macOS Catalina killed support for 32-Bit applications. This includes many (still) popular applications like Aperture and iPhoto, but also a lot of hardware for which no 64-Bit drivers exist. Including scanners. The two applications I mentionedhave been saved, but now thanks to the folks at VueScan, so have thousands of scanners after they reverse-engineered the […]
Elle Germany has recently come under fire after publishing a racially insensitive issue. The November 2019 issue contains a tagline reading black is back along with a feature of models of color. Furthermore, theres a photo of a black woman against the wrong persons name, so the publication was accused that they cant actually tell […]
The world was introduced to the Moza Slypod in grand fashion at NAB 2019 earlier this year. We went to the Gudsen stand to check it out while we were there, too. It’s an interesting device, with a whole new take on the camera slider form factor. It essentially looks like a motorised monopod, but […]
At Adobe MAX 2019, Chief Product Officer Scott Belsky announced theContent Authenticity Initiative a nascent and ambiguously defined way for attribution to travel with an image and allow consumers to know, in the words ofAdobe VP Dana Rao, that the content theyre seeing is authentic. In announcing the initiative alongside partnersThe New York Timesand Twitter, […]
For the last four or five years, I have tried to produce one annual workshop for aspiring architecture and interior photographers. While I hope that they are technically helpful and the students come away with new skills and knowledge, one thing that Ive noticed is that every year each workshop inevitably transforms into a session […]
This years Adobe MAX brought some interesting announcements and new apps. One of the new features introduced at the Sneaks event really caught our eye. Its called Project About Face, an AI-powered tool that can detect if the image has been manipulated, It also shows where the manipulation has been applied and even helps you […]
Well, this is a bit of a surprise. Sigma appears to have finally made a camera that’s a sales hit. At least for Japanese retailer Yodabashi Camera. Yodabashi Camera is one of the largest camera retailers in Japan, with online sales second only to Amazon. Their latest report says that for the last two weeks […]
A mobile app developer iHandy recently used a photo of Kim Kardashian to promote their selfie beauty app. It turned out that they made a rookie mistake and used the photo without her permission. In return, Kardashian filed a lawsuit, seeking more than $10,000,000 in damages. The photo in question is a selfie Kardashian took […]
No matter what the lens, when I see people asking for opinions on one online, I see a pretty wide mix of “It’s awesome, it never leaves my camera!” and “It sucks, I sold it within a week” type responses. If you’ve ever wondered why there are such polarising opinions on any given lens, then […]
