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.
Canon EOS R5 teardown shows great weather sealing but few escape routes for heat
Sep 9, 2020
John Aldred
Well, Kolari Vision might’ve been the first to tear apart the Canon EOS R6 and get a good look at the chip that seems to…
How to smoothly edit 8K RAW timelapse in DaVinci Resolve without converting to jpg
Sep 8, 2020
John Aldred
Even though many cameras offer built-in timelapse features that automatically process your images and spit out a single mp4 file at the end of it,…
PresetPanda lets you convert your Lightroom Presets over to Adobe Camera RAW (and back!)
Sep 8, 2020
John Aldred
For more than a couple of years now, I’ve been thinking “Wouldn’t it be great if there were a website or an app that’d let…
This photographer took on a CoD-inspired miniatures scene and absolutely nailed it
Sep 7, 2020
John Aldred
Anybody who’s followed the work of Felix Hernandez at Dreamphography knows that he loves photographing miniatures. In fact, it’s the vast majority of what he…
The EOS R5 overheating issue is solved and it’s a super simple (only slightly hacky) workaround
Sep 7, 2020
John Aldred
I never even suspected that the solution might be this simple. I don’t have an EOS R5, but I figured if it was this easy…
High Speed Sync vs Neutral Density – Does it really matter which you use?
Sep 4, 2020
John Aldred
It’s the age-old question. If I’m shooting outdoors in bright conditions and I want a shallow depth of field with flash, should I go high…
Zhiyun shrinks their smartphone gimbal even further with the new Smooth XS
Sep 4, 2020
John Aldred
Zhiyun has announced their new Smooth XS gimbal. Like the Smooth X launched earlier in the year, it’s a 2-axis gimbal designed for smartphones, although…
Teardown reveals the $749 DJI Mavic Air 2 is made from around $135 worth of parts
Sep 3, 2020
John Aldred
This isn’t the first Mavic Air 2 teardown we’ve seen, that honour goes to the folks at iFixit, but a new teardown by Tokyo-based…
Camera Conspiracies isn’t happy as he explains “Why I’m leaving Pansonic FOREVER”
Sep 3, 2020
John Aldred
The whole “I’m switching from this brand to that brand” or “I’m done with whatever brand” videos have been done to death, but this one…
The LomoGraflok Instant Back lets you use Instax Wide film with your 4×5 large format camera
Sep 2, 2020
John Aldred
Lomography has today announced a very requested item from the large format film community – the LomoGraflok 4×5 Instant Back. While many large format shooters…