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Reader Photos Roundup: January 18, 2015

January 18, 2015 By Eric Reagan

It’s time for our weekly break from the gear for a few minutes so we can enjoy another round of reader photos from the Photography Bay Flickr Group.

Check out the rest of the photos below. [Read more…]

G-Tech Unveils Rugged Hard Drives

January 17, 2015 By Eric Reagan

Earlier this month, G-Technology released its new rugged bumper and all-terrain case. Essentially, these are the G-Drive ev portable hard drives we’ve previously seen, which can be used independently or with the G-Dock ev. [Read more…]

Samsung NX500 Leaks Out

January 16, 2015 By Eric Reagan

The Samsung NX500 has been rumored to be released for a few months now. We thought we might see it at CES 2015; however, Samsung really had nothing new for photographers. Rumors and leaks for the new NX500 have reached fever pitch. [Read more…]

Manfrotto Officially Launches Off Road Backpacks, Walking Sticks & Tripods

January 16, 2015 By Eric Reagan

Manfrotto showed off some of its cool new Off Road gear collection back in October at PhotoPlus and now they’ve finally gotten around to officially launching the line. [Read more…]

FLIR Updates iOS Thermal Camera; Launches Dedicated Thermal Pocket Camera

January 15, 2015 By Eric Reagan

FLIR was back at CES 2015 with its powerful thermal cameras for iOS and Android, as well as launching a new, dedicated pocket camera with FLIR’s thermal imaging prowess built right in. [Read more…]

Major Canon 1D C Price Drop Coming?

January 15, 2015 By Eric Reagan

Canon Hong Kong appears to have dropped the price of the Canon EOS 1D C by a about $8,000 HKD from $61,999 HKD to $54,000 HKD, which is equivalent to roughly $7,000 USD. These reports come from local Canon dealers who are supposedly legitimately selling the camera at the new retail price. There has been no corresponding drop in the US – yet. [Read more…]

Olloclip is Making a Better iPhone 6 Case for Its Lenses

January 15, 2015 By Eric Reagan

Olloclip has been around for a couple of years now and has done a good job of delivering nice photography accessories for smartphones – the iPhone in particular. It has had a couple iterations of its Quick-Flip case that allows you to use a case and your Olloclip lenses with your iPhone. [Read more…]

Seagate Seven is the Thinnest 500GB Portable Drive

January 15, 2015 By Eric Reagan

Seagate released a new 500GB hard drive at CES 2015 called the Seagate Seven. It is a 5mm spinning drive inside a minimalist housing for an overall 7mm thin hard drive. [Read more…]

Fuji XQ2 Compact Camera Announced

January 15, 2015 By Eric Reagan

Alongside the new X-A2, Fuji announced the XQ2 compact camera, which follows the popular XQ1. The new Fuji XQ2 sports a 12MP 2/3″ X-Trans CMOS II sensor with phase detection AF and the EXR Processor II that delivers fast AF speeds up to 0.06s. [Read more…]

Lightroom mobile for Android Phones Now Available

January 15, 2015 By Eric Reagan

Lightroom mobile is now available for Android phones. Previously, Adobe had released Lightroom mobile for iPad and iPhone.

Now, all of you Samsung Galaxy and Note users, along with other Android devices devices that meet the minimum requirements of a Quad Core CPU with 1.7GHz ARMv7 architechture, 1GB RAM, 8GB internal storage and Jellybean, KitKat or Lollipop OS.

Key Lightroom mobile capabilities include:

Sync edits, metadata and collection changes to the Lightroom catalog on a Mac or Windows computer
Automatically import images from the smartphone gallery and sync back to the Lightroom catalog on the desktop
Edit images using familiar Lightroom tools and presets, including non-destructive processing using Smart Previews
Quickly flag and reject photos

Of course Lightroom mobile requires a Creative Cloud subscription in order to sync your Lightroom catalog from you Mac or PC, but it is no additional cost if you are a Creative Cloud member. You can download Lightroom mobile for Android here on the Google Play Store.

In addition to Lightroom mobile, Adobe has also launched Lightroom web, which is a new way to view and share your photos from any web browser. You can find more info about Lightroom for web here on lightroom.adobe.com. If you already have a Creative Cloud account, your sync galleries are already on Lightroom web for you to see now.