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Sony Upbeat About Post-Covid Market

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) and the subsequent country-wide lockdown has adversely affected most businesses. With photography largely confined to homes and tabletops, how are imaging companies looking at business continuity? Smart Photography catches up with Mukesh Srivastava, Head, Digital Imaging business, Sony India, to find out.

Samsung Launches Galaxy A31

Samsung announced the launch of Galaxy A31, its third Galaxy A smartphone in India this year. Galaxy A31 comes with a 6.4 inch super AMOLED infinity U display with wide aspect ratio.

Let's De-Noise a Noisy Photo

What exactly is ‘noise’? Noise or digital noise as we often call it, is a type of distortion that looks similar to what ‘grain’ was/is with films. There are several types of noise, but to keep things simple, we shall mention only ‘luminance’ (brightness) noise and ‘chroma’(colour) noise.

Ricoh Launches GR III Street Edition

Ricoh announced the launch of the GR III Street Edition Special Limited Kit. Available in a limited quantity of 3,500 units worldwide, the kit combines the Ricoh GR III camera body, finished in a metallic grey colour, with a compact, detachable viewfinder and a genuine-leather hand strap, both designed exclusively for this package.

Retouch Like a Pro

Portrait Pro 19 Approx.

Hitting The Trail

Tania Chatterjee Tania Chatterjee is a photographer, traveller, blogger and educator based in Kolkata, India. After completing her masters in environment management, she started her career as a humanitarian professional.

Upgrade Your Editing Suite

The Nik Collection by DxO is not a single plugin or suite, but a collection of eight plugins for Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, Elements, DxO PhotoLab and Serif Affinity. The collection offers a vast library of exclusive presets along with a host of retouching tools. This collection of plugins allow you to edit your images easily without much technical expertise. Being a pack of plugins, it is not feasible to illustrate the capabilities of each of these in a few pages. While this review might not bring out all the capabilities in detail, we would try to evaluate the Nik Collection as a whole and attempt to look at each of these in details in our subsequent issues. For this review, I am using the Nik Collection from Photoshop.

Tamron Unveils All-In-One Zoom Lens

Tamron has announced the 28-200mm f/2.8-5.6 Di III RXD (Model A071), an all-in-one zoom lens for Sony E-mount full-frame mirrorless cameras.

POSTCARDS FROM SALZBURG

‘How do you solve a problem like Maria?’ marked Julie Andrews’ first appearance on screen in The Sound of Music.

Fujifilm India Unveils X-T4

Fujifilm has announced the launch of Fujifilm X-T4 in its flagship X series range of mirrorless digital cameras.

Buying Second-Hand Photo Equipment

Let’s face it. Photography equipment has never been cheap. And, with the onslaught of smartphones almost wiping out the compact camera market, manufacturers had no choice but to pass on the burden of loss to the mainstream gear – camera bodies and lenses.

In Love With Macro

Uday Hegde is a SAP Technical Architect by profession and is currently living in Bangalore. He hails from a small village called Sirsi in the North Canara District of Karnataka. He is married and has a 9-year-old son. Says Uday “I was lucky to have been born in the midst of the natural beauty of the Western Ghats which I always wanted to capture the way I see it. And it was 12 years back that I finally got that chance when I bought my first camera. At the age of eight or nine, I used to take wild shots using my dad’s old camera never knowing the perfect angle. But that got me so interested that it became my dream to buy a camera for myself when I grew up and got a job.

Close-Up & Macro Photography

How often do we spot that ladybug resting underneath a blade of grass while walking along a grass-covered path? We do not often acknowledge the existence of this teeny, but colourful world. However, a peek into this world of tiny living and non-living things is surely exciting and immensely satisfying to a photographer. This month, let us help you explore this world with a few tips.

Computational Photography

Ashok Kandimalla has been in the photographic field for over three decades and has extensive experience in both film and digital photography. Being an electronics engineer by profession and a photographer, he possesses a unique and deep insight into the technical aspects of digital photography and equipment. He has published more than a 100 articles on photography and some of his writings have also been published in the well-known international magazine Popular Photography. An avid collector of photographic books and vintage cameras, Ashok has a keen interest in the history of photography and a passion for sharing his knowledge on photography through teaching and writing. He is the only Indian photographer to be featured on the Nikon Centenary website. He is presently working as a Management and Engineering consutant. He can be reached at kashokk@gmail.com.

