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Does Gear Really Matter

Does the gear you use matter? Well, as with most questions, yes… and no. As someone who makes their living from using a camera should I be worried when I see how easy is it for “normal people” to take amazing photos? We live in a golden age for people who love using cameras. I think it would be hard to get a camera these days that takes a bad picture or video in even semi-decent conditions....

Facial Recognition Technology Helps Chinese Man Find His Family After 27 Years

This time last year, there was a pretty big fuss about FindFace, an app that uses facial recognition to discover people’s identities with pretty high reliability. But for 33-year-old Fu Gui from China, facial recognition technology turned out to be life changing. It helped him find his family and reunite with them after being apart for 27 years. It began in 2009, when Fu recalled memories of his earliest childhood with a family that wasn’t known to him....

Free Firmware To Give Quad Camera Recording And Live Mixing To Atomos Shogun 7 And Sumo 19

The Atomos name keeps popping up all over the place lately. They’re teaming up with a lot of different camera brands to try to give filmmakers the tools and features to best create what they want to create. We stopped by the Atomos stand at IBC 2019 to have a chat with their Founder & CEO, Jeromy Young about some of those collaborations, as well as some news on Atomos’ own products, including a free firmware update for the Shogun 7 which doubles its brightness from 1,500 nits to 3,000 nits....

Here Is The Sony A6400 You Ve All Been Waiting For With Real Time Eye Autofocus And Tracking And Timlapse Mode

We know that you are constantly hitting refresh to see if the new Sony a6400 has been announced yet. It has! Here is the executive brief, but hit the jump for the full scope: World’s Fastest (i) 0.02 seconds (ii) AF acquisition speed plus 425 phase-detection and contrast-detection AF points covering approximately 84% of the image areaAdvanced Real-time Eye AFNew Real-time Tracking for object tracking24.2MP(iii) APS-C Exmor™ CMOS image sensor and latest-generation BIONZ X™ image processor180-degree fully tiltable LCD touch screen for self-recordingHigh-speed continuous shooting at up to 11 fps(iv) mechanical shutter / 8 fps(iv) silent shooting with continuous AF/AE trackingHigh-resolution 4K(vi) movie recording with full pixel readout and no pixel binning, plus advanced AF speed and stabilityInterval recording for time-lapse videos...

Here S How To Figure Out What Size And Shape Of Softbox You Should Buy

Very early on in the journey of a photographer’s transition to flash, particularly studio strobes, the first question we find ourselves asking is “what modifiers should I use?” Actually, the first question is probably “what’s a modifier?” which is then followed by the other one. You start to do a little Googling and searching around retailers, and you discover softboxes. There are so many different shapes and sizes out there, though....