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Rumour has it that Pentax is dropping a Full Frame Sensor DSLR in the next few months. The Black Prints Kickstarter Project has been wildly successful but nto without some troubles over copyright. Samsung has to apologise for claim an image as shot on their own cameras when in fact it was shot on a Nikon. Adobe go all in for the Cloud...apart from the fact you need the apps on your computer still but just with DRM. South Korea show how NOT to do a photoshop images. Olympus pull out a cracking Compact and much much more

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Ewen Rankin takes you through the week's photography news and views and answers your questions on Photography. Send them in to BritishTechNetwork@gmail.com

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Pentax Full Frame Sensor Rumours "Pentax Ricoh Imaging will neither confirm nor deny that is working on a full-frame DSLR, following remarks reportedly made by a top official in China.
Last month, gadget website Ubergizmo reported that Pentax is expected to debut a new full-frame DSLR - based on comments apparently made by Tomoyoshi Shibata, Pentax's managing director and general manager of Pentax Ricoh China, in an interview with pcpop.com.
The article adds that the camera ‘will apparently be different from other full-frame DSLR cameras'.
However, Pentax Ricoh Imaging UK's product co-co-ordinator Stephen Sanderson today told Amateur Photographer (AP) that the firm does not plan to issue any response to the report.
Separately, in March, Pentax appeared to hint that it may launch a full-frame DSLR later this year.
The suggestion emerged in a tweet purportedly posted by Pentax Australia, in response to a question posed by Hong Kong-based Pentax user Sam Wong.
In his tweet, Wong had asked: ‘A Pentax FF DSLR is coming??'
Pentax Australia replied: ‘This very well might be the year! Hold onto those lenses.'"

CopyRight Issues First is Kickstarter "Black Prints' "Sabrina Chun Started ""BlackPrints' as a kick starter project and was very successful. Her USP was taking classic car images and rendering them on Black canvas with details of the cars in white.
She used a mix of her own images and those preely available on the web...until she used a 1964 Shelby Cobra. The problem was that this image, although freely available on the AUTOBLOG Website as a wallpaper was actually still in the intellectual property of Bruno Ratensperger who originally took it.
A less identifiable Shelby is now on show in the collection. Chun said
1) Yes, I did erroneously take Bruno Ratensperger’s photo, but I had only intended to use it as a tribute because that particular car, the #95 Cobra, is a very famous one. The image was originally a free downloadable wallpaper via Autoblog, and I acknowledge that it was my mistake to believe that it was free intellectual property. However, Bruno and I spoke over the phone and we resolved the issue. Also, I had addressed this as well, via blog posts and updates multiple times to anyone who had inquired about it, as it was indeed my mistake.
2) The photos are all mine, as I literally have hundreds of my own car photos
The article on Petapixel does suggest that this might be an ' Orphan Work' in the UK due to the free use and lack of metadata, but thats just plain bollocks"

Samsung and Street Photographers "Samsung found itself in an embarrassing copyright infringement controversy earlier today after the company published a street photographer’s work without permission as an advertisement on its Facebook page. It wasn’t just the unauthorized use of the image that was embarrassing; here’s the kicker: the photograph was actually shot using a Nikon camera
The hoopla started when Orchard Road, Singapore-based “weekend photographer” Danny Santos II noticed this image shared on Samsung’s Facebook page with the text, “Crisp. Cinematic. This street shot is taken by one of our Samsung photographers! Share your own Singapore Street Shot photo. Who knows, it might just win you a Samsung NX300!”"

Photographers Petition Adobe to Restart CS7 development "Harrisburg, Pennsylvania-based photographer Derek Schoffstall has started a petition urging Adobe to ""restart development for Adobe Creative Suite 7,"" following the company's announcement that it had ""no plans for future releases of Creative Suite or other CS products."" Adobe has already decided that the newest iteration of Photoshop - called Adobe Photoshop CC - will be available exclusively to Creative Cloud members (although it did add that ""Creative Suite 6 products will continue to be supported and available for purchase"").
The petition, which has already been signed by more than 1500 photographers from around the world, argues that customers ought to ""have a choice between either CC or the creative suite."""

Adobe Announce closure of CS for CC

CC Update is MAJOR
"Photoshop
Illustrator
InDesign
Dreamweaver
AfterEffects
Premier Pro
MUSE - Website without the code"

CC is IN CS is out

Glassagram introduces Google Glass to the world of retro filters. "As Google Glass ramps up to the point where it’s eventually available to the general public, app developers are looking to get in on the ground floor and start developing for the platform early on. Naturally, several of those apps will seek to provide an Instagram-like service for Glass users, and the first to jump on this bandwagon is an app called Glassagram.
Glassagram is a rudimentary app (they’re all rudimentary at this point) for Google Glass that allows users to add one of five filters to the pics they’re snapping with their fancy new toy
To use Glassagram, you first have to sign up for the service and allow it access to your Glass timeline. You then share a photo using the service and it, in turn, sends a card with all five filter options back to your timeline — just select/re-share the one with the filter that suits your fancy

