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Earlier this month, drone maker DJI took a huge PR hit when the US Army abruptly stopped using the company's drones due to 'cyber vulnerabilities.' The decision was revealed in a leaked memo, and DJI was left defending its privacy and security practices to a suddenly skeptical public.... more

My name is Mark Fitzgerald, and I’m a photographer based in Melbourne, Australia. In this post, I’ll be discussing basic model poses for female models. Whether you are a model choosing a pose or a... more

Macphun today announced the upcoming release of Aurora HDR 2018, the latest version of its popular HDR creation software created in collaboration with photographer Trey Ratcliff. After 1.7 million downloads on Mac computers since its launch in November 2015, Aurora HDR will now for the first time be available for Windows PCs as well.

New tools and... more

The company behind the new Meyer Optik Goerlitz lens manufacturing business has formed a new brand to bring back the Biotar 75mm F1.5 that was made by Carl Zeiss Jena in the 1940s and 50s. Many of the original examples were made in East Germany after WWll and in quite low volumes, so they command high prices for their rarity, but also... more

Sharpening gives your images a bit of pop by increasing the edge contrast, but its easy to go too far and end up with an over-sharpened mess. In this 10-minute video, Tony Northrup... more

Qualcomm launched the Clear Sight dual-camera systemwhich was powered by its Spectra ISP and used a combination of RGB and monochrome images sensorsin 2016. Today the company announced the second generation Spectra Module that introduces 3D computer vision... more

The first successfully captured photograph of a total solar eclipse was shot on July 28, 1851, by Prussian photographer Johann Julius Friedrich Berkowski. Your eclipse photos can look better than this, with a little advice from some of our friends.

If you live in North America or are a citizen of planet Earth, you've probably heard chatter about the upcoming solar eclipse starting the morning of August 21st. It's a rare opportunity for a lot of folks across the United States to see and/or... more

After early camera tests of the new Canon 6D Mark II were published, photographers balked at the fact that the dynamic range of the camera performed so poorly against other modern cameras. Now yet another review is showing that if you often shoot at high ISOs, you may be better off sticking with the original 6D from 2012.

Photographer and camera reviewer... more

Photography publication f11 Magazine is being suspended, perhaps permanently, due to trouble funding the endeavor using its current advertising strategies. Subscribers have been alerted to the pending closure via an email, which explains that, "the concept of a magazine free to readers and funded entirely by advertising support proved much more difficult to sustain as a business proposition." The publication hopes to return in the future if... more

A Tennessee man named Blake Henderson was recently flying in a small plane and recording some video of another plane on his Samsung Galaxy S5 when his phone suddenly got sucked out... more

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