Author: John Aldred

DJI just released the Matrice 600, its most powerful drone to date and new Ronin-MX gimbal stabilizer

John Aldred

Aimed at Hollywood’s heaviest hitters as well as independent aerial cinematographers, DJI have announced their new Matrice 600 drone & Ronin-MX gimbal stabilizer.  Able to carry a payload of up to 13.2 pounds, the Matrice 600 is perfectly suited to a range of cameras from Nikon and Canon DSLRs, to RED and Arri cinema cameras. As […]

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Need a helicopter searchlight in your next movie? Fiilex have the answer with drone mounted continuous lights

John Aldred

Mounting lights onto drones seems to be getting popular, all of a sudden, but I suppose it was inevitable.  Today, Fiilex announce their new AL250 light, specifically designed for mounting onto drones, allowing you to put continuous light where may have previously been impossible. Having a continuous light attached to a drone while filming video […]

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Come and sit on the world’s first “Selfie Bench”

John Aldred

In an attempt to save face, Bridgend County officials have christened a pair of benches located on the shore in Porthcawl as the UK’s first “selfie benches”, although that was not their original intent. It turns out, the benches were just installed the wrong way around, and instead of pointing at the beautifully picturesque seaside, it […]

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This is how you light up a climbers on a cliff with speedlights attached to drones

John Aldred

So what do you do when you need to position lights off to the side of a cliff and you left your 300ft tall light stands at home?  You mount them to a drone, of course, which is exactly what National Geographic photographer Keith Ladzinski did recently while taking the new Nikon D500 and SB-5000 flash […]

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GoPro shares jump as company hires former Apple designer Daniel Coster

John Aldred

Having become an early hit with extreme sports participants when they first launched, GoPro decided to go public in 2014 with shares initially priced at $24.  In the subsequence months, that value soared, more than tripling in value at one point, peaking at $86. After and seeing a massive drop in sales during the final quarter […]

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You can now put a parachute on your drone

John Aldred

While drones are no doubt getting smarter and smarter with each new generation, the unexpected can happen.  Motors can burn out, you can lose control, there’s accidental or intentional interference to worry about, but whatever the reason, stories of drones falling out of the sky and crashing to earth or spinning wildly out of control and hitting the […]

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Galaxy Hyper Speed 12 for medium format film cameras is a roll of direct positive photosensitive paper goodness

John Aldred

Shooting directly onto positive paper has so far typically existed almost exclusively in the world of large format photography.  Galaxy are no stranger to this type of product, having successfully ran a Kickstarter project last year to produce large format direct positive paper. Galaxy have now announced they’re entering into the world of medium format photography with […]

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Lytro is making big waves in Hollywood with their groundbreaking new Cinema camera

John Aldred

While Lytro might’ve exited stage left from the world of photography, they’ve set their sights on Hollywood and they’re looking real hard, as is their new camera. Lytro Cinema is the world’s Light Field solution for film and television.  This technological breakthrough capture system allows filmmakers to do things that simply haven’t been possible before, […]

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The future of mobile photography, and dual camera systems

John Aldred

Mobile photography has become more popular than anybody could’ve imagine over the last few years.  Instagram receives 80+ million image uploads per day, and Facebook see an insane 300 million photo uploads every single day. But the technology of a single tiny sensor and lens is starting to hit its limit.  There’s only so far you can […]

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How to use vintage equipment to produce 3D photographs with modern cameras for $30 or less

John Aldred

3D photography has been rapidly coming back into fashion over the last few years, and with dual cameras now slipping into our mobile phones, it doesn’t seem too far off until the masses are able to easily produce it.  Until then, we still have to get a little creative sometimes when it comes to producing 3D […]

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