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.
BREAKING: Next week’s IBC Show 2021 in Amsterdam is now cancelled
Nov 23, 2021
John Aldred
In what comes as a complete surprise to absolutely no one, and after having announced only a week ago that the show must go on,…
Sony halts production of 3 popular mirrorless cameras due to the silicon shortage supply chain issues
Nov 23, 2021
John Aldred
Sony has announced that they’re halting production of three of their Alpha series mirrorless cameras due to the global silicon shortage. Fortunately, for one of…
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…
Deal Alert: Amazon kicks off Black Friday early with savings on memory cards, hard drives and SSD storage
Nov 22, 2021
John Aldred
We’re rapidly approaching Black Friday, but as usual, some companies seem to start their sales a little early. Amazon, not content with Prime Day, seems…
Insta360 speeds up ONE R and ONE X2 workflow with faster transfers and better in-camera stabilisation
Nov 22, 2021
John Aldred
Insta360 has announced a big update to the Insta360 ONE R and Insta360 ONE X2 cameras with new firmware that implements their new Quick FlowState…
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…