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.
This Insta360 ONE R teardown shows they packed a whole bunch of tech inside that tiny body
Jun 29, 2020
John Aldred
Amongst the tiny form factor cameras, the Insta360 ONE R is pretty unique. It’s the first modular action camera that lets you easily swap out…
10-year-old 2K cine camera goes up against 8K smartphone camera in this side-by-side comparison
Jun 29, 2020
John Aldred
The 2K Arri Alexa was a revolution in digital filmmaking. It was the first camera that saw a lot of big Hollywood filmmakers really start…
Hoya’s ProND Graduated Filters let you darken landscape skies without a separate filter holder
Jun 26, 2020
John Aldred
Hoya has today launched their new ProND Graduated neutral density filters. Like all graduated ND filters, they’re designed to help you darken down the brighter…
The BIGSOFTI is yet another small LED light to help you shoot better smartphone photos
Jun 26, 2020
John Aldred
Small lights just seem to be popping up more and more lately. We’ve got Lumiee, Litra, Lumecube and a whole bunch of others beginning with…
Adobe changed all its app icons and designers are absolutely raging
Jun 25, 2020
John Aldred
Last month, Adobe started to change the icons for its ever-growing suite of applications. The biggest change was the new colourful Creative Cloud logo, but…
The Sigma fp now supports 120fps ProRes RAW, Blackmagic RAW, HDR video and cinemagraphs with new firmware
Jun 25, 2020
John Aldred
Sigma has released firmware 2.00 for the Sigma fp mirrorless camera. It’s a major firmware that adds some significant features to the camera, including external…
The Fuji X-T200 and X-A7 now work as regular USB webcams – Fuji X Webcam software coming to Mac
Jun 24, 2020
John Aldred
There’s been a big rush from manufacturers lately to let you use their cameras as webcams. Fujifilm recently announced their Fuji X Webcam software that…
Panasonic’s new G100 vlogging camera makes on-camera mics obsolete but there’s no IBIS
Jun 24, 2020
John Aldred
Panasonic has announced its new G100 camera (G110 in some regions) and it offers some very interesting features – like Nokia’s OZO Audio technology which…
How to turn GIMP into Photoshop (sort of) using PhotoGIMP
Jun 22, 2020
John Aldred
This is quite interesting, and not something I’ve come across before, although it appears the idea has been out for a little while now. As…
This guy built a DIY cablecam using a cheap radio controlled car
Jun 22, 2020
John Aldred
Cablecams are a lot of fun, but they’re not inexpensive, even if you need just something small for your action camera. There are commercial solutions…