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Archives for November 2015

How to Do Milky Way Exposure Stacking When Auto-Alignment Fails in Photoshop

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Photoshop’s automated alignment tools are quite impressive; however, they aren’t perfect. When auto-alignment fails to work the way you need it to, sometimes it just means you have to do the work yourself.

In this video from Ian Norman, he walks us through the process of processing Milky Way astrophotography images by manually aligning them in Photoshop in order to reduce noise and bring out more detail in the images.

If you are looking to improve your astrophotography images, Ian’s videos are worth a watch. Even if you are doing other types of image stacking, you can probably learn a thing or two from Ian’s workflow.

 

Lightroom 6.3 & CC 2015.3 Update Brings Back Old Import Dialog & More

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Lightroom CC 2015.3

Adobe Lightroom 6.3 and Lightroom CC 2015.3 are now available for download. One of the major gripes with the previous update was the a new import dialog. Those gripes have now been rectified with a rollback the old import dialog we all know and love.

The new updates also add camera support for a number of cameras, including: [Read more…]

Spyder5ELITE Monitor Calibration Tool Review

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Monitor calibration is one of the necessary evils that photographers must learn to cope with now that every image we create must pass through our computer in this digital age. Fortunately, there are some pretty handy tools to take on that challenge.

Datacolor is one of the industry leaders in the monitor calibration market and the new Spyder5 tool makes it painless for the most part.

There are actually three different iterations of the Spyder5 monitor calibration tools – Spyder5EXPRESS, Spyder5PRO and Spyder5ELITE, which cover the most basic calibrations to the most advanced, respectively. This review covers my experience with the Spyder5ELITE. [Read more…]

Apple iPad Pro Now Available

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iPad Pro

Apple’s iPad Pro went on sale this week. The iPad Pro is a 12.9-inch tablet with a 2732 x 2048 screen resolution.

The iPad Pro can also use the new $99 Apple Pencil for a variety of drawing and writing apps. Retail prices for the iPad Pro start at $799 for the 32GB WiFi-only model and go up to $1079 for the 128GB model with WiFi and 4G connectivity.

You can find the iPad Pro in Apple Stores, on the Apple website, as well as here at B&H Photo.

Yuneec Launches Typhoon ActionCam featuring Handheld Gimbal & 4K Camera

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Yuneec Typhonn Action Cam

Yuneec’s Typhoon quadcopters are sold with a camera and gimbal attached to the drone; however, a handle is also included in the kits for removing the camera and gimbal from the drone and operating it handheld.

Now, you can get a dedicated handheld unit on its own in the Typhoon ActionCam and it delivers direct competition to the new DJI Osmo. [Read more…]

Canon XA35 and XA30 Camcorders Unveiled

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Canon XA35

Canon has announced its next evolution of the XA camcorder line – the XA35 and XA30 camcorders, which replace the XA25 and XA20 models.

The Canon XA35 and XA30 remain HD camcorders and are differentiated by a HD/SD-SDI output on the XA35. The cameras borrow from the Cinema EOS System with a new Wide DR mode for greatly-expanded dynamic range. They also offer dual band WiFi support at 5GHz and 2.4GHz with FTP file transfer possible. [Read more…]