Colour wheels are fairly common to video editing applications. Lately, they seem to have started popping up in still image editing applications, too through the use of various plugins. With the line between photography and video becoming somewhat blurred over the last few years, it’s really not much of a surprise. Photographers are making the transition to video, and filmmakers using DSLRs to film are shooting more stills. So, it creates a familiar bridge between the two....

What does it mean to have 4 axis robotic motion control? Starting with just an eMotimo Spectrum St4 you have two axis robotic motion control – rotation (pan) and up-down (tilt). Add a slider and you’re got another axis – forward and back (push/pull). Add a new eMotimo Focus Fz unit and you’ve got your fourth axis – focus or zoom. (Or skip the slider and add a second Fz unit and you’ve got focus and zoom!...

Up front let me say “field curvature” is not that pesky problem where images with straight lines in the frame seem to bow in or out as you move towards of the corners, that would be distortion, which comes in two core flavours, barrel and pincushion, with moustache as a somewhat recalcitrant but rare third option. There is a relationship between distortion and field curvature, but we won’t be getting into that in this article....

Google is set to pay $391.5 billion to 40 states in the US following a court case Google is set to pay $391.5 billion to 40 states in the US following a court case What’s going on? Well, Google was accused of misleading users into believing they had turned off location tracking in their settings. Despite that, Google continued to collect information about their movements. Now, Google did settle to pay the fine, but it also agreed to “significantly improve” its location tracking disclosures and user controls....

The Google Pixel Watch retail box has appeared with ‘Fitbit’ branding The Google Pixel Watch retail box has appeared with ‘Fitbit’ branding You’ll immediately notice that this is a square box, so Google opted to do things a bit differently. Both Apple and Samsung ship their newest watches in narrow packaging, but that’s not the case with Google. This particular model seems to be the ‘Silver’ one with a ‘Charcoal’ watch band....