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.
TTArtisan releases a compact new full-frame 50mm f/2 lens for Nikon Z, Sony E, Fuji X and MFT
Jul 15, 2022
John Aldred
TTArtisan has today announced their newest lens, a very compact full-frame 50mm f/2 manual focus lens. It’s initially being launched in Nikon Z, Sony E,…
Nikon Z9 is the first Z camera to get DSLR-like focus speeds with adapted F mount AF-S lenses
Jul 15, 2022
John Aldred
When Nikon started shifting over from the screw-drive autofocus system of their regular F mount AF lenses to their AF-S system they started adding autofocus…
This is the first sample photo from the Moto Edge 30 Ultra 200-megapixel smartphone camera
Jul 14, 2022
John Aldred
There’s been a lot of hype about Samsung’s ridiculously high-resolution ISOCELL sensors, particularly their most recent 200-megapixel ISOCELL HP1 and ISOCELL HP3 sensors. While there…
Sony FX3 V2.00 update adds LOG shooting modes, LUT imports and Timecode sync
Jul 14, 2022
John Aldred
Sony has released a new Version 2.00 firmware update for the Sony FX3 mirrorless cinema camera. The new update adds some of Sony’s professional cinema…
The Canon PowerShot PICK PTZ camera finally gets released in the USA
Jul 13, 2022
John Aldred
Canon has finally announced the Canon PowerShot PICK PTZ camera in the USA. This is Canon’s little AI-powered camera that was initially shown off as…
Nikon reported to be abandoning DSLRS – But are they?
Jul 13, 2022
John Aldred
There’s a lot of talk at the moment about Nikon leaving the DSLR market after a report was published on Nikkei Asia. Nikkei says that…
Nikon is increasing prices in the USA by 3-6% from August 1st
Jul 12, 2022
John Aldred
Price increases seem to have become standard across the board from everybody lately, with companies still trying to recover from global silicon shortages as well…
Canon officially announces new RF 24mm f/1.8 Macro and 15-30mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM lenses
Jul 12, 2022
John Aldred
Well, that didn’t take long. First rumoured over a year ago and with news yesterday that announcements were imminent, Canon has now today officially unveiled…
It’s Amazon Prime Day 2022 – These are the best photo and video deals
Jul 12, 2022
John Aldred
It’s Amazon’s annual Prime Day event again and we’ve been searching around the web for the best deals we can find for photographers and filmmakers….
This Basics Guide is everything you need to know to get started with light painting
Jul 11, 2022
John Aldred
Light painting has increased massively in popularity over the last few years. It’s not really surprising. Gone are the days of film where you had…