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French woman attacked by crocodile in Thailand while posing with it for a photo

John Aldred

It seems that “Selfie Stupidity” isn’t going to stop any time soon. In this latest act of idiocy, French woman Muriel Benetulier was attacked by a crocodile in the Khao Yai National Park while posing for a photo with it. Bangkok Post reports that according toe Khao Yai park rangers, the attack occurred on Sunday afternoon. […]

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Is Phase One feeling threatened by mirrorless medium format cameras? Capture One “Unlikely” to support Fuji GFX

John Aldred

Adobe Lightroom has always faced some stiff competition against Phase One’s Capture One for medium format shooters. Even many photographers using DSLRs have made the switch. If you were hoping to use Capture One with the new Fujifilm GFX, though, you may be out of luck. Imaging Resource seems to think that Phase One are feeling […]

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Sony’s new 2mm sensor could be coming to future smartwatches

John Aldred

While some companies are trying to make the sensors in their cameras bigger, Sony are doing the opposite. They’re going smaller. Really small. Their new 2mm sensor is capable of a single megapixel, 1,296 pixels along the longest edge. Paired with a 2.6mm lens, the circuit that connects the whole thing to a device is […]

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Veteran war photographer Don McCullin receives knighthood in 2017 New Year Honours list

John Aldred

Don McCullin’s 60 year photographic career started during his period of National Service in the RAF. He failed to pass the written theory paper necessary to become a photographer in the RAF. So, he spent his service in the darkroom. During this time, he bought his first camera, a Rolleicord, which he pawned upon returning […]

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Magic Lantern makes Canon shoot Lossless 14-bit DNGs right in camera

Udi Tirosh

Here is something that can have a huge impact on how Canon shooters will aces their files. Up till now, they were dependant on Canon’s proprietary raw format – CR2. But a recent proof of concept from Magic Lantern shows that Canon bodies can shoot DNG right inside the camera. As a short recap, each […]

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The largest photo of the known universe weighs two million gigabyte

Udi Tirosh

I guess this can be described as the universe’s biggest selfie… Over 4 years the Pan-STARRS1 (The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System) have been taking photos of the skies from its location on a desolated, dormant volcano in Maui, Hawaii. Those four years (and half a million exposures) of data collection resulted in a huge […]

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Mining company loses 9 surveillance drones – because of eagles

Dunja Djudjic

Earlier this year, we were quite surprised (to say the least) by the information that Dutch police were training eagles to take down drones. And what’s more, it seems that the weird approach against UAVs worked. But it appears eagles in Australia require no training to do it. Because they started seeing surveillance drones as […]

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YI Technology announces the first action camera which will capture 4K videos at 60 fps

Dunja Djudjic

As we’re only days away from CES 2017, YI Technology Company has announced some novelties they’ll introduce at this event. It seems their YI 4K Action Camera is about to get the update. This January in Las Vegas, YI is about to present their new 4K+ Action Camera, which will allow you shooting 4K videos […]

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Brides Magazine: “only choose photographers with ‘full format’ Nikon or Canon cameras”

Dunja Djudjic

Brides Magazine is all about weddings, yet they don’t really seem to like wedding photographers. After they advised the brides not to feed their photographers, now they have another “ingenious” piece of advice. They say you should hire a professional photographer, but they consider pros only those who use Nikon or Canon. And only full […]

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DigitalRev TV enters the post-Kai era and launches a new channel

Dunja Djudjic

The news that Lok Cheung and Kai Wong left DigitalRev TV certainly shocked their fans earlier this year. After they’d parted ways, it seemed like DigitalRev were struggling to keep the viewers’ attention. But now they’ve launched a new channel called Burst Mode. After a seemingly rough period, they may be experiencing a Christmas miracle […]

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