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.
The Dronut is a weird cylindrical drone that looks like it should be firing lasers at Jedi in training
Nov 23, 2021
John Aldred
Drones have become such commonplace things these days that almost all of us either own one or know somebody who does. Most of them have…
NVIDIA’s GauGAN AI landscape generator can now create scenes from scratch from written descriptions
Nov 22, 2021
John Aldred
NVIDIA has been doing a lot of cool stuff with AI. One of those things is GauGAN AI, something of a predecessor to NVIDIA’s Canvas…
K|Lens One, the world’s first light field imaging lens, is finally being released next week
Nov 22, 2021
John Aldred
The whole “light field” thing caused a bit of a buzz a few years back when Lytro started announcing light field cameras. They looked like…
It took 20 hours to cut this SMC Takumar 50mm f/1.4 lens in half and it’s a thing of sheer beauty
Nov 21, 2021
John Aldred
Some might look at these images from photographer and lens enthusiast Hispan, and call him a monster, but I look at them and just see…
The Dragonfly Telephoto Array is expanding to have 168 Canon 400mm f/2.8L IS USM II lenses pointed at the sky
Nov 21, 2021
John Aldred
Project Dragonfly, designed by a team from Yale University and the University of Toronto in 2013 is an attempt to capture the darkest parts of…
How to set up your lights and balance colour tones to get that orange and teal look in-camera
Nov 20, 2021
John Aldred
The blue and orange look (also often referred to as “Orange and Teal”) has been popular in cinema for a long time, but massively so…
Feiyutech launches two new gimbals – the Feiyu Scorp and the modular Feiyu Scorp Pro
Nov 19, 2021
John Aldred
Feiyutech has announced two new motorised 3-axis gimbals. These are the Scorp and the Scorp Pro. Unlike many other gimbals, though, the “Pro” model isn’t…
Canon is adding vehicle-tracking AF to the EOS R5 and R6 but it comes with a catch
Nov 19, 2021
John Aldred
One of the great new features of the Canon EOS R3 (and the Nikon Z9, while we’re talking about it) was the addition of vehicle…
If you’re using an old perpetual license version of Lightroom 5, back up your installation file
Nov 18, 2021
John Aldred
A recent post on Reddit has highlighted a potential issue for users of Adobe’s perpetual license version of Lightroom 5. Basically, if you bought the…
Fujifilm’s new Instax Mini Evo Hybrid instant camera comes with 10 lens and 10 film effects
Nov 17, 2021
John Aldred
Fujifilm has announced its new hybrid camera, the Instax Mini Evo. It combines the “I WANT IT NOW!” factor of instant prints with some of…