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This is why black & white film is more expensive to have developed than colour

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Since I started shooting film again, I’ve only shot black and white film. Usually either Ilford FP4+, Kodak Tri-X or Kodak TMAX. But when I first started to enquire about having it developed, I was confronted with some pretty ridiculous prices. £12 they wanted, just to develop a £4 roll of film. That’s when I decided to develop for myself and got my cost down to £0.25 per roll.

But why is it so expensive to have black and white film developed in a store when colour film is arguably more expensive for us to develop at home? That’s what’s discussed in this video from Nicolas Llasera as he talks about some of the reasons behind this seemingly strange price discrepancy.

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Nikon dropped “master” and “slave” before it was cool, about twenty years ago

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During the recent Black Lives Matter protests, the terms “master” and “slave” seem to have suddenly become problematic. After Canon, we now find out that Nikon has changed the terminology in its products as well. Only it was actually long before Canon did it – way back in the early 2000s.

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Leaked Canon EOS R6 photos show no top LCD and confirm the joystick

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It’s expected to be announced tomorrow, but as a surprise to absolutely nobody, the photos of Canon’s upcoming EOS R6 mirrorless camera have leaked ahead of the official announcement. Coming from, who else but Nokishita, the leaked photos show the front, top and rear views of the camera with and without a lens, revealing and confirming some information about the camera body itself.

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Profoto AirX lets you shoot your iPhone with the Profoto B10 at up to 1/25,000 of a second

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Profoto has today announced AirX, a new update for the Profoto App which lets your iPhone communicate with the Profoto B10 series strobes. It synchronizes over Bluetooth and Profoto says it’ll let you “sync the full power of the flash tube” all the way up to 1/25,000th of a second.

At the moment, the feature only appears to be available for the iPhone. Whether or not that will change in the future is currently unknown.

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The CamFi ZF is a remote controlled zoom and focus unit for timelapse and macro focus stacking

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CamFi is a popular name when it comes to remotely controlling your camera. But two of the things you typically can’t control via a simple smartphone app are the zoom and exact focus of your lens. There are various options out there when it comes to video, but they typically tend to require a gimbal to work alongside them.

Well, now, CamFi team have a solution. It’s called the CamFi ZF and it connects to the CamFi Pro, Pro Plus and a couple of other models via USB and adds focus and zoom control to the smartphone app to let you take charge remotely over WiFi. The project’s currently on Indiegogo although it doesn’t have long left to go.

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VSDC is a must-try video editor for creators on a budget [giveaway]

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This is a sponsored giveaway with VSDC. Click more to enter

For this giveaway, we’ve partnered with VSDC to give away five annual VSDC Pro licenses to five lucky winners. [even if you didn’t win though, the free version brings an extensive toolset every beginning to intermediate level video maker will benefit from.]

When you start looking for free video editing software, it often feels like the choice is limitless. But when you start testing, you find out that most programs either put a watermark on your video or cut video export resolution options. Such surprises may come at a high price, especially if you discover them after hours of working on your project.

At the end of the day, there are quite a few free video editors that are truly worth your time investment. VSDC Video Editor is one of them.

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New photo leak shows Canon EOS R5 video modes, specs suggest 5G, weather sealing, vertical grip

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While Canon is preparing to officially announce the EOS R5 and EOS R6 mirrorless cameras in a couple of days, more information is leaking early, including a photo posted to Canon Watch that reveals more information about the EOS R5’s video modes. We’ve also received a tip here at DIYP from a trusted reliable source that reports some interesting details about both the EOS R5 and EOS R6.

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Nikon expected to announce Z6s and Z7s cameras this year with dual card slots and 4K60 video

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Well, it looks like Nikon has been doing at least a little work behind the scenes when it comes to their cameras. As well as the anticipated Nikon Z5 announcement at some point soon, it appears they’ve also been working on the second generation Z6s and Z7s cameras, too according to a report from Nikon Rumors.

They’ve even released a few specs for the new cameras and it looks like Nikon might have actually listened to the feedback from Nikon Z6 and Z7 owners. While the cameras will mainly be incremental updates keeping the same sensors, they’re expected to get at least a couple of significant upgrades.

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