A digest of last week’s photo and video news – Week 9

A digest of last week's photo and video news - Week 9 1

A digest of last week’s news is a selection of some of the news from week 08 from 2016 related to the worlds of photography and video, covering multiple topics, always rounded up with a reading suggestion. March 1: DJI’s Phantom 4 flies Last week DJI published a video on YouTube, with a title, Return […]

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Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II introduces Dual Sensing IS

Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II introduces Dual Sensing IS 2

The PowerShot G7 X Mark II compact camera is the first from Canon to use the new Digic 7 image processor that we will soon see in other models from the company. But the camera is also the first to introduce a change in the way image stabilization works, through Dual Sensing IS, which is […]

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Use the under US$50 Kindle Fire as a 48 kHz audio recorder

The lowest priced 7-inch color Kindle Fire tablet currently costs less than US$50 (or less than €60) and has received great reviews for its original purpose: to consume all types of content, including video, music, audiobooks, ebooks and the web in general, as well as being a Skype communicator device with dual cameras. However, this […]

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Magic Movie Wizard: a semi-automatic NLE

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Last January Scott Simmons tested an automatic video editing tool, Fastcut, which I had mentionned here at ProVideo Coalition in December 2015. To continue the conversation, I wrote about the Video Snapshot feature present in some Canon cameras. Now it is time to test Magic Movie Wizard, which promises easy ways to edit video. In […]

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Topaz Labs updates DeNoise software

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Noise reduction software continues to be a photographer’s best friend, even now, when cameras support high ISOs. Or even more so, as there really are no free lunches.That’s a good reason for Topaz Labs to update their own noise reduction software, which is offered at a special price until March 20, 2016. Topaz DeNoise 6 […]

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Behind the Cinematography of the Oscar-Nominated Documentary “Cartel Land”

Behind the Cinematography of the Oscar-Nominated Documentary "Cartel Land" 7

Cinematographer Matt Porwoll is based in New York City. His most recent work, Cartel Land, was nominated for a 2016 Academy Award for Best Documentary (feature). Cartel Land was also selected for competition at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and subsequently went on to win the US Documentary Prize for Cinematography. He was one of three […]

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Ask me no questions and I’ll speak in no fragments

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A sign taped to the door says “Quiet– filming.” This only makes you more nervous. You enter the room: it’s mostly pitch black, except for the brightly lit chair in the middle. A very friendly stranger, silhouetted in the dark, is shaking your hand with inappropriate enthusiasm. Another shadowy person looks you up and down […]

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Sony’s New AXS-R7 Recorder Brings 4K RAW 120fps To F55

A New RAW recorder means the F55 comes out swinging with 4K RAW 120fps at 16-bit color. […]

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