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25 essential terms that every photographer must know

Jun 19, 2018 John Aldred

Getting used to the sheer number of technical terms and numbers in photography can be pretty overwhelming for beginners. There are a lot of them out…

DJI is building a new futuristic HQ with a giant sky bridge for testing drones and robot-fighting rings

Jun 18, 2018 John Aldred

If there’s one thing you can say about DJI, it’s that they’re pretty much leading the way in every field they choose to enter….

The pixl-later is a film digitising holder that supports up to 4×5 large format

Jun 18, 2018 John Aldred

With film’s usage on the rise, the issue many film shoots have is how to share those images with the world. How can we get…

UK blocks the law that bans taking photos up women’s skirts

Jun 18, 2018 Dunja Đuđić

The United Kingdom recently attempted to make upskirting illegal and punishable by up to two years in prison. But thanks to a single lawmaker, the…

New patent shows how Canon is improving lens stabilisation to reduce image noise

Jun 18, 2018 John Aldred

Well, this is interesting. I knew that most optical image stabilisation systems in lenses used electromagnetic fields in order to try and keep the elements…

Instagram will no longer notify you when someone screenshots your story

Jun 15, 2018 Dunja Đuđić

Earlier this year, Instagram started testing out screenshot alerts for Stories (yeah, just like the feature on Snapchat). The test phase lasted for a couple…

This Lego Hasselblad hopes to become a real camera kit you can build yourself

Jun 13, 2018 John Aldred

This is going to be a winning combination for many photographers. Cameras and Lego (not Legos). This “Hasselblad 503CX Film Camera“, it may not surprise you…