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500px combines Terms of Service and Contributor Agreement, confusing some users

24 Dec

Photography community 500px recently updated its Terms of Service, adding its Contributor Agreement into the TOS to provide a single destination for both. As tends to be the case any time a social network or other service updates its TOS, some users have picked through the text and come away frightened. A recent analysis of the changes by PetaPixel, however, finds little to be concerned about.

500px released its updated Terms of Service earlier this month; users were alerted to the change when the service prompted them to read and agree to the latest TOS. A number of users posted concerns about various snippets on social media, questioning the terms and, in some cases, demanding the company make changes.

PetaPixel recently dug into the latest Terms of Service and compared it to 500px’s older archived TOS, finding that the language has remained essentially unchanged. Some users may be surprised by the changes because of the inclusion of the Contributor Agreement within the updated TOS. Those added terms only apply to users who choose to sell images through the platform, however.

Users always retain the option of deleting their 500px account. The latest Terms of Service explains that:

Upon termination (by 500px or you), 500px will remove your Visual Content from licensing within 180 days and will inform all distributors that the Visual Content should be removed during that time period, provided however that 500px (and our distributors) may retain digital copies of Visual Content for archival and record-keeping purposes. 500px will continue to make payments due to you after termination in accordance with these Terms.

Via: PetaPixel

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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Yashica reveals its own 35mm film product following bizarre, confusing teasers

10 Apr

Yashica, the iconic brand purchased by Hong Kong-based MF Jebsen Group in 2008, is preparing to launch its own 35mm film product. The company began dropping teasers related to the product late last month, including an image with broken English shared on Facebook and a trio of dark Instagram images that left followers confused.

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Yashica first teased the product on April 1 with an image of a film negative featuring ‘NEGATIVE C-41,’ ’24,’ and ‘COLOUR ISO400.’ The image also featured the confusing, grammatically incorrect statement, ‘We will have many Negative’s News start from Today.’

Some followers suspected the image was an April Fools’ prank, but the company followed it up with an image featuring Yashica film rolls on April 4. As noted in the comments on the post, the image appears to be a render based on the obvious gap located at the top of the exposed film strip.

Note the visible gap between the film strip and the 35mm canister.

On April 5, Yashica shared a gallery of photos taken by Kerry Jeffrey using the new Yashica 400 Negative film. The company also shared a statement from Jeffrey, who said, ‘It’s a fun film to use. Not too grainy. There were small small color shifts in strong light, but I like it overall.’

Many photographers have responded to Yashica’s announcement with a lack of enthusiasm or outright criticism, with some of them pointing toward the company’s lackluster Y35 camera it launched after raising more than $ 1m on Kickstarter. It remains unclear when Yashica plans to release its film, but all signs point toward photographers being generally uninterested.

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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USB 3.2 specification arrives this year with confusing new naming structure

01 Mar

The USB 3.2 specification announced by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) in 2017 will be arriving soon, and it’ll bring a relatively convoluted new naming structure with it. As was the case when the USB 3.1 specification launched, the new USB 3.2 spec will absorb the previous generations before it, designating them as Gen 1 and Gen 2.

The new USB 3.2 specification, which brings speeds up to 20Gbps, will be known as USB 3.2 Gen 2×2. Joining this will be USB 3.2 Gen 1, which originally launched as USB 3.0 and was later renamed USB 3.1 Gen 1; this specification supports transfer speeds up to 5Gbps.

Between the two will be USB 3.2 Gen 2, which originally launched as USB 3.1 and was late renamed USB 3.1 Gen 2; this specification supports transfer speeds up to 10Gbps. In order to hit the 20Gbps speed, USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 will utilize two of these 10Gbps high-speed channels.

To help consumers understand which version they’re getting, the USB-IF suggests manufacturers use the following terms:

  • USB 3.2 Gen 1: ‘SuperSpeed USB’
  • USB 3.2 Gen 2: ‘SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps’
  • USB 3.2 Gen 2×2: ‘SuperSpeed USB 20Gbps’

According to The Verge, the new USB 3.2 specification will hit the market sometime this year.

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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