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¿Qué accesorios necesitan las cámaras digitales?
La compra de una cámara digital no suele ser el final. Típicamente, será necesario completarla con una serie de accesorios, algunos más necesarios que otros. Este artículo presentará alguna de estas opciones de ampliación del equipo fotográfico... Tarjetas...
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2012 Events (opinion)
Every year is the same. New year, hangover (well, not this year...), ski jump championship, new year's concert... and the CES (http://www.cesweb.org/default.htm) in Las Vegas. I can't stand putting dreamy eyes when I read the news on possible novelty...
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Review of the 35mm slide scanner
Nowadays, many manufacturers offer scanners that are specifically designed for the capture of negative and 35mm slides directly from the film. Are those really worth it? In this article, we will review these such devices. Technology Differences The main...
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Recovering old photographic equipment (Part II)
(this article follows this entry) Finally I received the adapter on the post. It is a cheap part, bought on eBay. I don't have big expectations from it, but at least I hope I will be able to play around for a while during Winter... Surprisingly, the adapter...
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XQD and SD Wifi...
Great! It seems that the market is moving in 2012... If only a few weeks ago we could read about the proposal of a new memory card format from the CompactFlash assiciation, the new XQD, (updated here) which could mean the new mid-term de-facto standard,...
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Logos con GIMP
El programa gratuito de edición fotográfica GIMP ofrece un buen número de herramientas automáticas que pueden ahorrarte mucho tiempo en tus diseños. En este artículo, revisaré la opción de creación automática de rótulos, muy útil, por ejemplo, de cara...
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Fake HDR with GIMP
Since a few years already, a trend in photo edition is the increase of the dynamic range of pictures (HDR - High Dynamic Range). It is the way to use all available sensitivity range of the camera, or even to go some steps ahead by combining several images,...
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Recuperando material fotográfico antiguo… (Parte I)
Llega el invierno, y casi no he visto el otoño. Necesito salir a pasear, hacer fotos, olvidarme del curro por un rato… Mi última propuesta: recuperar mis viejos objetivos de la cámara analógica (Una Praktica MTL-5B) para utilizarlos en la cámara actual,...
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Logos with GIMP
The free photo edition application GIMP provides a wide variety of automated tools that can help you in reducing your timing in your designs. In this post, I will review the automated logotypes creation, quite useful, for example, in case you need to...
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About Wikio and Over-Blog... (opinion)
As many of you already know, I started my blogger "adventure" at Wikio. In fact, I did not consider it a blog, but a series of on-demand technical articles (photography, computing). Well, as it seems, the business model of Wikio did not succeed, and all...
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How to convert a MS Word file to PDF
PDF format has become a de-facto standard in Internet document transfer. The possibility of write/read programmes protects them, together with available viewers for most operating systems, and has made it the best option for documents interchange. This...
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Cómo mejorar una foto oscura
A pesar de que actualmente las cámaras digitales consiguen que casi todas nuestras fotos salgan bien, todavía tenemos algunas ocasiones en las que, por falta de luz o por exceso de la misma, no acaban de gustarnos del todo. Los programas de edición de...
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Falso HDR con GIMP...
Desde hace un par de años, está de moda el proceso de fotografías para ampliar el rango dinámico de la imagen (HDR - High Dynamic Range, rango dinámico elevado, en inglés). Es la forma de aprovechar todo el rango sensible de la cámara, o incluso de ir...
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Analog Fever (opinion)...
Well, after several articles on digital photography and the dawn of traditional or analog one, it seems that sudenly we can see its revival, at least among some groups of youngsters, eager to try "new" things... The posts that I could find in Internet...
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How to use PDF converters
In the market, there are many different applications and utilities referred to as "PDF converters". This article will introduce the types and uses of those conversion tools. "Real" applications Original PDF creation tool from Adobe was a stand-alone application,...
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Free Software for Graphic Design
In many cases, we have faced some roadblock when trying to create our artistic proposals, due to the high price of the required software tools to do so. In this post, I will review some valid proposals that can replace most of the current edition and...
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Tarjetas de memoria XQD - actualización...
En mi último post en español, hablaba de que quería ir al CES de Las Vegas un año de estos... Sony acaba de anunciar que presentará su gama de tarjetas con el nuevo formato XQD, desarrollado por la asociación de Compact Flash. Más velocidad, para trabajar...
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Photography: Chemical process (I)
Since film development is becoming a fashion again, I decided to write some posts on this topic. But I warn you beforehand: this is a quite complex topic, and it can take many (intense) hours from your time... In this first post I will try to describe...
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Photography: chemical process (II): Purchasing list
(continues from here) OK, it is decided. I will develop a new film. Well, it will not be that new, for I fould one lost roll in my fridge, a lapsed ILFORD PLUS FP4 125... With recommended use date of 2009. In theory, chemicals in the film will degrade...
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11,000 (EN)
Today this blog hit the 11,000 visitors, according to the Revolvermap counter. Even when I am not really working any further on it, this is the proof that my contents is still interesting... SO I decided to keep it (I will not delete it), even when I...
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¿Cómo hacer un collage con fotos?
Todos hemos visto algún collage de fotos, ya sea en un póster, una revista... y siempre hemos querido saber ¿Cómo se hacen?. A continuación veremos una explicación del proceso más sencillo para hacer un collage de fotos, lo que nos permitirá componer...
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How to choose an external flash
OK, so you got your DSLR camera, you make wonderful landscapes or city shots... but you still miss something. Your portraits are not "sound". You need an external flash unit. But, which one? First thing you have to decide is what kind of pictures you...
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What is TTL technology in a Flash?
TTL is te acronym for "Through the lens". It refers to any function that performs some calculation based on "real" information received from the image, as it arrives to the sensor. Film cameras could include built-in light metering, which was indicated...
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Photos for sale
I am checking the options provided by Over-blog. One of the most attractive ones (at this moment) is the possibility of directly selling my work - in this case, I'm thinking of my photographies. Inside my random images (you may see them in my blog's landing...
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¿Cómo crear un foro en PHP?
El lenguaje de programación PHP complementa (junto con el sistema de bases de datos SQL) al HTML para la creación de páginas web dinámicas, que pueden ser modificadas por los usuarios registrados. Aunque la creación de un foro genérico requeriría de un...