Industry Notes for the week of Jan. 4
Rumours and interesting items from around the internet
- 500px combines Terms of Service and Contributor Agreement, confusing some users, via PetaPixel
- Funding For These Startup Sectors Was Way Down In 2019, via Crunchbase
- Consumers demand honesty, transparency of influencers, study finds, via MediaPost
- Fujifilm confirms it is not attending Photokina 2020, via PetaPixel
- Apple introduces specs for photography strobe accessories that augment iPhone 11’s flash, via 9to5Mac
Tech trends to watch
- Sony can’t make image sensors fast enough to keep up with demand, via Bloomberg
- The American University of Armenia (AUA), PicsArt announce the launch of an AI lab.
- Vivo, OPPO and Xiaomi partner on wireless file transfer system
- VNYL reimagines retro with VNYL CAM instant film service with a co-branded Polaroid camera, via Cheddar.
- The Why, What and Who Behind VSCO’s New Chicago Office, via BuiltInChi.
- In 2019 cameras got much better, but the market still crashed, via Engadget
- Ability Enterprise shifting focus to commercial, high-end consumer cameras, via DigiTimes
- Photography Trends of the 2010s, via the Adobe blog
- DJI patents a surprising off-roader integrated with stabilized camera, via Inceptive Mind
App and software updates
- How to create perfect portrait shots and selfies with Snapseed, via The Android Soul
- Fotomerchant HV v1.36 has been released, which includes various updates, bug fixes and a new feature to improve Catalog management.
- Luminar update brings new AI-centric features and performance improvements
- Pixelmator Pro adds image resolution enhancement using AI
- New firmware updates for the Sony Alpha α7R IV, α7R III and α7 III bring flash control to the cameras. The addition of an external flash setting function allows you to configure the settings of an attached flash or Wireless Radio Commander from the camera, via AlphaUniverse blog
- HDRtist NX 2.2 release for macOS
- Fujifilm still working to update FUJIFILM Camera Remote due to iOS 13 conflicts.
- CYME announces Avalanche 1.0, a photo migration tool for macOS
- Google Photos added the ability to add blurred backgrounds to any photo on new Pixel smartphones, via Express UK
- darktable 3.0.0 has been released with a new UI.