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New Fujifilm X/GFX website and app offers news, events, deals, interviews and tips

17 May

Fujifilm X-Series and GFX users can now tune in to the latest Fuji offers and inspiration via a new website and app created by Fujifilm USA. The site will host interviews with X and GFX professionals, run technique articles to help users get the most from their kit, and showcase collections of images shot with Fujifilm equipment.

FujifilmXGFX.com was launched yesterday by Fujifilm USA, but there are no actual geographic restrictions on access to the content, so it can be enjoyed by anyone. An app, launched at the same time is essentially a mobile version of the site, and will carry the same articles formatted for the small screen. The company promises give-aways and news of special deals, as well as a finder function to help users locate their closest Fujifilm dealer.

In addition, the company has launched a printed newspaper called Fujifilm X/GFX USA Bulletin that will feature highlights from the website, and which will be given away free in camera stores.

To see the new site visit fujifilmxgfx.com

Press Release

Fujifilm Launches New FUJIFILM X/GFX USA Website and Mobile App

Offering Exciting News, Local Events, Inspirational Photography, Tutorials, and Regular Sweepstakes for FUJIFILM Digital Camera Users in the United States

Valhalla, N.Y., May 15, 2018 – FUJIFILM North America Corporation today announced the launch of its new website and mobile app for FUJIFILM digital camera users in the United States. The newly designed website brings together the latest FUJIFILM X Series and GFX system news, information about upcoming photography events, and inspiring features to help FUJIFILM photographers stay up to date and creatively energized.

Recent articles include a photographic trip to Antarctica with Dan Westergren and his FUJIFILM GFX 50S, a gallery of images shot by professional photographers using the new FUJIFILM X-H1 camera, and detailed rundowns of the exciting new features being added to FUJIFILM cameras via firmware updates.

Created by FUJIFILM North America Corporation, FUJIFILMXGFX.com brings together the finest photography, latest news, and essential techniques. It also helps visitors to find information on their nearest Authorized GFX system and X Series Dealers, including X Series Premier Dealers, making it the ultimate website experience for Fujifilm photographers.

As well as hearing about promotions and events, photographers who register on the website will be the first to learn about the regular competitions, sweepstakes and promotional offers that are featured in the Promotions & Giveaways section. These include photography gear giveaways, limited-time deals, Education Program information, and other great benefits that are not to be missed.

“We are excited to launch a platform that displays the image quality and creative possibilities of the GFX system and X Series line of digital cameras,” said Yuji Igarashi, General Manager of the Electronic Imaging Division & Optical Devices Division at FUJIFILM North America Corporation. “It’s basically a go-to website and app offering a range of resources, for all FUJIFILM photographers.”

The mobile app, FUJIFILM X/GFX USA, encompasses all features of the FUJIFILM X/GFX USA website and formats them especially for smart devices. It is available for download on iTunes for Apple users and Google Play for Android users.

App users are able to activate notifications, so they’ll never miss out on the latest news and promotions. Like the FUJIFILM X/GFX USA website, the app also includes FUJIFILM Focus, a special space dedicated to the latest information about Fujifilm-supported events, product announcements, FUJIFILM X-Photographer profiles, promotions, giveaways and much more.

And the next time you visit an Authorized X Series Dealer, keep your eyes open for your free copy of the FUJIFILM X/GFX USA Bulletin. This is a regularly printed newspaper featuring a selection of the best content from the FUJIFILM X/GFX USA website, including news, interviews and beautiful images to inspire you. Pick up your free copy of the FUJIFILM X/GFX USA Bulletin while stock lasts.

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

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Instagram updates news feed, makes it a bit more chronological

24 Mar

Yesterday, Instagram announced some changes to the News Feed that might quiet some of the grumbling that’s been going on ever since the app switched from a Chronological to an Algorithmic feed. No, the rumors were not true and the company is not going back to the chronological feed in full, but your Instagram feed will begin surfacing newer posts closer to the top of your feed from now on.

The announcement comes less than a week after Instagram was forced to debunk a viral rumor that it was testing a return to the Chronological feed. But it seems that rumor might have contained a grain of truth.

Yesterday’s update is actually two-fold. First, newer posts are now “more likely to appear first in feed” so you don’t have to scroll through a bunch of posts from several days ago in order to see images that were posted this morning. And Second, the feed will no longer update automatically; instead, Instagram is testing a “New Posts” button that allows you to manually refresh the feed only when you’re ready.

The latter change is a response to feedback that “it can feel unexpected when your feed refreshes and automatically bumps you to the top.” I can personally relate to this annoyance, and I’m sure some of our readers can, too.

Profile names and hashtags are now clickable in your Instagram bio.

