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Blackmagic Camera 1.9.7 Update Adds SSD and SD Card Formatting to All Cameras

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Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera

Following the release of the firmware upgrade for the Blackmagic Production Camera 4K, Blackmagic Design recently announced the availability of Camera 1.9.7 software, which includes dashboard on screen menus and high performance disk formatting for the Blackmagic Cinema Camera and Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera. The update is available for download from the Blackmagic Design website free of charge for all Blackmagic Cinema Camera and Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera customers.

See the complete details on the Camera 1.97 firmware update in the press release below. [Read more…]

 

Canon See Impossible Parody is Perfect

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Canon See Impossible Parody Close

Canon is constantly criticized for playing it safe in their product development and marketing. As I noted when the See Impossible teaser was posted, it contained some very bold statements:

The message is uncharacteristically bold for Canon announcements. Sure, there is some puffery in the standard Canon press releases and Canon generally thinks its crap doesn’t stink, but this is a few steps above all that.

And then came the big reveal, which turned out to be a marketing message. The comments went downhill from there. So… [Read more…]

Show Focus Points Plugin for Lightroom

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Show Focus Points Lightroom Plugin

Show Focus Points is a new plugin for Adobe Lightroom 5. The plugin does just what the name says – finally allowing you to see focus points in your photos from Lightroom.

It also reveals other focus info like focus distance and focus mode. Currently, the plugin only works with Canon and Nikon DSLRs, and only in Lightroom 5. It supports both Mac OS X and Windows installations.

Best of all though, the Show Focus Points plugin is free for now. Check it out here on the Show Focus Points website.

[via PetaPixel]