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.
Cheap $20 GPS jamming devices can make your drone fall out of the sky but solutions are out there
Dec 22, 2020
John Aldred
For years, companies have been working on finding ways to safely (and sometimes not) take out drones doing things they shouldn’t be doing – whether…
After 70 years, Nikon is ending its camera production in Japan
Dec 21, 2020
John Aldred
AERAdot Asahi reports that Nikon is ending the production of camera bodies in Japan where it has been building cameras for over 70 years. Camera production…
Westcott has released a new touchscreen speedlight and 200Ws wireless strobe
Dec 17, 2020
John Aldred
Westcott has announced their new FJ80 universal touchscreen speedlight and FJ200 200Ws lithium polymer battery-powered strobe, expanding on the FJ400 & DJ-X2m kit they introduced…
Canon “EOS R7” APS-C RF mount camera reported to be testing in the wild
Dec 17, 2020
John Aldred
Rumours of an APS-C RF mount camera from Canon have been around ever since the Canon EOS R was first announced in September 2018. There’s…
Watch: The George Eastman Museum shows us the historic salt process printing technique
Dec 16, 2020
John Aldred
Making prints from our film negatives is often a bit of a pain. You have all kinds of chemicals you need to buy, and the…
Apple has now released ProRAW for the iPhone 12 Pro/Pro Max with iOS version 14.3
Dec 15, 2020
John Aldred
I figured it probably wouldn’t be much longer until Apple officially released ProRAW. It popped up in the beta only a few weeks ago, and…
The first photo of the hotly anticipated Laowa Argus 35mm f/0.95 lens has leaked
Dec 15, 2020
John Aldred
It was rumoured way back in January, and expected “soon”, but now it looks like it might finally be on the way very soon. The first…
Godox’s new TL60 tube light offers full remote smartphone and DMX control
Dec 15, 2020
John Aldred
Godox has launched their new TL60 LED light, and this time it’s not a new strobe style light that takes softboxes, but a tube light….
The 2020 DIYP Holiday Gift Guide Megathread
Dec 14, 2020
John Aldred
With all of our 2020 Gift Guides now posted, we thought we’d pop up one more just so you have a handy link to all…
Take your photos to the next level with Lightroom’s luminosity and colour masks
Dec 14, 2020
John Aldred
Luminosity masks are an extremely valuable tool within Photoshop, particularly for landscape photographers who are often dealing with high dynamic range scenes that can leave…