Finally, right before this announcement went live, Instagram also revealed that it would now allow users to link hashtags and profile links in their bio. So if you add your professional photo profile to your personal bio or visa-versa, that @-name will now be clickable. Same goes for hashtags.

Adding a level of security to this, whenever you link someone’s profile in your bio, their account will receive a notification, and they can choose to remove the link.

All of these changes are rolling out now, although the News Feed changes still in the ‘testing’ phase. To take advantage of the updates yourself, just make sure you’re using the latest version of Instagram on either iOS or Android.

Press Release

Changes to Improve Your Instagram Feed

Today we’re introducing changes to give you more control over your feed and ensure the posts you see are timely.

We’ve heard it can feel unexpected when your feed refreshes and automatically bumps you to the top. So today we’re testing a “New Posts” button that lets you choose when you want to refresh, rather than it happening automatically. Tap the button and you’ll be taken to new posts at the top of feed — don’t tap, and you’ll stay where you are. We hope this makes browsing Instagram much more enjoyable.

Based on your feedback, we’re also making changes to ensure that newer posts are more likely to appear first in feed. With these changes, your feed will feel more fresh, and you won’t miss the moments you care about. So if your best friend shares a selfie from her vacation in Australia, it will be waiting for you when you wake up.

Over the next few months, we’ll be sharing more about improvements we’re making to feed. Our goal is to be the best place to share and connect with the people and interests that matter most to you.

Introducing Hashtag and Profile Links in Bio

Today, we’re introducing hashtag and profile links in bio, a new way to express yourself and the things you care about. Now when you include a # or @ in your bio, they become live links that lead to a hashtag page or another profile.

In December, we introduced the ability to follow hashtags, giving you new ways to stay connected with the interests, hobbies, passions and communities you care about. With hashtag and profile links in your bio, you can express yourself and your interests right in your profile. Whether you’re a #guitarlover, into #pencilsketching or have a #makeuptutorial account, now you can link to any hashtag or profile you want.

To add a hashtag or profile link in your bio, just tap on Edit Profile and go to the bio section. When you type a # or @, you will see a list of recommended hashtags and accounts in the typeahead. Once you select the hashtags and accounts you want, they will automatically be linked in your bio.

When you mention someone else’s profile in your bio, they will receive a notification and can choose to remove the link to their profile. Their profile will remain in your bio but without a link.

Instagram has always been a place for self-expression, and now there are even more ways to express yourself and your interests. To learn more, check out the Help Center.

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

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Famed Chinese rooftopper falls to his death from 62-story skyscraper

In November, 26-year-old Chinese rooftopper Wu Yongning fell to his death from atop the 62-story Huayuan Hua Centre skyscraper when a photo stunt for an unnamed sponsor went horribly wrong. The story—and a video of his fall—only came to light this week, shining a tragic light on the dangerous lengths some photographers will go to for an exciting shot.

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Photo: Weibo

Musician kicks photographer in the face during rock concert, sending her to the ER

Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme found himself the subject of heated criticism and disgust this week, after a video and photos seem to show him purposely kicking photographer Chelsea Lauren in the face during a performance.

His apologies—first over Twitter, and later over Instagram video— have not gone over well.

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Photo: Screenshot from YouTube video

These are the winners of National Geographic’s Nature Photographer of the Year 2017

Moving from tragedy and anger to inspiration, National Geographic revealed the winners of its annual Nature Photographer of the Year contest. And as you might have expected, every shot from the Grand Prize winner down to the Honorable Mentions and People’s Choice awards were fantastic.

The Grand Prize went to photographer Jayaprakash Joghee Bojan of Singapore, who beat out 11,000 other entries with his intense wildlife portrait of an orangutan crossing a river in Indonesia’s Tanjung Puting National Park.

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Photos courtesy of National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2017

A fully loaded iMac Pro will cost you $ 13,200

On December 14th, Apple finally put the “most powerful Mac ever,” its new iMac Pro, up for sale. And now that the powerhouse of an all-in-one is live on the Apple Store online, we were able to check how much a fully loaded version would cost you.

No surprise here: an 18-core iMac Pro with 128GB of RAM, a 4TB SSD and Radeon Pro Vega 64 graphics card costs about as much as a modest sedan!

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Photo: Apple

DxOMark: The full-frame Leica M10 is ‘on par’ with the best APS-C sensors

DxOMark finished their review of the Leica M10 sensor this week, giving the sensor an overall score of 86.

The Good News: this means that the sensor inside the M10 outperforms almost every other digital Leica ever made, coming in second only to the Leica SL with its overall score of 88.

The Bad News: the expensive camera still falls significantly short of the top-of-the-line full-frame sensors out there, performing “more on par” with the best APS-C sensors DxOMark has tested.

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Photo: DPReview hands-on photo by Barney Britton

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

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Faker exposed after convincing top news media he was a war photographer for two years

07 Sep

Over 100,000 Instagram users and some of the world’s best known media organizations were fooled for over two years by someone pretending to be a front-line war photographer. The entire stranger-than-fiction story was revealed recently by BBC Brazil after a lengthy investigation.

According to the BBC’s report, so-called ‘Eduardo Martins’ posed as a Brazilian UN photographer by using a collection of images stolen from other photographers’ websites and from news organizations. Stealing with care he built a body of striking work that brought him to the attention of BBC Brazil, Al Jazeera, the Wall Street Journal, Getty Images and many others, and amassed him over 120,000 followers on Instagram.

‘Eduardo’ posted tear-sheets of his work in print and recounted stories of his encounters and ‘humanity’ in the face of chaotic and violent scenes. He was able to keep the ruse going by never speaking to anyone in person, and sending only recorded or emailed messages. His photographs were placed with Getty Images and tales of his exploits made print with some of the world’s biggest newspapers.

An interviewer at the BBC became suspicious, however, and started to ask questions that revealed other Brazilian war photographers working in the same zones had no idea who Eduardo was. As the war correspondent community is tight knit and journalists in conflict zones inevitably know one another, alarm bells began to ring.

Enquiries with the UN also established that no one with that name was on its books as a photographer, and that neither were other UN photographer friends that Martins referred to—including some that Martins mourned in his posts after they were ‘killed’. Amazingly the UN even followed him on Instagram.

Pictures from the Facebook page of photographer Ignacio Aronovich that demonstrate how Martins manipulated photographs belonging to Daniel C. Britt to disguise them from image recognition software.

It turns out the profile picture Martins used was of a UK surfer called Max Hepworth-Povey, and that the images Martins posted, distributed to news outlets and supplied for his interviews were stolen from other photographers. The images were often flipped, cropped and manipulated to disguise them from automated visual-matching services so Martins could pass them off as his own.

His technique became clear when a photographer noted that other photographers in a picture credited to Martins were holding cameras with the shutter release on the left hand side of the body instead of the right.

As news of suspicions got back to Martins via a photographer he corresponded with online he disappeared, deleting his Instagram account and shutting down the phone number he used for Whatsapp messaging. His last message said he was planning to tour Australia in a van for a year and to cut communication with the world.

Whether Eduardo is a man or a woman, or even owns a camera at all, remains unclear—and indeed whether he/she is even from Brazil and is or isn’t currently in Australia. These things may never be known, but the story does raise questions about how well news organizations vet their contributors and interviewees.

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

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CIPA figures for May show more good news for camera makers

07 Jul

The number of cameras made and shipped by manufacturers continues to grow, spelling some positive news for the photo industry. Although the total number of digital still cameras produced in May by members of the Camera and Imaging Products Association was only up by 4.1% in April, the difference over May 2016 was an impressive 42.2%—and by value 38.9%.

Compact camera and interchangeable lens camera shipments grew by much the same amount, but within the interchangeable lens sector almost two and a half times more mirrorless cameras were produced than last May, while DSLRs grew by only 12.1%.

By value, production of DSLRs was flat on last year and mirrorless up by 160%, but the number of DSLRs produced is still well ahead of compact system cameras—628,336 units as compared to just 387,287.

May 2017 figures still fell short of 2015 (the dotted purple line), but far outpaced May of 2016 (the solid black line).

The association’s figures show that the value of cameras shipped in May was up by 54.5% on the same month last year, with the compact system sector growing by over 200%. While the number of units shipped has also grown, these figures demonstrate a (predictable) movement towards higher priced cameras across the whole industry, and particularly in the mirrorless category.

The mirrorless bug seems to be quickly catching on in the USA, with the region showing value growth of 390%, but the actual number of models shipped still lags behind Europe and Asia. America seems to have a taste for the more expensive mirrorless models though, with a mean pre-tax price of around $ 720 per camera compared to $ 480 in Europe, $ 500 in Japan and $ 470 in Asia.

For more information see the CIPA website and our report on April 2017 figures.

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

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Photo Gear News shows you how to make a DIY lapel mic

23 May

Professional microphones for video are expensive, and even if you have the means, some cameras don’t offer the correct inputs. In this video, for Photo Gear News, Daniel Peters shows you how to make a DIY lapel microphone using a smartphone and a pair of earbuds.

Check out PGN’s YouTube channel for more

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

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Canon 6D II rumors and a B&W medium format back: ‘Fro rounds up the week’s news

14 May

In this his most recent photo news ‘fix’, Jared Polin, AKA ‘Fro Knows Photo’ tackles rumors of a forthcoming replacement for the Canon EOS 6D, and the announcement of Phase One’s pricey new 100MP black and white back. What would you buy with $ 50,000? Fro wants to know.

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

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Countdown to PIX 2015: Jonathan Alcorn and the evolution of news photography

30 Sep

With just a week until PIX 2015, we’re taking the opportunity to introduce you to some of our talented re:FRAME speakers. As a veteran photojournalist, Jonathan Alcorn has acquired some impressive clients on his resume including Reuters, Bloomberg, Getty Images and the New York Times, among many more. Read more

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

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Photo District News Presents The Look Competition

07 Jun

Photo District News The Look Competition 2015

Hey there FashionPhotographyBlog.com readers,

We are really excited to announce that our friends over at Photo District News (PDN) are having a competition, called The Look and are open for entries right now!

The Look is PDN’s comprehensive competition for evocative fashion and beauty photography, with categories for professional photographers, such as still photographers and motion photographers, as well as for students of photography.

We are at FPBlog are excited for the next edition of the look and you should be too! I’m sharing this competition to you guys because we know that winning a prize like this could really help give you a boost to your photography existing career or help you start one.

Photo District News The Look Competition 2015

3 Reasons why you should be excited about the Look Competition

Here are our top 3 reasons why we are excited about this competition:

1) The range of work. The Look includes many categories to enter in such as advertising, editorial, still life/accessories, personal work/fine art, runway/street scenes and beauty, plus a motion category for film and a debut/student category for rising stars.

The competition aims to cover all facets of the fashion industry. Last year’s winning work included a series of Chloé handbags shot for Barneys’ look books, a beauty series in Vogue Italia, and a film from a Valentino runway show.

Photo District News The Look Competition 2015

2) The grand-prize package. With a $ 3,500 award to fund a photographer’s work, $ 500 for equipment at B & H, and a one-page profile in Photo District News, the grand-prize package provides the winner with an exceptional opportunity for growth.

3) Promoting the winners. All the winners of this competition will be published in PDN’s October issue this year. Online, The Look winners’ gallery always makes for a beautiful collection of work, and PDN are proud to showcase them! In addition to the print and online gallery, PDN organized an exhibition of the winners’ works at the PhotoPlus Expo at the Javits Center in October last year, which saw 22,000 visitors over the event. PDN will be looking for more opportunities like this to exhibit this year’s winners. You can take a look at last year’s winner gallery by clicking here –> The Look 2014 Winners

The Look Competition Prizes

Here is a recap of the prizes offered in PDN’s The Look Competition for 2015:

ONE GRAND-PRIZE WINNER WILL RECEIVE:

– $ 3,500 cash prize

– A $ 500 B&H Gift Card

– A one-page profile in an issue of PDN

SEVEN FIRST-PLACE WINNERS WILL RECEIVE:

– $ 100 B&H Gift Card

ALL WINNERS WILL RECEIVE:

– A one-year PHOTO+ Basic Membership

– A place in the print/online winners’ gallery in the October 2015 issue of PDN

– The official winners’ seal for The Look

For more information on how to enter The Look competition, you can click and visit this link here -> The Look Competition Details

Entries close June 30th 2015, so do hurry to enter!

Photo District News The Look Competition 2015

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Site news: New ‘Features’ index page

13 Aug

Hey you know that article you read on dpreview.com a couple of months ago that you really liked? What was it called again…? do you remember who wrote it…? Yeah, we hear you. Since we made some site changes earlier this summer it’s been pretty hard to find certain types of articles but we’ve been working on it, and we’re pleased to announce a new index page for non-review content. This is where you’ll find articles and news stories, arranged in categories according to theme – everything from interviews and show reports to accessory reviews. Click through to learn more.

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Posts Tagged ‘News’

New Fujifilm X/GFX website and app offers news, events, deals, interviews and tips

Fujifilm Launches New FUJIFILM X/GFX USA Website and Mobile App

Instagram updates news feed, makes it a bit more chronological

Changes to Improve Your Instagram Feed

Introducing Hashtag and Profile Links in Bio

Top 5 news stories of the week on DPReview

Top 5 Photography News Stories of the Week

Famed Chinese rooftopper falls to his death from 62-story skyscraper

Musician kicks photographer in the face during rock concert, sending her to the ER

These are the winners of National Geographic’s Nature Photographer of the Year 2017

A fully loaded iMac Pro will cost you $ 13,200

DxOMark: The full-frame Leica M10 is ‘on par’ with the best APS-C sensors

Faker exposed after convincing top news media he was a war photographer for two years

CIPA figures for May show more good news for camera makers

Photo Gear News shows you how to make a DIY lapel mic

Canon 6D II rumors and a B&W medium format back: ‘Fro rounds up the week’s news

Countdown to PIX 2015: Jonathan Alcorn and the evolution of news photography

Photo District News Presents The Look Competition

3 Reasons why you should be excited about the Look Competition

The Look Competition Prizes

Site news: New ‘Features’ index page

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