Why Capture One is Finally Supporting Hasselblad, and What It Means for Phocus

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After many years of requests, Capture One has finally added support for Hasselblad .3RF RAW images. While support is limited to Hasselblad’s 100-megapixel medium-format cameras for now, this is a massive shift for Capture One that addresses years of user requests.

While Capture One’s CEO, Rafael Orta, chose not to delve deeply into the myriad reasons Capture One has never previously supported Hasselblad RAW image formats, veteran photographers can readily speculate.

Capture One used to be owned by Phase One

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Capture One Now Supports Hasselblad Photos, With Tethering Coming Soon

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Capture One and Hasselblad have announced a partnership, finally bringing the two brands together after years of division. Starting with Capture One version 16.8.3, photographers can now import, organize, and develop Hasselblad RAW files (.3FR) directly in Capture One.

“Native Hasselblad support has been one of the most frequently requested additions to Capture One for years, raised by photographers across community forums, feature-request boards, and social channels,” Capture One says.

While the companies never officially commented

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Manfrotto’s ‘Uncover’ Bag Series Is Unabashedly Gen Z Focused

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Manfrotto has announced the Uncover bag series, which it refers to as a range of carry solutions designed for creators and urban travelers whose daily routines are in constant motion between work, content creation, and weekend trips.

The Uncover range is made up of two backpacks and two crossbody messenger options: a 30L backpack and a 24L backpack, alongside a 12L messenger bag and a compact 7L sling. The target market for this bag is squarely Generation Z, with each bag in the series meant

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Apple Brings New Masking Tools to Final Cut Pro Amid Creator Studio Update

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Apple has introduced a series of new updates to Apple Creator Studio, the collection of creative apps the company unveiled earlier this year.

The updates bring new features and functionality to Apple’s photo-editing app, Pixelmator Pro, its video-editing app, Final Cut Pro, and more, across Mac, iPad, and iPhone.

Looking first at Final Cut Pro, arguably Apple’s most widely used professional creative application and the app with the biggest updates for visual creators. On Mac and iPad, new AI

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Godox Made a WEIRD Camera and Adobe Buys Topaz | The PetaPixel Podcast

This week on The PetaPixel Podcast , Godox became a camera manufacturer with the introduction of the C100, a very weird, screen-less point and shoot camera. Also, Adobe acquired Topaz, Samyang finished its “holy trinity,” and Nikon did something it has never done before.

PetaPixel ‘s Matt Growcoot joins the podcast as he got humbled by the gauntlet that is a camera press trip. With that in mind, he explains what he was expecting and what actually happened. In short: it


Baby Hitler Photo Makes It Into Middle School Yearbook

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A New Jersey middle school has recalled its yearbook after a photo of Adolf Hitler snuck into the student baby photos section.

The photo shows Hitler when he was a baby and prompted a sorrowful response from the East Brook Middle School principal.

“Earlier today, after students had already received their yearbooks, we learned that the baby pictures section of the yearbook contained an image that was later identified as an infant photograph of Adolf Hitler,” writes Ryan Aupperlee to school families on June 25.

“We immediately collected the yearbooks

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Reflx Lab’s New Experimental Film Turns the World Into a Red and Orange Hellscape

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Reflx Lab , makers of analog film and camera accessories like light meters , has launched a new experimental color film, Diablo 100 redscale film.

As spotted by Kosmo Foto , this new film is based on Lucky C200 film stock. This standard color film is loaded backward, Reflx Lab explains, so that light passes through the film’s transparent base layer before it reaches the light-sensitive emulsion.

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Delkin Valor Pro CFe Memory Card Is Assembled in the US and Looks Like It

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Delkin has announced the Valor Pro CFexpress Type B memory card, a 1TB capacity high-speed option that is designed, assembled, and tested in the United States and is emblazoned with the American flag.

The company says that the card is designed, assembled, and extensively validated in Delkin’s Poway, California facility to “world-class workmanship standards.” The packaging and card itself are visibly proud of this, with the flag of the USA visible on both. Even the name “Valor” brings with

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Annie Leibovitz Criticized for Using the Mexico Filter

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Annie Leibovitz

Perhaps no photographer in the world gets their work critiqued quite like Annie Leibovitz , and yesterday’s Instagram post showing images from her latest exhibition was no exception.

As part of Leibovitz’s show about soccer at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, Leibovitz shot images of players from the three host nations of this year’s World Cup: Mexico, the United States, and Canada.

It was these three photos that Leibovitz shared on her Instagram page yesterday. But the color tint on the photo

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Getty Plans to Terminate Shutterstock Merger Because of UK Regulations

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Just over four months after a UK watchdog raised concerns about the merger between US photo agencies Getty Images and Shutterstock, Getty Images announced plans to terminate the $3.7 billion merger agreement.

As The Wall Street Journal reports , the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority told Getty Images and Shutterstock that its clearance of the merger would require that Shutterstock sell its editorial business, which Getty said it would not be willing to do in view of the existing merger agreement.

WSJ says Getty’s board voted unanimously against