Author: John Aldred

Build your own DIY field monitor for shooting with DSLRs

John Aldred

Whether you’re shooting video or stills, field monitors can be invaluable. For video the advantages are obvious. Nailing focus is a lot easier on a big screen. That works for stills, though, too. Field monitors get very expensive, very quickly, though. In this two part video series, YouTuber GreatScott, takes us step by step through the creation of a DIY field […]

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Getty asks photographer to pay for her own photo, photographer responds with $1 billion lawsuit

John Aldred

Getty can be pretty quick to send out infringement letters, as well they should. In the case of a real infringement, they absolutely must be protecting the rights of their contributors. But what happens when Getty screws up and sends an infringement notice to the creator of the photograph? What then happens if Getty also try […]

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Getty asks photographer to pay for her own photo, photographer responds with $1 billion lawsuit

John Aldred

Getty can be pretty quick to send out infringement letters, as well they should. In the case of a real infringement, they absolutely must be protecting the rights of their contributors. But what happens when Getty screws up and sends an infringement notice to the creator of the photograph? What then happens if Getty also try […]

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Turn your phone into a teleprompter with the new Parrot Teleprompter 2

John Aldred

As somebody who speaks to camera now and again, having a script is great. But, I still mess up lines and may end up shooting the same few sentences half a dozen times each. That’s a lot of wasted time, and more footage than I want to have to sift through in post. So, teleprompters are amazing, but […]

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Start your own movie company with this massive cinema lens collection for $1,000,000

John Aldred

If Canon’s display of gear didn’t impress you the other day, this one might. A listening has shown up on eBay offering “1000’s” of cinema lenses for a cool $1,000,000. The listing, by Calkovsky Cinema Worldwide, contains well known names such as Canon, Zeiss, Schneider and Cooke.  The description lists all of the lenses as tested and in […]

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Prepare, shoot and develop wet plate collodion through the eyes of the photographer

John Aldred

Photographers today often complain about the amount of time they have to sit at the computer processing images. When you see what wet plate photographers had to go through for every single shot, it doesn’t seem so bad. In Be The Collodionist from photographer Monsieur Nède, we see what life used to be like for photographers. […]

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Nikon just announced the world’s fastest 105mm portrait lens

John Aldred

This is one of those lenses that you almost don’t even know you want until somebody announces that it exists. I’ve been using my Nikon 105mm f/2.8D AF Micro-Nikkor as a portrait lens for years and always loved it. It’s one of my absolute favourites. I never really thought about a potentially faster version. Until now. […]

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Think shipping companies care about your gear as much as you do? Think again

John Aldred

I always thought, perhaps a little naively, that when packages were thrown in my general direction I simply got a crappy delivery guy. As it turns out, this seems to be standard practise if the responses to this Reddit post are anything to go by. User mlapaglia told DIYP that he ordered a Sony Sonnar T* FE 35mm […]

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Adobe Lightroom comes to AppleTV but doesn’t let you edit images

John Aldred

Adobe have just announced the release of Lightroom for Apple TV. Interestingly, it doesn’t actually seem to let you edit your images. What it does do, is sync up your work letting you quickly flick through your images on the big screen. Lightroom for Apple TV is available now and completely free from the App […]

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