This App Lets You Use Your Smartphone As An External Lightroom Control Panel

If you’d like to control Lightroom on your computer through your mobile device, Control Room app lets you do exactly this. Young software engineer Aaron Vizzini developed this app, and it turns your smartphone or tablet into an external control panel. This means you can sit back, control the settings on your phone or tablet, and watch them get applied to the image on your computer. Basically, Control Room connects certain Lightroom’s management controls with the app....

March 2, 2023 · 2 min · 398 words · Lee Drake

This Bare Bones Gopro And Drone Video Is A Journey Through Dinosaur Skeletons

When you film even the most ordinary stuff with a drone, it gives them a completely new perspective. And sometimes, we see drone footage that combines this new perspective with both unusual subjects and a whole new level of skill. The latest work by filmmaker Robert McIntosh is exactly like that! Using one of his custom-made tiny drones, Robert takes you through dinosaur skeletons in this mesmerizing video from a Natural History Museum of Utah....

March 2, 2023 · 2 min · 291 words · Kathleen Hill

This Cool Color Shifting Material Uses 19Th Century Photography Technique

I’ve always been a sucker for color-shifting items. As a kid, I thought there was some magic behind it. And now, as an adult, I bought a bunch of “chameleon” pigments for the jewelry I make. It looks pretty and it makes my inner child happy. Thanks to a team of researchers at MIT, we now have color-shifting stretchy material. It doesn’t only look cool, but it could have many practical applications too....

March 2, 2023 · 2 min · 383 words · Katie King

This Is How Canon Shooters Got Autofocus 40 Years Ago And It Still Works Today

Canon might have the edge in autofocus today, with dual-pixel AF (and quad-pixel rumoured to be on the way… eventually) and possibly even beating out Sony’s Eye AF face detection. They’re even bringing back the Eye Controlled Autofocus System for the EOS R3. But back in the early 80s, autofocus wasn’t something you really heard much about… From any brand. In fact, the first SLR with autofocus wasn’t released until 1985....

March 2, 2023 · 3 min · 525 words · Alicia Flores

This Is How Scientist Capture Photos Of The Coronavirus

To fight against our global enemy, coronavirus, it helps immensely if we can see what we’re fighting against. But this virus is so tiny, that it can’t be seen with a standard light microscope. To observe the COVID-19 and take its photos, scientists have used electron microscopes. And in this stunning educative video, Vox explains how the photos of the coronavirus are taken and processed. When it comes to the size, the coronavirus measures around 100 nanometers....

March 2, 2023 · 2 min · 327 words · Christopher Dean
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