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 Insta360 Sphere is an invisible 360° camera for drones that lets you create FPV-style footage in post
May 24, 2022
John Aldred
Mounting 360° cameras to drones has been a thing for a while now, but the one big issue with it is that there’s really nowhere…
Canon finally makes APS-C RF mount official with the new EOS R7 and EOS R10 mirrorless cameras
May 24, 2022
John Aldred
In the words of the late, great Freddie Mercury… “It finally happened, happened, happened… It fiiiiinally happened!”. Yup, Canon has now officially gone APS-C with…
Motorola is launching a smartphone with a 200-megapixel camera in just two months
May 23, 2022
John Aldred
Motorola is set to release a new smartphone in July. And if the fact that Motorola is still releasing smartphones at all wasn’t surprising enough,…
A group of baby foxes found recording GoPro and decided to have a play with it
May 23, 2022
John Aldred
There’s not much cuter than baby animals and especially inquisitive baby animals. Viktor Čech placed his GoPro Hero 9 Black down on the ground in…
Why don’t all cameras have fully articulating flippy out LCDs?
May 23, 2022
John Aldred
This is an interesting little rant from James Popsys on camera LCDs. Essentially, his question is why don’t all cameras have a fully articulating flippy…
These are the seven rules (guidelines) to cinematic framing and composition
May 22, 2022
John Aldred
Composition is always such a hotly debated topic. There are so many “rules” (and sometimes a few that conflict with each other), but unless you…
The world’s first camera that could shoot MPEG-4 back in 1999 was basically a vlogging camera
May 22, 2022
John Aldred
When you pick any random point in history, if you could go back and talk to the people of the day, they’d feel that they…
Shooting everything in manual exposure mode isn’t the badge of honour you think it is
May 22, 2022
John Aldred
Shooting in one manual mode is one of those “You’re not a real photographer if you don’t…” kinds of things. It has been for years…
Tokina goes wide aperture with its new SZ 33mm f/1.2 APS-C lens for Fuji X and Sony E mount
May 20, 2022
John Aldred
Tokina has announced the new Tokina SZ 33mm f/1.2 lens for Fujifilm X and Sony E mount APS-C cameras. The manual focus offers a field…
Deity expands out of microphones with their new timecode generators and smart slate
May 19, 2022
John Aldred
Deity Microphones has expanded its product lineup with a couple of interesting new devices. There’s the Deity TC-SL1 digital wireless smart slate and there’s the…