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  • Instagram reaches 1 billion active users

    With its stand-alone IGTV video app Instagram had a big product announcement this week, but at the launch event in San Francisco the company had another milestone to talk about: after surpassing 800 million active users last September, Instagram has now reached the 1 billion mark.

    After Messenger (1.3 billion), Whatsapp (1.5 billion) and Facebook itself (2.2 billion), this makes the mobile image sharing platform the fourth Facebook-owned social media app to reach this lofty number. When Instagram was taken over by Facebook in 2012, it had approximately 40 million users. The app’s massive growth makes the 1 billion dollar price tag back then look like a very sound investment now.

    It also shows that the recent privacy controversies around Facebook after the misuse of data belonging to 50 million of its users don’t appear to have a lasting impact on the company’s apps’ and services’ user numbers.

    Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Canon’s multi-purpose ME20F-SH camera reaches ISO 4 million

    Canon has introduced its ME20F-SH multi-purpose camera – a black cube with an EF mount and the ability to capture video in near-darkness. With the ability to capture Full HD color video in light levels as low as 0.0005 lux and a top ISO of over 4 million, the ME20F-SH is well suited for surveillance and security as well as wildlife applications. Learn more

    Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Panasonic 4K Photo reaches to grab stills-from-video dream

    Using a video feed to capture stills isn’t a new idea – Nikon’s first electronic camera, the QV-1000C, did it in the late 1980s – but the resolution of 4K makes it more useful. Panasonic has recognized this way of working and has introduced 4K Photo mode to its 4K cameras, to make things easier for the user. We took the feature for a test drive. Read more

    Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Google+ reaches out to photographers with new imaging features

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    Google is reaching out to photographers once again by announcing a bevy of forthcoming features on its social networking site Google+ that will be a boon to photographers: full-resolution photo backups for iOS users, improved search through advanced photo recognition software, and better image editing tools. See what else is new on connect.dpreview.com.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Getty Images’ Flickr licensing deal reaches 1/2 million images

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    Getty Images’ scheme for licensing images from the photo sharing site Flickr has added its 500,000th image. The half-millionth image was shot by system engineer and photo hobbyist ‘Jiangang Wang’ for Tianjin, China, of the Minato Mirai development in Yokohama, Japan. The licensing deal, started in June 2010, allows Flickr members to offer their images for licensing by Getty. If Getty chooses to accept the request, the photographer can choose how to license their images, at rates comparable to Getty’s other images libraries.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)