For those of you who have not heard his name, Dr. Alan Rabinowitz is the Director of Science and Exploration for the Wildlife Conservation Society . It’s a Bronx Zoo based wildlife nurturing and ecological preservation agency that does world wide researches and undertakes preservation and conservation initiatives. I recently saw one of the documentaries [...]
Ranjay Mitra • 06/01/07 •
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Upholding their banner of “trustworthiness and creativity“, Nikon is going to celebrate it’s 90th anniversary in July 2007. Founded in 1917 as Nippon Kōgaku; the company was renamed Nikon Corporation, after its cameras, in 1988. Nikon is one of the Mitsubishi companies. Celebrating this occasion, the President Michio Kariya laid a clean vision for the [...]
Ranjay Mitra • 05/24/07 •
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Note: We are now integrated with photoduniya.com and have moved to a new location. Please update your bookmark. Click here to go to the new location http://www.photoduniya.com/photography-blog/ . When digital technology and advances made in digital sensors have created excellent cameras, it has constantly challenged the ability to store digital files – be it [...]
Ranjay Mitra • 04/19/07 •
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Launched recently, the camera that will intrigue all digital users is the 160 mega pixels 6×17 panoramic model from Seitz Phototechnik, AG. The image size of 7,500 x 21,250 pixels (60mm x 170mm), with a total resolution of a whopping 160 MP produces RAW (16-bit) image of 307 MB & uncompressed TIFF file (48-bit) of [...]
Ranjay Mitra • 03/18/07 •
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I posted this article on my website a few weeks back and I am posting it here to raise some more awareness to save the Metalmark Butterflies: Also called the Lange’s Metalmark after late William H Lange Jr., the UC Berkeley entomologist and UC Davis professor, who first identified this butterly in 1930, this grey [...]