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.
Feelworld’s LUT7 monitor features waveform, vectorscope and has a superbright 2,200 nit touchscreen display
Sep 15, 2019
John Aldred
I’ve become a big fan of Feelworld’s monitors over the past few months. While they don’t always offer the bells and whistles of some higher-end…
Free firmware to give quad camera recording and live mixing to Atomos Shogun 7 and Sumo 19
Sep 15, 2019
John Aldred
The Atomos name keeps popping up all over the place lately. They’re teaming up with a lot of different camera brands to try to give…
The super small and lightweight Insta360 GO really might be the “Action Camera Killer” we’ve been waiting for
Sep 15, 2019
John Aldred
Recently, Insta360 announced the Insta360 GO, a super tiny portable, wearable, stabilised, 180-degree camera. Insta360 is exhibiting at IBC 2019, so we went to go…
Litra launches the LitraStudio – A super rugged, waterproof, portable RGBWW LED Light
Sep 10, 2019
John Aldred
Building on the massive success of the LitraTorch and LitraPro LED lights, Litra has now gone beyond bicolour to create the LitraStudio – a rugged…
Sigma dumps Pentax to focus on mirrorless – will no longer make K-mount DSLR lenses
Sep 10, 2019
John Aldred
Well, this is bad news for Pentax shooters. Sigma had already stopped creating Pentax versions of their newer Art, Sports and Contemporary series lenses, but…
Canon will soon require a monthly subscription for their DPP Express app for the iPad
Sep 10, 2019
John Aldred
According to the Canon Singapore website, the Canon Digital Photo Professional Express app for the iPad will require a monthly subscription fee from October 2019….
Canon patents a new 83-megapixel full frame sensor
Sep 10, 2019
John Aldred
A new Canon patent has been discovered by the folks at Canon News. It describes an 83-megapixel sensor which, if the maths are right, will…
Angelbird announces new super fast and rugged CFexpress cards are coming
Sep 9, 2019
John Aldred
You know, I was just thinking the other day when SanDisk announced their new cards that Angelbird’s been awfully quiet on the CFexpress front. They’ve…
The Ultimate Lens Hood is back with a new smaller “ULHmobile” version for smartphones
Sep 9, 2019
John Aldred
When the Ultimate Lens Hood was first announced a couple of years ago, it came via Kickstarter and saw pretty massive success, overachieving its funding…
Here is a comprehensive introduction to Darktable – a completely free alternative to Lightroom
Sep 9, 2019
John Aldred
Lightroom is still considered to be the leading software out there for digital asset management and raw processing. But it’s not the only one. There’s…