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yesterday

They're smaller, they're lighter; they're Sony

Sony has announced two new cameras this afternoon/ this morning/ last night, depending on where you are in the world and in which timezone you find yourself languishing. They are the SLT-A37 and the NEX-F3. The A37 seems to be about giving people an affordable entry point into something more exciting than a point-and-shoot; the NEX-F3 appears to be laser focused on making it easy to take photos, [...]

yesterday

Gumroad: selling images easily

For the majority of people who take photos, it isn't nearly about money; it's just something that we enjoy. Wouldn't it be cool, though, if there were an easy way to sell the odd photo here and there to make some pin-money without having the hassle of online stores and distribution and any other potential source of headache related to selling something? Turns out, there is. It's called Gumroad. [...]

2 days ago

MiMedia, letting you access your media, wherever you are

When Google Drive launched a couple of weeks ago, everything was cool and groovy until some eagle-eyed types noticed that the permissions clauses weren't altogether straight forward. It turned out that unless you did some fastidious box-ticking, your images stored there could, theoretically, wind-up spearheading Google Drive's advertising campaign. That wasn't exactly blowing back everyone's hair, [...]

3 days ago

The weekly round-up

So whilst I've been swanning around the southern-most reaches of Western Australia, including goldfield towns with open-cut mines almost four kilometres long and WA's oldest settlement, quite a few things happened this week. They included: Olympus announcing the TG-1, a rugged camera with an f/2.0 lens and the ability to add on waterproof fish-eye and teleconverter lenses through an optional [...]

1 week ago

The weekly round-up

When it comes to cool stuff, I'm not sure that there's much cooler than Triggertrap Mobile this week. But, if you enter our May photo competition, you can win yourself a Fracture, which is also pretty cool. Flickr also unveiled some groovy new photo sizing options, teamed up with Pinterest to help get attribution right, and I, at least, got to play with the new Uploadr. Now, I'm about to disappear [...]

2 weeks ago

Get floral for May's photo competition!

It's May; so spring is springing in the northern hemisphere and autumn is falling in the southern hemisphere. Sprouts are sprouting, shoots are shooting, and blossom is blooming one side; head the other and trees are turning to flame. It's an excellent time to photograph plants, flowers, shrubs, and trees. Your monthly photo mission, therefore (should you choose to accept it), is flora. The [...]

2 weeks ago

More new stuff from Flickr

Flickr promised more new toys when they announced the shiny, improved Uploadr last week. They've delivered on that today (or yesterday if you are where I am), with new photo sizes for all users and the ability for Pro users to control the sizes of their displayed images. Head over to the Lightbox and you'll be able to see your images in 2048 and 1600 pixels, provided that they were uploaded after [...]

2 weeks ago

Take cover: price wars over cameras in the UK!

All on the same day, three camera companies have offered cashback incentives or dropped their prices for UK customers. First up was Nikon, with a cashback promotion on seven of its NIKKOR lenses when purchased in conjunction with either a D4, a D800, or D800E. Buy one of those cameras and reclaim the following when purchasing these lenses, too: 14-24mm f/2.8, claim £180 or €210 in the [...]

2 weeks ago

Lending your gear to friends: is it all that scary?

Gosh photographers can be a funny bunch. A little while ago I stumbled onto a forum thread where someone had asked if he weren't the only person to refuse to lend kit to friends if they asked. The vast majority of the answers were in the 'Hell no! I never I lend my kit to anyone!' camp. The responses were generally point-blank refusals, not even conditional considerations. One guy even went so far [...]

2 weeks ago

Triggertrap goes Mobile!

When Haje and the Triggertrap team came up with Triggertrap v1 and Triggertrap Shield for Arduino, I thought that was all manner of groovy. The idea of a universal camera trigger rocks, and they were dead proud of themselves. But being crazy inventor-and-developer-types, they weren't quite content with that. They wanted to push things a bit further and see what else they could do. So after a lot [...]

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