Technology

Super Fast portable SSDs from Lexar

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Lexar portable ssd

Lexar has announced three super fast and super small portable SSDs – Lexar Professional SL100 series. They’re so tiny they’ll fit in any pocket, they measure just 55 x 73mm. And they’re super fast. According to Lexar they can reach speeds of up to 950 MB/s (read speed) and up to 900 MB/s (write speed)! […]

Adobe Creative Cloud

After Effects gets Content-Aware Fill

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Content-Aware in AE

Adobe has released updates to their audio and video apps with something many video editors have been waiting for… Adobe After Effects receives Content-Aware Fill and it works in a pretty much the same way as it does in Photoshop. You can select an object that you want to remove and Content-Aware Fill will fill […]

Photography

Memory Cards Speed Test

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Memory Cards Speed test

More and more memory cards appear on the market every day. They get faster and come with ever higher capacities. Memory cards now available on the market can be bought at capacities up to 512GB, where only a few years ago a maximum would be 64GB. Something that hasn’t really changed, in most cases, is […]

Photography

Colourise B&W images online

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Colourise

Researchers at GovTech Singapore division for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence lanched a website called Colourise at Colourise.sg, which uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to colourise black and white images. The website is free to use and very easy to use, too. In most cases, the results are very good, very realistic, and the website is […]

Videography

Do PAL and NTSC still matter?

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PAL vs NTSC video

As everything goes digital nowadays, one would assume that all the differences between video, as was the case with analogue, have been removed. However, even though all our video and broadcasting is digital nowadays, some of the fundamental differences between different video standards as were existing in analogue era do still apply in the digital […]

Photography

1TB microSD card revealed

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Yes, you heard it right. A new 1TB microSD card has been revealed. Any by no one else but SanDisk. At this year’s Mobile World Congress, SanDisk have announced a 1TB microSD card. The card will be classed as UHS-III, V30 card. The read speed of the card is going to be 160 MB/s and […]

Photography

Kodak Alaris selling

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Kodak Ektachrome

Kodak Alaris, the company which brought back Kodak Ektachrome 35mm film, is apparently looking for a buyer. Inside Imaging revealed this information that Kodal Alaris is up for sale. The company itself did not reveal any offical plans for sale, however according to reports, their Paper, Photochemicals and Film unit has been up for sale […]

Lightroom

Adobe Lightroom February update

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Adobe Lightroom update

Adobe have updated Lightroom Classic CC, Lightroom CC, and Camera Raw. One of the new features is a new AI-based feature called Enhance Details. It works on images to improve colour rendering and detail. It’s also resolving some issues some users had with their Fuji X-Trans cameras’ images. New Enhance Details feature deals with things […]

Technology

Western Digital MyPassport SSD

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WD My Passport SSD

Following an announcement made at CES earlier, Western Digital are now releasing their new portable SSD drive – MyPassport Go SSD. The hard drive comes in a black-blue rugged case and it has a usb cable attached to it (with a handy place underneath the drive where the cable can be attached and hidden out […]

Photography

Google Photos Formats update

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Google offer an interesting solution with their Photos platform for storing your images. If you’re fine with storing JPEGs (and video) up to 16 Mpx (and up to FullHD) you get unlimited free storage with Google Photos. You can also store higher resolution videos and raw images but these will count to your storage quota. […]