Johan W. Elzenga
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Nothing beats optical zoom

By Johan W. Elzenga On 29/02/2012

Nokia has introduced a very interesting new phone, the Nokia 808 PureView, with a camera sensor with a whopping 41 Mpixel. Those pixels are not used to create a ridiculously large 41 Mpixel photo, but are combined (‘pixel binning’) to create better image quality. They are also used to enable a new kind of digital [...]

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Quick Tip: Moving text in Photoshop

By Johan W. Elzenga On 26/02/2012

If you are typing text in Photoshop, and you want to move it because it’s not in the correct position, do not leave the text tool and go to the Move tool. Instead, just move your cursor a bit away from the text, until it changes into an arrow. Now you can move the text [...]

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Remnants of winter

By Johan W. Elzenga On 21/02/2012

Winter is coming to an end and the last remnants can be quite spectacular. The IJsselmeer froze two weeks ago, and the ice is now breaking up again. The predominantly western winds push the ice onto the eastern shore of the lake. Stacks of ice are up to five meters high in some places. These [...]

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Why zebras are striped

By Johan W. Elzenga On 09/02/2012

More than 20 years ago, I wrote an article about the theories why zebras are striped and came to the conclusion that the theory that says that the tsetse fly has something to do with it seems to be the most promising. It’s interesting to see that scientists now [...]

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Pentax K-01

By Johan W. Elzenga On 02/02/2012

Pentax continues to surprise, this time with the announcement of the K-01 (pronounced ‘Kay-zero-one’). The K-01 is a compact system camera* with 16 Mpixel sensor, so that is not the big surprise. The surprise is that Pentax did not design a new and smaller lens mount, and did not decrease the lens-to-sensor distance compared to [...]

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