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Wave goodbye to Apple’s My Photo Stream next month

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Apple is shutting down its cloud-based service My Photo Stream on July 26th. This means that if you use this service to store or share images on any of your Apple products, you cannot rely on your photos being saved. Although the switch-off is set for late July, images will not be saved from the 30 days before this date.

My Photo Stream has been around since 2011, which is admittedly a long time in technological terms. However, there are people who rely on this service still to share photos between devices (my mother, for example!).

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Photographer files lawsuit against NFL receiver and teams after shoving incident

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A photographer is suing Las Vegas Raiders receiver Davante Adams after he pushed him to the ground following a game. The Raiders lost the game to the Chiefs, and as Adams was exiting the field, the student photographer got in his way. Adams’ response was to push the photographer to the ground. Adams apologised immediately after the incident.

Park Zebley was a student at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and works as a freelance photographer. He was covering the game for ESPN and was carrying video equipment at the time. Since the incident, he claims to have sustained whiplash injuries, headaches and concussion.

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Don’t buy a Z8 directly from Nikon, customers say

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According to posts on Reddit, it seems that quite a few customers have had their Nikon Z8 (buy here) orders cancelled, some without any reason provided whatsoever. The only thing these posts have in common is that they were all ordered (or pre-ordered) directly from Nikon itself. This doesn’t appear to be an issue with other retailers – or, at least, not enough of an issue that people are posting about it.

The posts typically say that the customer placed their order, received confirmation of their order and then suddenly received emails letting them know that their orders had been cancelled. The issue appears to stem around bank or credit card authorisation, but exactly where the blame lies isn’t quite clear.

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YouTube is killing off “Stories” to focus on Shorts and Live

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YouTube is killing off a feature you probably weren’t using anyway and won’t miss. June 26th marks the death of YouTube Stories, a feature released in 2017 shortly before the company announced “Reels” – now YouTube Shorts. What made YouTube Stories different is that the videos were temporary, disappearing after a week. It also wasn’t available to users with fewer than 10,000 subscribers.

This 10K subscriber requirement almost certainly doomed YouTube Stories from the beginning. It remained in beta since its initial launch and never gained in popularity at all. In fact, I can’t recall a single time in the last six years that I’ve ever seen any of the creators I follow actually post a “Story”. Sure, there have been plenty of Shorts, but not Stories.

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NASA release dazzling new images from combined telescopes

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NASA has recently unveiled a new collection of mind-blowing images. Images from the two telescopes, the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the James Webb Space Telescope were combined to create the most mesmerizing views of two galaxies, a nebula and a star cluster.

Each image combines Chandra’s X-rays (a form of high-energy light) with infrared data from previously released Webb images. This light data is invisible to the unaided human eye. NASA also used data from the Hubble Space Telescope, the retired Spitzer Space Telescope, the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton telescope and the European Southern Observatory’s New Technology Telescope.

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TikTok to let you discover new content via AI chatbot

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It looks like AI is everywhere now: we create and edit images with its help, we write with AI tools, and even have video chats with artificial humans. AI could also be coming to TikTok soon, helping you spend even more time on the platform. In a recent announcement, TikTok revealed that it’s testing a chatbot that will help you find the content you like.

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Canon’s new 28mm f/2.8 is a tiny, lightweight RF mount pancake lens

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Along with today’s announcement of the Canon EOS R100 (buy here), Canon has also announced a new lens. Unlike the camera, though, this one’s full frame. It’s the Canon RF 28mm f/2.8 STM (buy here), and it’s a tiny pancake-style lens. The wide-angle lens is targeted towards travel and street photography but should also make for a great value walkabout lens.

Unlike some pancake lenses, this one isn’t a fixed aperture. Its bright f/2.8 aperture is able to stop down to f/22, providing a lot of depth of field control, particularly with close subjects. And with a minimum focus distance of only 23cm, you can get pretty close.

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Google’s new AI product photo tool cuts the need for product photographers

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Google unveiled Product Studio, a new tool that makes it easier to create product photos, but sadly, reduces the need for product photographers. With the help of generative AI, sellers will be able to create any setting they want for their product images.

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Nikon adds Z8 support for NX Studio, SnapBridge and other Nikon apps

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Nikon has released new versions of its array of software to provide support for the Nikon Z8 (buy here). Updated applications include Camera Control Pro, Picture Control Utility, Wireless Tether Transmitter Utility, NX Tether and NX Studio. The last one on that list, NX Studio, also sees a range of other enhancements for NEF (HLG) and HEIF support. The new updates are all available to download now from the Nikon website, and links are provided below, along with the release notes for each new version update.

The SnapBridge apps for both iOS and Android have also been updated to provide support for the Nikon Z8. These apps are available to download and update on your device from the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store for iPhone and Android users, respectively.

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