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Canon is temporarily shutting down five of its factories due to supply shortages caused by COVID-19

02 Mar
A factory worker inside Canon’s Utsunomiya factory (not one affected by these closures) works on a telephoto prime lens.

Canon has announced it will be suspending operations at five of its plants on Japan’s Kyushu island due to supply shortages from China caused by COVID-19 (Coronavirus).

The five factories, located in the Oita, Miyazaki and Nagasaki prefectures, produce cameras and other photographic gear. The manufacturing facilities will shut down from March 2 to March 13, with Nikkei (translated) reporting these missed production days will be made up at a later time in the year when the supply of parts is more stable.

DPReview has contacted Canon for more details on what products these closures will affect. We will update this article accordingly if we receive a response.

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Canon is shutting down its cloud-based photo platform Irista

30 Oct

Canon has announced it’ll be shutting down its cloud-based photo storage platform, Irista, on January 31, 2020.

Launched back in 2014, Irista served as an online solution for managing, sharing and printing photos ‘without compromising on quality,’ in Canon’s own words. In addition to the browser, Irista was also accessible via Android and iOS apps.

The shutdown message on Irista’s homepage reads:

Sadly, we’ve decided to close Irista on January 31, 2020. You can continue to access to your photos until the service closes. Please sign in to download them before this date.

In a thorough FAQ page, Canon says all photos and personal data will be removed from its servers on January 31, 2020. Any photos hosted on Irista can be downloaded ahead of time using the ‘Download Your Photos’ link on the Irista homepage. Your photos will be compressed into a ZIP folder and downloaded to your computer, but Canon notes organization methods, such as tags, photo ratings, titles and albums won’t be included with the download, so that information will need to be re-applied afterwards.

Shared albums will still be viewable until the shutdown date, but no new users can be invited to the albums in the meantime. The Irista photo book service will still be in operation through the shutdown date as well.

You can find out more details and information by visiting the Canon Irista FAQ page.

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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Lytro is officially shutting down

28 Mar
Photo: Lytro

Last week, industry sources told TechCrunch that Google would soon acquire light field camera maker Lytro for somewhere between $ 25 million and $ 40 million. And while Google’s part in all this hasn’t been confirmed, Lytro has now formally announce that it will be shutting down, and an anonymous source has shed more light on how Google is involved.

The official Lytro announcement was published earlier on the company’s blog, where Team Lytro bid a bittersweet farewell to the “Cinematic and VR Community.”

The statement—which you can see in full at the bottom of this post—reads in part:

It has been an honor and a pleasure to contribute to the cinema and Virtual Reality communities, but starting today we will not be taking on new productions or providing professional services as we prepare to wind down the company. We’re excited to see what new opportunities the future brings for the Lytro team as we go our separate ways.

According to The Verge, for many of the Lytro employees “separate ways” actually means “to Google.”

A person familiar with the matter confirmed the original TechCrunch report to The Verge, explaining that “a large fraction” of the employees at Lytro would take jobs at Google. However, those jobs won’t necessarily have anything to do with developing light field technology. The Verge’s source said the deal was more “hiring deal” than “company acquisition,” and that Google wasn’t so much buying Lytro as acquiring its talent and some of its assets, without any specific plans to integrate those assets into current light field projects.

Google has yet to (and may never) comment on this information, and Lytro didn’t specify how long it would take to “wind down,” but it seems we’ve seen the end of the Lytro brand—either as a consumer camera maker, or in the professional VR filmmaking market.

Full Lytro Statement

To the Cinematic and VR Community, Live Long and Prosper

At Lytro, we believe that Light Field will continue to shape the course of Virtual and Augmented Reality, and we’re incredibly proud of the role we’ve been able to play in pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. We’ve uncovered challenges we never dreamed of and made breakthroughs at a seemingly impossible pace. We’ve had some spectacular successes, and built entire systems that no one thought possible. More importantly, we built a team that was singularly unified in its focus and unrivaled in its dedication. It has been an honor and a pleasure to contribute to the cinema and Virtual Reality communities, but starting today we will not be taking on new productions or providing professional services as we prepare to wind down the company. We’re excited to see what new opportunities the future brings for the Lytro team as we go our separate ways. We would like to thank the various communities that have supported us and hope that our paths will cross in the future.

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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ImageBrief is shutting down, users have one week to save their images

03 Mar

Photo licensing service ImageBrief, which was founded in 2011, is officially shutting down. The news was announced over email, in which ImageBrief notified current users of the close, and told them they have one week to download their images before the site’s servers are wiped.

During its six years in the licensing industry, the company offered customers a different way to get the images they need: rather than searching a pre-defined library, companies could submit on-demand “briefs” detailing the work needed, which photographers responded to in hopes of having their images purchased. This was a big change over how traditional stock photography agencies operate—and one that has been picked up by other companies over time—but the model doesn’t seem to have worked out in the long run.

ImageBrief users were surprised by the closure announcement, which was delivered in the form of an email earlier this week. The statement, which says ImageBrief connected more than 70,000 creators with clients from around the world, fails to provide a reason for the company’s demise. It does, however, advise photographers who participated in project briefs that they must download their account assets within the week, after which point the content will be deleted.

The full email reads:

Today, we’re announcing that after six years of connecting agencies, brands and creators, we will be closing down ImageBrief’s photographer marketing services

We’re proud of the products and apps we built, but even more so, we’re grateful for the community that enabled them to grow. More than 70,000 creators earned millions of dollars collaborating with 12,500+ global agencies and brands in 169 countries.

There has never been a better time for creators to thrive. Demand for content has increased, and the tools to create world-class creative are more accessible than ever.

Our talented team of engineers, designers, developers, and curators have worked tirelessly to make ImageBrief a success in a competitive and rapidly evolving landscape, and our immediate priority is to help you transition to other services to support your business.

In the coming days, our team will be in contact with you directly with detailed information about your specific account, license history, and services. Over the next week, we recommend logging into ImageBrief to download and retain your license history and related assets. […]

We want to thank you for your participation and loyalty, and look forward to working with you in the coming weeks to ensure a smooth transition.

Sincerely,

Team ImageBrief

As of this morning, all of ImageBrief’s social media pages have been deleted. And the homepage has been pared down into a simple log in page for buyers and photographers, with no mention of the closure.

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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