New Video Tutorial: Coming Soon. All About Slo—–Mo!

How do you create slow motion or slo-mo? Well even the most basic cameras or smartphones *should* be able to do this, but if not, there is a software hack or two AND a plugin that will let you. Coming soon to my YouTube Channel. Check back in 36 hours!

Updates from Blackmagic Design

Blackmagic Camera 1.4 update is now as a free download from http://bmd.link/psY7Lh, adding: Support for organizations in Blackmagic Cloud, which means that if you are a member of an organization on Blackmagic Cloud and you are added to a project, you can login and sync camera recordings automatically to the project library....

Nikkor Milestone

Nikon has announced that the total production of NIKKOR lenses for Nikon interchangeable lens cameras reached 120 million* as of April, 2024. As one of the world’s few manufacturers that begins its manufacturing process from the production of optical glass, Nikon offers NIKKOR F lenses for single-lens reflex cameras and...

New Panasonic LUMIX S9 Full Frame Mirrorless

Panasonic is proud to announce the LUMIX S9, the smallest and lightest full-frame mirrorless camera in the LUMIX S Series. Available in a choice of colours – Jet Black, Crimson Red, Dark Olive, Night Blue and Dark Silver – the LUMIX S9 is a stylish companion for creators on the...

New Hollyalnd Pyro Range

Hollyland Technology has announced the launch of the Pyro series, a new wireless video transmission system. The Pyro range, comprising Pyro H, Pyro S, and Pyro 7, brings multi-person mobile wireless image transmission and monitoring solutions to small or medium commercial and television shooting teams. Users can optimize video monitoring...

Adobe Unveils Firefly-Powered Generative Remove in Lightroom

Adobe has unveiled Generative Remove in Adobe Lightroom, bringing the magic of Adobe Firefly directly into everyday photo editing workflows across Lightroom mobile, web and desktop surfaces. Generative Remove is Lightroom’s most powerful remove tool yet, giving everyone the power to remove unwanted objects from any photo non-destructively in a...

Manual Photography. With REAL Film. A Starter’s Primer.

In another article I wrote about the absolute optimism apparently some retailers may have about what they can make out of the resurgence of analogue photography, where if you did not know, instead of shooting to a memory card you use real film. I started this way like many of...

A roll of film for $40. Processing it for $80? Are you ‘avin’ a larf?

Earlier this week there was a report on the Channel News website about analogue cameras “making a comeback” (which we actually reported in 2022 by way of being actually at the coalface. That besides, the part that caught my eye was it stated than in a quote from a “major...

Aperture Explained

So here is a 5 minute tutorial I have put together to help all those who need to understand about a camera's aperture settings. It's not that hard. No. Really! Watch and see for yourself.