Remember Instagram’s big move to hide likes moving forward? It looks like the incentive for the platform to do that was quite simple and it all has to do with user engagement of a different sort. Reports indicate that Instagram decided to make the change in order to get people to post more often thus […]
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Occasionally we like to report on the latest sales figures from CIPA to give our readers an overall view of the consumer side of the industry. For those of you that might not know the acronym, CIPA stands for Camera & Imaging Products Association and it is based in Japan. Their numbers not only dive […]
Samsung’s next Galaxy smartphone could be a huge leap forward in terms of its camera capabilities – at least if early spec promises are to be believed. While we’re starting to get clearer pictures on the future of Samsung and Apple’s future models, we’ve also been here before and know that companies tend to promise […]
If there’s one thing that is more annoying than lugging around multiple bags of gear, it’s fishing through a bunch of different apps to get the full functionality out of your smartphone-connected camera gear. Leica has heard this complaint and, in the best interests of its consumers, has decided to consolidate all of that into […]
Olympus has stayed in the headlines of late after word got out that the company was considering leaving the consumer camera industry altogether and now it looks like they’re going out of their way to reaffirm their commitment to the intensely competitive market. In an interview with DPReview at Photo Plus Expo in October of […]
In case you didn’t know, if you embed a stolen image, you could possibly be liable for the copyright infringement that entails. At least that was the conclusion of one photographer’s court case against an embedded tweet featuring his stolen picture, and now he’s taking his fight to other publications that embedded the tweet with […]