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Nikon sales are down, but profits are up. Study suggests this will pattern continue

John Aldred

Nikon have released the financial results for the Image Products Business for the first quarter of the year. The report mentions that sales have dropped 8.9%, although net income has increased 176.2% over the same period last year. Another report by Credence Research suggests that this may be the beginning of a trend. They cite smartphones and tablets […]

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Olympics photographer has $40,000 worth of gear stolen in 10 seconds from a cafe in Rio

John Aldred

As this year’s host of the Olympic Games, it’s not a surprise that Rio currently contains so many photographers. With a lot of photographers come a lot of expensive kit. This has not escaped the notice of local criminals. News Corp photographer Brett Costello just discovered this, when $40,000 worth of equipment went missing from right beside him. […]

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Tiny vibrations bring still photos to life in dynamic interactive images

John Aldred

A photograph is, by its very nature, a still image. Good ones perform their task very well. As technology has evolved the lines between photo and video have started to become a little blurred. We’ve got live photos, Instagram supports video, and now wants to be SnapChat. Then we have augmented reality. The combination of computer […]

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Getty faces second mass Copyright lawsuit alleging infringement of over 47,000 photos

John Aldred

Getty Images seem to be having a tough time lately. After recently being hit with a $1 billion lawsuit by photographer Carol Highsmith, they are being sued again. The nine page civil complaint was filed by Zuma Press, an independent press agency, on Monady. In the suit, Zuma alleges copyright violations and unauthorised licensing of more […]

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A very rare look inside Canon’s operations at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games

Jeff Cable

This is my fifth Olympic Games and I am always visiting the Canon Professional Services area to borrow equipment from them. And for all of those previous Olympics, they have always been very guarded about letting anyone, outside of Canon employees, go behind the scenes to see what they have in their inventory. And trust […]

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Adobe: shoot crappy photos, fix them in post later

Udi Tirosh

Here is something I never thought I’ll see, but sometimes the real world provide the most awesome nuggets. In their most recent newsletter, Adobe wanted to highlight some Lightroom features. Their way of doing so was to basically say that you don’t need to worry about anything camera related. Just fix it all with Lightroom […]

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Mother nature smiles back through the mouth of an active volcano

John Aldred

Kīlauea is an active shield volcano in Hawaii. It is the most active of five which make up the island. During a flyover by with Paradise Helicopters, documentary maker Mick Kalber captured what can only be described as a giant smiley. It appears that nature is not without a sense of humour. The volcano is somewhere between 300,000 and 600,000 years […]

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Instagram goes SnapChatty adding “Stories” that disappear after 24 hours

John Aldred

No longer do you have to worry over whether you’re spamming you stream with too many images. Introduced today, Instagram Stories lets you share moments of your day, grouped together as a slideshow. Interestingly, at a time when SnapChat is adding features to make content a little more permanent, Instagram Stories seems to be going the other […]

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35mm film multipacks and large format stocks being discontinued by Fuji

John Aldred

It almost feels like Fujifilm want to forget that part of their name includes the word “film”. They seem to be doing everything they can to kill it off in the last couple of years. Last year, they discontinued several much loved film stocks and hiked the price up on the rest. At the beginning […]

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The Voyager 4 drone camera offers 16x optical zoom for up to 1500mm equivalent

John Aldred

After a zoom feature appeared in DJI’s new Zenmuse Z3 drone camera, I knew it wouldn’t be long before we saw more. What I did not expect, however, was a camera that could give the range that this does. The recently announced Walkera Voyager 4 boasts a rather impressive 16x optical superzoom lens. This puts it way […]

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