Digital Camera News, Reviews and Tips
Adobe has made release candidates of Lightroom 4.1 available for download in Adobe Labs. These versions add RAW file support for the Canon 5D Mark III and corrects issues reported from the initial Lightroom 4.0 release.
Release notes include the following fixed issues. [Read more…]
Tiffen Dfx 3 Premiere Pro Film Stocks Panel Comparison
Tiffen Dfx v3 is a suite of filters and effects that is available for popular video and photo applications as a plug-in or a standalone application. Over the past few months, I have been using the software suite primarily in Premiere Pro CS5.5. However, I have also touched on the standalone app and as well as the After Effects and Lightroom plug-in integration.
As with any software or plug-in, understanding the capabilities of it is paramount to fully utilizing the application to meet the needs of your workflow. I don’t pretend to have an exhaustive understanding of all that’s within Tiffen Dfx 3 at this point; however, I have used it enough to realize where it meets many of my needs and makes life easier in post-production. [Read more…]
[UPDATE: It’s live now. Details here.]
I can’t count the number of recent blog posts, reviews and tweets that I’ve seen lamenting over the lack of support for the Canon 5D Mark III in Lightroom 4. All should be well later this week with Adobe’s effort to release a Lightroom 4 update that includes several key bug fixes and adds support for the 5D Mark III.
Chances are that this will be a Release Candidate out of the gate at Adobe Labs with a final update due in a few weeks. I’ll post as soon as I hear more.
[via Photoshop.com]
Looks like the trusty little D3100 may be up for replacement soon, with plenty more megapixels to boot. [Read more…]
Rgrain is a set of film plates with grain to help turn video footage into more of a film look. The film plates are available in 35mm, 16mm and 8mm sets and are provided in 1080p at 23.976 fps for 30-second loops. [Read more…]
The M-Plate Pro is a new tripod plate from Custom SLR with built-in Manfrotto RC2 and Arca-Swiss connections. [Read more…]
In the above video, you can see Brenda Sutherland, Adobe Illustrator product manager, show off the fancy new pattern creation feature in the upcoming Adobe Illustrator CS6.
Check out this video of ballet dancers shot at 1000fps for some super slow motion action.
[via PetaPixel]
Photoshop Lightroom: From Snapshots to Great Shots is a new book from Jeff Revell. The book covers Lightroom 4 editing; however, Jeff says he wrote the book with the notion in mind that Lightroom version 2 and 3 users would still be able to take advantage of the information.
Photoshop Lightroom: From Snapshots to Great Shots retails for $24.99; however, it is currently available for $13.63 on Amazon.com.
Instagram has posted a sign-up page for the new Android app that’s “coming soon.” For those of you using an Android (I’m there with you), you can sign up for to be first in line here.