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OWC releases Copy That for Mac to let you quickly copy, backup and verify your media cards

Other World Computing (OWC), manufacturer of memory and storage-related products has released their new Copy That for Mac software. They describe it as “an intuitive, easy to use backup tool for content creators”. The software lets you quickly and easily ingest your memory cards ready for editing, but will also automatically create backups to multiple sources and verify that they all copied over correctly.

It complies with the industry standard “3-2-1 rule“, which states that there should be at least three copies of the data stored on two different types of media, with one copy kept offsite in some kind of remote storage or cloud system and its verification system ensures that the data is always copied to all of its targets accurately.

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Now you can 3D print your own DIY Spekular-style lighting kit

Spekular, the lighting system released by Spiffy Gear back in 2017 was a particularly unique lighting system at the time. Offering a modular setup with interlinked joints that would let you chain a bunch of them together in order to create all kinds of rings, triangles, stars and even panels. I have a couple of Spekular kits myself and they’ve been fantastic for creating light in situations where more bulky LEDs and softboxes would have been impossible.

Recently, though, while browsing for something on Printables, I found a 3D printed lighting system that looked awfully familiar. It seems that somebody, who goes by the name of cfaulkingham, has designed a system that basically looks like a mini open source Spekular clone that you can 3D print yourself. What makes this one particularly useful, though, is that it runs on only five volts.

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7Artisans has officially announced its 225° 4mm f/2.8 circular fisheye lens for APS-C and MFT

Early last week, 7Artisans teased a couple of new lenses on Chinese social media. Now, one of those lenses has been announced. It was initially assumed that this was going to be a lens designed for drones, due to the DJI Inspire in the background of the teaser photo, but it’s actually designed for use with APS-C (Sony E, Fuji X, Canon EF-M but no Nikon Z, apparently) and Micro Four Thirds cameras.

The new 7Artisans 4mm f/2.8 Fisheye is an APS-C lens that offers a whopping 225° field of view, which means it can pretty much see behind itself. It has an all-metal construction, but given its relatively low weight of 210g, they also say it can be mounted on the DJI Inspire X5 cameras for a “unique perspective” that hasn’t been possible from the air before.

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Monster wave surf image wins Ocean Photographer of the Year 2022

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French Polynesia-based photographer, Ben Thouard, has been announced as the Ocean Photographer of the Year 2022.
Ben’s incredible image is beautifully composed and full of texture and action. It shows a surfer battling against
one of the heaviest waves in the world, Teahupo’o, which translates as ‘place of skulls’. Chosen from thousands of submissions from around the world, it was the unanimous winner.

The Ocean Photographer of the Year has a simple mission: to shine a light on the beauty of the ocean and the
threats it faces. Category winners include images of posing pods of pilot whales, humans exploring the farthest reaches of the ocean, and recovered reefs booming with biomass. Read on to see more of the winning images.

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Skylum launches imgmi, its first-ever mobile editing app

Quite a lot has been going on at Skylum lately. After announcing a set of Luminar Neo extensions, the company has launched imgmi, its very first mobile editing app.

There are many of us who snap photos on our phones daily and want to touch them up a bit before sharing them on social media. In fact, we’ve seen some folks even do entire photo shoots on their phones. Whichever of these situations you find yourself in, Skylum wants to cover it with imgmi.

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Heartbreaking portrait of a woman from Evia wins 2022 Siena International Photo Awards

Last year, Siena International Photo Awards showed us some of the most moving photos we’ve ever seen. The results of the 2022 contest are now out, and as always – they didn’t disappoint.

This year’s overall winner is the photo titled Woman from Evia, shot by Greek photographer Konstantinos Tsakalidis. But other than the overall winner, the contest shares winners and runner-ups across its 11 categories, so there are plenty of stunning photos and videos to admire.

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ProGrade’s new high-capacity CFexpress Type B “Gold” cards come in 512GB, 1TB and 2TB flavours

ProGrade Digital has announced (maybe?) new high-capacity additions to their Gold line CFexpress Type B cards. These include the now somewhat modest 512GB cards, along with larger capacities of 1TB and 2TB. They’re fully compliant with both CFexpress Type B 1.0 and 2.0 specifications and also work with devices that have XQD card slots that have had firmware updates from the manufacturers (like Nikon’s DSLRs).

The new cards offer read speeds of up to 1700MB/sec for quickly offloading your content to your computer or other storage device and write speeds of up to 1500MB/sec – with a guaranteed minimum write speed of 400MB/sec (3.2gbps) for a wide range of video applications including 4K RAW, 4K and 7K ProRes 4444 as well as 4K, 6K and 8K ProRes 422HQ.

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Otherworldly abstract landscape wins 2022 Epson International Pano Awards

Epson International Pano Awards has announced the winners of its 2022 contest. And just like the images they shared back in April to inspire you, the winning images are equally powerful and gorgeous.

This year, the winner is Jinyi He from China with three entries in the Open awards. His image The Vein is the overall winner, followed by two more breathtaking landscapes.

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Astronomers capture tail of asteroid after NASA impact

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Astronomers captured an extraordinary image of the vast plume of dust and debris blasted from the surface of the asteroid struck by NASA’s spacecraft last week. The image shows at least a 10,000-kilometer-long dust trail.

The image was captured by NOIRlab’s SOAR telescope based in Chile. The plume or tail is called the ejecta and is similar to those seen trailing a comet. It was captured two days after NASA’s DART experiment where they deliberately crashed an unmanned spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos to see if they could successfully alter its course.

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The future of photography and the definitive answer to pineapple on pizza: Manfrotto tells all

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The world is officially divided into two types of people: those who like pineapple on pizza, and those who are vehemently against it. Like the Valencians who sent death threats to the chef Jamie Oliver for putting chorizo in his paella, surely an Italian brand like Manfrotto would not support pineapple on pizza? In the interests of culinary world peace, DIYP spoke to Manfrotto’s parent company Videndum Media Solutions to find out, along with other more photography-related things.

You may not be familiar with the name Videndum, but for sure you know the brands Manfrotto, Lowepro, Joby, Gitzo and Savage Paper. Videndum Media Solutions is the name behind all of these ‘household’ photography names, and more. In fact, you could completely kit out a photography or video studio using products that are only produced by the Videndum umbrella. That is actually the company’s over-arching philosophy, explains Videndum’s Chief Marketing Officer Chris Carr. He tells DIYP about how Videndum has positioned itself to help content creators at every step along the journey.

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