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JPEGmini’s crazy compression is now available as a plugin for Capture One
Jul 31, 2019
John Aldred
When Capture One 12 was announced last year, it brought some pretty big new features along with it. One of those features was the ability…
Scientists have created contact lenses that “zoom” when you blink
Jul 30, 2019
John Aldred
Google might have got a patent back in 2014, and then Sony in 2016, but scientists at the University of California San Diego have actually…
Latest Instagram purge deletes dozens of meme accounts with millions of followers
Jul 30, 2019
John Aldred
The “curated” content Instagram feeds. We all know them, we’ve all seen them, maybe we even follow one or two. Such accounts don’t actually create…
Apple to bring Time-of-Flight cameras to two iPhone models next year
Jul 30, 2019
John Aldred
Time-of-Flight (TOF) has started popping up more and more lately. It feels like a bit of a buzzword, but it’s actually pretty cool tech. Essentially,…
Fujifilm issues service advisory over GFX 100 shutter lock mechanism
Jul 30, 2019
John Aldred
Fujifilm has issued a service advisory for the recently announced Fuji GFX 100, citing issues with the “Lock” function on the side shutter located on…
It looks like RED will be the first to announce an RF mount video camera with the RED Komodo
Jul 29, 2019
John Aldred
Canon’s EOS R and EOS RP cameras haven’t quite seen the widespread adoption that they’d hoped for amongst users, although it looks like they might…
Canon’s camera profits plummet 64% in latest financial report
Jul 29, 2019
John Aldred
Canon did everything they could to fight the mirrorless advance before finally capitulating with the launch of the EOS R. It seems, though, that it…
Photographers, beware: this is how you can get scammed
Jul 29, 2019
Neil van Niekerk
There is a persistent scam going around that is so pervasive, that you might think everyone has heard about it, and is immune to it….
Amazon uses guy’s photo on their jobs website, but they didn’t hire him
Jul 29, 2019
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
A few years ago, Jordan Guthmann had a job interview at Amazon. He didn’t get the job, life moved on… but then he discovered that…
Feel old yet? This Stranger Things fan didn’t know what a darkroom was
Jul 29, 2019
John Aldred
For most of us who own cameras, we’ve at least heard of a darkroom, even if you’ve never been used one or been inside one….