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    2019 Africa Geographic Photographer of the Year disqualified for photo manipulation
    Jun 10, 2019 Dunja Đuđić

    Africa Geographic has just disqualified Björn Persson, its 2019 Photographer of the Year. His photo of an elephant named Tim won this year’s contest. However,…

    You could be fined $5,000 for flying a drone anywhere in Canada
    Jun 8, 2019 John Aldred

    Transport Canada recently introduced new rules for recreational drone users that could land you with fines up to $5,000. One of YouTube’s most popular Canadians,…

    Fancy a photography field trip to the ISS? No problem, that’ll be $60 million, please
    Jun 8, 2019 Dunja Đuđić

    Do you admire breathtaking images of the Earth from space? Would you like to take photos like that with your own camera? Well, now you…

    Patent shows Canon’s EOS R stabilisation will be an in-body and in-lens hybrid system
    Jun 7, 2019 John Aldred

    One notable absence from Canon’s EOS R and EOS RP cameras is any form of in-body image stabilisation. Canon has said they wanted to bring…

    Photographers get exploited because they love their job, study finds
    Jun 7, 2019 Dunja Đuđić

    I don’t think there’s a photographer anywhere in the world who hasn’t been asked to work for a miserable sum, or even for free, ‘for…

    Medium format Kodak Ektachrome 120 rolls to start trials next month
    Jun 7, 2019 John Aldred

    Introduced last year, Kodak Ektachrome 35mm is based on the old Kodak Ektachrome E100G E6 slide film that was made up until 2012. A lot…

    This 4K HDR video was shot on a phone with the flagship Snapdragon 855 processor
    Jun 6, 2019 John Aldred

    Every time a new generation of phones comes out, it always surprises me with how far they seem to leap forward with each generation. Much…

    Millions of private photographs leaked in Ricoh Theta360 data breach
    Jun 6, 2019 John Aldred

    vpnMentor reports that its research team discovered that Theta360’s photo-sharing platform has suffered something of a pretty major data breach. The leak, they say, has…

    Facebook to reconsider its nudity policy after photographers’ outcry
    Jun 6, 2019 Dunja Đuđić

    Facebook has the policy to ban photographic nudity, which has been a problem for many photographers who share their work on Facebook and Instagram. But…

    There is now a pocket-sized controller for the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K
    Jun 6, 2019 John Aldred

    The original Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera was named such because it could relatively easily fit in your pocket. The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K (we’ll…