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GoPro Hero5 to shoot Full Ultra HD 8K video and 3D video at 4K?

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GoPro, like many companies, tends to keep pretty quiet when it comes to new products, letting very little out until an official announcement is ready to be made.  Official news, therefore, on the GoPro Hero5 is pretty much non-existent, although the rumours and speculation are plentiful.

GoPro CEO, Nick Woodman recently told Christian Times that they will “definitely release three new devices before the year ends”, but he did not specify what these products would be, or when they would be getting released.

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Samyang’s new lens doesn’t have autofocus – It’s a 135mm T2.2 cinema lens

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Samyang recently put out a teaser to build up some hype for five new lenses it was about to release.  There was much speculation abound about what these lenses were. Particularly, was Samyang finally dipping its toes into the world of autofocus?

It turns out that the answer is an emphatic no, not quite yet. They have now officially announced the first of those five new lenses, though, the Samyang 135mm T/2.2 Xeen Cinema Lens.

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This Inception-like timelapse of Hong Kong was inspired by a 2400 year old story from Ancient Greece

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No sooner does one new timelapse impress the hell out of us than another one comes along to do it all over again. This time, it’s from the folks at Visual Suspect, with an amazing timelapse of Hong Kong called The Allegory of the Cave that’s going to seriously mess with your head.

Like something plucked right out of Inception, chopping and mirroring frames along various axes while occasionally rotating the footage keeps will get you watching parts of this over and over to figure out exactly what’s going on.

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A crash course in developing colour negative film at home

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Lots of us still shoot and develop our own film, but many limit themselves to black and white, at least when it comes to DIY developing. C41 colour film is perceived as a complex process that requires an expensive Jobo or other specialised equipment.

Well, Michael Raso and John Fedele from the Film Photography Project are here to show you that this simply isn’t true in their new video using their C41 Home Developing Kit. Well, Michael’s going to show you, John’s there to heckle Michael.

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Aputure’s versatile new light is the size of a credit card and costs only $49

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Small lights are fantastic and well designed ones are extremely versatile. Whether you’re shooting stills or video, you can throw them in dark corners to balance out a scene, add a subtle rim light to your interview subject, or even replace practical lights on-set. They’re also usually quite inexpensive.

Aputure’s are taking “inexpensive” to the extreme with their new Amaran M9; A credit card sized light that’s less than half an inch thick, daylight balanced, runs for about an hour and a half on a full charge and costs only $45.

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Hard, soft, specular and diffused lighting and how it affects your subject

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Understanding different types of light is important. If you don’t know how light works, then fixing issues that show up in your lighting during a shoot is going to be a pain.

In this video from Wolfcrow, filmmaker Sareesh Sudhakaran explains the different types of light, how they affect our subject, the problems they can present, and some tips on how to overcome them.

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The 10 best and worst things about Photoshop CC

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Photoshop’s one of those essential tools that most photographers can’t live without. It’s been the industry leading application for years, and it may still be for some time to come (maybe), but it’s not perfect.

In this rather extensive video from Nathaniel Dodson at Tutvid, he talks us through his 10 favourite and least favourite things about Photoshop CC.

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This photographer quit her job three years ago to photograph women around the world

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Many of us wish we could give up our jobs to go and follow our passion. For a very lucky few, our job is our passion. Romanian photographer Mihaela Noroc quit her job to follow hers in 2013.

Since then, she’s travelled the globe to capture the beauty in diversity around the world for an amazing project titled The Atlas of Beauty.

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Photographer crashes $350K supercar through showroom window during photo shoot

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Sometimes, when you’re out making photographs, you have a bad day. Other times, you have a really bad day. This seems to be the latter after a photographer allegedly drove a $350,000 Lamborghini Aventador through a car showroom window.

The Lancashire Evening Post reports that a man, believed to be the photographer, got behind the wheel of the Aventador in order to reposition it slightly for a better shot during a shoot at Amari Supercars in Preston, England.

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Build your own DIY GoPro stabiliser out of LEGO

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Stabilising small cameras such as GoPros can be tricky. Their light weigh makes them particularly vulnerable to things like wind or fast movements. There are commercial handheld options out there to give you smoother footage, like the Lanparte HHG-01 or the Ikan Fly-X3-Plus, but they can be a little pricey.

While it’s not going to give quite the steadiness you’ll get with either of the options mentioned above, this solution from Product Tank is a very cheap and extremely accessible alternative.

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