Thursday 31 August 2017

The Lily Drone is Back from the Grave and Ready to Try Another Takeoff

Sony a9 vs. Canon 1D X II vs. Nikon D5: A Flagship Camera Shootout

SanDisk Unveils the World’s Largest microSD Card: A 400GB Monster

Today, SanDisk released the world’s highest capacity microSD card to date: the 400GB SanDisk microSDXC Ultra UHS-I card. It’s targeted at mobile users who have a lot of data to store on their smartphones, including high-res photos and videos.

The card comes about a year after SanDisk previously broke records by creating a 256GB microSD card that was the world’s fastest of its size.

This time around, this new Class 10 card looks pretty robust, too: it’s water, shock, temperature, and even X-ray proof.

“Mobile devices have become the epicenter of our lives, and consumers are now accustomed to using their smartphones for anything from entertainment to business,” said Jeff Janukowicz, Sandisk Research Vice President. “We are collecting and sharing massive amounts of data on smartphones, drones, tablets, PCs, laptops and more.

“We anticipate that storage needs will only continue to grow as people continue to expect more sophisticated features on their devices and desire higher quality content.”

Western Digital, the company that now own SanDisk, says it leveraged its “proprietary memory technology and design” to allow for the increased capacity.

“We continue to push technology boundaries and transform the way consumers use their mobile devices,” said Sven Rathjen, Vice President of Western Digital. “By focusing on achieving new technology milestones, we enable consumers to keep up with their mobile-centric lifestyles with storage solutions they trust.”

The new microSD card is ideal for Android smartphone users and can hold up to 40 hours of Full HD video. The transfer times are fast too, with a read speed of 100 MB/s (that’s about 1,200 5MB photos per minute) and write speed of 10 MB/s. The card is also said to load apps faster, thanks to its adherence to the A1 App Performance Class specification.

The 400GB SanDisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-I card comes with a 10-year warranty and SD adapter (for using it as a standard SD card) and is available on the SanDisk website and through retailers such as B&H for $250.

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VSCO Unveils Mobile Presets 02: All Mobile Looks Are Now on Desktop

Ep: 207: Nikon Apologizes – and more

Episode 207 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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Featured: Sony Artisan of Imagery, Albert Dros

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Stories:
Nikon issues an apology. Was it necessary though? (#)

Photographer Thomas Hawk documents protestors turning on photographers. (#)

Nevada parks require some photographers to jump through a number of hoops. (#)

Canon announces its 85mm f/1.4L IS, three tilt-shifts lenses and a twin flash. (#)

Authorities in England erect barriers to thwart grief tourism and inappropriate selfies. (#)

The Insta360 ONE is released offering bullet-time, 4K video and other features. (#)

Outtake

A reminder about my new show with Brian Matiash, the No Name Photo Show.

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Wednesday 30 August 2017

Watch a Nat Geo Photographer Rescue Her Mom from Houston Floods

Want to see what it’s like to flee the devastating floods in Houston, Texas, caused by Hurricane Harvey? National Geographic conflict photographer Erin Trieb helped evacuate her mom this past weekend, and she documented the experience in the 5-minute video above.

Trieb is usually based in Istanbul, Turkey, but she was back home in Texas when the hurricane struck. On August 27th, 2017, she opened up the camera app on her smartphone and began recording her journey in helping her mom, retrieving her cameras, and checking up on her sister.

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The photographer and her mother had to wade through waist-deep waters just to leave the neighborhood, pulling three dogs behind them in trash cans.

“Trieb plans to continue photographing her family’s Houston neighbourhood to document how victims are coping with floods,” National Geographic writes.

“While this is my third hurricane to photograph and second one in Houston, I have never before had to turn the camera on my own family, who has experienced substantial flood damage,” Trieb writes on Facebook. “A huge thanks to my mom and sister’s family, who are all safe, for allowing me to chronicle their personal experiences – all things considered, we’re very fortunate. Thoughts go out to all those in Houston currently battling this tremendous storm.”

You can find more of Trieb’s work on her website, Facebook, and Instagram.

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Flight Attendant’s Photos Show Life in a Virgin America Crew

Molly Choma of Portland, Oregon, has spent nearly a decade working as a flight attendant on Virgin America planes. In addition to her work in the skies, Choma is also a talented photographer. Her series The Secret Life of Virgins is a look at life in Virgin America flight crews.

Choma was recently interviewed by Travel + Leisure about her work. She states that although she started shooting photos on the job a few years into her career, her work took on a new sense of urgency in recent years after Alaska Air agreed to buy Virgin America last year in a $4 billion deal.

Virgin America will no longer exist by 2019, and Choma has since been recruited by Virgin America to document the airline’s culture before it goes extinct.

“I just wanted to preserve it, not necessarily for the public, but for my friends and people like me who grew up with Virgin America,” Choma tells Travel + Leisure. “Whether that’s people who were there since the start or only for the past six months, I wanted something to immortalize what we have.”

The photos in The Secret Life of Virgins capture flight crew members when they’re out of the sight of passengers.

You can find more of Choma’s work on her website, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

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Image credits: Photographs by Molly Choma and used with permission

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