DJI’s new follow focus lets you remotely focus your drone’s camera lens from 3 miles away

John Aldred

Designed for both the land and air, the new DJI Focus remote follow focus system wants to change the way we record our aerial footage. No longer are we limited to hyperfocal distance and infinity focus lenses that have everything sharp. Now, we’re able to nail focus on our subject and use cinematic focus pulling techniques while shooting from […]

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On Traveling to Cuba as a Photographer….

Susan Kanfer

If you are from the U.S., traveling to Cuba differs from other destinations you have visited. It is not as easy as booking a flight and a hotel. Your travel purpose must fall within one of the categories of travel approved by the Department of Treasury. People-to-people educational programs offered by travel providers are one of…

OmegaBrandess Introduces Pictools

Zoltan Arva-Toth

The new Pictools photographic accessory family includes an auto focus lens adapter for mounting Canon EOS EF/EF-S lenses to Sony E-mount camera bodies, a 5-in-1 reflector kit, two gridded, folding beauty dishes; and a portable flash li…

Getty shows off how many images they have with this amazing facial composite ad

John Aldred

If you ever needed proof that police photo composites could be pretty accurate, this is it. In an advert recently put out by Getty, they use facial compositing techniques to make up the faces of religious leaders, politicians and royalty using parts of random people from the millions of images in their archive. I would imagine Getty used […]

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This guy tries to emulate a beer commercial and drops a $70,000 camera at CineGear Expo

John Aldred

The last thing you want to do when testing out some equipment, especially when surrounded by your peers at the CineGear expo, is to drop a $70,000 Arri Alexa XT, but that’s exactly what one person did while checking out the NBStabilizer rig recently. A number of social media commentators are putting this down to user error, letting the […]

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Black Magic Video Assist – First Look

Scott Bourne

Most cameras you can buy today are capable of good to great video recording. More and more photographers are branching into video – some because their clients demand it – and some because they just want to explore. I have shot my fair share of video using both dedicated video cameras and stills cameras capable…