Episode 475 – The “Not as Good as John” Episode

This week, the Shutterstock debacle continues, with a group of contributors forming an alliance and suspending their accounts en masse.

Tamron issues a partial recall on their 70-180/2.8 lens. Hit the Tamron site, enter your serial number, and see if your lens is one of those which needs a tweak. The page I originally found this through was on Brian Smith’s site.

David Marland shared this story about Fox News’ disgraceful manipulation of photos, trying to make things look worse than they are.

He then gave us a comprehensive review of Topaz Labs DeNoise AI.
Find his MS Word doc (including pics) here.
Here’s the pics:

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His two full res jpeg’s can’t be loaded into the above image viewer, so here are download links: 1 | 2

Adam Davidson sent us a few stories.
Sony issues a partial recall on some of their SD cards.

Photographer and Model sue Volvo for ‘Willful and Wanton’ Copyright Infringement

And these portraits of “Most Beautiful Chickens on the Planet”!

Glynn has some fun with idiots people on the interwebz.

There’s this Face blurrer app to help protect your location and identity if you’re shooting protests (or other activities the Government might not be quite so happy about).

Seems like the terms Slave and Master might slowly be fading from the world of photography (and maybe the world of audio as well).

The UK Photo Show goes online for 2020. Check it out, and log in to attend here.

The next generation of memory cards promise write speeds of around 4GB/sec!

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