South Korean Photoshop How not to do it "South Korean News Agency YonHap decided to show US Solidarity and published an image of President Park Geun-Hye shaking hands with President Obama...except they didnt have one. So they photoshopped it...badly.
Took an image with UN Secretary General Ban KiMoon but didnt just change heads"

XRITE Free May Webinars to deal with Colour Correction "X-Rite has announced its schedule of free May 2013 webinars. Topics include editing a portfolio and developing your vision, travel and landscape photography, professional monitor calibration and taking control of your monitor, projector, printer and camera
This month X-Rite offers four free webinars to help photographers and videographers gain new confidence and to learn quick, easy and powerful ways to enhance their color workflow. Webinar attendees will also have the opportunity to ask questions to the live trainers
Dates - 14th, 22nd, 30th May 2013 - Register at XritePhoto.com"

Snoop Dog your photos Bitch Snoop Lion (not Doggy Dog) Has a new app out. You Can Snooperize yourself

Photo Stitcher For Mac and Windows, does a good job. "PhotoStitcher is a new easy-to-use tool for the combining of multiple overlapping pictures into a single ideally fitting panoramic image. Recently released by TeoreX.
PhotoStitcher automatically addresses the entire scope of technical issues that can hinder the creation of stitched panoramics, including the proper alignment of images, distortion compensation and varying perspective.
The program supports creation of horizontal, vertical and combined panoramic photos without any user input. PhotoStitcher is available for Windows XP or higher and for Mac OS X 10.6 or higher, priced at $19.99"

Review

Olympus XZ-10 Review "The new Olympus XZ-10 is a pocketable premium compact camera featuring a
-12 megapixel backlit 1/2.3” CMOS sensor
-26-130mm equivalent f/1.8-2.7 zoom lens. The XZ-10 also offers
-high-resolution 3-inch touch-sensitive LCD screen,
-TruePic VI image processor, (The One in the PEN Series)
-1080p Full HD movie recording and
-Eye-Fi/FlashAir compatibility for sharing images directly on your social network.
-Customisable control ring around the lens,
-Full manual exposure mode,
-Raw image capture,
-120fps high-speed HD video recording and 11 Art Filters.
-Priced at £349.99 / $399.99, the Olympus XZ-10 is available now in black.
Anti Shake Feature - Images at 1/10th Sec Exposure - 26mm and 130mm Zoom
Excellent but CONS - No Manual Control of Video Exposure"

CameraLends Peer to Peer Lens Lending Service  CameraLends is a camera and gear rental service created by Adam Derewecki. It offers beginners, intermediates and pros alike a chance to find the gear they need at a reasonable price when they’re on the road. The service does this by bringing together a community of photographers willing to rent their gear out to you when they’re not busy using it

Akvis Refocus 3.5 Takes the issues of out of focus away from your camera and adds lens blur if you want. "Akvis has released version 3.5 of Refocus, a program for improving the sharpness of out of focus images and adding lens blur effects to your photos. Version 3.5 offers an advanced algorithm with improved image processing speed for the program's ""Tilt-Shift"" (miniature) and Iris Blur modes. The improvement is especially noticeable when using the larger values of the Blur parameter, the company says. Registered users of Refocus can upgrade to version 3.5 for free by downloading and installing the new version.
£31.13 for Standalone or Plug in for Photoshop"

Questions

Andi - Bristol
"Hello there
A quick question for you. If I were to store all my old photos up in my attic, could the potentially hot (in Britain, I know that's a bit of a joke) and cold temperatures damage the processed photos or negatives? I intend to keep them in a fairly well sealed box.
Thanks for a great show
Cheers
Andi from Bristol."

"Skin can be scratched; so can film.
• Skin can be blistered by chemicals or heat; so can film.
• Skin can be damaged by prolonged exposure to the sun; so can film.
• Skin gets dry and brittle in low humidity and cold; so does film.
• Skin is susceptible to fungus in excessive heat and relative humidity; so is film.
• Skin can be burned; so can film

Fujifilm Guidance - 21 Deg C and below 50%-60% Humidity - Too Low attracts dust and then increases risk of scratches.

Long Term Storage - Wash and Clean off your tranies or Negs to remove excess chems and gunk.
Dry them and then store
Frames are best rather than rolling up - Physical damage - Cellaphane rolls"

Callum B - Dublin
"Hi Ewen. Love the show.
My Question is about Depth of Field. I understand that the lower the F setting the shorter the distance for things in focus but I also now know that changes the further away I am from the subject of my photo.
Do you have a rule of thumb for F setting versus distance and is there any rules for what to focus on when taking pictures of people, animals or Objects
Thanks for any help
Callum" DOFMaster.com - Depth of Field Calculator

Steve C - Leicester "Hi Ewen

I have a Canon 550D and a couple of lenses but nothing special. I have about £1000 to spend on equipment at the moment and wondered if youd suggest I upgrade the body or buy some more lenses.

Lenses - 50mm, 70-300mm, 28mm-300mm

Thanks

Steve" "Canon 17-40 F4 - £579

Canon EF - 100 F2.8 (Macro) - £689

40mm Pancake Lens - £164

Canon EF 85mm 1.8 - £299

Canon EF 70-200mm F4 - £483"

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