UNIQUE MADAGASCAR

Randeep Singh, whom we have featured earlier too, is a wildlife photographer. He has travelled over 75 countries worldwide to pursue his love for wildlife photography. Arshdeep Singh, Randeep’s son, is 13 years old but is well known as a young wildlife photographer from Jalandhar, India. Arshdeep has already won several wildlife awards, including the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2018 (10 years and under, at world level), Young Comedy Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2018 (under 16 years), and Young Asian Wildlife Photographer 2018 (under 18 years). He is passionate about bird photography and has been to most national parks in India and in African countries.

Sandisk Extreme Pro Portable SSD

Rugged Storage

Vivo Announces V19

Vivo has announced the launch of Vivo V19, the latest addition to the camera focused V-series portfolio.

Microsoft Surface Pro X

Portable 2-in-1

Lensbaby Releases ‘Velvet 28,' Wide-angle Prime Lens

Lensbaby has released its latest wide-angle prime lens, the ‘Velvet 28’.

Fujifilm X-T4 in Stock and Shipping

Fujifilm X-T4 in Stock and Shipping

Contributing To Stock Photography

So you are a photographer with several gigabytes of images on your hard drive and do not know what to do with those? You have invested lakhs of rupees building your equipment system and spent several hundred hours in carefully building up that image portfolio. But you are not sure what to do with those images because the typical photography market is swarming with established photographers and you always start at a disadvantage. Have you explored stock photography as an option? If not, it is time to consider it now.

Huawei Announces P40 Smartphone Series

Huawei has announced the P40 Pro+, P40 Pro and P40, flagship smartphones with cutting-edge designs and camera innovations.

A Common Sense Approach To Safety During Covid-19

We all know the current devastating health issues around the world. Yes, I am referring to the infamous Coronavirus or COVID-19. Much has been said and much has been written about it – sensible as well as stupid statements and comments from people from all walks of life. Not a day passes when we don’t hear of authentic statements or rumors surrounding the issue. People are worried, people are disheartened – some understand the implications, most don’t!

OnePlus Launches 8 Series Smartphones

OnePlus has launched its OnePlus 8 series smartphones. The camera features a triple lens-setup with an additional time-of-flight (ToF) sensor that, reportedly, improves depth estimation in bokeh mode and fine-tunes the autofocus.

Tamron Announces 70-180mm f/2.8 Di III VXD

Tamron has announced the launch of 70-180mm f/2.8 Di III VXD (Model A056), a large aperture telephoto zoom lens for Sony E-mount full-frame mirrorless cameras.

Sony Releases Firmware Update for A9 II

Sony has released its latest firmware update for the A9 II.

Setting Up Your Mirrorless Camera - Part II

RECAP: Last month you read about some of the parameters that you need to set on your mirrorless camera. In this concluding part you can read about some more and also learn how to setup your camera for specific photographic situations like, landscapes, street, action, wildlife, portraits, etc. So, read on!

Metabones Announces Speed Booster for Canon RF System

Metabones has released a new Speed Booster that reduces the significant 4K video crop factor found on the Canon EOS R full-frame camera systems.

Fun with Luminar 4 (Sky Replacement)

Photographic situations are not always perfect – something or the other is often missing. Lighting may not be ideal, the subject may not be in the best possible position, you may not be having the right equipment, the sky could be bald, and the weather could be inclement. Anything is possible.

A Challenging Task

Shibu P. is an internationally published photographer with exceptional knowledge on photography. Shibu’s passion for photography has turned him into a professional who guides and teaches photography and post-processing techniques. He is well-versed not only in sports photography but also in different genres like product, wedding and wildlife photography. He aspires to create timeless images – live photographs which have a story behind them. He says, “I never wanted to be someone who takes predictable, boring photographs!”