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    The Zhiyun Smooth Q2 and Crane M2 are small but mighty little gimbals
    Sep 23, 2019 John Aldred

    Zhiyun has given us no shortage of new gimbal releases over the last year or so. The Crane 3 LAB and Weebill lab have both…

    The LitraStudio is a powerful, rugged RGBWW LED light you can take underwater
    Sep 23, 2019 John Aldred

    I’ve become a big fan of Litra’s super tough LED lights. We even use the LitraPro LED as an on-camera light when we cover shows….

    Manfrotto’s new “Fast” series tripods are optimised for setup speed
    Sep 23, 2019 John Aldred

    At IBC 2019, we stopped by the Manfrotto stand to check out their new “Fast” series video tripods. There are two products in the new…

    The ultralight Moza AirCross 2 lets you mount the Pocket 4K without a cage – even vertically
    Sep 23, 2019 John Aldred

    The recently announced Moza AirCross 2 is the latest 3-axis motorised gimbal from Gudsen. It was originally teased at NAB 2019, but now it’s been…

    Nikon wants to “increase development speed of new products and shorten the lead time” for camera releases
    Sep 23, 2019 John Aldred

    It seems that Nikon has finally realised that they can’t just keep releasing new bodies with small incremental updates every few years. Japanese website Newswitch…

    Photographer killed by a falling branch, police suspect foul play
    Sep 23, 2019 Dunja Đuđić

    While she was taking photos at Hocking Hills State Park, Ohio-based photographer Victoria Schafer was struck by a falling branch of a tree. Unfortunately, she…

    Pentax is not dead, as Ricoh announced development of new flagship APS-C DSLR
    Sep 21, 2019 John Aldred

    So, we don’t know what it’s called, but it will be a Pentax K mount DSLR, it will have an APS-C sized sensor and it…

    Canon may be bringing back eye-controlled focus to future cameras
    Sep 20, 2019 John Aldred

    Way back when, before DSLRs, Canon had the EOS 5 (that’s the A2E to those in the USA). It was a pretty decent camera. My…

    This website offers 100,000 AI-generated portraits for free
    Sep 20, 2019 Dunja Đuđić

    We’ve already seen that AI-generated faces can look so realistic that it’s sometimes difficult to distinguish them from real ones. And if you want to…

    The Godox R1 and RF1 look a lot like the Profoto C1/C1+ except Godox announced them first
    Sep 20, 2019 John Aldred

    I missed this while I was away at IBC 2019, and they didn’t have any on the Godox stand, but Godox has announced a couple…