VSCO is an app of choice of many smartphone photographers. It is basically a more artistic and more sophisticated version of Instagram, which allows you to edit your smartphone photos and make them look more appealing. This month, the VSCO iPhone app has got a big and important update – it can now support RAW files. The new update is available with iPhone 6 and up, enabling the users to capture, import and edit RAW photos within the app....
This is a sponsored giveaway with VSDC. Click more to enter For this giveaway, we’ve partnered with VSDC to give away five annual VSDC Pro licenses to five lucky winners. [even if you didn’t win though, the free version brings an extensive toolset every beginning to intermediate level video maker will benefit from.] When you start looking for free video editing software, it often feels like the choice is limitless. But when you start testing, you find out that most programs either put a watermark on your video or cut video export resolution options....
Westcott has just announced a new strobe and an accompanying wireless trigger. The Westcott FJ400 is a portable 400Ws AC/DC strobe with less than 1 s recycle time at full power. It’s launched along with the FJ-X2m is a universal trigger which pairs with virtually any camera brand, so you don’t need a brand-specific trigger. The FJ400 is a 400Ws strobe with AC/DC battery. As I mentioned, it recycles at full power in under one second (0....
As a video shooter, I have needs and one of the big ones is power. Shooting 4K video and RAW video requires a LOT of juice and very often I am powering more than just a camera. I could have microphones that are pulling power from the camera battery. I could also have external monitors, recorders and lights. Since I started shooting video, I just had separate batteries for each device, but for the longest time I’ve been eyeing up a V-Lock battery solution....
Well, this is interesting. With all the talk of cameras getting firmware updates this year in order to give them the capability to be used as a webcam, we’ve forgotten all about the other devices into which you can plug them. Devices like monitor recorders. Blackmagic has released a new firmware update for its Video Assist monitors allowing you to use them as regular USB capture devices (like a webcam) over its Type-C connection....
