It’s been a while since we last followed Giacomo Bruno around on his adventures across the globe. We’ve previously seen the Milan-based documentary photographers’ snaps from his trips to Sri Lanka, where he captured the “raw golds” of the country: Ceylon tea and cinnamon. He’s been to South America since, and as usual, got busy documenting the precious agricultural goods of the region. Today, let’s take a look at one of the raw golds of Mexico: coffee.
Does anyone still remember the Jollylook? The quirky but kind of cool foldout camera was geared to be the first cardboard Instax camera, a novelty that garnered way over its funding goal of $15,000 thanks to over 6,000 backers. But, over a year later, the Jollylook team was still facing some manufacturing issues and have only started shipping last month. The ones who have received their cameras are reportedly unhappy with non-functioning units. Some are furious to have found the Jollylook out in retail stores when they aren’t even sure when they’re getting their cameras. What a fiasco this is turning out to be.
Say what you will about Lightroom CC, but what Adobe has done here over the last year or two in developing a single cohesive experience for users across mobile phone and tablet experiences as well as on traditional computing platforms such as laptops and desktops has been impressive. Now, according to a Bloomberg report, Adobe is taking what they have learned through that endeavor and have shifted their Photoshop strategy in a similar direction, with a full functional Photoshop app for iPad.
There may not be any earth-shattering deals from one brand or another right now; but there are still some excellent savings to be had on the gear that you need to round out your kit. As well, Back to School and Photokina are just around the corner, so even more deals are on the way – no doubt.
In case you haven’t heard yet, everyone’s favorite camera lover and collector Mijonju is back with The Mijonju Show. We’ve previously seen him test and review the MiNT InstantKon RF70 prototype a few months ago. In his most recent analog adventure, he takes us to a quick portrait session with a 4×5 large format camera. Step right up if you’re planning to shoot large format soon!
It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that the Fujifilm X-T3 is coming soon, we have been hearing about it for months, even if unofficially. The discovery today by Nokishita of the registration of an X-T3 in China only confirms what we have all been expecting from Fujifilm, however, it also introduced a new ripple into this picture of the upcoming Fujifilm flagship camera. Apparently, the X-T3 itself will, in fact, be manufactured in China; a first for a Fujifilm flagship camera, these have previously all been built in Japan.
Lightroom is an interesting piece of software, on one hand, if all you want to do is apply a preset or make some basic adjustments to your image it can be an incredibly simple and straightforward experience. On the other hand, if you want to take things to another level in your postprocessing workflow without leaving Lightroom there are some more advanced ways that you can tweak and modify your images to great effect. One such method is this way to adjust the color of specific objects in your images within Lightroom utilizing the adjustment brush.
Attention, photo book lovers and self-publishers! We’ve spotted another interesting project you might want to support on Kickstarter. LA DRIVE-BY, a photo book by Hamburg-based Michael Lange, promises to take us deep into the dark and obscure side of Los Angeles through a series of photos shot from a car during his titular drives.
Just as rent and transit fares are ever increasing, so too are the size of the raw files created by the latest cameras. This is just a fact of life that we as content creators have to contend with on a daily basis. You can never have too much storage, but you may have some hard drives laying around collecting dust, and the TerraMaster D5-300C may just be the right DAS (Direct Attached Storage) device for you to put them to use.
Firmware updates are simultaneously one of the best things about today’s technology and one of the most annoying things. On one hand, it is great that we can get updates from companies to improve the performance or resolve unwanted issues with the gear we have spent so much money on. But on the other hand, it can be annoying to have to do the process and there is always the off chance that the update bricks your gear for one reason or another. But pros and cons aside, Tamron and Canon owners take note because today both companies released some updated firmware for some gear that you may own.