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Nokia Lumia 1020 Smartphone Unveiled with 41MP Sensor and Robust Camera Features

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Nokia Lumia 1020

Smartphone cameras are getting serious. Just as I’ve been working on a review of the Lumia 920 (preview: the camera is solid), Nokia goes and releases the new Lumia 1020.

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The Lumia 1020 features a 41MP PureView sensor that provides the camera with a 6x zoom while still maintaining decent resolution. Additionally, the Lumia 1020 includes a Xenon flash bulb instead of the common LED “flash” found on smartphones today (iPhone 5 included).  There is 32GB of onboard storage for those large image files. [Read more…]

 

Premiere Pro CC Just Got Its First Update With Several New Features

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Premiere Pro New Timeline

Anyone who said Adobe would rest on its laurels with updating its software now that it is subscription only may have a change of heart after seeing how Adobe has already updated Premiere Pro CC. The new update adds 25 new features – several of which I can see speeding up my own workflow.

The first one is a big helper: “create a unique title by duplicating a sequence title.”

Previously, when you alt-drag to copy (a feature introduced in CS6) a title clip in a sequence, it would just duplicate that instance of the title. And, if you made changes to the title, it affected the original clip as well (b/c it’s a duplication of that title clip). Now, if you alt-drag to copy a title clip in a sequence, you get a brand new title clip that you can edit independently of the clip you just copied.

It saves a few mouse clicks for each duplication. And those mouse clicks add up over the course of editing a sequence. I’m pretty happy about this one.

Dragging clips to the source monitor from Finder is another cool one.

The update is available through the Creative Cloud app manager.

Check out the full list of new features below. [Read more…]

Watch This Video of Thieves Stealing a Lens Right Off a Photographer’s Camera on His Neck

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This is a crazy operation in Russia where a group of thieves coordinate to distract a photographer while taking what looks like his Nikon 70-200 right off the camera that’s handing on his neck.

At first, we see the photographer/tourist approached by a group of people putting things in front of him in an attempt to distract.

Step 1 Distraction

Then, one of the thieves slips his hands under the papers held up and removes the lens. [Read more…]

New Rokinon 16mm f/2 Lens in Stock

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 Rokinon 16mm f2 Lens

B&H has the new Rokinon 16mm f/2 lens in stock for Canon, Nikon and several other mounts priced at $449 with free shipping. Check it out here at B&H Photo.

Rokinon 16mm f/2 AS UMC CS Lens Key Specs

  • For APS-C Sized Image Format
  • Aperture Range: f/2.0-22
  • 25.6mm Equivalency in 35mm Format
  • Two Aspherical Lens Elements
  • One Extra-low Dispersion Element
  • UMC Lens Coating
  • Manual Focus

Available Mounts

  • Canon EF-S
  • Nikon F
  • Canon M
  • Fujifilm X
  • Micro Four Thirds
  • Pentax K
  • Samsung NX
  • Sony Alpha
  • Sony NEX

Grungy Athlete Photoshop Tutorial

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Glyn Dewis put together a solid tutorial on his post production of a sports scene, for which he created a grungy feel. Dewis uses a combination of Lightroom, Photoshop, Topaz Detail and Topaz Clarity to achieve this look. Additionally, he shows alternative methods to get effects from third-party plug-ins with only Photoshop.

[via FStoppers]