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    Oprema Jena’s future in doubt as company files for bankruptcy
    Aug 11, 2018 John Aldred

    Well, that’s a shame. It looks like the Oprema Jena lenses may not come to fruition. The company behind them, Net SE Group has filed…

    This drone video shows the scale of the ruined city of Pompeii
    Aug 10, 2018 John Aldred

    Almost 2,000 years ago, in the year 79, the Roman city of Pompeii was annihilated by Mount Vesuvius. Buried under ash, with many of its…

    Sigma’s 14mm, 70mm and 135mm Sony E-Mount Art series lenses have started shipping
    Aug 10, 2018 John Aldred

    Sigma’s lineup of native Sony E-Mount Art is now almost complete. Having shipped the 20mm, 24mm, 35mm, 50mm and 85mm E-Mount lenses in June, Sigma…

    This is how film is processed in an active commercial lab
    Aug 9, 2018 John Aldred

    I’ve never had the chance to have a good look around an active film lab. I’ve been developing my own film at home for years…

    The AirSelfie2 drone comes with a higher resolution camera and more storage
    Aug 9, 2018 John Aldred

    The original AirSelfie, released in 2016, was a pretty interesting idea. A phone-sized drone for shooting selfies. But it didn’t seem to really take off…

    DJI teams up with Line to produce weird social media animal themed Spark drones
    Aug 8, 2018 John Aldred

    It’s an odd pairing, DJI and messaging app Line. They’ve come together to produce Spark drones themed on one of their “Line Friend” characters. That…

    Samsung is bringing cheap 4TB SSD drives to the masses
    Aug 8, 2018 John Aldred

    SSDs have been creeping up in capacity and creeping down in price over the last few years. It, perhaps, isn’t happening at the same pace…

    You can’t republish a photo even if it’s freely accessible online, EU court rules
    Aug 8, 2018 Dunja Đuđić

    If you see a photo freely available online and want to reuse it – you have to ask the photographer for the permission. Some would…

    More and more people have cosmetic surgery to look like their Snapchat selfies, doctors find
    Aug 7, 2018 Dunja Đuđić

    A recent study has shown that a majority of plastic surgery patients wants to look better in selfies. But it’s not celebrities that serve as…

    The Nikon mirrorless camera is pretty ugly judging by new leaked photos
    Aug 6, 2018 John Aldred

    Ok, so, we should be judging cameras on how they see the world, not how they appear to the world, but this new Nikon mirrorless camera…