Posts by Author: John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
7Artisans has officially announced its 225° 4mm f/2.8 circular fisheye lens for APS-C and MFT
Oct 4, 2022
John Aldred
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…
ProGrade’s new high-capacity CFexpress Type B “Gold” cards come in 512GB, 1TB and 2TB flavours
Oct 4, 2022
John Aldred
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…
A pair of Sony’s new 640GB CFexpress Type A cards costs more than your Sony FX30 preorder
Sep 30, 2022
John Aldred
Along with the announcement of the new Sony FX30 APS-C cinema camera, Sony has also released two new capacities of their Sony Tough CFexpress Type…
Westcott FJ-X3 flash triggers come in Sony and Universal flavours and have almost 1,000ft range
Sep 29, 2022
John Aldred
Westcott has announced its newest flash trigger, the FJ-X3. There are two version of the trigger, the FJ-X3 M for Nikon, Canon, Sony (with an…
ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate brings new smart AI features and cloud integration
Sep 29, 2022
John Aldred
ACD Systems has announced its new version of ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2023. As is the trend, it sees the addition of new AI-powered features,…
Tamron has announced their new “category-disrupting” 20-40mm f/2.8 Di III VXD full-frame zoom lens
Sep 29, 2022
John Aldred
Tamron has announced their newest lens, the 24-40mm f/2.8 Di III VXD zoom for full-frame Sony E-Mount cameras. The “category-disrupting” description is Tamron’s, by the…
Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements 2023 promise “faster, easier photo and video editing” with AI updates
Sep 29, 2022
John Aldred
Adobe has today announced their newest versions of Photoshop Elements 2023 and Premiere Elements 2023 with a bunch of new features to help make the…
Nikon is trying to invalidate RED’s raw video patent, arguing it shouldn’t have been granted in the first place
Sep 29, 2022
John Aldred
It’s no secret that RED is very protective of its patents, particularly the one covering the internal recording of compressed raw video. They’ve pursued it…
Sony officially announces the new FX30 APS-C cinema camera – basically an FX3 with a Super35 sensor
Sep 28, 2022
John Aldred
It’s only 18 months since Sony released the full-frame Sony FX3, a compact cinema camera based on much of the same tech found in the…
Engineers at MIT have built a wireless underwater camera that doesn’t need batteries
Sep 28, 2022
John Aldred
According to scientific estimates, more than 95% of Earth’s oceans have never been observed. As SciTechDaily points out, this means that we’ve seen less of…