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Sony teases their new IMX686 quad Bayer smartphone sensor with sample photos
Nov 8, 2019
John Aldred
Sony seems to have taken a bit of a back seat to Samsung lately when it comes to smartphone sensors. With many of them utilising…
Getty Images is dumping rights-managed “creative” image licenses to go exclusively royalty-free
Nov 8, 2019
John Aldred
Getty Images has announced that after poring over sales data and customer research, they’re ditching the rights-managed licensing options and going over to royalty-free for…
Video captures the moment a woman almost falls into the Grand Canyon while shooting a photo
Nov 8, 2019
John Aldred
Stupid selfie risks seem to be on the rise, leading to ever-increasing bans on places where you can shoot. But being stupid while shooting photos…
VueScan reverse engineered over 6,000 scanner drivers to bring compatibility to macOS Catalina
Nov 7, 2019
John Aldred
macOS Catalina killed support for 32-Bit applications. This includes many (still) popular applications like Aperture and iPhoto, but also a lot of hardware for which…
Elle Germany publicly apologizes after insinuating that black models are “a trend”
Nov 7, 2019
Dunja Đuđić
Elle Germany has recently come under fire after publishing a “racially insensitive” issue. The November 2019 issue contains a tagline reading “black is back” along…
Adobe wants to help authenticate your photos. What should photographers think?
Nov 7, 2019
Allen Murabayashi
At Adobe MAX 2019, Chief Product Officer Scott Belsky announced the Content Authenticity Initiative – a nascent and ambiguously defined way for attribution to travel with an…
Adobe’s new AI feature can detect image manipulations and undo them
Nov 7, 2019
Dunja Đuđić
This year’s Adobe MAX brought some interesting announcements and new apps. One of the new features introduced at the Sneaks event really caught our eye….
The Sigma FP tops the sales board for Japanese retail giant Yodabashi Camera
Nov 7, 2019
John Aldred
Well, this is a bit of a surprise. Sigma appears to have finally made a camera that’s a sales hit. At least for Japanese retailer…
An app developer used Kim Kardashian’s image without permission – Now she’s suing them for $10,000,000
Nov 7, 2019
Dunja Đuđić
A mobile app developer iHandy recently used a photo of Kim Kardashian to promote their “selfie beauty” app. It turned out that they made a…
This is why some people think a lens is awesome and others say it sucks
Nov 7, 2019
John Aldred
No matter what the lens, when I see people asking for opinions on one online, I see a pretty wide mix of “It’s awesome, it…