German photographer Astrid Kirchherr, best-known for her collaboration with The Beatles, has passed away. She died in Hamburg at the age of 81, only a few days before she would turn 82. The sad news was announced by Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn on Twitter. He decribed Kirchherr as “intelligent, inspirational, innovative, daring, artistic, awake, aware, beautiful, smart, loving and uplifting friend to many.” Astrid Kirchherr was born on 20 May 1938 in Hamburg, Germany....

Advertisements Like every year, the contest received entries from all corners of the globe, more precisely: from 20 countries across six continents. But there can only be one overall winner, and this year, it’s Thomas Vijayan from Canada. His beautiful image of the endangered Bornean orangutan brought him the top award and cash prize of $1,000. Thomas says that he spent hours up a tree, waiting to see if one of the local orangutans would use it to cross over to a nearby island....

BeReal is currently working on an updated feature that will let you see posts by friends of friends. The new feature was noticed by developer Alessandro Paluzzi and he shared the information on Twitter. Until now users on BeReal can only see posts by their friends or by random strangers in the discovery mode. Users can only see their friends’ posts if they have posted themselves. Now, according to Alessandro’s screenshots, you can “discover your friends of friends” by using that particular parameter in the menu....

If you bought a smartwatch for your kid, you may want to reconsider it. According to a recent alarming discovery, a line of smartwatches designed exclusively for children could be spying on them. A researcher has discovered an undocumented backdoor that allows a third person to access a camera, wiretap voice calls, and track your child’s location in real-time. According to Ars Technica, the problem was found in Xplora’s X4 smartwatch....

The Blackmagic Video Assist range of monitors has been a popular choice for many camera operators since the first versions were released. Now, Blackmagic has updated the Video Assist, with internal 12-bit BRAW recording in both 7″ and 5″ sizes. We caught up with Blackmagic at IBC 2019 to find out more about the capabilities of the new monitors. Both the 7 and 5-inch models have a pair of 12G SDI inputs to receive up to 4K DCI 60fps signals, as well as a pair of HDMI inputs also offering up to 4K/60p recording....

Bob Dylan is a phenomenal songwriter, but when it comes to speaking to fans from the stage, we can say that he is a man of few words. However, this changed on Tuesday evening in Vienna. The crowd tried to take photos of the concert despite the strict “no photo” policy, which made Dylan stop the show and speak to the photo-snapping fans to call them out. Reportedly, as Dylan and his band were playing Blowin’ in the Wind, smartphones in the audience started showing up....

Celebrities, especially sports celebrities, seem to be fairly common targets for badly done Photoshop, but rarely has one responded quite like Brandon Jennings. While the former Milwaukee & Detroit point guard was a free agent, fan “Alex L” suggested he sign with the Sacramento Kings using one of the worst Photoshop jobs in sports history to illustrate his point. https://twitter.com/EarIThomas/status/749792611393605633 Needless to say, Jennings was not very impressed by the artist’s abilities....

A few years ago I built an ultra-large format camera that is 24 inches by 24 inches. While it was a pretty huge camera, it was a simple build it was just two square standards, one for the front and one from the back which was connected by a big bellow. There was no support base or focusing rails and I just support the two standards by using two tripods so it was not the most stable camera....

The Sony a1 checks about every single box I could possibly want in a camera. In this video, we compare the Sony a1 camera vs the Canon R5. Does Sony leave the Canon R5 in the dust? And what about price? Is the Sony a1 Worth It? Or would you choose the Canon R5? Who would pay this much and why? Let us know if you would choose one of these and why?...

Image manipulation has never been easier or more accessible. From professional photo editing software to game-like apps on our phones, there are plenty of options to fake images nowadays. In an attempt to spot and prevent fake images, a group of scientists has suggested a pretty unusual detection method. They want to implement a fake photo detection system directly into cameras. Researchers at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering recently published a study which proposes the use of machine learning to spot fake photos....

It’s been a mere couple of days since Canon announced the release of not one, but two new mirrorless APS-C cameras. And now they’ve already issued an apology for severe delays in meeting demand for their new products, the Canon EOS R7, EOS R10, and the RF-S lenses. The two new cameras add to Canon’s existing mirrorless line-up of RF mount cameras but are the first crop sensor camera bodies to be included in the mirrorless range....

Technically, I suppose, it’s two curved sensors. But, one of them can actually be bent and have the curve adjusted at will. At least, that’s how it seems if I’m reading this right. The reasons for these curved sensors seem to cite primarily technical and practical benefits of a curved sensor. One that can be bent at the user’s behest, though, opens up a whole host of potentially cool and interesting creative options for the future of photography....

Well, there was bound to be a cheap “kit lens” coming along at some point for Canon’s RF mount. I don’t think anybody anticipated it having an aperture quite this slow, but here we are. Canon has now officially announced their new Canon RF 24-105mm f/4-7.1 IS STM lens for RF mount mirrorless cameras. But, for a lightweight kit lens with this kind of zoom range, it’s to be expected....

Earlier we posted about an image that Canon Italia had shared to their Facebook page and Instagram. An image not only shot on a camera that wasn’t a Canon (it was a Fuji X-T1), but a composite based on a stolen photograph created by Elia Locardi. At least, that’s the way that anybody with a pair of eyes sees it. Canon Italia, though, seems to think that it’s a similar but entirely different image that wasn’t even shot at the same time of year....

It seems that Fujifilm isn’t the only camera company making headlines in the fight against COVID-19 coronavirus. Canon has announced that Canon Medical Systems Corporation (Canon Medical) has started the development of a rapid genetic testing system for the novel coronavirus. The rapid diagnostic test kits they say are part of a research programme focused on developing diagnostics methods for COVID-19 led by the Japanese Agency for Medical Research. As to how soon Canon will be able to develop a fully working system or how quickly it might be deployed in Japan or elsewhere in the world upon completion is unknown, although judging by their response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2015, we may see some results fairly soon....

People have been begging Canon for years to put flippy out (or up) articulated LCDs on their higher end bodies for years. Now it looks like they may have listened. This patent from Canon Japan shows a new rear screen design that looks quite intriguing. As well as the size of the screen, it also shows new mechanisms to attach it to different types of camera body. One thing strikes me as a little odd, though....

I’m not the type of person to sit on the edge of my seat waiting for companies to announce new things all that often, but this one has got me a little bit excited. Cast your mind back to 2018. Canon was at The Photography Show showing off some cool new concept camera prototypes. One of them was a little AI-powered camera that would track and follow its target. Now, according to Canon Rumors, that camera is actually going to be hitting the market real soon....

Well, this is interesting, if it turns out to be true. Canon Rumors says they’ve received a report that an upcoming Canon APS-C interchangeable lens camera is going to contain a Sony sensor. Specifically the Sony IMX571, a 26MP APS sized sensor destined for DSLRs – although it could go in a mirrorless, too. Canon has used Sony sensors in the past in its PowerShot line of point & shoots....

There are many things to learn, improve, and change if we want to become better at something. There are many mistakes to make and learn from them as well. In this video, Nigel Danson suggests seven things that you can change and improve if you want to become a better photographer. Even though Nigel is a landscape photographer, most of these tips could be applied to any other genre as well....

We’ve shared plenty of filmmaking tips and tricks on DIYP. In this video, The Film Look brings you plenty of these in less than ten minutes. To be exact – you’ll learn as many as 100 useful tricks that will make your filmmaking process easier and help you get more organized. And of course, many of these are not just limited to filmmaking. So, photographers, make sure to check out this video, too....