DP Review Friday June 21, 2024
Canon’s newly announced RF-S 3.9mm f/3.5 STM Dual Fisheye lens is aimed at social media creators who make VR content, and, notes DIY Photography, it’s budget friendly at $1,099. The compact, stereoscopic APS-C lens captures a 144-degree field of view and is the first non-L series lens to feature Canon's Air Sphere Coating, adds DP Review. This is the second VR lens for the RF mount: Canon previously announced the RF 5.2mm F2.8 L Dual Fisheye, a VR mount for full-frame cameras.
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EARTH PHOTO Friday June 21, 2024
Photographers Jean-Marc Caimi and Valentina Piccinni are the top prize winners of the 2024 Earth Photo competition for their series “Tropicalia,” which documents how Sicilian farmers are adapting in response to climate change. The contest, created in 2018 by Forestry England, the UK’s Royal Geographic Society and visual arts consultancy Parker Harris to showcase the beauty of our planet and environmental threats, received more than 1,900 images and videos from countries around the world, notes CNN.
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The New York Times Friday June 21, 2024
U.S. regulators have sued Adobe over claims that the company made it difficult to cancel subscriptions to Photoshop and other software, an escalation by regulators in a crackdown against such practices. The Justice Department said in its lawsuit that Adobe hid details of an expensive cancellation fee from consumers “in fine print and behind optional text boxes and hyperlinks,,” notes the New York Times. Adobe’s website and customer service representatives made canceling additionally challenging, according to allegations in the suit.
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David Schonauer Friday June 21, 2024
Deep into the digital age, there are signs of life, even profitability, for print media and magazines: "High-end niche periodicals are popping up, but the trend might be most evident in a burst of
small-batch, independent outdoors magazines like Adventure Journal, Mountain Gazette, Summit Journal and Ori. They are crowding into quiet spaces of narrow lanes -- climbing, surfing, skiing, running
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