Do digital cameras need film-advance levers? Obviously, no. But it's a thing that some people want. Fuji Rumors reported recently that a man in China modified his Fujifilm X100VI by giving it a film-advance lever that, as FR added, doesn't do anything aside from give the user "something to fidget with in between shots." Meanwhile, Fujifilm's new X half digital compact comes with a … Read the full Story >>
A 71-year-old Chinese-born Canadian citizen, XiaoGuangPan, has entered a guilty plea in a federal case involving unauthorized drone flights over Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, notes Talk of Titusville. According to court documents, Pan traveled to the U.S. on a tourist visa in early January and used a DJI Mavic Pro 3 drone to capture nearly 2,000 photos and videos—more than 250 of which showed military infrastructure including submarine docks, munitions bunkers, payload processing buildings and security checkpoints on federal defense property. Read the full Story >>
Apple invited 13 photographers and 8 illustrators across 7 countries—India, Korea, Thailand, the U.S., the U.K., Spain and Germany—to showcase their talents in its new “Shot on iPhone, Drawn on iPad” ad campaign. The global campaign, from TBWA\Media Arts Lab Los Angeles, features work from photographers Jason Nocito, Anais Wade and Rashid Sheriff and illustrators Serge Seidlitz, Spencer Gabor and Omkar Patil, among others. The ads are running online and out-of-home formats, notes Muse by Clios. Read the full Story >>
Canva, which acquired Adobe Creative Suite competitor Affinity last year, is doubling down on its dedicated photo editing tools with AI photo editor, a collection of AI-powered tools that let Canva users make wide-ranging tweaks and edits to their images. Canva’s AI photo editor includes tools to grab and move photo subjects, adjust the background, relight a scene, expand the frame, and more, notes PetaPixel. Among them: a new Magic Edit option that allows users to brush over or click an area of the image they want to change and then type a prompt to direct the automated editing. Read the full Story >>
