Canon U.S.A. announces customer-matching service, Lightroom plug-in New Products 

Canon U.S.A. announces customer-matching service, Lightroom plug-in

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Canon U.S.A. Inc. announced the beta version of the company’s first photographer matching service Image Connect, making the process of finding and hiring a photographer simpler. The company also launched a Photo Culling plug-in for Adobe Lightroom Classic to support the workflow needs of photographers. “With a deep-rooted heritage in imaging expertise, our company has built a trusted reputation in providing tools and services... Read More
Baby monitor company Nanit announces Membook service Events New Products 

Baby monitor company Nanit announces Membook service

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Baby monitor and sleep tracker company Nanit unveiled Membook, the way to preserve your baby’s precious first moments automatically in a digital baby book. Designed to seamlessly function with the Nanit Plus nursery camera and within the Nanit app, Membook documents saveable and shareable moments the camera sees in your baby’s crib. Using computer vision technology, the Nanit Plus HD... Read More
Canon debuts Canon EOS-1D X Mark III DSLR Events New Products 

Canon debuts Canon EOS-1D X Mark III DSLR

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Canon U.S.A. Inc. announced its new flagship DSLR, Canon EOS-1D X Mark III  camera. The camera features a new 20.1 MP full-frame CMOS sensor combined with newly designed High Detail Low-Pass Filter, new DIGIC X Image Processor with an ISO range of 100-102400, a new 191-point optical viewfinder AF system capable of tracking the subject’s head, and face using Deep... Read More
Industry Notes for the week of Jan. 4 People on the Move SDKs and APIs Tips and tricks Updates 

Industry Notes for the week of Jan. 4

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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... Read More
Circle Graphics acquires Metromedia Technologies Acquisitions News 

Circle Graphics acquires Metromedia Technologies

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Circle Graphics Inc. announced it acquired out-of-home advertising rival Metromedia Technologies (MMT). Terms weren’t disclosed.  With the MMT acquisition, Circle Graphics said it expands its lineage to the very beginning of grand format digital printing, as MMT started in 1987 under the auspices of pioneer John Kluge. MMT’s patented digital print technology changed the way outdoor advertising was executed worldwide.... Read More
Samsung debuts new smartphones with four cameras Events New Products 

Samsung debuts new smartphones with four cameras

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Samsung Electronics unveiled the Galaxy A71 and Galaxy A51, the latest additions to the Galaxy A series family, featuring four top-of-the-range cameras. The smartphone features a main camera, Ultra Wide, Macro and Depth cameras, and is combined with other intelligence features. “We’re excited to build on the successful Galaxy A portfolio with the Galaxy A71 and Galaxy A51. Since its... Read More
Snap acquires Ukrainian startup, AI Factory News 

Snap acquires Ukrainian startup, AI Factory

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Snap Inc. has acquired AI Factory, a Ukrainian imaging startup, for $166 million, according to AIN.UA.  Details weren’t disclosed, but AI Factory is headed by Victor Shaburov, Snap’s former director of engineering from April, 2015, to May, 2018, after Snap purchased Shaburov’s Looksery startup in 2015. Looksery was behind Snap’s popular Lenses feature. According to the AIN.UA report, Snap Inc. already... Read More
OnePlus to show concept smartphone with “invisible” camera Events 

OnePlus to show concept smartphone with “invisible” camera

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 OnePlus unveiled its first concept phone, OnePlus Concept One device, which features an “invisible camera” achieved using electrochromic glass. The OnePlus Concept One encompasses uses electrochromic glass, an electronically tintable glass, to cloak the rear camera lenses behind a clean glass body and reveal them only when they’re in use. The glass on the OnePlus Concept One uses organic particles... Read More
Top six trends affecting the professional photography industry Feature 

Top six trends affecting the professional photography industry

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In the intro segment of the Capturelife Pulse! 2019 virtual users conference, Gary Pageau from the Dead Pixels Society presented “Top 6 Trends Affecting Professional Photography,” in a give-and-take session hosted by TW Woodward. Below is an embedded video of the nearly half-hour discussion. Download the presentation here. If you are interested in watching the individual sessions at the Capturelife Pulse!... Read More
Power outage impacts Photobucket over key holiday period News 

Power outage impacts Photobucket over key holiday period

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Pioneering photo sharing and storage site Photobucket is still struggling to return to full service after a power outage affected the company around Christmas. The site, which came under new management in June of 2018, has changed its fee structure away from advertising to a paid-storage model. On Dec. 18, Photobucket reported a power outage at its primary data center,... Read More
Volume photography leaders launch free educational community Events News Press releases 

Volume photography leaders launch free educational community

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“Speaking Volume” is a new Facebook Group to teach the volume photography business The school and sports photography business – commonly called “volume photography” – has seen tremendous growth over the past decade. Digital capture, green screens, downloads and more have opened up new profit potential, but the learning curve can be steep. A new Facebook Group called “Speaking Volume”... Read More
Vivo, OPPO and Xiaomi partner on wireless file transfer system News SDKs and APIs 

Vivo, OPPO and Xiaomi partner on wireless file transfer system

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mobile phone giants vivo, OPPO and Xiaomi announced their partnership, called the “Peer-to-Peer Transmission Alliance”, to enable seamless cross-brand file transfer with just one click. The system will allow consumers of these three brands to easily transfer files between their mobile devices without the need for any third-party applications or network data, supporting a wide range of files, including photos,... Read More
Labpano launches 360-degree 8K panoramic camera, Pilot One New Products 

Labpano launches 360-degree 8K panoramic camera, Pilot One

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Labpano (formerly Pisofttech) launched a new generation 360-degree panoramic camera, Pilot One. It supports 8K VR photography, recording, and  8K live streaming. Pilot One comes with three innovations in one camera:  Swiftbird, a cloud-based live streaming solution, Pilot Open System, allowing developers to build their own apps, and Pilot Tour, a realtime V-SLAM positioning solution for precisely-positioned virtual tours. Labpano claims Pilot One is... Read More
Depositphotos launches visual trends forecast News 

Depositphotos launches visual trends forecast

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Depositphotos, one of the world’s leading visual content marketplaces, has released its visual trends forecast, “Visual Trends 2020: Think Ahead” which examines trends in visual communication to define how photography, graphic and web design mirror the artistic, social, and tech movements around the globe. The key trends to look out for in 2020 include a call for stock photographers to... Read More