Duovox has launched the new Duovox Ultra (Kickstarter here). They say it’s a military-grade monocular and an upgrade from their popular Duovox Mate Pro camera, announced last year. Again, the company is taking to Kickstarter to release the camera, with some massive early bird deals for fast backers. The Duovox Ultra shoots 1080p HD resolution […]
Google Earth has recently updated its Timelapse feature, which lets you view how a region has changed over time. The new imagery will let you see time unfolding from 1984 to 2022, and it’s fascinating to watch. New imagery from 2021 and 2022 has been added in higher definition, giving anyone with an internet connection […]
Polaroid has announced the release of a new instant film. It’s called Reclaimed Blue 600, and it’s an original film chemistry formula that Polaroid says was discovered by accident. While Polaroid certainly isn’t what it used to be, they still have a single lab for developing new chemical processes. Through experimentation, he accidentally discovered a […]
NASA has just released a new interactive feature that lets you explore the surface of Mars. The exploration tool uses a complex mosaic of images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and took 6 years to create. The mosaic is composed of 110,000 images from the Orbiter. The photos were taken by the black and […]
In the years since photographers started transitioning from film to digital in the early 2000s, many companies promised conversion kits. Devices you could put inside a film camera to turn it into digital cameras. None of them ever really materialised. But thanks to devices like the Raspberry Pi, DIY analogue to digital conversions have become […]
After a few years of struggles, stock photo website EyeEm has reportedly filed for bankruptcy. We could have guessed things were going downhill for the company when it stopped paying photographers last year. But now EyeEm is reportedly insolvent, so you might not even receive your payments at all. [Related reading: EyeEm stops paying photographers, […]
Storage units have come a long way, and the methods we use for storing our images have evolved greatly over the past few decades. This is why we chose to dedicate one DIYP quiz to storage space! Some of you remember how we stored our early digital images before gigantic external hard drives and cloud […]
There’s no denying just how incredibly powerful Adobe Lightroom has become in the last year. Lightroom’s AI tools and clever single-click masking can take your images to a whole new level. In this excellent tutorial, Glyn Dewis shows you how to add your own background light to a portrait. Super useful if you only had […]
I don’t know many photographers these days who aren’t comfortable using post-processing software such as Photoshop or Lightroom. Many of these programmes are beginning to introduce AI features, with Adobe launching its own text-to-image generator Firefly this last month. I can see the allure of using AI to fix skin retouching issues or make masking […]
