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As in the tradition in the last years, on the Christmas Eve a new major upgrade to open source free software DarkTable is released and this time to version 3.0. It's a feature-rich software for RAW development providing also a media catalogue, so it's interesting to give it a try.
It can be installed on Windows, Mac and also Linux (not like the famous Lightroom from Adobe and Capture One from Phase One).
You can find the main news of this release and the link to official page with all the details in our photographic software database: DarkTable specifications.
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Are you looking for a high quality and fast wide angle in the 16-20mm focal range for your full frame Sony camera (A7 or A9 series)?
The Tamron 17-28 mm f2.8 and the Batis 18mm f2.8 are two excellent choices, respectively at about 1000 €/$ and 1300 €/$.
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Yesterday Sony unveiled the new full frame flagship model for the High Resolution Line (A7R models): Sony A7R IV, successor of A7R III that was announced in October 2017.
Price at launch will be $3500.
Specifications and links to best reviews, as they will come out, are available in LightPoint Camera Database at this link, but let's review here Sony A7R IV most interesting aspects.
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XRite has published ColorCheck Camera Calibration software version 2: here you have the official presentation video from XRite:
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Yesterday Adobe has published in its blog an announcement that states that only two most recent versions of Creative Cloud products (like Photoshop, Lightroom) will be available for download.
That means for example that they will probably delete software download of perpetual licence versions - up to Lightroom v6 and up to Photoshop CS6.
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Yesterday Adobe has released Lightroom 8.2.
Main new feature is "Enhance details" that Adobe says it allows improving sharpness up to 30% and reducing artifacts only on RAW images since the functionality is a new demosaicing method of the RAW file. This is not a default process since it is computationally heavy (for example around 15 seconds on a 24 megapixels image with a Windows 64 bit CPU i7-8750H with graphic card NVIDIA GTX 1050) and it's based on Adobe Artificial Intelligence, called Sensei.
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