t we pushing the technology a little to far?
- Auto Lighting Optimizer
- EOS Integrated Cleaning System: Nothing new here
- 3.0” LCD with Live View shooting: Expected
- SD/SDHC cards storage : What about those who previously invested in CF cards ?
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How does it feel putting those two in the same title hein 
No calm down there is no merge today just a “common” post to update you about what is new in each …
Flickr Stats released
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Less than 12 months after its complete web 2.0 relaunch, SmugMug raises, once again, the bar for the competition by releasing a new set of features.
They call it “SmugMungous”
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flickr and the famous online image editing website picnik teamed up to provide flickr users a seamless photo editing experience from within flickr website.
No need to switch websites anymore, here is how it looks like
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By announcing today its fisheye 4.5mm F2.8, the world first 180 degree circular fisheye lens designed specifically for APS-C size digital SLR cameras, Sigma dethrones Nikon beating its Nikkor 6mm F2.8 (former world’s widest lens) by just 2 mm.
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A 16 BILLION pixels stitched panorama of Da Vinci’s famous “Last Supper” painting is now available to be viewed and enjoyed online.
16 billions pixels that’s about 1,600 times stronger than an image taken with the 10 million pixel digital camera can you imagine that?
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I own a MacBook laptop running Mac OS 10.4 and Microsoft Windows vista as dual boot using BootCamp. I have just noticed that my only option to go on using both Operating Systems is to upgrade to MAC OS 10.5 aka Leopard. Why ?
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In short Computational Photography seems to be the new Abode dream that will allow us, photographers, to “re-”focus any image instantly in the digital darkroom.
This process requires a combination of special lens and computer software
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What is a Diana ?? only one interested in photography history should know about it… naturally since it has been out of production for 35 years….
In brief the Diana is a Chinese film point and shoot plastic camera as “bad as it gets”
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