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Tech News: DJI's Osmo Action 4 Has a Bigger Sensor for Better Images

PetaPixel   Monday August 7, 2023

DJI is following up its Osmo Action 3 from last year with the new Osmo Action 4, which, notes PetaPixel, promises similar performance but uses a larger sensor to deliver improved image quality. Where the Osmo Action 3 used a Type 1/1.7 sensor, the Osmo Action 4 uses a Type 1/1.3 sensor without changing the 155-degree field of view. In front of that sensor is a wide lens with an f/2.8 aperture that can shoot up to 4K at 120 frames per second in 10-bit D-Log M color. There’s also an “advanced color temperature sensor” that allows the Osmo Action 4 to produce true-to-life tones, even underwater.   Read the full Story >>

Passings: Julia Scully, Influential Photography Editor and Memoirist, Dies at 94

By David Schonauer   Monday August 7, 2023

Julia Scully began working at photography magazines in the 1950s and was hired to be editor of Modern Photography in 1966. The magazine, noted The New York Times recently, was as devoted to the technical side of photography as it was to its aesthetics, but Scully focused on the latter: Under her tenure the magazine was instrumental in the emerging recognition of photography as …   Read the full Story >>

Insight: Shooting Portraits Outdoors Using Continuous Lights

Jiggie Alejandrino   Friday August 4, 2023

Shooting a portrait outdoors allows you to capture couples in an organic environment that allows them to convey natural poses and emotion, but, as Fstoppers notes, nature does not always cooperate, and adding some artificial light “can be just what you need to really complete a photo.” A new video from YouTuber Jiggie Alejandrino offers tips on how to do that.   Read the full Story >>

Exhibitions: Remembering the Maine Photographic Workshops

David Lyman   Friday August 4, 2023

The Maine Photographic Workshops was launched 50 years ago, and over the next five decades some 60,000 photographers, filmmakers and others journeyed to Rockport, Maine to jumpstart their art and careers. An exhibition illustrating the growth of the workshops into an international conservatory, graduate school and college will run from August 17 through September 9 at Rockport’s Union Hall, notes David Lyman, who launched the workshops 1973. Hit the link for his story.   Read the full Story >>

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