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Employees left jobless and customers let down as Picture People studio chain shuts down without notice
May 24, 2018
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Without prior notice to either its employees or customers, The Picture People studios abruptly closed its doors last week. With the parent company going out…
ParaZero launches new reusable “SafeAir” parachute for DJI Phantom and Mavic Pro drones
May 23, 2018
John Aldred
Founded in 2012, ParaZero specialises in the development of parachute systems for both manned and unmanned vehicles. And we’ve shown you some of their drone parachute…
Shutterbug ends print magazine after 45 years to focus on web
May 23, 2018
Chad Verzosa
We should be used to it by now, but it’s always sad to see the magazines we love disappear. Just last year, Popular Photography magazine…
You can now buy a book that features photos taken by Stanley Kubrick in his teens
May 21, 2018
Chad Verzosa
Taschen just launched a book featuring young Stanley Kubrick’s photo essays for Look Magazine. It’s called Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs and it includes dozens…
Magic Lantern lets the original Canon EOS M shoot 2.5K RAW video
May 17, 2018
John Aldred
The original Canon EOS M mirrorless camera from 2013, the camera summarily dismissed by pretty much everybody as a pretty terrible camera, can now shoot…
Man claims camera captured an angel hovering above his truck
May 17, 2018
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
A man from East Jordan, Michigan has recently captured a photo that shows an angel hovering above his truck. Well, at least he claims it’s…
How to photograph a NASA rocket launch with remote cameras
May 16, 2018
John Aldred
Under the pre-dawn skies of Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on May 5th, 2018, NASA launched InSight. Destined for Mars, InSight launched on the…
Instagram will soon tell you how much time you’re spending on the app
May 16, 2018
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
After Google’s new time management controls, Instagram is also launching a feature that will tell you how much time you’re spending using the app. It…
Family chased by cheetahs after getting out of car to take photos at safari park
May 14, 2018
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
How stupid people can act just to get photos probably shouldn’t surprise me anymore, but it still does. A French family recently visited Beekse Bergen…
PSA: Fake SanDisk memory cards are everywhere, including Amazon
May 11, 2018
John Aldred
It seems the fakes are out in force again at the moment. I’ve seen a number of posts across Facebook and other social media where…