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Stabilised 30x optical zoom on the DJI Zenmuse Z30 camera is very impressive

John Aldred

When DJI announced its Zenmuse Z30 camera a few months ago, it looked mighty impressive. Full remote control 30x zoom from your tablet or smartphone connected to your controller. You can’t exactly stick this thing onto your average consumer DJI drone, though, not even the new Phantom 4 Advanced. Aimed at industrial and commercial use, […]

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I travelled from Dubai to the US with cameras and electronics under a travel ban

Kate Hailey

On March 21, 2017, the United States implemented a ban on bringing certain electronic items in your carry-on luggage from 10 airports based in the MENA region. This affects direct flights to the US from these airports. Shortly after the US announced their ban, the UK followed up with a ban of their own, affecting […]

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Godox begin rolling out native support for Fuji, Olympus and Panasonic cameras

John Aldred

Recently, we showed you a somewhat expensive option for using Godox flashes with Fuji, Olympus and other brand cameras. There’s also been a rumour floating around that Godox were working to add native support for some of these brands. Now, though, it seems that support is starting to come quicker than anybody had anticipated. Fuji and Olympus/Panasonic versions […]

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National Geographic posts photo on train tracks, photographers react with outrage

Dunja Djudjic

It seems that lately there’s been an entire movement aimed at getting photographers and models off the train tracks. No wonder, considering how many people die as train hits them while taking photos. TODAY recently investigated how long it takes for you to hear the train. It turns out that, once you do – it […]

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Ricoh may be considering killing off the Pentax brand

John Aldred

Just when Pentax seemed like it might be starting to pick up, Nikkei Asian Review are reporting that Ricoh may be dropping the brand. There’s no doubt that smartphones are continuing to eat into camera sales, and Pentax has become a “money-losing” business. Nikkei say that Ricoh plan to “radically review” a production and manufacturing […]

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News Corp Australia sacks most of their photographers to cut costs

Dunja Djudjic

News Corp Australia is experiencing a severe wave of job cuts. One of Australia’s largest media companies is trying to make up for the financial losses, and photographers and subeditors are first under the impact. This media company owns over 100 newspapers. These include The Daily Telegraph, the Herald Sun and the Courier-Mail – which […]

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Google’s DeepDream AI turns Bob Ross into an LSD fuelled nightmare

John Aldred

DeepDream is a computer vision AI created by Google which utilises a convolution neural network. It looks for and enhances patterns in images using a process called algorithmic pareidolia. Essentlly, it’s seeing things that aren’t really there. Like the face we may see on the surface of Mars or bunny rabbits & dragons in clouds. We’ve seen […]

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Art student figures out you can save money on Wacom nibs by using spaghetti

John Aldred

It started as a simple joke. Creating a meme for a bit of a laugh. Brittany Botehlo is an 18 year old self-taught digital painter in Dallas, Texas. When recently cooking spaghetti, she decided to stick a small piece in the end of her Wacom tablet pen. And, why not? It’s an amusing idea. It […]

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Estate of Andy Warhol sues NY photographer over Prince image

John Aldred

The circumstances of this situation remind me of the Obama “Hope” poster. Photographer makes a photograph, photograph gets appropriated, then remade as a stylised artwork. The Associated Press sued artist Shepard Fairey on the photographer’s behalf, and the matter was settled out of court. The story here starts off somewhat the same. In 1981, photographer Lynn […]

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Winners of 2017 Pulitzer Prize for photography announced

Dunja Djudjic

This year’s Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced. As every year, photographers are among winners as well. Both winners illustrated violence and fear, but on different sides of the world. Daniel Berehulak won the Breaking News Photography Award for documenting violence in Philippines, brought about by a government assault on drug dealers and users. E. Jason […]

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