LensTagger Lightroom plugin: A useful tool for fans of film photography and vintage lenses
LensTagger is a very helpful plugin for Adobe Lightroom CC. It allows adding information to the Exif file within your image. Great for film and vintage lens users - this review shows a functioning workflow.
iCloud Drive: The danger with Optimised Storage file placeholders
iCloud Drive works seamlessly, but did you know that it is easy to lose your data forever if you move files to an another location, such as Dropbox?
iPad Magic Keyboard: Why not settle for the best?
Apple's new iPad Magic Keyboard combined with touch and mouse support in iPadOS 13.4 at last bridges the gap between tablet and computer.
How much RAM do you need to use Lightroom?
Do you need 1.5TB of RAM to process your holiday snaps. No way. But you might benefit from 16GB or even 32GB of extra computing power.
Quo vadis, good and faithful slide film?
The real slide show is fast disappearing. Slide film and the once-mighty supporting paraphernalia, is slipping from us. All that will be left, soon, is the digital nomenclature of Powerpoint and slide show...
Zeiss ZX1: a three-year wait but is it too late?
Three years ago, when the Zeiss ZX1 was released, the promise of a fully featured full-frame camera with smartphone connectivity was almost science fiction. How does the camera fare when such features are now commonplate? Roderick Field takes a ZX1 on a canal trip to discover its potential...
Lightroom Creative Cloud meets Capture One’s free trial
After decades with Adobe's Lightroom, John takes a free ride with Capture One. Is he ready to give up the familiar turf and move over to the Danish model?
Oops, I did it again. But is it really a good idea to develop...
Film is enjoying a renaissance, especially among younger photographers. But do you process your own films? Have you entered the mysterious world of the darkroom? Jörg-Peter brings us up to date on home developing techniques...
Getting your mind around the Sony A7 menus
It's fashionable in every review of Sony cameras to complain about the complexity of the menus. My current exposure is to the RX100 VI...
Leica joins with Capture One for SL2 and S3 tethered shooting
Leica announces cooperation with Capture One to enable tethered shooting for SL2 and S3 cameras.
Workflow: The humble typewriter through rose-coloured glasses
Notebooks, typewriters, fountain pens: All should by rights be dead, foully killed off by the computer. But they live on.....
Paperless Office: Is it (nearly) here at long last?
Where are we it the much heralded paperless office? It isn’t here yet (not quite), but an efficient sheet-feed scanner and an intelligent digital storage system can turn you into a 95% paperless paragon
Leica to issue dedicated FOTOS for iPad
The iPad is moving away from the iPhone's limitations and becoming a real workhorse which, in many cases, could replace a Mac. Developers are acknowledging this change, including Leica with a new version of Leica FOTOS made fro the iPad.
Late Spring Cleaning: Network storage and getting ready for a fresh start
When hell freezes over, we'll still have shredding machines. Mike has a big clear up and wins the battle with his new Synology NAS disk station.
Parker 51: The Leica M3 of the pen world offers a peerless writing experience
5 YEARS AGO ON MACFILOS
What were you up to five years ago?
Well, I was enjoying a reunion with the iconic (overused word, that,...
