It’s Fujifilm’s turn to make their new announcements this week, and they’ve got some that GFX medium format shooters are going to enjoy. First up, there’s the new Fujifilm GF 250mm F4 R LM OIS WR lens. It has a field of view equivalent to just under a 200mm lens on a 35mm body. So suitable for both longer distance outdoor portraits, as well as shooting closer wildlife. But to help with the wildlife side of things, there’s also the new GF 1....

Dallas-based digital marketing company CixxFive Concepts has recently filed a class action lawsuit against Getty Images. The lawsuit claims that Getty is allegedly licensing images that are in the public domain. But in addition to that, CixxFive Concepts also accuses Getty of using all kinds of “deceptive techniques” to make customers think that the company is the legal copyright holder. The lawsuit states that Getty is “fraudulently claiming ownership of copyrights in public domain images (which no one owns)....

OK, those are not the exact words of Getty, but this is what their response feels like. As you may recall we reported this 1 Billion dollars lawsuit back in July. If you want the background, Getty sent an infringement notice to one Carol M. Highsmith. Here is the funny thing. Carol M. Highsmith was the photographer who took the photo in the first place. In response, Carol sued Getty for 1 billion dollars for “gross misuse” of 18,755 of her photographs, she claims that Getty “falsely and fraudulently holding themselves out as the exclusive copyright owner” (The amount comes from $25K per image in statutory damages times three)....

Advertisements Camera Gear List Camera Gear List Camera: Canon Eos 6DLens: Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 EX DG Lighting Gear List Lighting Gear List Main Light: One Octabox 120cm with a Phottix Indra500 TTL Lamphead insideRim Light: Two Bare Phottix Mitros PlusePhottix Odin TTL Flash Trigger I’m a big fan of getting things right in camera- this is not something I want to add in post later, so each element was carefully fabricated to achieve a sort of visual cohesion throughout each layer of the photo....

This came to us via an anonymous source who said they saw it posted in a group they’re in on Facebook. I think it pretty accurately sums up the way many conversations go in Facebook photography groups. And, well, it’s about lighting, so…Advertisements Thank you, to the anonymous author who created this, for brightening up our day and giving us a good chuckle. 14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently....