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  • OMG Life starts sales of Autographer ‘intelligent wearable camera’

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    British company OMG Life has announced that its Autographer camera is now on general sale. Billed as the ‘world’s first intelligent, wearable camera’, it uses an array of built-in sensors to take pictures automatically triggered by changes in its environment. It has an ultra-wideangle lens with a 136° view, a 5MP sensor, and 8GB of internal memory for up to 28,000 images. Images can be shared with smartphones using a Bluetooth connection, and assembled into stop-motion movies. It’s available from the company’s website for £399, shipping initially to the UK and most European countries.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Just Posted: Fujifilm X100S Review

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    We’ve just posted our long-awaited review of the Fujifilm X100S – Fujifilm’s flagship fixed-lens compact. The 16MP X100S offers a fixed 35mm equivalent F2 lens, and builds on the appeal of the popular but quirky X100 by adding improved automatic and manual focus, an overhauled interface and a 16MP X-TRANS sensor. Do the on-paper refinements add up to better real-world performance? Click through for a link to the full review, and a note from the editor.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Macro photographs reveal the tiny, brutal world of ant warfare

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    Think ants are only interested in crashing your summer picnic? When they’re not after our stray watermelon slices, it seems they’re busy in engaging in ant-to-ant combat. Alex Wild’s macro photography reveals the warring nature (and surprisingly frightening jaws) of these seemingly unassuming insects. His photos reveal fights over territory, conflicts between colonies and brutal take-downs that rival UFC brawls – all going on otherwise unnoticed at our feet.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • New cheat sheet tells you how to keep photos sharp when sharing

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    The cautious photographer is always conscious of what’s happening to their images when they’re being shared online – whether they’re being resized, re-compressed or otherwise modified from the original. Social networks like Facebook and Twitter all treat images differently, but a new cheat sheet can help you keep your pictures sharp by detailing the pixel dimensions of just about every component on the major social networking sites. Click through for more details on connect.dpreview.com

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Then and now: Photographing the Bay Bridge

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    Peter Stackpole was just 21 when he brought his Leica A to the top of the still-under-construction San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. It was 1934, and Stackpole had no official authorization to capture images that would eventually land in Vanity Fair. Decades later, photographer Joseph Blum captured yet another bridge project in the bay area. Despite considerably tighter safety restrictions, he made soaring images of the modern construction site. Click through to see samples, then and now.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • What The Duck #1421

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    We’ve been fans of Aaron Johnson’s comic strip ‘What the Duck’ for years. ‘WTD’ is one of the best satirical comic strips in the world, and it’s published here every week, as well as being included in our weekly newsletter. Barbed, topical and always amusing, we hope you enjoy WTD as much as we do. Click through for one from Aaron’s archive. Appropriate this week, we think…

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Photojournalist Ben Lowy shows off updated EyeEm app

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    Photojournalist Ben Lowy famously brought mobile photography to mass media when his Hipstamatic images from Kabul, Afghanistan were published by the New York Times Magazine in 2011. He’s also well known for an image of Hurricane Sandy taken with his iPhone which made the cover of TIME Magazine last year. Today on Connect we look at some of his most recent work using EyeEm’s new Clara filter to document life in Sarajevo.

     

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Just posted: Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX30 Review

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    We’ve just posted the sixth and final review in our round-up of compact rugged cameras. This review is of the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX30, which offers a much thinner body than its peers. It also has a large 3.3-inch touchscreen OLED display, a host of fun features, and a 1080/60i movie mode. Next week we’ll be publishing an article comparing all of the cameras, but while you’re waiting, check out the TX30 review after the link.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Blending modes: Tools for post-processing

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    In this article, Seattle-based photographer Thomas Park shows how you can use Photoshop’s layer ‘blending modes’ to remove stains and blemishes from scanned images, sharpen up your photographs and even warm up cold hands! (sort of). Click through for a link to the full article, ‘Blending modes: Tools for post-processing’.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • ACDSee 16 and Pro 6 gain Raw support for 14 additional cameras

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    ACD Systems has extended the Raw support offered by its ACDSee Pro 6 and ACDSee 16 software packages. Version 6.3 of the Pro version and and ACDSee v16.1 gain support for an additional 14 cameras including the Canon EOS 100D and 700D, Nikon D7100 and Coolpix A, Sony NEX-3N and SLT-A58, Olympus XZ-10, and the Panasonic DMC-G6. This update also includes performance improvements. Click through for more information.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)