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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 Kalinin
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 Kalinin
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…
The Sony A7III may be stretching your videos – here’s how to fix it
Aug 6, 2018
John Aldred
If you’ve been shooting 4K video with your Sony A7III and thought things looked a little off, you might just be right. While shooting some…